I’m looking for a ghostwriter, book doctor, or experienced fiction writer/editor who might be interested in working on a completed debut novel.

I’ve already solicited quotes from ghostwriters on Reedsy and Fiverr, and the prices have been all over the place—including several that reached well into the mid-five-figure range. I completely understand that experienced ghostwriters deserve to be paid for their time and talent, and I’m not looking for someone to work for pennies. At the same time, I just can’t bring myself to put $30,000–$50,000+ into a debut novel that may or may not ever get off the ground.

So I figured I’d see whether there might be someone here who would be a good fit.

A little about the project, while keeping things intentionally vague:

It’s a completed, 80,000 word, full-length contemporary/upmarket fiction manuscript centered around a relationship that begins with an intense emotional connection and gradually becomes something much more complicated. The novel deals heavily with love, trust, betrayal, memory, emotional manipulation, heartbreak, forgiveness, and the difference between the life we believe we are living and the reality that may exist underneath it.

There are also elements of psychological and relationship suspense as the narrator begins questioning certain events, explanations, and pieces of the relationship he thought he understood. However, I wouldn’t describe it as a traditional thriller. At its core, it’s a very intimate, character-driven story about loving someone, slowly realizing that parts of the relationship may not have been what they appeared to be, and eventually having to make sense of what was real.

The story is told in first person, and one of my biggest goals is for the reader to feel extremely close to the narrator—to experience the relationship, uncertainty, heartbreak, and discoveries alongside him rather than simply being told about them.

The manuscript itself is already complete, and the story, characters, major scenes, structure, and emotional arc are there. What I need is someone who can help elevate the actual writing.

I’m under no illusion that I’m some amazing writer. I’m not. If I’m judging myself fairly, most of the manuscript is probably upper-high-school-level writing at best. I think I’m much better at knowing the story I want to tell, the emotions I want the reader to experience, and the scenes I want to create than I am at consistently putting all of that into polished, professional-level prose.

That’s really why I’m looking for help.

I’m not necessarily looking for someone to throw the entire manuscript away and create a completely different novel. Ideally, I’d like someone who can preserve the story, voice, characters, emotional honesty, and strongest existing material while substantially rewriting wherever necessary—improving the prose, dialogue, pacing, transitions, characterization, scene work, repetition, and overall literary quality.

I want it to still feel like my story, just written at a level that is strong enough to stand beside professionally published contemporary/upmarket fiction.

I’d especially be interested in hearing from someone who has experience with:

• Contemporary or upmarket fiction
• Character-driven relationship stories
• Emotional/psychological suspense
• First-person narrative
• Book doctoring or heavy manuscript rewrites
• Taking an existing manuscript and elevating the prose without erasing the author's underlying voice

I’m open to discussing budget, workflow, whether this would be considered ghostwriting versus book doctoring, and whether the project should be approached as a full rewrite or a more selective chapter-by-chapter rewrite.

I’d also be completely fine starting with a paid sample chapter or several pages before either of us commits to the entire manuscript. In fact, I’d probably prefer that so we can make sure our styles and expectations are compatible.

If this sounds like something you might be interested in, feel free to comment or message me with a little about your fiction experience, examples of your work if you have them, how you would approach a project like this, and a general idea of your rates.

I’m keeping the title, character names, and identifying details private in the public post, but I’m happy to provide more information privately to anyone I’m seriously considering.

Thanks!

LekhraWrites, a growing content & creative agency, and we're looking for more people who are good at finding opportunities and connecting with potential clients.

You don't need a fancy resume or years of experience. If you're a college student, freelancer, good at networking, or simply confident talking to people, you're welcome.

🌎 Fully remote - anyone can apply

💰 Paid opportunity

📈 Opportunity to grow with the agency

We're looking for active people who actually want to participate, not just join a group and disappear.

Interested? DM me with a short intro about yourself.

I’m building LekhraWrites, a full-service creative agency, and we're looking for talented people from different fields and skill sets to join our growing team.

Whether you’re into:

✍️ Writing

🎬 Video / Film

🎨 Design

📱 Social Media

💻 Tech

📢 Marketing

📸 Photography

🧠 Research / Strategy

or have any other useful skill? we'd love to hear from you.

💰 Paid project-based work - no fixed monthly salary

🌎 Fully remote - Indian & international applicants welcome

🎓 College students are welcome too

If you're genuinely good at what you do and serious about working on real projects, DM me with a short intro, your skills, and samples/portfolio.

Let's build something bigger together.

