Guest: NAIWE’s Ghostwriting Expert Claudia Suzanne

Ghostwriting has become a popular and booming field with so many people wanting to tell a story. Just 20 years ago there were less than 50 certified ghostwriters in the entire industry; today it has grown into an admired and well-paying profession with sought-after learned skills and techniques. Ghostwriters have a different perspective than editors when they look at your manuscript. They specialize in figuring out and fixing the structure of your manuscript and determining the audience for your book. Ghostwriters write to different audiences to capture a larger marketing audience, and they write effectively and true to course to keep the reader reading whether it be the publisher, the agent, or the purchaser of your book. Ghostwriters make your book stand out in the publishing industry. Learn to ghostwrite to add to your basket of multiple streams of income.

Here’s what you can expect to learn in this class:

  • Why ghostwriting skills are the apex of all writing skills

  • How to look at a manuscript to find its strengths

  • How to structure the plot with the Slinky effect

  • How to use ghostwriting skills to structure a manuscript to make the manuscript pop to get more readers and more sales

  • How to find and eliminate the manuscript’s deal breakers

  • How to hone in on the manuscript’s audience even before the audience exists

Audio Only

Duration: 1 hour

Claudia Suzanne is a consummate ghostwriter/teacher, understanding what authors need in order to successfully complete their book dream, and she has a finely honed talent for communicating what she knows to her students and clients. Popularly dubbed “The Einstein of Ghostwriting,” Claudia has entertained and informed tens of thousands of writers, editors, journalists, and aspiring authors at countless writer and professional meetings, conferences, radio and BlogTalk radio broadcasts, webinars, and podcasts. Claudia was an invited expert on Penguin’s Author Solutions Expert Video series and a featured entrepreneur in Orange County Business Journal and Norwegian Business Daily. Her signature title, This Business of Books: A Complete Overview of the Industry from Concept through Sales, earned her a 2018 Author of Influence Award from Connected Women of Influence.