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Healthcare Book Ghostwriting

Promote Your Practice With a Health or Fitness Book

Position yourself as a thought leader with your own published health book. If you’re a healthcare professional with new information to share or a unique health or fitness treatment or program, an expert ghostwriter can help you:

  • Inform and inspire people toward better health
  • Introduce a new treatment or therapy
  • Establish yourself as an expert in the field
  • Raise your credibility
  • Attract new revenue
  • Raise your fees

Why hire a ghostwriter?

If you’re a successful healthcare practitioner, you may be too busy delivering care to get your ideas from brain to paper. And unless writing is your passion, you may not have the expertise to organize those ideas into a book people want to read. That’s where a seasoned ghostwriter comes in.

If you have the first draft of a manuscript or other healthcare content you’d like repurposed into a book, click here to learn about my book editing services.

I put your ideas onto the page

As a health book ghostwriter, I can streamline the book writing process, so you have a final manuscript in just six months. Using personal interviews and research, I outline your story or program, develop the book concept and write the book so that your job is simplified. Once you have reviewed and approved the final result, your book is ready for publishing.

In my career, I have authored nine books for Sunset Publishing, ghostwritten chronic health disease management workbooks on a variety of health issues and edited text books on health education for middle schoolers. As an author, I know how to filter good ideas from bad, preserve your voice, create a compelling read and keep your message on point. This is your book, and it’s my job to bring it to life.

A simple process with a complex finish

There is nothing simple about writing a good health book. But when you work with a seasoned ghostwriter, it will feel like the story writes itself. Depending on how quickly you can review each chapter of the manuscript, a book can be completed in six months.

Sample Book Schedule

Week 1: Discovery

Conduct and record interviews (one full day or two half days)

Discuss your concept

Draw out all ideas and information

Find the story if it isn’t already clear

Weeks 2-4: Develop Blueprint

Transcribe interviews

Research and collect books and articles on the subject, if needed

Discuss new research studies to consider

Develop a working outline

Write a draft of the back cover cop

Weeks 5-15:  Rough Draft.

Write first chapter

Discuss tone, flow and text

Repeat with next chapter

Weeks 15-20:  Revision

Revise/rewrite draft based on author feedback

Weeks 20-24: Polish

Incorporate feedback from readers

Revise as necessary

Week 25: Proof

Get professional proofreading for any errors

Week 26: Deliver to author

Publishing your book

While I don’t work directly with book publishers, I can help you create a successful publication strategy for your finished manuscript. If your goal is to self-publish, I can direct you to book designers who will create the perfect cover and design pages that give your book the authority it deserves.

Ghostwriting pricing

Pricing for ghostwriting can range from $30,000 to over $100,000, depending on the complexity of the material and length of the book.

If you’ve already written a fair amount of content in the form of articles, blog posts, videos, or other materials, you may have the makings of a rough transcript. In that case, a good developmental edit might be all you need. A developmental edit involves looking at overall organization, rearranging articles or posts into chapters as needed, and ghostwriting missing copy. Developmental editing prices start at $5,000. Click here to learn about my book editing services.

To learn more about my background as a healthcare writer, please click here. You can also check out my portfolio for examples of healthcare books I’ve written or edited.

 

To learn more about how I can help you get your book project off the ground, please contact me.  Call 707-490-9853

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