Why Are You So Dear?

Thanks to a couple of recent events, ghostwriters have started sharing information about their fees with one another.

What we've discovered is that some people are charging very high amounts and other people are woefully under charging, including agencies and hybrid publishers.

What's the difference?
🎯 A ghostwriter with little experience will cost you about $15–$30k for a full length book
🎯 An experienced ghostwriter will likely cost between $50–$75k
🎯 The very best ghost writers cost $100k and up. There are very few of them.

You're paying for different skill levels. Look at it this way: your ghost writer is creating a portrait of you.
🎯 Junior ghostwriters create something that looks a bit like you.
🎯 Experienced ghostwriters create something that looks just like you, sounds just like you, and gives a pretty good picture of your thoughts and feelings.
🎯 The very best ghostwriters create an image of you and your character so profound that even your closest relatives wouldn't be able to tell what parts you wrote and what parts were written by someone else.

As the people who hired the expert who "restored" this medieval portrait learned through painful experience, you get what you pay for.