ghostwriter:
(plural: ‘ghostwriters‘; pronunciation: the letter ‘g’ in “ghost” rhymes with the letter ‘g’ in the word “garden” — ‘ghost…writer’)
a less-known person who writes stories or books which a well-known person gives out (publishes) as his own, usually for money,
Andrew Crofts, a well-known British ghostwriter!
Celebrities, politicians, busy executives and professional writers engage ghostwriters to write some stories, articles or elequent speeches for them by paying money.
These days the ghostwriters are being exposed and are gradually becoming more popular than the named writers as a result of the outsourcing market, and, more importantly, as a result of investigative journalism. There are rumours that even Mrs. Rowling, the famous Harry Potter series writer, engages ghostwriters, or in other words, not all Mrs. Rowling’s writings are her own!
‘Ghostwriters’ do not write books or stories using their own names because people do not know them and so they cannot find any publishers to publish their books; therefore, they sell their books to an already-popular writer so that their works are published and they get some money for themselves, though very little! However, in some cases a ghostwriter’s name is mentioned as a provider of material or as an assistant researcher, and in such cases the money they receive may be more than average.
