One of the first questions people ask when talking to a ghostwriter is \u201chow much?\u201d<\/p>\n
You\u2019ll see rates for book ranging from $2,000 to $200,000. So let\u2019s just say, it varies. As a result, just as everyone on an airline has paid a different price for their seat (and will end up at the same location) ghostwriting has a similar inconsistency in pricing.<\/p>\n
Why such a disparity?<\/strong><\/p>\n There are many factors involved. For example, a 20-page children\u2019s book should cost considerably less than a 250-page, well-researched, corporate history.<\/p>\n The real reason, however, that the rates vary so greatly is because buyers and sellers are both operating in a vacuum. Some folks are convinced that for $3,000 they can get someone to write their autobiography (and they can) while others are more than happy to fork over $100,000 to have their memoir written because they believe that is the going rate, which it is not.<\/p>\n Writers are no different. I once argued with a (U.S. based) \u201cjournalist\u201d on LinkedIn who was convinced that $10 was the going rate for an article and that I was only making a lot more because I was a \u201cbig city writer\u201d \u2013 seriously!<\/p>\n Here\u2019s the truth<\/strong><\/p>\n Narrowing down the range just a little bit, books will typically run you somewhere between $12,000 and $52,000. Leah Nicholson, production manager at the Jenkins Group, a book publishing service company, says the sweet spot is $20,000 to $30,000 for ghostwriters on most of their projects. The Editorial Freelance Association quotes $50 to $60 per hour while the Writer\u2019s Market website (from a few years back) showed the average hourly rate at $70 and the average per project book rate at just over $36,000. One ghostwriter breaks it down very clearly by word count starting at, 20,000 words at $13,000, and going up to 80,000 words at $52,000. Others have hourly rates or page rates. A ghostwriter should have some justification behind a project rate. It should be specific and not \u201cI wrote a best seller 10 years ago\u201d or \u201cI did a book with an A-list celebrity.\u201d Consider that a car salesman may have once sold a Lamborghini, but is now selling you<\/strong> a Honda CR-V, so get priced accordingly.<\/p>\n Also, be wary of very low rates from places like Elance or oDesk. You are most often not getting a professional writer and, in some cases, you may have a book written by someone who does not have a firm grasp of the English language. Often \u201cbargain\u201d rates that are \u201ctoo good to be true,\u201d are just that.<\/p>\n Rates should be determined by:<\/p>\n .<\/span> .<\/span> One of the first questions people ask when talking to a ghostwriter is \u201chow much?\u201d You\u2019ll see rates for book ranging from $2,000 to $200,000. So let\u2019s just say, it varies. As a result, just as everyone on an airline has paid a different price for their seat (and will end up at the same location) ghostwriting has a similar inconsistency in pricing. Why such a disparity? There are many factors involved. For example, a 20-page children\u2019s book should cost considerably less than a 250-page, well-researched, corporate history. The real reason, however, that the rates vary so greatly is because …<\/span> Continue reading…<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clientswebdesigns.com\/blog4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clientswebdesigns.com\/blog4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clientswebdesigns.com\/blog4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clientswebdesigns.com\/blog4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clientswebdesigns.com\/blog4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/clientswebdesigns.com\/blog4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141,"href":"https:\/\/clientswebdesigns.com\/blog4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clientswebdesigns.com\/blog4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clientswebdesigns.com\/blog4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clientswebdesigns.com\/blog4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nWhat you should and should not do:<\/p>\n\n
\n(Personally, I find this very disconcerting. On my non-ghostwritten books I never asked for reviews, always wanting a fair and honest assessment. I received 63 real, unbiased reviews and 51 of them are 4 or 5 stars, which makes me personally feel much better than seeing 100 terrific bogus reviews)<\/li>\n
\nIn the end, hire the person with whom you connect. A satisfying relationship, money notwithstanding, creates the chemistry necessary for an excellent partnership and a terrific book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"