Hiring a Memoir Ghostwriter

People often ask why a professional memoir ghostwriter charges so much. The answer is that you're not just paying for a well-written book. You're paying for the experience of creating it.

You've lived a big, complicated life as a builder of things—companies, teams, careers, or causes—and people keep telling you, 'You should write a book.' The problem is, you don't know where to start, how to structure it, or whether you even want to spend months hunched over a keyboard. That's exactly what a memoir ghostwriter is for.

As a full-time memoir ghostwriter, I’ve read hundreds of memoirs. What makes Angela’s Ashes stand out is the emotional complexity—the tension between what a memoir writer felt in the past and how he—you—understands those feelings in the present.

As a memoir ghostwriter, J.R. Moehringer did his job—to craft a story of universal human experience wrapped inside a culture-specific expression. A great memoir creates settings and characters and conflicts so true to humankind that we genuinely care about the outcome.