Write Your Book

How much does it cost to write a book?

What does book writing include?

All the interviews, light research, writing, editing, re-writing, more editing — this part happens a number of rounds — and proofreading at the very end.

Book writing is a massive project, and it can take anything from seven months to two and a half years, so the nine months is an estimate. It will depend on how much of your schedule you’d like to commit to the project.

Your name goes on the book’s cover, as the author. As your ghostwriter, my job is to learn your tone, your voice, and your ideas, and to create a book that sounds and feels like you. My goal is for your readers to pick up your book and know you.

This means I’ll need to sit down with you (in person, if you’re in Singapore, where I’m based) or online, and absorb everything you have to say about your ideas.

Then, I’ll go off and write what I understand. I might not get things right the first time — we’re both learning how to work with each other — and I’ll send you a first draft.

Once you’ve read, edited, commented on it, I’ll be able to keep adding, editing, and sending you more content.

And the cycle repeats, each time with more of your book forming.

At some point, whether we’ve completely explored your ideas, reaching a natural ending, or when we reach about 80 pages on A4, and we need to wrap things before readers get overwhelmed, we’ll transition to pulling tight the loose ends, adding the final touches and edits, then I’ll proofread and send a final copy.

Why 80 A4 pages? It gets multipled by 2, or more, when the content goes into the layout stage. You’re looking at 160 book pages, at least, a good book size.

We can call the book writing process complete, and look at the next stages.

From there, we can work with a layout artist and cover designer, apply for the ISBN as a publisher, and choose your printers and distributors, so that your book goes onto the shelves of bookshops, physical and/or online.