Teena Lyons spent fifteen years as a news reporter and feature writer on national newspapers and consumer magazines including Mail on Sunday, The Guardian, Sunday Times and Cosmopolitan before leaving Fleet Street in 2006 to pursue a career as a ghostwriter. Teena has ghosted more than seventy books, from biographies and how to-style business books to fiction.
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Introduction - Part One: The Basics - 1 Why Use A Ghost? - 2 Why Publishers Like Ghosts - 3 What Makes A Good Ghostwriter? - 4 How To Become A Ghostwriter - Part Two: Finding, And Contracting With, The Right Ghost - 5 Ghost Hunting - 6 Who Pays and How Much? - 7 The Legal Side - Part Three: How To Ensure A Successful Collaboration - 8 Getting Started - The First Interview - 9 Interviewing Practicalities - 10 Challenges Of Telling A Story - Afterword - Contributors - Bibliography - Acknowledgements - The Author