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GHOSTWRITER CONTRACTS 101

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GHOSTWRITER CONTRACTS 101

So you want to hire a ghostwriter? Here is what you should find in a ghostwriter contract.

Your search for a ghostwriter is complete. Now it’s time to roll up your sleeves and get to work. What comes first? The contract, of course. Make sure that the contract covers everything important. Here is a quick guide of what to watch for in a ghostwriting contract.

RIGHTS

The most important item to cover in a ghostwriting contract is your rights.
(NOTE: Nothing that appears in this article is intended to serve as legal advice; for that you should contact a duly accredited attorney.)
According to international copyright practices, supported by the Universal Copyright Convention, the writer is always owner of his or her own words. In this case, the writer is a hired gun, so you don’t want copyright for your project to be owned by the writer. It is critical to make sure that any contract you sign with a  ghostwriter assigns all rights to you.  That includes film rights, audio rights, foreign rights, etc.
Just how important are rights? It is mostly for this reason that we work with contracts whenwriting books for clients rather than just invoicing.  There are many reasons people hire ghostwriters; for most smaller projects, we just quote a price by email, and complete the project if the client agrees.  But for books and screenplays, it is essential to specify the copyright.
Ghostwriter contracts must assign rights

PRICING

As important as rights are, I have found that pricing is the most obvious item clients look for in a contract.  You want to know how much you will be paying and when each installment is due.  The contract should be very clear on this point.
Payment can be arranged in a number of ways, including a portion up front and a portion upon completion.  Or it can be all up front.  Part of the payment might be in the form of royalties, although you will find that option as rare as a penguin drinking margaritas on the Playa Del Carmen.  As Laura Sherman puts it:
“Never ask a professional ghostwriter to work solely for a percentage of the back end (royalties). It’s not something a reputable writer would do. However, a student, who wishes to gain experience, might jump at such an offer.”
Some ghostwriters will demand scheduled payments, others prefer to use milestones.
We use milestones. We typically divide payment into thirds, but we are flexible on that.  The idea is to work at the writer’s and the client’s pace, making sure the writer can eat along the way, protecting the client from having to dump the world’s largest piggy bank on the table all at once, while still keeping our administrative work to a minimum.

LENGTH

The second most obvious item in the contract is the length of the document.  When you hire a ghostwriter, you’ll be paying x amount of money; you’ll want to get y amount of writing.  The length of the document can be expressed in a number of ways:
  • chapters
  • pages
  • words
  • characters (that means characters like A or B, not characters like Harry Potter or Anne Shirley)
We like to count by words, as it is the most accurate (or least inaccurate) way to count the amount of writing we will deliver to a client.  Chapters could mean almost anything.  Comparing a Michael Crichton chapter with a Gregory MaGuire chapter is like comparing the height of Mother Teresa with the height of Nelson Mandela.
Even pages are hard to quantify as the same text can vary by as much as two dozen pages, depending on page size, font size, font face, kerning, white space, margins, line spacing, average paragraph length (lots of dialogue will probably mean many short paragraphs that don’t fill complete lines) and even indentation.
As for characters, that’s just silly (not Harry Potter or Anne Shirley, of course).
Words are the best way to establish the length of the manuscript.  Although the average word in the English language is 5.1 – 7.9 characters long, the average length of words used is 4.5 – 5.0 characters long (depending on which source you turn to); remember how often we use short words like “to”, “a” and “of”, and how rarely we use longer words like “defenestration” and “hyperpigmentation”. For those who are hopping on the edge of their seats with excitement over these numbers, you’ll really get a kick out of this data.
Just for fun, I put three of my blog posts to the test for the length of their words using this tool.
What you can learn from this is that I use too many big words or not enough small words.  I tested each of these posts for readability using this tool, and fortunately, it likes my work anyway.
Phew.
While word count is my preferred means of identifying the length of the manuscript, I am careful not to get too restrictive.  If the contract was to specify that a manuscript is to have 60,000 words, what happens if it comes in just beautifully at 60,178?  Or at 58,251?  Should the ghostwriter add in a couple hundred words just to meet an arbitrary and rounded word count?  That’s not serving the client well, and all it does is stress out the writer.  Nobody wins.
Our contracts all commit to a range of words, such as 55,000 – 65,000.  That way the client has a good sense of what he is paying for, the writer doesn’t have to stress too much about word count, and the manuscript will be as good as it can be.
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TIMELINE

