What exactly is ghostwriting? What are the challenges and nuances of writing on behalf of someone else? ArtsHub speaks to two ghostwriters to demystify the craft of this specialised form of writing – a kind of surrogate authorship – and to clarify some of its more opaque elements.
Hutchinson first started out as a ghostwriter when contacted by a publisher to help with Richard Wilkins’s book Black Ties, Red Carpets, Green Rooms (2011) (BTRCGR). She recalls this experience as being her favourite. ‘Richard was really engaged and would think about each story he wanted to tell before each of our phone catch-ups. It took us a little while to get it all down because of his hectic schedule, but the result was excellent.’
