Many ghostwriting companies (and remember--most of these companies are vanity presses) subcontract their ghostwriting business to freelancers around the country, writers who will work for very little money since the company is going to keep the lion's share of the fee paid by a client.
The biggest problem with these ghostwriting subcontractors is that most are inexperienced. They are often English majors, unemployed English major graduates, moonlighters, housewives, second-income householders, and others who just don't have the chops for the job. They may or may not have written a book before, but I've seen the work coming out of these companies, and (pardon my lack of grammar here) "it ain't pretty."
These subcontractor are forced to adhere to company standards, which in my professional opinion, are either very low or compromised.
It's safer and wiser to stick with an independent ghostwriter who focuses on writing, not on package deals that are money pits and yield little success. And that's my motto: Hire a writer, not a company.
~William Hammett
Contact: wmhammett@aol.com
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