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2. Index Index Page NO Ghostwriter Services 03 How To Hire A Ghostwriter 04 Professional Ghostwriting Services 05 Fiction Manuscript Editing 06 Screenplay Ghostwriting Services 07 Manuscript Consultant 08 Ghostwriter Services 09 Professional Ghostwriting Services 10 How To Hire A Ghostwriter 11 Ghost Writer For Hire Book 12 Fiction Manuscript Editing 13 Manuscript Consultant 14 Ghostwriter Services 15 Professional Ghostwriting Services 16 Ghost Writing Services 17 How To Hire A Ghostwriter 18 Ghost Writer For Hire Book 19 Ghostwriter Services 20 Fiction Manuscript Editing 21 Screenplay Ghostwriting Services 22 How To Hire A Ghostwriter 23 Professional Fiction Editing Services 24 Ghostwriter Services 25 Fiction Manuscript Editing 26 Ghostwriter Needed 27 Ghost Writer For Hire Book 28 Fiction Manuscript Editing 29 Professional Ghostwriting Services 30

3. Ghostwriter Services Have you run into a dead end with what is becoming an endless re-write? Are you back from a conference or writer’s group with the impulse to re-write but don’t know where to start? Have an idea that requires a professional ghostwriter’s touch. Visit our website for More information on Ghostwriter Services 3 Over the last ten years I have worked on fiction and memoir manuscripts for successful authors in traditional and self-publishing markets. One thing holds true for every one. Page - 03

4. How To Hire A Ghostwriter There are a lot of writers out there. The competition for agents and publisher attention is fierce. Self-publishing success is a matter of working off in-depth, professional notes. My goal is to give everyone professional service regardless of their budget. I offer reasonable, all inclusive packages that anyone can fit into their budget. Our Services 4 Visit our website for More information on How To Hire A Ghostwriter www.carpenters.sg Page - 04

5. Professional Ghostwriting Services Our Services I do not offer a one size fits all ghostwriting services. I believe that each project and client comes with a different set of needs. My preferred practice is to design a one-of-a- kind plan for ghostwriting services that will help you finish your project and that suits your specific vision. Are you ready to finally get your story out into the world? I provide services that assist in all aspects of the writing, production or publishing process. 5 I don’t publish a rate sheet. Some ghostwriters do but I have never seen the point. Instead of a rate sheet, I offer a free consultation to anyone who contacts me. Page - 05

6. Fiction Manuscript Editing By professional writer, I mean that I cannot write your book simply for credit. Nor will I take a share of profits in lieu of payment. Just like one-of-a-kind plans for ghostwriting services, I do offer customer specific payment plans. Get in touch and during our free consultation, we can come up with something to together that fits your budget. Our Services 6 Visit our website for More information on Fiction Manuscript Editing www.carpenters.sg Page - 06

7. Screenplay Ghostwriting Services Visit our website for More information on Screenplay Ghostwriting Services 7 Page - 07

8. Manuscript Consultant expensive, I work with a team of professional writers and editors who may be more suited to where you are. My clients have gone onto success in self- publishing markets. My screenplays are award winning successfully sold on the spec market.One parlayed his personal story into a two-season TV deal with If we find that I am too and traditional and have of my clients Visit our website for More information on Manuscript Consultant A&E. 8 Page - 08

9. Ghostwriter Services You can also utilize the my mailing list and the variety of social media connections provided over on the right sidebar. Every caller or email contact receives a free 30- minute consultation where we can discuss your options for improving their fiction, memoir or screenwriting manuscript. 9 Visit our website for More information on Ghostwriter Services Page - 09

10. How To Hire A Ghostwriter Hiring a high level, professional ghostwriter for your writing project has never been this easy before. Every caller or email contact receives a free 30-minute consultation where we can discuss your options for improving their fiction, memoir or screenwriting manuscript. Recently, a ghostwriting client and I had a difficult time understanding one another’s process. My client and I created a great book together. Right now he’s having a great deal of luck with it on the fiction market. Trouble was, he works as an engineer. Our Services 10 Visit our website for More information on How To Hire A Ghostwriter www.carpenters.sg Page - 04

