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| Whether you’re looking for someone to draft your manuscript from start to finish or just a written proposal to get your book concept in front of publishers (the normal route for non-fiction), we offer several services for authors looking to get an early-stage project off the ground. |
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| |  | Ghostwriting: What’s the most important part of a ghostwriting engagement? Getting the right ghost.
You need a talented, accomplished writer, naturally. But you also need one who understands and shares your vision for the project. You need someone who can establish an emotional connection to your story and your characters. You need someone who is accessible, knowledgeable, and open to collaboration.
If that sounds like the kind of ghostwriter you’re seeking, then you’ve found the right haunt. Our writers have written both fiction and non-fiction for entertainment industry celebrities, business professionals, and many others with engaging stories to tell.
So whether you’re a doctor with medical dramas to share, an executive with innovative management strategies, a clergyman with thoughts on faith, or anyone with a compelling story just waiting to be told, the Iowa Wordwrights has a writing partner who can move your project in the right direction.
In a ghostwriting engagement, you will work with an experienced, professional writer who will develop your ideas and any primary source material (notes, interviews, historical documents, technical data) into a publication-quality manuscript, consulting with you each step of the way.
As the first step in the process, you will be contacted by one or more prospective writers who will discuss the project with you and provide you with a cost proposal and a writing sample based on your material. No charge for initial consultation. Fee for the completed project is dependent upon the complexity of the subject matter, the expected length of the manuscript, the amount of independent research required of the ghostwriter and other factors. |
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| |  | Book Proposal Writing: A successful book proposal isn’t about famous explorers or rogue economic theories or spiritual journeys or Irish women. It’s about marketing. It’s about convincing an acquisitions editor to buy your book and about getting him to pay $80,000 for it instead of $8,000. (In case you’re wondering, those are real numbers experienced by one of our senior editors on her first book.)
Like all good marketing collateral, your book proposal has to connect with your target on an emotional level, not just an intellectual one. And it has to contain all of the elements--from overview to promotion plan to sample chapters--that agents and publishers want to see.
One of our proposal writers will consult with you and then develop and draft a professional, top-quality book proposal to maximize your likelihood of success. $2500 and up, depending upon subject matter, author specifications, and status of manuscript. Firm quotations provided. |
|  The importance of a writer...is that he is here to describe things which other people are too busy to describe.
- James Baldwin |
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