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How to build a career as a professional ghostwriter

The Long Story with Simon Owens

CHAPTER

How to Charge Exactly What You Want

Most of my work is come through referrals where a CEO will give my name to another CEO and I'll get like a one line email that's like set up something with my EA. If I come in through the marketers I'm not going to write something unless I've had some kind of FaceTime with the author. Do you record the conversations you're just taking? I do. Yeah, no, I always record. And you know I mean I've done some ghost writing for traditional publishers and that's when you get into kind of a different category of ghost writing Where ethically you're only allowed to use words that came out of the person's mouth.

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