It’s not just the length of the manuscript that is important to clients; the length of time it takes to complete is also often an issue.  This is understandable.  You want a timeline specified, so that the ghostwriter you hire does not drag her feet too long. You are eager to see your book in print.
In the real world, the writer is a professional (Our writers certainly are!) who pretty much sticks to a as rigorous a schedule as the client will let her.
The client, on the other hand, is living his life, with all the complications, schedule changes and unexpected events that come with living life. Sometimes the client does not have time to review each chapter as it comes back from the writer. I have seen busy people take a month to get back to the writer with an “OK” or a list of changes required. I have seen clients disappear for three months or five months.
In one case, the client disappeared for nine months without any way to reach him by phone or email, then return full of pep and verve and motivation and vim and energy and all sorts of other words from his Thesaurus.
A six-month job can easily take 12 months.  Our contracts all specify an “expected” end date – much like an “expected” end date to a pregnancy – at the end of which, a book is born.
With the timeline as with manuscript length, mutual expectations are important. But nobody benefits from rushing either the writer or the client. We do not want to force clients to meet a contractual deadline while trying to juggle a change of jobs, a cross-country move or an unexpected hospital stay of one of their parents. That does not serve the client well, and the quality of the input and feedback would really suck.
Ironically, those few times that clients have stomped their feet and insisted on specific dates, they have inevitably failed to provide timely information required for the project. Not even close.

RESEARCH

Do you expect the writer to do research for you?  If so, take the time to outline exactly what is expected. Asking “How much work does it take to do research?” is like asking, “How deep is a hole?” or “How long is time?” or “How far is away?”
The default in our contract templates specifies that no research will be done. Our writers usually do some research anyway, such as checking small details about a location or an event, but if there is specific information you need included in your manuscript, either provide it yourself or detail exactly what needs to be gathered by the writer.
CAVEAT: If you are dealing with a hoity-toity, gold-plated writing agency, one that charges $30,000 or more for a 75,000 word book, you should expect unlimited research.  That’s just my opinion, of course; don’t try telling them that I said so. Just make sure if you need research to be done, the contract lays down the rules.

CONFIDENTIALITY

If this is ghostwriting, you might not want it known that you had help.  Some of our clients are very particular about this.  Others don’t mind their collaboration with a ghostwriter being known. If this is important to you, make sure it is included.

CONTACT

You might want the contract to include details about the type of contact you will have with the ghostwriter. On a rare occasion, a client will demand face-to-face meetings with the writer, although that obviously leads to higher costs. Some clients want frequent contact with the writer; others want to let the writer run with the topic.
The default in our contract template specifies that it is the client’s responsibility to make sure he is satisfied with the content as it is being produced, so we build a chapter-by-chapter contact into our process. The default in our contract template also offers a default price for face-to-face meetings, should the client wish to make use of that option after signing the contract.

GHOSTWRITING CONTRACTS IN SUMMARY

The bottom line is that you want a contract to address any legal matters, such as rights, and to set basic parameters so that you know how much you are paying and what you can expect for that money.
At the same time, it is important to remember that writing is a creative task; it has to be a collaborative process between you and the writer, built on trust and a mutual drive to make the manuscript amazing.  Setting parameters is a good thing; making them restrictive is a bad thing.
No contract will ensure a successful ghostwriting project. Success depends on the client and the writer.  You need to decide if the ghostwriter you have chosen is easy to work with and knows her craft, and whether the writer and the agency are accommodating in their approach, with their focus on delivering the most powerful manuscript possible.
Oh, and in case you were wondering, this article has 5.6 characters per word.




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About David Leonhardt
 is President of The Happy Guy Marketing, published author, a "Distinguished Toastmaster", a former consumer advocate, a social media addict and experienced with media relations and government reports.
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Need a professional writer? Fiction and non-fiction? contact richard.nata@yahoo.co.id
Let me introduce myself. My name is Richard Nata. I am an author, novelist, blogger and ghost writer. My articles, including short stories have been published in magazines and newspapers since 1994. I have written a lot of books, both fiction and non-fiction. So I was a professional in the field of writing, both fiction and non-fiction.

