#278 Conversation With a Ghostwriter - Joshua Lisec
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🗓️ 6 October 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Joshua Lisec is an American author, novelist, ghostwriter and writing coach. He has ghostwritten more than 80 books since 2011.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up ladies and gentlemen boys and girls around the world I would like to welcome |
| 0:22.8 | you back to the real talk with Zuby podcast on today's episode we have got on a writer |
| 0:27.8 | and ghost writer and this is the one and only Joshua Lysett welcome to the show man thanks |
| 0:33.0 | we'd be glad to be here with you today awesome man Joshua I've done a very brief intro there but for |
| 0:38.4 | people who are not familiar with you and your work please tell them a little bit about yourself yes |
| 0:43.2 | yes so as we said I'm a ghost writer I have ghost written more than 80 books the vast majority of |
| 0:48.6 | which have been nonfiction full length nonfiction for entrepreneurs for experts for people who want to |
| 0:54.9 | assert the authority that they all have already earned inside of their industry some have |
| 0:59.7 | been best sellers and award winners at others have sold a thousand copies but half of those were |
| 1:04.9 | two their sales qualified leads and they used that to build multi-million dollar businesses so |
| 1:09.7 | a little bit of this a little bit of that in my world I hear that man how did you get into the world |
| 1:15.1 | of writing and perhaps ghost writing in particular completely by accident my goal as a youngster |
| 1:24.2 | was to be a novelist one day I was inspired by all of the great western fantasy epics and so when |
| 1:30.4 | I was 19 years old 20 years old I got a two book publishing deal for novels that I had written and |
| 1:37.0 | then something interesting happened I'm signing copies I'm doing local events and two people independent |
| 1:43.0 | of one another asking the same question it's a Joshua I really like your book can you help me with mine |
| 1:48.7 | it's a memoir like it's my life story but I want it to read like fiction and I said okay fine |
| 1:54.6 | sure I'll help you with your book and I've been saying okay fine sure ever since that's so |
| 2:00.5 | interesting man so how long have you been doing it for now then just over 12 years okay and I'm |
| 2:09.4 | curious about ghost writing I have I have mixed feelings on it because I don't I don't think I'd |
| 2:13.9 | ever use a ghost writer being a creative myself and wanting to be the one who puts the words down |
| 2:21.4 | on the paper but what's the main reason why what are the main reasons why people |
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