11. How To Hire A Ghostwriter Our book was highly technical. It dealt with technology and machines. Governmental processes. Military ranks and orders. There was a lot to know in writing the book. My client was a bit taken aback when I set out to write the book without knowing what I needed to know. For me, it’s easier to write the story first then come back and add in the details. Going into that scene, I was solely focused on the conflict. Our Services 11 Visit our website for More information on How To Hire A Ghostwriter www.carpenters.sg Page - 11

12. Ghost Writer For Hire Book The two parties, who would become later allies, in this scene were adversaries. Their later alliance was formed in the negotiation. I knew the conflict and characters before the details. How much did an office trailer cost when my book took place back in 1982? What is that construction site office Consequently, as I wrote the scene in first draft, I had a lot of Insert detail notes in the text. Momentum mattered. That just right noun. Our Services trailer called anyway? 12 Visit our website for More information on Ghost Writer For Hire Book www.carpenters.sg Page - 12

13. Fiction Manuscript Editing My ghostwriting client, as it turns out, works the other way. He couldn’t look at a draft of our book with placeholder language. Often, he would throw back drafts furious that the details were wrong. I had never thought of this before (maybe I should have) but it occurred to me as we worked out a solution. Some people focus on the details and specifics, while others are more broad stroke oriented. Our Services 13 Visit our website for More information on Fiction Manuscript Editing www.carpenters.sg Page - 13

14. Manuscript Consultant researching details before you sit down to write is your best practice. Some people can fill in the gaps later and that’s fine.. Is there a right way? Yes. The right way is the one that works for you. If you can write without details, and momentum matters more, get writing. If not, research first. Get your details in order. If you’re serious about having your fiction, screenplay or non-fiction professionally written, and you have a budget, If you need those specifics, Visit our website for More information on Manuscript Consultant story 14 Page - 14

15. Ghostwriter Services Editing a client manuscript, I encountered a scene built around eavesdropping. The scenario was familiar. Bedraggled woman caught between two men. On the threshold of a palatial bedroom, she listens to a hush- hush conversation full of details about her love life. Visit our website for More information on Ghostwriter Services 15 You’ve seen the movie. You’ve read the book. It’s timeless. Eavesdropping works on so many levels.. Except in this manuscript, well… it didn’t quite work. Page - 15

16. Professional Ghostwriting Services Our Services Think of drama as a game of cat and mouse. Someone possesses access to knowledge. Another character needs that knowledge in order to complete their journey. Listening in on someone’s private conversations can be a very dangerous game. The cat is capable of crushing the mouse if it is unfortunate enough to be discovered. 16 Eavesdropping is about your main character getting secret information. The risk factor must be twofold. What if they’re caught by the person their listening to? The truth. Proximity to the truth is what makes getting access to that private place valuable. Page - 16

17. Ghost Writing Services Our Services Why does the truth come out in private? For one thing there is much less risk involved. The person is choosing to confide in someone they trust, away from the person who presents some danger to them. Behind closed doors, people say what they mean. That closed door is symbolic of security. It is safety. When your protagonist breaches that safety, they need to gain sacred knowledge, unless… 17 The closed door may be symbolic of security, but it becomes its own agent of deception. Closed doors dampen sound. Page - 17

18. How To Hire A Ghostwriter An eavesdropping scene can be tough to write because, as the writer you know what’s going on behind the scenes. If you can pull it off though, the upside is tremendous. What is said behind closed doors might be misunderstood and that might put your character down the wrong road. People talking closely become hard to separate. Your character has as much chance of misunderstanding the truth as they do of getting to the heart of the matter. Our Services 18 Visit our website for More information on How To Hire A Ghostwriter www.carpenters.sg Page - 18

19. Ghost Writer For Hire Book There is little more tedious in fiction than dolled up exposition. So often I see manuscripts filled with scenes where one character is delivering exposition to another character for no good reason other than it is time for the audience or reader to know. If two characters are sharing information behind closed doors there needs to be competing points of view between them. Our Services 19 Visit our website for More information on Ghost Writer For Hire Book www.carpenters.sg Page -19

20. Ghostwriter Services Otherwise, it’s exposition. Your character really should be listening in on a conflict taking place between two other characters. It raises the stakes for the characters involved and, as emotions begin to spiral on the inside of the door, it enhances the danger on the outside of the door. Visit our website for More information on Ghostwriter Services 20 Dialog is a critical tool for telling your story. Think of dialog as a series of send and receive messages. Page - 20

