You see them out there. People with these brilliant ideas. Brilliant ideas that will make brilliant, best-selling books.

Except they can’t write worth a damn.

So they want to work with a ghostwriter. They want a pro to write it up all pretty and then hand it over.

And they don’t have any money to cough up to pay the ghostwriter.

So they offer up a piece of the profit pie as pay.

If you see something like this – run far, far away. Run ghostwriter, run!!

There are times when it can work out. And work out well. But more times it works out bad, very bad. And that means you just cranked out a book for free.

Just some of the things that can go wrong:

1) Client decides not to publish after all because (insert reason here ______________)

2) Client can’t get a publisher to publish book

3) Client not willing (or able) to get the book self-published

4) Client gets book self-published but doesn’t sell squatola

5) Client completely jerks you around on your original agreement

Oh, there are more things then the five listed above. But that’s just a taste.

I know I sound like an anti-drug ad…but seriously…just don’t do it.