StudioGrapha Ghostwriting Services
Elements Included in a Typical Ghostwriting Letter of Agreement
Goal/purpose of the work.
What are your intentions for this book? What do you hope to accomplish? Knowing this helps your ghostwriter focus on the end goals.
Methods for working together.
How will you get the information to your writer?
- A series of face-to-face meetings?
- Provide drafts in Word?
- A series of recorded telephone calls with transcriptions of the conversation? (Transcriptions are the responsibility of the client. We can provide referrals for this service.)
Ownership/copyright.
The client/author owns everything including ancillary products, original material, copyright on the work, the writer’s notes, transcribed interviews, and all the materials involved in creating the project in perpetuity.
Net profit sharing percentage, if applicable.
For example, you may choose to share, say, 10% of the net profits from the sale of the book with your writer.
Confidentiality/non-disclosure.
The writer should agree to hold the information the client provides in confidence. You may want to make sure a non-disclosure agreement is included as soon as you start working with the writer.
Payment and payment terms.
How much will you pay your writer, and when?
- $x per chapter?
- One third up front, one third midway through the project, final payment due upon receipt of final draft?
- $x a month until the project is completed?
The pace of the work/responsibility of each party.
Escape clause.
It's important for both you and the writer to have a graceful way to get out of the contract if the collaboration isn't working. The contract can be amended by mutual agreement or canceled by either party with 14 days' notice in writing. Don't try to force the work if it isn't working. Don't set it up so that you end up in court over your creative project.
Ghostwriting Rates
Rates for ghostwriting are variable, depending on many factors. The StudioGraphia rates conversation generally starts here:
Final project bid depends on a 30-minute in-person interview, review of client needs assessment form, and cursory review of existing client notes.
Additional Services
Establishing an author platform
- Website and/or Blog as home base.
- Google+
- Business cards, bookmarks, flyers, postcards, swag.
- Wherever else the author would like to be present and engaged.
Full Service Publication Package
- Editing, proofreading
- Ebook formatting and design
- Print book formatting and design
- Illustration
- Cover design
- Metadata for discoverability
Downloads to Inform Your Selection of Professional Services
- Heather Severson's Capabilities Statement
- Heather Severson's Resume
- Ghostwriting Questions (PDF form)
- Ghostwriting Questions (Word document)