United Kingdom

Ghostwriter UK means the writers and memoir services working from Britain, where the publishing trade, the newspaper industry and the family-history market all feed the same pool of storytellers. The work tends to be life writing and nonfiction: autobiographies, memoirs, business books, and the private volumes people commission for their own families.

Expect British spelling, British publishing conventions, and subjects whose lives are already public in this country. The listings below are the ones classified here.

Cheryl Rickman, LifeBook Memoirs and Shannon Kyle all work from the United Kingdom, and that shapes the material they take on. LifeBook Memoirs builds private autobiographies: a person's own life story, researched through interviews and shaped into a book for family rather than for a shop shelf. Shannon Kyle works the same territory of real lives, with a background in national newspaper journalism and in celebrity memoir, where the subject's voice has to survive the telling. Cheryl Rickman comes to it from authored nonfiction, which means a client's story gets structured the way a published book is structured. The United States listings lean toward business and thought-leadership titles, and Australia and Canada toward memoir and family history with their own regional readerships. If you want to hire a ghostwriter in the UK, you are usually dealing with someone who has already written for British publishers and British readers, and who knows how a life story or a nonfiction proposal is put together here.