BEING MALADAPTIVE DAYDREAMER. I AM ACTUALY AUTHOR NOW. I CAN' US MY MD TO WRITE A STORY, AND GUES WHAT. I HAVE MILLIONS OF READ ON MY STORIES. IF YOU WANT TO READ. LET ME KNOW. I SEND MY LINK TO YOU, AND BY THE WAY. IT'S GL 😊

I’m building LekhraWrites, a writing & content agency, and looking for a few people to join our team.

Your role is to find potential clients, reach out to them and bring opportunities to the agency.

No prior experience is required if you’re confident, good at communication and willing to learn.

It's a remote role so anyone can apply (Indian/International)

College students are also invited.

💰 It's a Paid opportunity

Interested? DM me with a short intro about yourself and why you’d like to join.

Looking for people who are genuinely serious about building something together.

I’m offering a completed ~99,000-word adult art-crime/conspiracy thriller, Velvet Forgery, for acquisition.

Asking price: $11,000 USD.

I’m primarily looking for a serious buyer interested in acquiring a completed fiction property rather than commissioning a manuscript from scratch. Depending on the buyer and intended use, the exact rights transferred can be discussed before an agreement is signed.

The novel

VELVET FORGERY
Adult Art-Crime Thriller / Mystery / Romantic Suspense
Approx. 99,000 words
16 chapters
Complete manuscript

Logline:
When art conservator Livia Sorrento discovers a pigment too modern for a supposedly priceless masterwork, she and the unnervingly perceptive Caspian Vale uncover a system in which museums, insurers, auction houses and private lenders have spent years allowing forged works to remain “authentic” because too much money depends on the lie. Buried beneath the fraud is something more personal: evidence left by Livia’s dead mother.

The story moves through conservation laboratories, auction houses, museum boardrooms, Paris pigment dealers, a Geneva freeport and Venetian archives as apparently isolated irregularities begin forming one financial system.

The central conspiracy is not simply about criminals selling fake paintings. The underlying mechanism is that authentication itself has become economically necessary: paintings are being used as collateral, and acknowledging that key works are fraudulent would jeopardize loans, valuations, insurance reserves and institutional reputations.

The manuscript combines:

• forensic art conservation and authentication;
• XRF analysis, infrared reflectography and dendrochronology;
• provenance manipulation;
• auction guarantees and institutional conflicts;
• freeport storage and art-backed collateral;
• murder / intimidation;
• museum and insurance corruption;
• a family mystery involving the protagonist’s dead mother;
• and a slow-burn relationship built around professional trust rather than a conventional rescue romance.

Short premise

Livia initially believes she is investigating one impossible pigment.

She eventually discovers that the real fraud is much larger: respected institutions have created a chain of mutually reinforcing authentication in which museums rely on insurers, insurers rely on catalogue opinions, lenders rely on all of them, and everyone has a financial reason not to ask whether the underlying artwork is genuine.

The conspiracy has survived because no participant needs to control the entire system.

By the final act, the investigation has moved from identifying a forged canvas to proving that the right fake only needs to be “real” in the right document at the right moment.

The emotional thread runs alongside the investigation. Livia discovers that her mother Elena was neither simply innocent nor simply responsible: she participated in parts of the system while secretly leaving physical witness marks beneath altered paintings so the fraud could someday be demonstrated.

What I am selling

I am looking for a buyer for the completed manuscript and an agreed rights package.

I am open to discussing structures such as:

• acquisition of the manuscript;
• exclusive publishing rights;
• broader IP rights;
• adaptation/development rights;
• pen-name or credited-author arrangements;
• revisions requested as part of the acquisition;
• or a negotiated combination of the above.

I will not represent rights as transferred until we have a written agreement specifying exactly what the buyer is purchasing.

Asking price: $11,000 USD.

I’m willing to discuss reasonable offers from serious buyers, particularly publishers, fiction studios, content companies, book packagers, producers, established authors looking for an acquisition, or individuals with a concrete commercialization plan.

Available for due diligence

For serious inquiries I can provide:

• opening chapters/sample;
• full synopsis;
• chapter-by-chapter outline;
• character overview;
• complete manuscript for qualified buyers;
• word-count/manuscript information;
• and discussion of the proposed rights transfer.

Payment and transfer would be handled through a written agreement rather than an informal Reddit transaction.

If interested, DM me with who you are, what you intend to do with the manuscript, and which rights you would want to acquire.

I’m happy to answer substantive questions in the comments as well.

I made some good money back in 2024 through one clients from switzerland, since then after my break. I haven’t landed a single client. The ai did take some jobs i guess. What’s your take? Can we still make money? And What’s the best place to find clients apart from upwork, fiverr and linkedin?

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I’m building LekhraWrites, a writing & content agency, and looking for a few people to join our team.

You’ll mainly help us find potential clients, reach out to them and bring opportunities to the agency.

No prior experience is required if you’re confident, good at communication and willing to learn.

