How we'll work together:

1. You contact me
2. We discuss your goals, audience, how I'll capture your voice...
3. I knock it out

Sometimes it really is that simple.  But if you prefer a more detailed look at how we'll work together, here goes.

Questions about hiring a ghostwriter?  Here's the transcript of an interview I did for an Australian magazine that may provide some answers.

Another interview.  Unlike this interview about ghostwriting, we focused more on my background and past projects. Taken together the two hopefully answer questions you might have about working with a ghostwriter.

Here's the story behind Book Recommendations from... If this doesn't answer your questions feel free to write.

I'm boring.  Few people care what I'm up to.  But since I love great writing, people often do ask me to recommend books so I started posting some I like.

As John Thorndike’s father fell victim to Alzheimer's, his main hope was to stay in his own house. The Last of His Mind is the story of the year he spent taking care of his father.  

It's a heartwarming and heartbreaking book with an incredible story arc. Run out and get it - now.

I also appreciate John's feelings about books:  

"I probably have a reading disorder, because if I go without for a day or two, I get twitchy. I can live without a cell phone or a television, but I'd be laid waste if books were forbidden. I think of the Roman poet Ovid, banished by Augustus to a town on the Black Sea, where no one spoke Latin and books were hard to come by. Ovid kept writing, but after ten years of exile from Rome and his language, he died. How glad I am that instead, we swim in a sea of books."

How could I not ask John for his list of recommendations?  Here's what he sent me:

Lew Paper is the author of Perfect, the story of Don Larsen's perfect game but more importantly the lives of the nineteen players. In his day job Lew is a partner at Dickstein, Shapiro in DC.  (Hopefully I'll never need him.)

For writers it's a nice lesson in how to weave biographical detail into a narrative; for sports fans it's simply a great read.

I'm not the only one who thinks so - Perfect made the Washington Post Best Books of 2009 Holiday Guide.

I'm a sucker for nostalgic, golden age sports books describing a time when players lived in the neighborhood and worked off-season jobs to make ends meet.  If that's you, check out Perfect.

Here's what Lew sent me:

Andrew Ross Sorkin is the New York Times chief mergers and acquisitions reporter and the author of Too Big to Fail, arguably the best and easily the most readable account of

the banking crisis. He also edits DealBook, a daily onlilne financial report on the NYT website.  If you're a high finance geek it's the place to go.

I write business books so I don't tend to read them for pleasure, but Too Big to Fail was definitely an exception.  (I read an excerpt in Vanity Fair and was hooked.  Thanks to VF for his photo.)  Andrew weaves an incredible amount of detail into a character-driven narrative that - forgive the cliche - reads more like a thriller than a business book.

By the way. If you've never seen a $9 billion check, visit the source documents section of Andrew's website.

Here's what Andrew sent me:

Alison Weir is the bestselling author of the novels Innocent Traitor and The Lady Elizabeth and a number of historical biographies including Henry VIII, Queen Isabella, The Princes in the Tower, and the recently released The Lady in the Tower.

I especially enjoyed Princes in the Tower since I read it after Sharon Kay Penman's The Sunne in Splendor (another great book)... all of which made visiting the Tower of London fun for me but possibly less so for my family. (A quick note for people who will again remind me I read a lot of English history - I know.)

I like Alison's approach to her work:

As a non-fiction author, I write 'popular' history. The term has sometimes been used in a derogatory sense by a few people who should know better, because all historians use much the same sources. History is not the sole preserve of academics, although I have the utmost respect for those historians who undertake new research and contribute something new to our knowledge. History belongs to us all, and it can be accessed by us all. And if writing it in a way that is accessible and entertaining, as well as conscientiously researched, can be described as popular, then, yes, I am a popular historian, and am happy to be one.

If you like Showtime's Henry, you'll like Alison's work... and note a lot of differences between history and dramatic license.  Not that there's anything wrong with dramatic license - a good story is a good story.

Here's what Alison was kind enough to send during a break from promoting The Lady in the Tower: