As you know, I have been taking a break from ghostwriting to raise my younger son who just turned 2. I decided last week that it was time to start working again and I have come across something that has really shocked me. I received an email from someone looking for me to ghostwrite an e-book. This e-book was to be 10 pages and was on the topic of aromatherapy. I replyed to the email and was totally shocked when I received an email back saying that my ghostwriting quote was too high and that this persons budget was only $15. I still can’t believe it, $15 to ghostwrite an e-book. What has the ghostwriting industry come to.
I only took a 6 month break and it looks like everything has gone down rapidly. My rates for ghostwriting an e-book are between $8 and $10 per page and that to me seemed very reasonable especially when you think of the fact that there are ghostwriters who get paid well over $50,000 to ghostwrite a book.
Has anyone else experienced this dramatic decrease? I would really love to hear your thoughts on this. Is it time to stop ghostwriting and just focus on writing for myself and selling the articles to magazines or was this just a once off?
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