If you don't want to say it, you don't have to, but now I'm curious about your novels. Lmao.
Google: Morgan Hawke. <-- don't forget the 'E' on the end.
Also, no. I did not know about any of these details, so thanks for sharing the gossip.^^
You're welcome!
Especially the ghost writer one. I'm surprised that's allowed;
It's allowed and it pays extremely well.
-- However...
or did you mean she uses a co-author? Being a ghost writer sounds bad, co-author does not.
Ghost writing is
only good for money--nothing else.
The ghostwriter has to sign an absolutely vicious
Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) to never ever expose who they wrote for, or they'll not only have to give all the money back, but be sued for the same amount, plus jail time, then being black-listed by all associated authors and agents, plus the publishing house the ghostwriter wrote for.
There is Nothing good about being a ghostwriter -- especially if you prove a good match for an $author$ having issues getting their manuscripts in on time.
-- The constant pressure to: hurry, hurry, hurry! Time = Money they could be making on that million-dollar-book if you'd just finish it!!!
-- No time to write for yourself.
-- No contact allowed with any other authors -- especially Not the one you're writing for.
-- No talking about the book you're ghosting, not even to family. (It's in the NDA.)
-- As soon as you finish ghosting one book-- "Oh! Here's another author you're a good match for. Do this book for us too, real quick!"
And all it takes is ONCE.
Once the Agents and publishing houses know someone can ghostwrite, they
pressure the ghostwriter into
continuing to write for them, to the point that getting published under their own name proves impossible. Simply because there's just No Time to write for themselves.
They do this because the author they ghostwrite
for is worth far more definite $$$ than then a new author's uncertain potential. Name Brand authors are worth millions, where a mildly unknown author is barely worth the paper they're printed on.
Never forget:
Publishing houses always side with author worth more $$$.
It's not the Editor who decides if a book gets published -- it's the Marketing Department. Once the marketing department decides what manuscripts they want to sell, the editor's job is to make sure that the book is at least vaguely readable.
This is how books like Twilight, Hunger Games, and 50 Shades of Gray got published despite their extremely shoddy writing. The marketing department liked them, not the editors.
How do
I know all this?
-- One of my better writing instructors was a professional ghostwriter. In fact, one of the people who ghostwrote for Amanda Quick. I took her online classes for speed-plotting.
The age of the Internet saved most of her sanity. (She didn't have much sanity left, let me tell you! She was paranoid as hell.) It is super easy to hide your identity on the internet, especially back in the 90's. She was so pent up about her ghostwriting experiences, she practically vomited it all out to her small class. There was only six of us.
Hm, and now I want to look up if there's anywhere I can exchange unfinished novels with other people, so we can complete each other's novels... sounds fun to do.
Actually, that
does sound like fun! However, if you can't match the previous author's style of writing, the story is going to read wonky.
Why would anyone ever let something as insignificant as ego turn them against people willing to help with their work? Dumb indeed. :)
I dunno. I have a
massive ego when it comes to writing--in case you couldn't tell. ;) But I would never, ever give up on having beta-readers or editors. (I am so bad with punctuation. So,
so bad.)
Your editors sound lovely, lol.
You know that huge ass tutorial I did on
Paragraphing and Dialogue? All that came straight from my editors. And
No One teaches it! No One! There are No writing books, and No tutorials out there on how to paragraph properly -- except mine. I looked!
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inverting this by writing a story from the summoned girl's perspective
That actually sounds BRILLIANT!
-- Just don't show summoner's POV instead.
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