I was born in Jakarta, August 17, 1968.  

In 1988, at the age of 20 years, I started working as an accounting staff. Age 24 years has occupied the position of Finance Manager. Age 26 years as a General Manager.

In 1994, my articles published in magazines and tabloids.

In 1997, I wrote a book entitled "Buku Pintar Mencari Kerja". This book is reprinted as much as 8 times. Through the book, the authors successfully helped tens of thousands of people get jobs at once successful in their careers. They were also successful when moving to work in other places.

In 1998, I started investing in shares on Bursa Efek Indonesia (Indonesia stock exchange). As a result of investing in the stock market then I can provide consulting services for companies that want to go public in Indonesia stock exchange.

more information :
1. IPO KAN PERUSAHAAN ANDA DI BEI, TRIK TERCEPAT MENJADIKAN ANDA SEORANG KONGLOMERAT. brand, ideas, story, style, my life: IPO KAN PERUSAHAAN ANDA DI BEI, TRIK TERCEPAT MENJADIKAN ANDA SEORANG KONGLOMERAT.
2. JASA KONSULTAN GO PUBLIC ( IPO ) DI BURSA EFEK INDONESIA. 


BUKU PINTAR DAPAT KERJA GAJI TINGGI PINDAH KERJA GAJI SEMAKIN TINGGI made by retyping the book BEST SELLER of the author, entitled “Buku Pintar Mencari Kerja”. This ebook available on google play.

In 2015, I had the idea of a startup company where the readers can decide for themselves the next story. WASN'T THIS A GREAT IDEA? IF can be realized WILL BE WORTH billions USD. Because CAN PRODUCE FOR MILLIONS OF DOLLARS even tens of millions USD annually. 

In theory, in 10-20 years into the future, my startup income, amounting to hundreds of million USD annually can be obtained easily. AND IF FOLLOWED BY MANY COMPANIES IN THE WHOLE WORLD WILL THEN BE A NEW INDUSTRIAL worth trillions USD. 

To be honest. Currently I'm not having a lot of money. So I start marketing my startup with blogspot.

My STARTUP :


A story with millions of choices in it - looking investor like you.



Try to imagine this. When you're reading a story on the web or blog, you are given two choices. You can choose the next story based on your own choice. After selecting then you can continue reading the story. Shortly afterwards you will be presented back to the 2 other options. The next choice is up to you. Then you continue the story you are reading. After that you will be faced again with 2 choices. So onwards. The more stories you read so the more options you have taken.


If you feel curious then you can re-read the story by changing your selection. Then you will see a different story with the story that you have read previously. The question now is why is this so? Because the storyline will be varying according to your choice. 


I, as the author is planning to make tens of thousands of articles with millions of choices in it. With tens of thousands of articles then you like to see a show of your favorite series on TV for several years. The difference is while watching your favorite TV series, then you can not change the story. Meanwhile, if you read this story then you can alter the way the story according to your own choice.

You might say like this. Sounds like a book "choose your own adventure". Books I read when I was young.

Correctly. The idea is taken from there. But if you read through a book, the story is not so exciting. Due to the limited number of pages. When a child first you may already feel interesting. But if you re-read the book now then becomes no fun anymore because you don't get anything with the amount of 100-200 pages. 

Have you ever heard of game books?  When you were boy or girl, did you like reading game books? I think you've heard even happy to read it.

Gamebooks are sometimes informally called choose your own adventure books or CYOA which is also the name of the Choose Your Own Adventure series published byBantam BooksGamebook - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gamebook - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A gamebook is a work of fiction that allows the reader to participate in the story by making effective choices. The narrative branches along various paths through the use of numbered paragraphs or pages.
Lihat preview menurut Yahoo

Bantam Books with the Choose Your Own Adventure 

series has produced more than 250 million US 

dollars. While I offer you more powerful than the Choose 

Your Own Adventure. Because of what? Because the 

story that I made much more interesting than the stories 

created by the authors of Bantam Books. You will not get anything just to 100-200 pages. While the story that I created is made up of tens of thousands of articles with millions of choices in it.