💰 It's a Paid opportunity

Interested? DM me with a short intro about yourself and why you’d like to join.

Looking for people who are genuinely serious about building something together.

Hey everyone!

We’re a writing focused team working on different types of projects:

• Scriptwriting for videos, short films & reels

• Content writing

• Blog & article writing

• Storytelling & creative writing

• Short film concepts and scripts

• Video/content scripts

• Content ideas and development

Basically, if you have an idea but need help turning it into something people actually want to read or watch, we’d love to help.

If you’re a creator, filmmaker, business, student, or just someone with an idea, feel free to DM me.

Would love to hear what you’re working on! ✍️🎬

I am an amateur ghost writer, so I do not have much experience but I am confident in my abilities. I am currently still in school but I need money, so I am offering my services as a ghost writer. I can write stories about most genres, and I can write in both English and Filipino. Due to my lack of experience, I will be charging at a very low rate of ₱100 per chapter (1-2 k words).

Comment if you would like to give it a try.

PS. If you're not interested please leave the thread instead of leaving derogatory comments. Once again I am an amateur. Thank you

Thanks sir

Looking to hire a ghostwriter for the CEO of out tech company.
Posts will be on substack -- looking to do 4 posts per month (no size limits per say)

Topics will include - AI / tech / health and how they all tie in together.

We are based in Mumbai, India

Please DM -- thanks!

Hi everyone! I’m a professional technical writer with 2 years of experience in writing, editing, and content strategy. I’m currently trying to transition into commercial publishing, with a focus on romance and romantasy. For part of this, I’m building a small editorial portfolio.

I’m looking for a handful of romance writers who would be interested in a free developmental edit (e.g. developmental structure, pacing) or copy edit of a 5,000 to 10,000 word manuscript excerpt. I’m particularly interested in contemporary romance, romantasy, and fantasy romance.

In return, I’d ask for permission to include an anonymised excerpt of the edited work in my professional portfolio. Your work would remain yours, and I wouldn’t share the full manuscript.
If you’re interested, feel free to comment or DM me with a little about your project! All the best! ✨⭐️

Hi. I’m a 24 year old writer who’s looking for clients to start my ghostwriting career.

