Some ghostwriting companies, still making money by promising bestselling books when they actually produce poorly-crafted manuscripts, continue to use advertising that makes it seem as if they are powerhouses in the publishing industry. Most of these companies are surely not. Agents and legitimate mainstream publishing houses have never heard of them.
These companies talk about their phenomenal success stories, although the names of their authors and books are never disclosed. They talk of the veritable army of new ghostwriters being added to handle the great demand for ghostwritten genre fiction. I'll let you in on a little secret: there are many people who claim to be ghostwriters, but there are not hundreds of people waiting for assignments to write the next bestselling breakout fiction title. The work is almost always subcontracted out to freelancers and moonlighters across the country. Some are just breaking in and have little or no experience.
Writing any book, let alone a bestselling novel, is a difficult, labor-intensive enterprise. There is no pool of ghostwriters waiting around to write blockbusters for almost no money for companies who contact them when they get a few extra customers. The books produced by a majority of ghostwriting companies are print-on-demand titles that sell very few copies--usually to friends and family members.
If you want to have a book written, my ongoing advice is to contact an independent ghostwriter with experience, not a company or a moonlighter.
~ William Hammett
Contact wmhammett@aol.com
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