Ghost Writing
Hire a Ghostwriter
Work with a professional ghostwriter who captures your voice, structures your story, and delivers a manuscript ready for editing — without you writing a single draft alone.
Ghost Writing
Work with a professional ghostwriter who captures your voice, structures your story, and delivers a manuscript ready for editing — without you writing a single draft alone.
Hiring a ghostwriter starts with a conversation, not a contract. Before any writing begins, you're matched with a writer whose background fits your genre and tone, and the two of you work through an outline together so the shape of the book is agreed on before a single chapter is drafted.
From there, chapters move through a structured review cycle: you read, you mark up, you send notes, and the manuscript comes back closer to what you had in mind. Nothing goes to editing until you've signed off on every chapter.
Genre-Matched Writer
Paired with a ghostwriter who has real experience in your genre or subject area, not a generalist.
Outline First
A full chapter-by-chapter outline is approved before drafting starts, so there are no surprises later.
Rolling Chapter Reviews
You read and approve chapters as they're written, with revisions built into the process.
You Own the Manuscript
Full rights and the finished manuscript are yours outright once the project closes.
Often paired with Hire a Ghostwriter.
The full range of fiction and non-fiction ghostwriting services this page draws from.
A dedicated path for life-story and memoir projects, from first interview to final chapter.
Common questions about hire a ghostwriter.
Cost depends on manuscript length, genre, and how much research or interviewing the project requires. A short non-fiction book runs differently than a research-heavy historical novel. Tell us about your project and we'll put together a specific quote rather than a generic range.
That's the point of the outline stage and the interviews that come before drafting — your writer is capturing your voice, opinions, and way of telling a story, not writing a generic version of your idea. Chapters come back for your review precisely so any drift gets corrected early.
Yes. Once the project is complete, the manuscript and all rights to it belong to you outright, whether you self-publish, submit to agents, or keep it private.
Most full-length manuscripts take several months from outline approval to final chapter, depending on length and how quickly review rounds move. We'll give you a realistic timeline once we understand the scope.
From the Pen & Laurel blog.
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