Welcome to the Self Publishing School podcast. This is the podcast to listen to if you're an

aspiring writer or an author who wants to be more successful. On this show, you'll learn how to

write and launch a book successfully, all from the top authors and people just like you

who are doing it at the highest level. I'm your host, Chandler Bolt, the founder

of self-publishing school, the author of the book called Published and the CEO of self-publishing.com.

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Hey, Chandler Bolt here and joining me today is Carol Titian.

It's a careful books.

She's an e-book ghostwriter, a business writer, and also the founder of Make a Living Writing and the freelance writers din.

I get this question all the time. How do I hire a

ghost writer? Should I hire a ghost writer? How much do you guys cost? How do you find a good one?

All these things. And that's what we're going to be talking about today. Carol, welcome. Great to have you.

Thanks for having me. And besides those other things, I am a book

ghost writer that is my main focus these days. For sure. Awesome. Well, hey, first off, why

why hire a ghost writer? And I guess maybe a two-prong question. Why hire a ghostwriter and who,

like how does someone know if they should hire a ghostwriter or if they should write the book themselves?

It's a good, it is a good question. I guess I think a lot of people feel like they're going to write their book and then a year or five years or 10 years later, that book is still not written because

writing is actually hard. And especially for people who don't play with words for living all day

around the clock for 25 years, you know, if you are coming out of some other field,

you have this stuff in you, you want to get out, you have a story, you want to tell,

and you're finding it's hard. And the thing is you want that legacy out there. You want to be

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