For comparison are the books published with the theme "choose your own adventure" produces more than 250 million copies worldwide. If the average price of a book for 5 USD, the industry has produced more than 1.5 billion USD. But unfortunately this industry has been abandoned because the reader begins to feel bored. The last book was published entitled "The Gorillas of Uganda (prev." Search for the Mountain Gorillas ")". And this book was published in 2013.

Based on the above, then you are faced with two choices. Are you interested in reading my story is? Or you are not interested at all. The choice is in your hands.
If you are interested then spread widely disseminated this article to your family, friends, neighbors, and relatives. You can also distribute it on facebook, twitter, goggle +, or other social media that this article be viral in the world. By doing so it is a new entertainment industry has been created.

Its creator named Richard Nata.

The full articles that talks about this: 
  



WHY DO I NEED STARTUP FUNDS FROM INVESTORS? I NEED A LOT OF FUNDS FROM INVESTORS BECAUSE I HAVE TO LOOKING FOR EXPERT PROGRAMMERS(IT).BECAUSE THE DATA IS HANDLED IS VERY LARGE, IT MAY HAVE TO WEAR SOME PROGRAMMERS(IT).

I CAN NOT WEAR SOME FREELANCE PROGRAMMER BECAUSE THE DATA MUST BE MONITORED CONTINUOUSLY FROM VIRUSES, MALWARE, SPAM, AND OTHERS.

IN ADDITION FUNDS FROM INVESTORS IS ALSO USED TO BUY SERVERS WITH VERY LARGE CAPACITY. FUNDS ARE ALSO USED TO PAY EMPLOYEE SALARIES AND OPERATIONAL COSTS OF THE COMPANY.

FUNDS CAN ALSO BE USED FOR ADVERTISING AND OTHER MARKETING STRATEGIES.FUNDS CAN ALSO BE USED TO ADVERTISE MY STARTUP AND OTHER MARKETING STRATEGIES.

IF I GET A VERY LARGE FUND, THE PART OF THE FUNDS USED TO TRANSLATE THE STORY INTO VARIOUS LANGUAGES.With more and more languages, the more readers we get.
WITH MORE AND MORE READERS, THE MORE REVENUE WE GET. 

AS AN INVESTOR THEN YOU DO NOT HAVE TO FEEL ANXIOUS ABOUT YOUR FUNDS. BECAUSE YOUR FUNDS WILL NEVER BE LOST BECAUSE IN 3-5 YEARS YOU HAVE RETURNED THE FUNDS COUPLED WITH PROFIT.
THIS BUSINESS IS ONE AND THE ONLY ONE IN THE WORLD.

If we can make a good story, so that the readers will 

come again and again for further reading the story then 

our earnings will continue to grow and will never 

diminish. This is due to new readers who continued  to 

arrive, while long remained loyal readers become our 

customers.

So that the number of our readers will continue to 

multiply over time. With the increasing number of loyal 

readership then automatically the amount of income we 

will also grow larger every year. The same thing 

happened in yahoo, google, facebook, twitter, linkedin, 

and others when they still startup.

Deuteronomy {28:13} And the LORD shall make thee the 

head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and 

thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do [them: ]

