Will anyone know the book was ghostwritten?
Only if you tell them. Your name is the only one on the cover, the copyright page and the retailer listings. Our ghostwriting agreements permanently assign all rights and all credit to you, and bar the writer from ever naming you as a client or using the work in a portfolio. Some authors choose to thank their writer in the acknowledgements; most do not, and both are entirely normal.
How much of my own time will this take?
Far less than writing it yourself, but this is not a service you can be absent from. Expect six to twelve hours of recorded interviews spread over the first few weeks, then roughly two to four hours per chapter batch for reading and feedback. Across a full book that usually totals thirty to fifty hours of your time, against the eight hundred or so it would take to write it.
How much does ghostwriting cost?
Ghostwriting is quoted per project because the variables are enormous — a 25,000-word business book and a 120,000-word family memoir are not comparable pieces of work. Price depends on length, genre, research load and how much usable material you already have. Payment is always split into milestones tied to delivered chapters, never taken as a single upfront sum, and the quote is fixed in writing before we start.
How long does a ghostwritten book take?
Four to eight months for a full-length manuscript is typical: roughly a month for interviews and outlining, three to five months of drafting, and a month for revisions. Shorter business books can be done in ten to twelve weeks. The single biggest variable is your own turnaround on feedback — authors who reply within a week finish months earlier than those who take six.
What if I do not like the writing?
You see a sample chapter before the bulk of the work begins, and if the voice is not right you can swap to a different writer at no cost. Beyond that, every batch comes with a feedback round, and the complete manuscript gets two full revision passes. Because payment is tied to delivered milestones, you are never in a position of having paid for a book you have not read.
Do I need to have started writing already?
No. Plenty of clients arrive with nothing but a strong idea and a willingness to talk. Others bring a folder of notes, an abandoned draft or thirty years of professional material. Both are workable — existing material tends to shorten the interview stage rather than change the process.
Can you write about real people and events?
Yes, and we will flag anything that carries legal risk. Memoir routinely involves living people, and our writers are used to handling it — changing identifying details, seeking permissions where sensible, and drawing your attention to passages that could raise defamation or privacy concerns under UK law. For anything genuinely contentious we will recommend you take independent legal advice before publication.
Do you use AI to write the manuscript?
No. Your book is written by a named human ghostwriter who has interviewed you and read your material. That is the whole point of the service — a machine cannot hear the pause before you tell the difficult part of the story. Your interviews, notes and manuscript are never fed into a training system.
Written in your voice
