Are you a writer looking for steady, ongoing work?
Are you ready to be part of a team?
Do you work well with deadlines?
Welcoming editors and ghostwriters for new and ongoing projects in Sci fi, Space Opera, Spy-fi, Tech Mage, Adventure, and Science Fantasy.
If you get to the end of this page, and you can honestly answer ‘yes!’ to all the above questions, we’d love to hear from you!
Style
Here’s the thing. For us, finding the right ghostwriter is a little bit like dating. It’s not about whether you’re a catch, but more about whether we’re a good fit. Below are some of the things we’d put on our dating profile.
If your writing is full of ‘walked, said, looked, nodded’, then please swipe left.
If you use repeated words and phrases, even within the same paragraph, we’re not a match.
Ok, I can’t keep up the dating analogy indefinitely, and there are some serious points I’d like to share…
Recommended reading: Gary Provost’s 100 Ways to Improve Your Writing. I constantly find myself referring writers to specific sections of this book when we’re improving their game.
We also don’t like long narratives with lots of all-knowing narrator explanation. We prefer to let the characters’ actions and dialogue reveal what’s going on in the characters’ minds.
e.g. Jenny narrowed her eyes suspiciously. “What makes you think that?” she asked, quietly checking the date he mentioned on her holo.
Not: She wasn’t sure if she believed him or not. It wasn’t the first time she blah blah blah, and he blah blah blah.
Similarly, we find scenes have more tension and information conveyed when we tell the story from a specific point of view of one of the characters in the scene. (And unlike traditional styles we do swap pov from scene to scene.)
We tend to use shorter paragraphs, and break up the dialogue onto its own lines, making it easier to see who said what.
Actions go ahead of the dialogue so that readers know who is about to speak before they read what they say.
e.g. Alisha scratched her head with the pencil. “Are you sure we’re doing the right thing?”
Not: “Are you sure we’re doing the right thing?” said Alisha.
Story
All our ghostwriters are given detailed beats.
However, what we love to see is our writers taking the initiative when it comes to fleshing out details.
Are you able to come up with tech ideas that suit the world you’re writing in?
For instance, in an urban sci fi setting, are you able to describe what a server room looks and feels like?
Would you be able to imagine something in 50 years from now, and pop in details that show you know what you’re talking about so you can immerse your reader? (It’s ok to talk to people, sound board with us, and even use google in your research if this crops up in your story! We have lots of tech advisers, and ex-scientists, computer folks and engineers in our mix.)
Do you know the genre we’re asking you to write in?
All our stories are in some subset of sci fi and space opera.
Some tend towards having some fantasy elements.
Some a little more military-based.
We don’t tend to do a lot of hard sci fi so you don’t need to be an ex-engineer or anything, but having read some sci fi or at least watched some Star Trek will definitely help.
For instance, if we use the word ‘bridge’ in the context of a space ship, do you know that this means the place where the Captain controls the ship from, along with his navigators and pilots? Or do you automatically think a walkway that crosses from one part of the ship to another? (You may snigger but I had a ghost writer who wrote 800 words about a fantasy bridge, magically open to space which cross from one area of the ship to another. In a sci fi book. It was not good, and it made me want to cry.)
As you work with us, we are more than willing to give you more and more free reign on a series. It begins with you adding flare to your scenes and filling out the details of plot as you write.
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