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Guest Post: Chandler Baker on Ghostwriting and ‘The Big Reveal’

Jun 10 2015
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Guest Post

The Big Reveal: Writing under your own name after years of ghostwriting and ways to navigate the transition It’s a not-so-dirty little secret that when my debut novel comes out this week, it won’t be my first published book. Okay, it actually won’t be my second or even my third published one, either, but it will still very much be my debut, in every sense of the word. You see, up until this point, I’ve been what’s known in […]

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Have Laptop — Will Travel

May 30 2014
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Beginner Resources, Writing Life

When I discovered that two of my favorite childhood authors, Franklin W. Dixon (The Hardy Boys) and Carolyn Keene (Nancy Drew), didn’t actually exist, my world turned upside down. If this is a shocking revelation for you, I’ll give you a moment to take it all in. Okay, still breathing? Good. Granted, the news may not be all that surprising considering that Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew books are still being published today, around ninety years after […]

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The Not-So-Secret Backdoor to Publishing

May 29 2012
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Industry Life

Besides the fact that they’re some of the most successful YA books, the titles shown above have one very big thing in common: They are the products of a practice known as book packaging, wherein a person or company creates marketable ideas, develops outlines or synopses, then hires writers to write them. The packager—whether it is Alloy (Gossip Girl, The Clique, The Probability of Miracles, the Private series), Full Fathom Five (I am Number Four), or […]

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