Friday, December 29, 2017

Ghostwriting Marketplaces: They're Bad News

Ghostwriting marketplaces are proliferating on search engines. They are companies that allow people to post resumes for ghostwriting and editing (along with just about any other service, from plumbing to housekeeping). The writers who post their resumes on these sites are rarely professional writers. The resumes they post are filled with awkward phrasing and grammatical errors. After reading them for years, I have never found one that didn't have egregious errors in the first paragraph. If they can't write a clean, error-free resume, how will they be able to write an entire book. They are moonlighters and people who wish to work from home and have almost no credentials (if any) to call themselves ghostwriters or editors. Let the buyer beware.

If you want the services of a professional ghostwriter, you need to due your due diligence, but first, educate yourself about ghostwriting. Most online ghostwriting is a scam.  More to say about that in future posts.

Thanks for stopping by.

William Hammett

William Hammett: Independent Ghostwriter