Guides to commissioning a book.
Plain answers to the questions people ask before they hire a ghostwriter or commission a history.
What does a ghostwriter cost in New Zealand?
A full ghostwritten book with Laughing Penguin costs between $90,000 and $190,000 plus GST.
Read the guideHow long does it take to write a memoir with a ghostwriter?
Most memoirs I write take about twelve months from the first interview.
Read the guideHow do ghostwriting interviews work?
For a full-length book I record twenty or more interviews with you, most of them around two hours long, and by the time much of the writing happens we’ve usually spent somewhere between thirty and ninety hours talking.
Read the guideWhat’s involved in writing a company history book?
A company history is a book built from two sources, the people who built the organisation and the records they left behind, written so that a reader who has never worked there wants to keep turning the pages.
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