Try to imagine this. If I give a very unique story. It was the first time in the world. But the world already know this story even liked it. Because the world love the game books. While the story that I made is the development of game books.
Do you Believe if I dare say if I will succeed because my story will be famous all over the world as Harry Potter?
I believe it. Not because I was the author of the story, but because of the story that I made is unique and the only one in the world. 
Income from my startup :
1. Ads. With millions of unique visitors, the price of the ads will be expensive.
2. Affiliate marketing. In addition to advertising, we are also able to put up some banner from affiliate marketing.
3. Contribution of the readers. If you have a million readers and every reader to pay one US dollar per year then you will get the income of one million US dollars per year. 
If you have a million readers and every reader to pay one US dollar per month then you will get as much revenue twelve million US dollars per year.
4. Books and Comics. After getting hundreds of thousands to the millions of readers of the story will be made in books and the form of a picture story (comics).
5. Movies. If we have a good story with millions of readers then quickly we will be offered to make a film based on the story.
6. Merchandise related to characters. After the movies there will be made an offer for the sale of goods related to the characters.
7. Sales. With millions of email that we have collected from our readers so we can sell anything to them.
    Each income (1-7) worth millions to tens of millions of US dollars. 
    Because each income (1-7) worth millions to tens of millions of US dollars. Then in 10-20 years into the future, AI will be earning hundreds of million USD annually.
So how long do you think my story that I made could gather a thousand readers? Ten thousand readers? One hundred thousand readers? A million readers? Five million readers? Ten million readers? More than ten million readers?
But to get all of it of course takes time, can not be instant. In addition, it takes hard work, big funds and placement of the right people in the right positions.
By advertising, viral marketing, strong marketing strategies and SEO then a million readers can be done in less than a year. Ten million readers can be done in two to three years.
This is the marketing strategy of my startup.
When hundreds of thousands or millions of readers already liked my story then they have to pay to enjoy the story that I made.
If you are a visionary then you will think like this.
With the help of my great name in the world of business, my expertise in marketing, advertising, marketing by mouth, viral marketing, then collecting a million readers to ten million readers will be easy to obtain. Is not that right?
The question now is what if people like my story as they like Harry Potter? You will get tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of email addresses from readers. With that much email, we can sell anything to the readers.
Since April 2013, Wikipedia has around 26 million articles in 285 languages are written by 39 million registered users and a variety of anonymous people who are not known from other parts of the world.  Web ranked by Alexa, Wikipedia is a famous website number 6 which has been visited by 12% of all Internet users with 80 million visitors every month and it is only from the calculation of America.

resource : http://www.tahupedia.com/content/show/136/Sejarah-dan-Asal-Mula-Wikipedia

If no Wikipedia then need hundreds of thousands to millions of books required to make 26 million articles in 285 languages into books.

With the Wikipedia then people started to leave to read a book or books to seek knowledge about a subject or many subjects.

The same thing will happen. Read a story in a book or books to be abandoned. Read a story with millions of choices on the web or blog is far more interesting than reading a book or books. 

So what happens next? In 10-20 years ahead then read a story in a book to be abandoned. Otherwise my startup will grow and continue to develop into a new entertainment industry.

New entertainment industry, where I was a forerunner startup will continue to evolve. 
Therefore, in 10-20 years into the future, my startup will be earning hundreds of million USD annually.

So do not delay. Invest your money immediately to my startup. Take A Look. There are so many advantages if you want to invest in my startup.
WHY YOU SHOULD INVEST YOUR MONEY RIGHT NOW? .
IF YOU INVEST YOUR FUNDS IN ONE, TWO OR THREE YEARS INTO THE FUTURE, YOU MAY BE TOO LATE.
BECAUSE IN 1-3 YEARS INTO THE FUTURE THEN I'VE GOT THE FUNDS. THE FUNDS CAN COME FROM SOME INVESTORS, LOANS FROM BANKS OR FROM ADVERTISEMENTS POSTED ON MY BLOG.

IF I'VE GOT A LARGE AMOUNT OF FUNDS THEN I'VE NO NEED OF YOUR FUNDS. SO INVEST NOW OR NOT AT ALL.

My BLOG started to be written January 11, 2015. TODAY, MAY 30, 2015, THE NUMBER OF CLICKS HAS REACHED 56,750. SO FAR SO GOOD.

If I get big funds from investors then with a quick story that I wrote will spread throughout the world.

So I got acceleration because I can put ads in a large variety of media such as Google AdWords, Facebook, and others. I also can perform a variety of other marketing strategies.
If I do not get funding from investors then my story would still spread throughout the world. But with a longer time, Slow but sure.

So either I get funding from investors or not, the story that I wrote will remain spread throughout the world. Ha ... 7x

So don't worry, be happy.

My advice to you is you should think whether the data that I have provided to you makes sense or not .
If my data reasonable then immediately invest your funds as soon as possible.

Then we discuss how we plan further cooperation.

Thank you.
Lord Jesus bless you.
Amen
P.S. The offer letter I gave also to the hedge funds and 

venture capital and other major companies 

in the entire 

world. So who is fast then he will get it.


P.P.S. In addition, there is one more thing I 

want to tell you. If a story can generate tens 

of millions of US dollars, then what if made 


many stories? Then why do not you make 2, 3 or many stories? You will get hundreds of million USD annually.

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