21. Fiction Manuscript Editing Scenes are pretty boring if they are built on clear send/receive send/receive exchanges, so this is why writers are obligated to create complications, like a closed door and an overactive imagination. When you are building complications for your dialog scenes, whatever they may be, be sure you’re taking them as far as they need to. Furthermore, try and think about why a certain device is compelling. What complications does eavesdropping present? Why does it work? Our Services 21 Visit our website for More information on Fiction Manuscript Editing www.carpenters.sg Page - 21

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23. How To Hire A Ghostwriter If your character is going to sneak and spy, consider why that might be interesting to your readers. Better yet, devise a way to turn the reader’s expectations on your character. Self-publishing your book will cost some money. If you take a closer look at the whole process though, you will see that getting a high quality, professional looking book in front of your customers is not prohibitively expensive. Our Services 23 Visit our website for More information on How To Hire A Ghostwriter www.carpenters.sg Page - 23

24. Professional Fiction Editing Services In fact, if you consider the increasing costs of marketing anythingthese days, self-publishing your ghostwriting project could be viewed as an affordable step. Recently, I worked as a ghostwriter, editor and designer for a client’s debut business book. He brought about 60% of a completed book to the process, text he had derived from work with his real estate partners, business coaches, colleagues and mentors. The text needed a writer’s touch, but it was pretty solid stuff. Gratefully, the guy really knew his business. 24 Visit our website for More information on Professional Fiction Editing Services Page - 24

25. Ghostwriter Services On this first example I won’t delve too far into nuts and bolts details of publishing. Instead, I’d like to start by looking at the end results. Just take a look at the client’s finished product. Take a look at that laundry list of things to do before the publisher even gets to work on the manuscript. Visit our website for More information on Ghostwriter Services 25 Before opening the specifics on that can of worms, let’s look at what my client would have spent in terms of time and resources in order to conventionally publish his book. Page - 25

26. Fiction Manuscript Editing Instead, my client went through DIY channels. He hired me as a ghostwriter to help flesh out his ideas. Working then as an editor, I transferred a more polished manuscript onto a line editor and proofreader. My client isn’t going to reach a mass audience with a book published in this manner. That was never really his goal though. The objective of a traditional publishing arrangement is to get a book out to the largest possible audience. Our Services 26 Visit our website for More information on Fiction Manuscript Editing www.carpenters.sg Page - 26

27. Ghostwriter Needed Maybe he could have gotten there, but that’s not what he wanted. Instead, he wanted a book to target potential customers. My recent path to publication is similar. No, I didn’t write the definitive book on how to hire a ghostwriter (at least I haven’t yet). I did, however, recently self-publish a work of fiction and I am happy to share those costs to illustrate how affordable self-publishing really can be. Our Services 27 Visit our website for More information on Ghostwriter Needed www.carpenters.sg Page - 27

28. Ghost Writer For Hire Book My upcoming supernatural fiction novel, The Strange Airis scheduled for release in March of 2019. Because I possess a native DIY streak of my own, I plan to self- publish the book. I want to be in control. I want to see the project all the way through to the end. There is no accounting for the cost in terms of hours or money associated with the time it takes to actually write the book, but in the terms of contracted services, $761.00 to get a book into the market place is pretty good. Our Services 28 Visit our website for More information on Ghost Writer For Hire Book www.carpenters.sg Page - 28

29. Fiction Manuscript Editing Now, a cover is a cover and will cost aboutthe same amount regardless of book size, but if you extrapolate the editorial services out to full length, the range is $1600-2000. As you can see, the above business book give-away example applies below with fiction as well. In this highly competitive market, you need a giveaway as a part of your marketing plan. One of the best ways to get your message to your customers, whether your eventual aim is to sell a house, or a novel, is to hook them with message. Our Services 29 Visit our website for More information on Fiction Manuscript Editing www.carpenters.sg Page - 29

30. Remove the artificial barriers from your thought process. Those barriers are limiting beliefs that are dragging your sales down. Getting a professional looking giveaway on your site can be relatively inexpensive, especially when compared to the possible boom in business and legitimacy you’ll gain. Follow Us 30 Page - 30