Why should I trust you?
As a deep ghost who specializes in writing memoir, true crime, and nonfiction I understand the needs of clients who need a trusted collaborator who can carry a book-length collaboration. Thanks to the international reach of my clients I have seasoned experience structuring complex narratives spanning multiple cultures & countries.
Half of my clients ask me to write faith-based stories. Only your name will grace the cover of your book, and your story will be evidence of a highly collaborative creative partnership that honestly captures your voice on paper and reveals the truth of your lived experiences.
Who have you worked with?
My clients have provided me with opportunities to write on a wide range of topics including cold cases, the criminal justice system, white-collar crime, libel suits, gun violence, war, poverty, addiction, depression, cancer, PTSD and complex trauma, sexual abuse, sexual assault, childhood neglect, special needs, racism, bereavement, democracy and the electoral college, immigration, and the plight of refugees.
What interests you?
On my manuscript wish list is the desire to write about education reform, artificial intelligence, the Equal Protection Clause in the Fourteenth Amendment, the 1978 Supreme Court decision in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, reparations, gun control, the right to bear arms, constitutional rights, privacy laws, infertility, aging, adoption, love & marriage, polyamory, sexual orientation, sex work & prostitution, and being young and inarguably non-binary in a non-affirming home environment.
How do we begin?
Ghostwriting & editing memoirs, nonfiction & true crime is incredibly fulfilling work, and it is my privilege to collaborate closely with you in completing a manuscript for publication. Some clients come to me with a book outline and story beats they’ve devised. I work with clients who draw from sources as varied as federal and state archives, DNA databases, transcripts of hearings, medical records, investigative case content, academic research, and previously published writing as building blocks for a fruitful collaboration.
What are your favorite books?
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
My Korean Deli : Risking It All for a Convenience Store by Ben Ryder Howe
What memoir do you wish you were entrusted to ghostwrite?
Surrender : 40 Songs, One Story by Bono
What memoir are you currently reading?
Stay True by Hua Hsu
What was the memoir you read before that?
Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith
Which memoirs resonate most deeply with you?
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Hunger : A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
Which memoir communicates the Black Experience and being a person of color with stunning clarity?
I'm Still Here : Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
What Christian memoir speaks plainly & poignantly to you?
A Thousand Resurrections by Maria Garriott
What faith-based memoir skillfully addresses church trauma & deconstructing Christianity?
God Is a Black Woman by Christena Cleveland, Ph.D.
Which memoirs are rendered so skillfully that they are spellbinding in their effect?
In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri and Ann Goldstein (translator)
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
What books have your clients asked you to read?
Assata by Assata Shakur
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Called : My Journey to C.S. Lewis’s House & Back Again by Ryan Pemberton
Educated by Tara Westover
The Body Keeps the Score : Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D.
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
Barracoon : The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neal Hurston
White Fragility : Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
WILL by Will Smith with Mark Manson
Around The Way Girl by Taraji P. Henson
The Beautiful Struggle : A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Watsons go to Birmingham—1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
What else are you reading?
The Blind Side by Michael Lewis
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts