What is Ghostwriting?

Simply put, ghostwriting happens whenever someone hires another person (usually a professional writer with many years of experience) to write something for them. Most often, people hire ghostwriters to write books, but there are ghostwriters who write songs, screenplays, articles, and so on.

Ghostwriting has been done for ages, because anciently, whenever someone in leadership wanted a record of their words to be saved for posterity (as in an historical record of a nation or a people), they enlisted scribes to record their words who then made that document available to all. One might even say that the various books of the Bible, especially the Old Testament, were ghostwritten by scribes who compiled the books from oral tradition, other written scraps, or by recording what they had actually heard a prophet say.

How much does ghostwriting cost?

Is ghostwriting illegal?

Like many skilled activities, ghostwriting is not free. Good ghostwriters charge for their services. After all, not everyone knows how to write well and how to help someone else write their book.

To engage a high-quality, professional ghostwriter with years of writing experience, you should expect to pay anywhere between $25,000 and $70,000 for them to help you write your book.

Their fee typically depends on the length of the book, size of the project, and the experience level of the ghostwriter.

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The short answer here is no, ghostwriting is not illegal.

While it is illegal to steal another person's ideas or use their words as your own, ghostwriting, which involves hiring someone else to help you write something, is legal.

You can rest assured that when you work with a ghostwriter you are doing nothing wrong and are actually engaged in a time-worn practice of hiring a professional scribe to help you write.

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What benefits are there to hiring a ghostwriter?

Even though it costs money to hire a ghostwriter (see below), there are many benefits to hiring a ghostwriter.

Generally, ghostwritten books:

• Take less time to write/are produced faster

• Are better-written/easier to read

• Benefit from a team effort

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