GhostpenYou Have
the Story.
I Have the
Sentences.
Senior ghostwriter for executives, memoirists, and thought leaders. Your ideas, your voice — finished to the standard of a publishing house.
Track Record
books ghostwritten
hit bestseller lists
times my name appeared
"The best ghostwriter is the one the reader never suspects."
Words delivered
in 2025 alone
Full manuscripts
completed cover-to-cover
Client retention
return for a second project
Average turnaround
for a 60,000-word manuscript
The FAQ is
also the portfolio.
The way these questions are answered is the same care and precision that goes into every manuscript. Read the answers. Notice the voice. That's what I do for you.
Yes — and this is the question I take most seriously. Before writing a single word, I spend hours in what I call the Voice Intake: reading everything you've already published, listening to recordings of you speaking, and asking questions designed to surface not just what you think, but how you think. The rhythm of your sentences, the idioms you reach for, the ideas you circle back to — these become the template. My job is to disappear inside your voice so completely that your closest colleague reads the finished manuscript and says "yes, that's exactly how she'd put it." Clients have told me the final draft reads like a version of themselves they always meant to be.
The first engagement always begins with a Voice Discovery session — a two-hour recorded conversation where I ask questions that have nothing to do with the book. I want to hear you argue, reminisce, explain something complicated to someone who doesn't understand it. From that session, I build a Voice Document: a private reference guide to your vocabulary, sentence length preferences, storytelling instincts, and the specific way you land a point. Every chapter I write is checked against that document before you see it.
Week 1–2 is Voice Discovery and outline alignment. Weeks 3–6 is first-draft production — I deliver chapters in batches of 2–3, so you're reading and reacting throughout, not waiting for a finished manuscript to discover we went the wrong direction. Weeks 7–9 is revision: your notes, my rewrites, until each chapter reads exactly as you imagined. Week 10–11 is final polish and manuscript delivery. For shorter projects — speeches, article series — the timeline compresses accordingly. Nothing moves forward without your approval at each gate.
As involved as your schedule allows. Some clients want weekly check-ins and chapter-by-chapter conversation. Others prefer to surface at key milestones — outline sign-off, batch reviews, final read. I've written for CEOs who gave me six hours total and produced a manuscript their board called definitive. The minimum is: one Voice Discovery session, timely feedback on chapter batches (I ask for 48–72 hours), and a final read. Everything else is optional. Your time is the resource I'm here to protect.
No one, unless you choose to tell them. Every engagement is protected by a mutual NDA signed before our first conversation. I don't use client names in marketing, don't list projects in portfolios, and have never — in fifteen years — disclosed a client relationship without explicit written permission. The three bestselling books I've worked on are not mentioned anywhere on this page. That's not modesty; it's the job. Your name on the cover is the only name that matters.
Projects are scoped and priced individually, because a 40,000-word business book and a 90,000-word memoir require different levels of research, interviewing, and revision. Full manuscript engagements typically begin at $28,000 for business books and $38,000 for memoirs, structured in three milestone payments. Speeches, article series, and book proposals are quoted separately. I don't offer hourly rates — the incentive structure is wrong and the quality suffers. You pay for a finished, publishable manuscript, not for my time. A detailed scope and fee proposal follows our initial call.
Yes. A Book Proposal engagement is the natural entry point — it results in a 35–60 page document (overview, market positioning, chapter summaries, sample chapter) that you can take to agents or publishers, or simply use as a blueprint for the full manuscript. It also serves as a proof of collaboration: you'll know exactly how I work, and I'll know your voice well enough to write the book with confidence. Proposal engagements are scoped at $6,500–$9,500 depending on depth of research required.
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No polished pitch required. A paragraph of rough notes is exactly where every great manuscript begins.
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