How to Hire a Freelance Ghostwriter

If you’re considering hiring a ghostwriter for the first time, you’ll want to keep the following in mind.

Understand your needs:

Before hiring a ghostwriters, first discover your needs and expectations for them. Ask yourself the following questions:

• Do I want to hire the ghostwriter for one project or multiple?
• What type of text do I want a book, article, blog, anthology, or e-book?
• How many pages or words do I want my text to be?
• What is my deadline?
• What type of writing do I want, formal, casual, or academic?
• What is my budget?
• How much experience should the ghostwriter have?

Search freelance ghostwriter:

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Take interview of shortlisted candidates:

Once you’ve shortlisted a ghostwriter candidates have a conversation about your expectations, needs, and how the person envisions the collaboration. Ask any questions you have and answer any questions the candidate may have for you. An interview can help you figure out if you and the potential ghostwriter have right chemistry to work together. It can even offer you a way of the person’s communication skills.

Review his previous work and ask for writing sample on your project:

Request a freelancer to provide several writing samples of works they’ve ghostwritten. Reviewing his previous work will minimize the risk of hiring a ghostwriter with very little experience or who doesn’t have a style you prefer. After that ask freelancer to provide a one page writing sample on your project within a specific period of time. Review every text to see if it’s customized to your project and meets your expectations. This may ensure you hire the best ghostwriter for your specific project.

Agree on project details:

Most ghostwriters have standard contracts they use. That’s fine, you probably don’t need to involve lawyers, but there are many deal terms you would like to make positive you discuss properly.

1. Price and payment terms: Make sure you're very clear on how much you're paying, and when those payments are due. There are a lot of ways to pay, however the vast majority of excellent ghostwriters can use a flat fee structure that means you're paying a set amount for a defined book of a defined size or scope. There are some that use flat fee + hourly for revisions beyond a certain point. That’s fine too. On payment terms, confirm that you are paying in installments and not paying all the money up front. Those installments can be time based, or tied to specific deliverable.
2. Deliverables: Part of the payment discussion will be what the deliverables are. The very best and most expensive ghostwriters will be somewhat loose with this, they can afford to be when they are charging $100k+ for a manuscript. You are paying them to just handle everything, whatever it takes, and for that price, they will. Do not let a ghostwriter just go with a straight hourly fee, unless you are cool with them potentially running up their bill. Most of the good ones will have a set price for a specific set of deliverables, and then an hourly rate for time beyond that.
3. Rights and Royalties: Make sure you retain 100% of all the rights to your book. Not only copyright, but the print license, all film, rights, TV, foreign, and adaptations rights. Do not let any ghostwriter try to keep any rights to your book, ever.
4. Plagiarism protection: This won’t be a concern with a good ghostwriter, but make sure you are indemnified against them stealing someone else’s content. No good ghostwriter would ever think of doing this, so they’ll have no issue putting in the contract.

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