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Yesterday, 21 October 2015, was Back to the Future day. You know, the day when Marty McFly arrives in the future version of Hill Valley

Aaaaaaah … No, it’s not a scream. Quite the opposite. It’s a sigh of satisfaction. Specifically, it’s the sound of a ghostwriter meeting his deadline, having

I don’t do numbers. I prefer words. All the same, numbers can occasionally be relied upon to do some funky things. For example, this morning I

I want to talk about outlines. For the ghostwriter of novels, the outline represents the brief, the whole brief, and nothing but the brief. It

Ernest Hemingway said, “The first draft of anything is shit.” Therein lies the eternal dilemma of the ghostwriter. Tight project schedules mean there’s very little

It’s landed! The outline for book three, the final volume of the middle-grade fantasy trilogy is here. Thanks to some judicious schedule-juggling by my awesome

I’ve just seen a beautiful book cover. It belongs to the Czech translation of my most recent ghostwritten novel, and it’s gorgeous. I’d love to

Every ghostwriter has to put his feet up once in a while. That’s what I’m doing right now. The trouble with being a ghost, of

I just received my first advance copy of the fantasy novel for midde grade readers that I started writing back in December 2013. Apologies for the

Hurrah! New ghostwriting pitch submitted, with 3,500 more words than were asked for in the brief. My client tells me they’re cool with the extra