If you are interesting in writing an e-book but find you have a keen ability to market an e-book but not write one, then hire a ghost writer to cover the subjects you are interested in covering! One of the best ways to generate sales for a product or service is to use the help of a ghost writer to write articles for your website or even better, hire a ghost writer to write e-books.

 

Ghost writers who are hungry for the work don’t mind to write e-books while they are working on their own material. It pays their bills and gives them the experience as a professional writer. The best way to locate a ghost writer is to check out the service providers on a forum such as Elance Marketplace. The writers who are posting on the Elance Marketplace usually have some experience writing e-books. However, sometimes you will find inexperienced writers on Elance who haven’t written any material for a client and you may be their first one! In this case, just keep close contact with the writer to be sure the writer doesn’t take your money and run!

 

If you are writing an e-book using a ghost writer, then after you choose your writer via Elance or another forum, remember you are hiring the writer as a work-for-hire job. In this case, you still control the project. The writer is an independent contractor but professionals realize that during the time they are contracted to do a job, they need to abide by your instructions to complete the job to your satisfaction.

 

Ghost writers are usually happy to stay in the shadows and work according to your guidelines and wishes but if you find the work is not what you had in mind, then quickly bring their attention to how you would like to see certain aspects of the job change. Ghost writers are usually pretty flexible. However, they won’t know if their work isn’t meeting your expectations if you don’t let them know up front.

 

The best way to deal with a ghostwriter on an e-book production is to first tell them generally what your expectations are. How many pages or how many words you are expecting. Then you will want to negotiate on price. Generally speaking, this can be based on whatever the writer wants to base it on and that’s just the way it is. For instance, some writers will choose to charge a certain rate per word such as five cents per word.

Some writers will charge a per page rate such as ten dollars per page, which is pretty common with the growing marketplace for e-book ghost writers. Other writers will charge less on the front end but want a percentage of the sales on the back end. The fees just vary by writer and can even vary by the topic. For instance, some writers will write an e-book on Sharks for $2000 and turn around and write an e-book on famous people for $500. Why? Because the book on famous people appeals to the writer and sharks don’t so the writer may feel like she will need to charge more due to the research involved.

 

Ghost writers are usually happy to tell you how they come up with their fees for a project. Even if the way the writer derives at the fee sounds ridiculous, they will usually tell you. What do they care how it sounds? Right now, it’s a writer’s market and they can pretty much set their own fees and name their own price. This is another reason ghost writers for e-books should be found on Elance Marketplace. As an individual searching for a writer, you can easily post a job on Elance and then allow the writers to bid on the job and what they feel like they can write the e-book for at the time. This enables you the opportunity to find the cheapest bidder or the best writer for the material at hand.

 

When hiring an e-book ghost writer, remember these writers are ghost writers for probably countless clients. They are unable to sign non-compete agreements so don’t ask for something so ridiculous. They aren’t going to sign a non-compete and if they do, then they aren’t a true professional who plans on writing very long so you never know what you may end up with on paper. However, if you have a writer who chooses to write for you on sensitive material that you need closely guarded, they may sign a non-disclosure for the material you deem secretive or need protected.

 

When hiring a ghost writer to write an e-book, it’s a good idea to set milestones with them but not too strict of milestones because true writers are a different breed altogether. Some of them will write for 24 hours straight when their creative juices are in over drive and some of them will write on a strict schedule. The best thing to do is to set a deadline for the table of contents or a rough outline for you to approve and then a final deadline to receive the material by a certain date. When dealing with a ghost writer on e-books, you probably aren’t going to receive the e-book in parts. It is too much aggravation for the writer to stop and start on the submissions of the book in parts.

 

If you find a ghost writer for your e-books, then take the time to follow up with them but let them fly with it. You have to trust that they will complete the work in a timely fashion while allowing them the time to write freely. If you have a ghost writer working on the material of the book, then you are free to choose your next project or you can begin marketing the material at hand. After all, most of your writers have no interest in marketing the material or being a part of the marketing. If they have to do that then they can easily write and promote their own material. Ghost writers want to write and if you are lucky enough to find a good one, then he or she will make you money because they can free you up to market and promote what it is you want to promote or market!