{"id":22333,"date":"2023-10-19T20:48:46","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T00:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=22333"},"modified":"2023-10-19T20:48:46","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T00:48:46","slug":"ghostwriting-and-celebrity-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/ghostwriting-and-celebrity-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghostwriting and celebrity books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hadn&#8217;t seen anything by this guy before but he has a lot of insightful things to say on this topic. His name is Jack Edwards:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=c6mGnXnSVo8\">the complicated ethics of ghostwriters + celebrity books<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He points out:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>some celebrities are more transparent than others about their ghostwriters<\/li>\n<li>saying a book was the fastest selling debut novel when the ghostwriter had actually written prior novels probably isn&#8217;t right<\/li>\n<li>a person who doesn&#8217;t usually read might read a book by a celebrity they love and that starts them reading<\/li>\n<li>celebrity books put money in the hands of bookstores and publishers<\/li>\n<li>when publishers make more money by publishing celebrity books they can use the extra money to fund debut novelists<\/li>\n<li>we kind of assume that fiction is written by the person whose name is on the cover but with memoirs we assume there&#8217;s a ghostwriter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He uses books with the names Millie Bobby Brown, Zoe Sugg, James Patterson, and Prince Harry on the cover as some of his examples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hadn&#8217;t seen anything by this guy before but he has a lot of insightful things to say on this topic. His name is Jack Edwards: the complicated ethics of ghostwriters + celebrity books He points out: some celebrities are more transparent than others about their ghostwriters saying a book was the fastest selling debut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-22333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","tag-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22333"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22336,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22333\/revisions\/22336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}