The 5 Most Lucrative Ghostwriting Services (And What To Charge For Each)

Nicolas Cole
5 min readApr 11, 2024

Many people see ghostwriting as a mysterious and sexy career path.

They think of high-profile ghostwriters like Mark Manson, the writer behind Will Smith’s memoir Will. The harsh truth is that these types of ghostwriting services aren’t particularly profitable, even if you get paid $500,000 for a book. Divide that by how many hours it takes to write a book, and you start to see how unprofitable these services are.

So, today I want to give you the 5 most lucrative ghostwriting services you can start selling today to earn a real living as a writer.

Let’s dive in!

Anyone who “knows something” needs a ghostwriter.

All business owners or experts in a field, who have information which would be useful to other people, need a ghostwriter.

A ghostwriter’s job isn’t to think for them. A ghostwriter’s job is to help them clarify their “thinking” and amplify and share that “thinking” in the most scalable way possible. And, even if they don’t need a ghostwriter right now, they will as soon as they begin to scale.

Here are just a few examples of people who need ghostwriters:

  • CEOs
  • Coaches
  • Plumbers
  • Nutritionists
  • Yoga Instructors
  • Venture Capitalists

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Nicolas Cole

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