You might think that selling yourself short is a sure way to not be a success in the ghost writing field. And your eyes are probably dancing with the large sums of money that youve heard ghost writers pull down, in yearly figures such as $60,000 to $100,000, or amounts such as $15,000 to $60,000 per each book written. Youre a writer, you love to write, and you believe that this is the way to go when it comes to writing.
This is especially so when youve started to break into the field and youre a ghost writer — or ghostwriter — who has never really ghosted a book for someone else before. Youre probably thinking big bucks, major book contracts, large amounts of cash advances from publishers and huge percentages from the books you will be anonymously writing for big time authors.
But lets face some facts. First time authors are often people with no real money or skills to invest in writing a book. They may have fantastic stories to tell, but they dont have the enormous amount of financial capital available to hire any such expensive ghost writers. Theyre bound to enter some psychological difficulties when they see that the payments to you are the whopper...