#2490 - TBT: Ghostwriter Shifts from Happily Ever After to Whodunnit
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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In this week’s 'Throwback Thursday / Where are they now?' segment, we catch up with a ghostwriter who once specialized in romance novels and has since broken into the true crime genre. She shares how market saturation in her original niche led her to diversify and find unexpected success and fulfillment in a whole new genre.
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Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.
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Email: team@sidehustleschool.com
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Connect on Instagram: @193countries
Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com
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| 0:00.0 | Goastwriterships from happily ever after to who've done it. |
| 0:15.0 | Hey friends, welcome to Side Us All School. |
| 0:17.5 | Chris Galloway, your host here. |
| 0:19.4 | This is in fact about a ghostwriter writing books, writing romance novels, not a Halloween |
| 0:25.2 | ghost. |
| 0:26.2 | I realize it is the Halloween season as well. |
| 0:28.7 | So well, I guess it could be a spooky story, but it's really a success story. |
| 0:33.3 | So not a failure Friday story that comes out tomorrow. |
| 0:36.0 | Anyway, glad you're here in this segment, Thurback Thursday. |
| 0:39.2 | We always take a look at someone who's story has evolved since we first featured them. |
| 0:43.4 | Last week we heard from a sustainability consultant who discovered her first client from an unexpected |
| 0:47.6 | source, her employer. |
| 0:49.0 | At least her employer was very supportive of her in going out and starting a second |
| 0:53.2 | income. |
| 0:54.2 | Today in our latest feature, we're going to hear from that ghostwriter who once specialized |
| 0:57.9 | in romance novels and has since broken into the true crime genre. |
| 1:02.0 | She shares how market saturation in her original niche led her to diversify and find unexpected |
| 1:07.2 | success in this whole new genre. |
| 1:09.6 | So how do you go from writing romance novels to writing true crime and getting paid for |
| 1:13.5 | it as a ghostwriter? |
| 1:15.8 | Let's hear it directly from her. |
| 1:17.4 | I'll come back at the end with a quick little wrap up. |
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