Ghostwriters, novice or seasoned, are aplenty these days. Ranging in price, from a mere fifty dollars to five-hundred dollars per ten-thousand words, they are everywhere. They may hail from English-speaking countries yet speak only street English, or come from third-world countries and speak precious little. It's usually hard to tell from their profile page, self-professed experience not-withstanding. But the real question is if they can write a story that resonates with your reader and keeps them coming back for more.
Most publishing entrepreneurs fail to grasp that publishing is not about rote mechanical grammar and bombastic vocabulary. Just because they run it through Grammarly does not make them Jules Verne.
A good read is also not just a function of wordsmithing. Words not only have to carry the vision of the plot but the convey emotions to the heart. It requires the ability to think in three dimensions about a story/ Way before ink meets paper.
Every genre has its arc. There are specific points in the story where readers like to experience suspense - the point where the cliffhanger sets their pulse racing or a twist that bends their mind. Does your writer know where to place these for optimal impact? And then you have to ask yourself, is the catharsis in the right place? Too early, and the book falls flat with nothing to entice the reader to the end. Too late, and fatigue sets in.
Does your ghostwriter know this?
There are a lot of good writers out there waiting to be found. Others are just trying out an online career at your expense. Your first job is to separate the wheat from the chaff.
Asking for a sample chapter doesn’t cut it. Sample chapters are no longer the best way to determine future ability. They merely tell you that whoever wrote that chapter knows the language. A twelve-year-old could do that and no one is the wiser.
This is where we come in.
We will join you from the word go, way before you hire a writer. We will craft the job post and vet every single writer that applies for the job. Then, based on the genre, we will give them a task to accomplish and a deadline to submit it. Based on that submission, we will be able to ascertain if the ghostwriter has the ability to plot a story and present it. Then we give you the best choices to pick from there.
That’s the first part of what we do.