How hiring a ghostwriter here works

No. The ideas and the story are yours. The ghostwriter’s job is to put them on the page in your voice.

Book ghostwriters. That’s it. Someone on our team has read each writer’s work before approving their listing and listing is free for all writers. About us →

Read through profiles and look at what they write about. Read their samples, the books they’ve worked on and their price range. Writers who have completed books for clients on the Notable Authors site can have clients write anonymous reviews that are stamped Paid in full. Browse the writers →

We don’t rank writers so we put them in a different order so that one shouldn’t be promoted over another.

Some writers say on their profile that client references are available on request. If yours does, ask them.

Ask for samples with the names changed, and for any books they’re allowed to name. Before we list a writer, someone on our team reads two of their samples, one in their own voice and one written as someone else. You can read the samples each writer shares on their profile. And when a client finishes a book here, they can leave an anonymous review stamped Paid in full, so a writer builds a record without anyone naming the book. What Paid in full proves →

Send an inquiry from their profile with the “Contact” button, which shows the writer’s first name (“Contact Mike”, say). The form asks you what the book is, who it’s for, and roughly what you can spend. Sending an inquiry costs nothing. You can send the same inquiry to up to five writers at once, the one you’re looking at and any writers you’ve saved. Each gets their own copy and no one sees who else you wrote to.

Only the writer sees your inquiry. Once you accept a contract, it has a confidentiality clause, and it runs both ways. Our team doesn’t read your messages. Someone here reads the thread, the contract and the work only if one of you reports a problem, and reads every review before it’s published.

You will be notified by email when the writer responds to your inquiry. The writer answers in your message thread on the site, and you can book a call to talk it through. Talk to two or three (or more!) writers, if you like.

The writer will send you a contract, with the fixed total split into stages, along with the rights and terms. You see all of it before any money moves. You can discuss the terms or ask any questions you have before signing.

The writer. We never set a price, and the number that is binding is the one in the contract you both accept.

Every contract sits on the same standard agreement that Notable Authors provides. The writer fills in the price, the stages and what each stage delivers. They can add terms of their own, but those can’t override the agreement. Read the agreement →

Often, yes. Many writers offer a paid book plan, or a proposal with sample chapters, as a smaller first contract. It’s worth asking even if it’s not listed on the writer’s profile.

A change to the scope takes a change order you both sign. Neither of you can impose one.

It depends on the book. Your contract sets a target date, and a delay on either side, like interviews or feedback running late, moves it.

No. Payments are made through the site, one stage at a time. You pay by stage, never for the whole book up front. How it works →

When you approve that stage’s work. If you don’t respond, it’s released 7 days after the work is delivered.

No. You pay the price in the contract and nothing on top. Our fee comes out of each stage as it’s paid.

Don’t. A contract paid outside the site can never earn a review, and we can’t hold the money if something goes wrong. Writers agree that a contract made here is paid here, and a writer who settles any part of one outside the site can be removed from it. What Paid in full proves →

Be wary of anyone who messages you first offering to write your book, a price slashed if you “act now”, a request for the whole fee up front, or a writer who can’t show you any of their writing. Here, someone on our team reads every writer’s work before they’re listed, you pay one stage at a time, and each payment is held until you approve that stage. Never pay a writer outside the site.

Don’t approve it. Raise the issue instead, and the money stays held. Message your writer in your thread and explain what your concerns are. If that doesn’t settle it, the agreement sets out what happens next. Your contract says how many revision rounds you get. A round is one set of comments on a delivered stage, and asking for one you still have pauses the 7-day clock. Once they’re used up, more revisions take a change order, and so does a real change of direction, like a new audience or a new structure.

Yes, at any time. You owe nothing for stages you haven’t paid for. Money already released to the writer stays with the writer.

No. The writer you chose is the writer who writes it.

No. Our terms don’t allow AI to write the book, and we never train a model on your book. Our AI policy →

You do. The agreement says exactly when ownership passes to you.

No. You own the book, and the contract keeps what you share confidential. Without your written permission, the writer can’t name the book, its subject or you. All they can show on their profile is that a finished project exists, with your anonymous review.

Only if you want it there. The writer gets either no credit at all or the credit line you both agreed upon.

When the last stage is released, you’re invited to. Your name never appears, and a member of our team checks the review before it goes up. It’s stamped Paid in full because you paid the whole contract here.

That’s where we stop. The finished manuscript is yours, and publishing, printing and the launch are yours too.