GhostpenI talked for six hours. She handed me back my life in twelve chapters.
Richard Ashworth
Former CEO, Ashworth Capital Partners
No commitment. 30 minutes.
The writer who
disappears
into your voice.
Memoirs for retired executives. Thought-leadership books for founders who think in bullet points. Keynote speeches that sound like you wrote them at 2 a.m.
Your story already exists. It just needs a writer.
The transparent process.
Most ghostwriters keep the curtain down. Here is exactly what happens from first call to final page.
Two hours. Everything on the table.
We talk. You ramble. I ask the questions your therapist never thought to ask. By the end, I know which chapter opens the book and which story you've been telling wrong for fifteen years.
Deliverable
Story Map Document
Timeline
2 hrs
of 05
Voice memo transcript — 11:43 PM
"...so basically the thing I always tell people is, you know, it started with — actually no wait, it started before that, when I was in — god, what year was that — maybe 2003? And my dad, he had this thing he used to say about, uh, about risk and I never really got it until we were about to lose everything in Q3 and I remember thinking, okay, NOW I get it..."
Opening paragraph — Chapter One
My father had a saying about risk that I spent thirty years pretending to understand. He'd deliver it at dinner, fork in hand, with the particular gravity of a man who'd built something from nothing and lost it twice. I smiled. I nodded. I had no idea what he meant. I figured it out on a Tuesday in October, watching $4 million leave our account in eleven minutes.
Email to consultant — Monday 7:14 AM
"Re: book outline — ok so I think the core thing is that most people get leadership wrong because they think it's about authority but it's really about trust and I have like 5 frameworks I've developed over 20 yrs that prove this, there's the STAR model and the accountability loop and the thing I call the 3 clocks and I think each one could be a chapter but maybe some should be combined, also should we start with a story or just go straight into the frameworks??"
Chapter architecture — Part II
Part Two opens not with a framework but with a failure. In the spring of 2009, I gave a speech to four hundred people about accountability. Forty minutes. Standing ovation. The next morning, I fired someone for the wrong reason. The three frameworks in this section — the STAR Model, the Accountability Loop, and what I call the Three Clocks — were not invented in a conference room. They were reverse-engineered from mistakes I made in front of people who trusted me.
Napkin notes — scanned photo
"Legacy letter ideas: — what I want kids to know about money — the thing about Grandpa's watch — regrets? maybe not regrets — lessons — be specific don't be vague — something about the house on Meridian — tell them I was scared too — don't make it sound like a will — make it sound like I'm still there"
Legacy letter — Final draft
There is a watch in the top drawer of the mahogany desk. It runs eleven minutes fast. Your great-grandfather set it that way and never fixed it, and I never fixed it after him, and I want you to know why. He believed that arriving early was the only form of respect that cost nothing. By the time I understood what he meant, he was gone. So I kept the watch wrong on purpose, so I would keep thinking about him. I want you to have something that keeps you thinking about me.
You already know
what you want to say.
After the Voice Calibration phase, every client says the same thing: “That sounds exactly like me — except I would never have said it that clearly.”
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The book exists. People read it. My speaking fee tripled. I haven’t thought about the process once — because it sounds like me, not like a book that happened to me.
Margaret Osei-Bonsu
Strategy Consultant, 20-year practice
The call is where
it begins.
Thirty minutes. You tell me the story you’ve been meaning to write. I tell you whether I can write it, and what the first chapter looks like. No proposal. No pitch deck.
We talk about your story, not my process
I tell you which chapter opens the book
You leave knowing if this is worth pursuing
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