• Pricing: $0.10/word
• Specialized Genres/Subgenres: Fantasy, Dystopian/Utopian, Cyberpunk, Romance, Comedy.
• Prohibited Genres/Subgenres: Horror, Non-fiction (Biographies may be considered), Historical Fiction, Children’s books, Poems
• Accepted Works: Novels (Series or Single), Novellas, Short Stories
• Limits/Prohibitions (May be updated at my discretion):
  • Illegal content: Under absolutely no circumstance will I write illegal content for sexual pleasure.
  • Sexually Explicit Content: I do NOT write erotic stories, nor will I ever. Sexual content may be implied because we’re (hopefully) all adults here, but I will not write explicit sexual details
  • LGBTQ+: I am a christian. This is not something I’m comfortable writing, as it goes against my faith.
  • Explicit Witchcraft: As I said before, I’m a christian. That means spells/incantations, talking to the dead, tarot cards, rituals, potions, etc, are prohibited. However, character powers (superpowers, fairies, etc) are considered, but may still be denied at my discretion.
  • Extremely Vulgar Language: I’ve struggled to stop cursing. I don’t want to curse in my writing too. The only light “curse” word I may use—depending on the circumstances—is damn. I also don’t feel comfortable saying “what the he-double hockey sticks”
• Consultations:
  • Initial Consultation: Before payments begin, there will be an initial consultation to go over your expectations for this project and what I should know before we begin. If you make a payment before our initial consultation, you will receive a refund. If I take on the project, you can make your payment again.
  • Monthly Consultations: While We’ll primarily be communicating through either Reddit or email, I would also like to schedule monthly zoom consultations to make sure that I’m on track regarding writing the manuscript
• Payment Options:
  • Milestones: Upfront Deposit [25%], 2nd Payment [25%], 3rd Payment [25%], Final Payment [25%]. Once a quarter is paid, I will send you 1/4 of the completed manuscript for your review
  • By Chapter: 50% Upfront Deposit of Total Cost Per Chapter (This MUST be paid before I begin writing. This is applicable for all chapters). Example: Total Word Count for the Chapter: 3000 Words; Total Cost for the Entire Chapter: $300; You Pay 50% of $300: $150. Once a chapter is completed and fully paid for, I will send it to you for review. This is ONLY applicable for this payment option
  • Lump Sum: It’s exactly as it sounds. You would pay the entire cost for my services upfront. Once I’m finished a quarter of the manuscript, I will send it to you for review.
• Additional Information:
  • Payments: All payments are done through cash app: $Isoblurghostwriter. Please make sure to send a test $1 to make sure I’ve received it before sending me your full payment
  • Revisions: You are allowed 5 free revisions per chapter. After all 5 revisions for a chapter have been used, you must pay $7 per additional revision for that specific chapter. I advise that you are as specific as possible so that you don’t use up all of your revisions.
  • Outlines: If you are a writer, but you’re bad at planning, I charge $150 per outline. Typical timeline to receive your outline is 5-7 business days. If I create an outline that you’re not 100% satisfied with, I offer 5 free revisions before I begin charging $7 per revision.
• Your Job:
  • Coming Up With the Outline/Idea: For the most part, it is your job to come up with a fully detailed outline or a buildable idea. However, if you’re unable to come up with an outline, I will include it in my services (this is completely separate if you’re just looking for an outline. Please see payment info above). All I ask is that you provide me with an idea that I can build off of.
  • Providing Important Information: Before the consultation even begins, you need to provide me with some important information: Your name, age, target word count, target tone, genre(s), preferred tense, POV, completion deadline (by month is preferred; ex: 12 months), milestones (how much should be completed by when), previous work (if applicable), research material (if applicable; I will also do my own fact checking in addition to what you’re able to provide), your preferred payment plan, an outline (if available), and your overall story idea.
  • Coming to Consultations: I require this. If you’re unable to make it to a scheduled consultation, please email me. This project will require open communication from the both of us.
  • Formatting: Professional formatting isn’t a part of my job. While writing, the manuscript will be formatted in a way that best suits my writing needs. However, you must go back and either properly format your book yourself, or pay for professional formatting.
• Copyright: As my client, you will assume full ownership of the copyright and brand, as well as full authorship rights. I don’t want it. What that means is you are responsible for registering the copyright
• Editing: When the full manuscript is completed, I will do some light editing along with revisions, but it is your job to find an editor
• Cancellations: If you feel the need to cancel my services, please do so before I start writing. If you cancel after I’ve already begun writing your story, you are still responsible for what I’ve completed.
• NDA: I would like to keep my privacy. If it becomes clear that you’ve put any personal information of mine (as little as I may allow), I will take legal action and you will not get the finished product. Breaking this clause will effectively make this entire contract null and void.
• The Overall Process
  • You will DM me your interest, as well as your email address after reading this post
  • I will email you an example (1300+ words, pretty lightly edited) of what a story written by me may sound like.
  • If you’re interested in moving forward, you will send me an email including information that I’ll need when writing your story (please see the section Providing Important Information above)
  • I will review the email and determine if the project is a good fit
  • If the project is a good fit, I will send a confirmation that I am accepting the project and you will send your first deposit.
  • We’ll then move forward with our initial consultation to discuss the details of your story. Please note that if you do not have an outline available, we will need to schedule another consultation after I draft up an outline to go over the story’s structure. The reason why the consultation comes after the deposit is because the consultation constitutes as work, as it takes time out of my day. I do not work for free.
  • After making sure I have the details all lined up, I will draft a contract (which may take 5-10 days, depending on the details of the contract)
  • Once completed, I will sign the contract and then send it to you. If you have any questions about the contract, it is up to you to reach out to me so that we can schedule another meeting and go over the details of the contract (which is just the details we spoke about during our initial consultation). Please don’t sign a contract that you feel even a little bit confused about because all that will do is lead to confusion down the road. Open communication is required to work with me.
  • Once we both sign the contract, I will begin working on your story.
  • Throughout the length of this project, you will send me payments via cash app, and I will send you updates on where I am regarding your story.
  • Once you’ve sent the last payment, I will send you the rest of your manuscript
  • Once you’ve received your manuscript, we will go over any revisions that need to be done. While I will not be professionally editing your work, I will self edit while completing revisions.

Not to toot my own horn but I am quite good at writing but I've never done anything like a class or a club involving writing I've just spent most of my life writing stories and I'm looking into doing it professionally or more than I already have but I don't know where to go or how to do any of that so if anyone has any suggestions let me know. :)

We're looking for an experienced children's book author to write original personalized stories for children aged 4–7.

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional experience writing children's books.
• Published work with established publishers or children's brands preferred.
• Strong storytelling and understanding of early childhood readers.

Project

• Original personalized storybooks.
• 280–400 words per story (occasionally up to 600).
• Long-term freelance collaboration.

Rate

• From $0.30/word (depending on experience).
• Paid via Wise or PayPal.

If interested, please contact me with your portfolio, relevant experience, published titles, and availability via email: hatrinh@insights.is

Thanks!

Hi!
Is there anyone out there who is making money from ghostwriting? I am just curious to know if it’s possible to do it as a side hustle. Any type of ghosting writing not just fiction.

Thank you!