Event Title
Ghost-writing & Editing
Location
Benerd School of Education, Room 118
Start Date
17-5-2019 3:00 PM
End Date
17-5-2019 4:15 PM
Description
Ghostwriters get paid to write other people’s stories. Explore whether ghostwriting is for you. Jennifer will share how she got into ghostwriting, the skills required, the business of contracts, resources to get you started, technical tools to facilitate the process, pay rates, legal help. She will also offer ways to supplement your income with ancillary offers of manuscript evaluations, book doctoring, line editing (optimizing sentences and paragraphs for a better read), and consulting on finding the right agent or how to approach the self-publishing process for those who want to self-publish. One of the nicest benefits of ghostwriting is your client brings you a complete beginning, middle and end of the story. Your job is to arrange the elements into a captivating read. A close second is once the manuscript is done, it is your client’s task to get it published and marketed!
Ghost-writing & Editing
Benerd School of Education, Room 118
Ghostwriters get paid to write other people’s stories. Explore whether ghostwriting is for you. Jennifer will share how she got into ghostwriting, the skills required, the business of contracts, resources to get you started, technical tools to facilitate the process, pay rates, legal help. She will also offer ways to supplement your income with ancillary offers of manuscript evaluations, book doctoring, line editing (optimizing sentences and paragraphs for a better read), and consulting on finding the right agent or how to approach the self-publishing process for those who want to self-publish. One of the nicest benefits of ghostwriting is your client brings you a complete beginning, middle and end of the story. Your job is to arrange the elements into a captivating read. A close second is once the manuscript is done, it is your client’s task to get it published and marketed!
Comments
Jennifer T. Grainger became an avid reader from the day she learned to read. Though she came from a long line of writers—her grandfather was a newspaper editor, one uncle wrote for The New Yorker, and two uncles were newspaper journalists, she never thought of herself as a writer. Jennifer fell into ghostwriting quite by accident (or maybe there are “no accidents”). After helping five people self-publish their books, Jennifer went on to publish her book: “Becoming Conscious: One Woman’s Story of Spiritual Awakening.” When a friend asked Jennifer to ghostwrite her memoir, Jennifer said yes, thinking she’d get a ghostwriting template from a “How to Be a Ghostwriter” book. Easy-peasy—fill in the blanks. Oops! She soon discovered there is no codified template or formula labeled “how to be a ghostwriter.” Fortunately (another happy “accident?”), Jennifer had a friend, who had a friend, who was a ghostwriter whose only ghostwriting advice was “just follow your intuition.” That seemed simple enough, and Jennifer jumped in relying on her own curious questions to get the story out of her client and onto paper. Well, it was not exactly easy-peasy, but was enormously rewarding financially, emotionally and career-wise as she morphed her coaching practice into becoming a full-time ghostwriter, editor, and manuscript evaluator.