Max Leibman (Taylor's Version) on Nostr: nprofile1q…p2uaj How much of a ghostwritten book comes from the credited ...

nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqhvzjvzfmclu5l5zk65fxye5cgt7e0qvs6rcn60z72v9hy79mmpzqfp2uaj (nprofile…2uaj) How much of a ghostwritten book comes from the credited “author” and how much from the ghostwriter? I’d imagine it runs gamut from, “I need a book about ____. Go.” all the way to just being a quasi-editor, reworking unpublishable fragments and outlines into a coherent, polished whole (I’ve heard people describe being offered ghostwriting services of the latter sort for doomed book contracts). But what’s more typical?

I often wonder about this when the topic comes up, because on of my favorite advice books—Peter Walsh’s ‘It’s All Too Much’—turned out to have been ghost written, but its contents seem well-aligned with what else I know of his persona and work.