Production · from $9,800 · 14 to 22 weeks for a 60–90k manuscript
Full-length, ghostwritten or co-written, in your voice, by named writers who own their craft.
A book takes between 150 and 400 hours of writer time. Most clients who start writing on their own stop somewhere between chapters three and seven, then sit on a half-draft for years. We pick the work up at any stage and ship a finished manuscript on a written timeline.
A full-length manuscript, written for you, in your voice, by a named senior writer who you’ll meet on the discovery call. You bring the story, the audience, the argument. We bring the writer, the editor, the timeline, and the structural backbone that turns a good idea into 75,000 words a reader will actually finish.
Three groups, mostly: people who want a 100-page ebook for under a thousand dollars (there are freelancers for that), people who expect to ship in under six weeks (real books take real time), and people who want us to invent their book for them with no input — ghostwriting still needs you in the room for about ten hours a month.
If you’re one of those three, we’ll tell you on the call. We don’t take projects we can’t ship well.
Behind the scenes
Five shots from the studio — the kind of work that ends up on your project.
The work, in three tabs
Between 50,000 and 120,000 words depending on genre. Delivered in chunks of 8,000 to 12,000 words so you can review as we go, not at the end.
Thirty minutes with the editor who'll be on your book. We ask harder questions than a sales call. Why this book, why now, who's it for, what does it do for you a year after launch.
Ghostwrote three books that founders later used to raise Series B or C rounds. Will not start a project without a real positioning session, because the wrong frame burns six months of writing.
Sample deliverables
How it works
Week 0
Thirty minutes with the editor who'll be on your book. We ask harder questions than a sales call. Why this book, why now, who's it for, what does it do for you a year after launch.
Weeks 1–2
Full outline plus a 1,500-word voice sample. Signed off in writing before the manuscript work starts.
Weeks 3–18
Your writer delivers 8,000–12,000 words at a time on a fortnightly cadence. You review, comment, and we move on. No silent six-week stretches.
Weeks 19–20
Two rounds where the whole shape of the book is on the table. Cut a chapter, move three, expand the middle. After this, the shape is locked.
Weeks 21–22
Sentence-level work by a different pair of eyes than the writer. We hand you a clean, ready-for-design manuscript and the style guide.
Pricing
No 'contact us for pricing.' If a tier here looks close to your project, the final quote on the discovery call will be within 15% either way.
For first-time authors with a clear idea, an audience, and a manuscript of zero to 10,000 words.
Our most-booked tier. For full-length business books, deeply researched non-fiction, or longer fiction.
For memoirs and category-defining business books where structure carries the value.
The lead, in full
They join the discovery call. They sign off every deliverable. They are not a sales rep.
Lead Ghostwriter, Business & Founder Books, 9 yrs
Ghostwrote three books that founders later used to raise Series B or C rounds. Will not start a project without a real positioning session, because the wrong frame burns six months of writing.
Case study
Studio
When we say no
We turn down work every week. Less stressful for everyone.
Book writing services — FAQ
Your name. Always. Your writer signs an irrevocable ghostwriter clause as part of their contract with us — they cannot claim authorship, even years later. If you want to credit them somewhere (acknowledgements, for example), that's your call to make and we'll respect it.
You either get a different writer at no charge, or a full refund of the deposit. The voice sample is a real decision point. Roughly 1 in 9 of our projects re-cast at this stage. It is much cheaper for everyone to do that in week two than in week twelve.
Both. Our writer roster covers business and memoir non-fiction on one side, and commercial fiction (fantasy, mystery, thriller, sci-fi, contemporary, historical) on the other. Genre-specific pages live under /genres/. The pairing is by writer, not by template — you get the person who knows your category.
That's the most common memoir engagement we run. Six to ten recorded interview sessions, 90 minutes each, transcribed by us. The writer uses the transcripts as the raw material for chapters. You read; we write.
Two full structural rounds (where you can move whole chapters around) and unlimited line-level revisions inside the project timeline. After delivery, you have 30 days of free typo and minor-fix support. Anything beyond that is hourly, billed in 15-minute increments.
The longest we delivered last year was a 142,000-word historical fiction. We do not take projects above 150,000 words on a fixed price — beyond that, the work is hourly because the risk is too one-sided otherwise. Most business books we write land between 55k and 75k. Most memoirs land between 70k and 95k.
This is what most of our business-book clients use it for. We can build the book backward from a keynote, a sales conversation, or a Series-B narrative. If that's the goal, say so on the discovery call — it changes the structure of the book, not the price.
Never. You keep 100% of royalties from every retailer, every format, every territory, in perpetuity. We are paid a flat project fee, up front and at milestones. We do not take a back-end on your book. This is a clean transaction.
Pairs with
Most projects use two to four services. We bundle on the discovery call.
Ready when you are
A 30-minute discovery call with a senior editor — no sales script, no pressure. We'll tell you whether we're the right fit for your project, what it would cost, and how long it would take.