When a ghostwriter offers to write your "fiction novel," beware. All novels are fiction. I also saw a website the other day on which the ghostwriter said he would "write your novel, fiction or non-fiction, with great care." (Nonfiction is not hyphenated, by the way.) And again, a nonfiction book is not a novel.
A majority of ghostwriters use the phrases "book length manuscript" and "full length book" when advertising on their websites. These phrases should be hyphenated: full-length and book-length, at least when they are adjectives modifying a noun (which they are).
One of the ghostwriters mentioned above wrote a sentence that said, "Choose your ghost writer carefully, otherwise you might get someone who is not right for the job." The word "otherwise" creates a comma splice, one of the most basic grammatical errors one can make. This writer has no business charging money to write people's books.
When ghostwriters can't even write grammatically correct ad copy on their own sites, do you want them to write your book?
~William Hammett
Contact: wmhammett@aol.com
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