Confidential Ghostwriting Contract - $15,000
Anton M. Marco has been writing, editing, mentoring writers, and producing publications for 33 years. He writes non-profit and direct response fundraising copy, has worked as a senior writer, copy chief-editor and consultant, has written and edited reviews, magazine and news features, had written 10 books, has been a speechwriter and a writing teacher, has created college-level curricula, and much, much more. Anton plans to write a novel in the near future.
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To help us wrap up this book with a treat, Anton M. Marco has graciously agreed to share not only his successful ghostwriting proposal (which he calls a manuscript evaluation) with the rest of us, but also his ghostwriting contract.
This $15K ghostwriting job was secured through a rather unusual two-stage process. The subject of the book involved was attempting to secure editing help and they met through on-line channels. First, Anton evaluated the subject’s completed manuscript. In this evaluation, Anton suggested they recast the story as a non-fiction narrative, along the lines of a “medical mystery” of sorts. Then, Anton created his proposal/agreement, which also appears herein. Shortly thereafter, their notarized signatures on that document nailed down the job, which is now being shopped to publishing house editors.
Anton said, “My experience does illustrate that there’s more than one way to skin a cat. It’s amazing how many people want to write life stories/memoirs, but don’t have the writing skills to do so. The Internet affords a great medium through which writers and would-be-memoirists can find one another. My materials below give an idea of how it can be done. If lots more writers learned how to work markets, we’d see more quality stuff get published. It irks me that so much crap gets out there, not so much because the writers of it are any good, but because those writers know how to market their projects to publishing houses, while better writers don’t.”
To protect the identity of Anton’s client, we’ve had to remove their name and contact information.
Anton’s Manuscript Evaluation is in Times New Roman, 12 pt. font.
Anton’s Ghostwriting Contract is also in Times New Roman with the font sizes ranging from 10 pt. to 20 pt. I left Marco’s dollar figures in the contract so you can see how much he charges and the payment terms he requires from his clients. You will, of course, need to replace those with your own rates if you use his ghostwriting contract as a template. One thing that is missing from Anton’s contract that you might want to add is a clause that stipulates the final product will not be delivered until the final payment is received from the client.
Anton has been paid $15,000 by his client for this project so far.
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Excerpted from: BOOK PROPOSALS THAT WORKED! Real Book Proposals That Landed $10K - $100K Publishing Contracts by Angela Hoy
The book contains a copy of Anton’s complete ghostwriting contract.
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