Ghostwriting I understand for people who aren’t writers to pretend they are to sell books. But if this woman isn’t a writer, what the hell is she? Who paid for the ghostwriter, and why? What is to be gained from having her name on a cover? How did she get the publishing deal, anyway? Seriously, what is she?
She is a zero operative! Simple as that!
She is a zero operative! Simple as that!
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Only a tip...but if you have zero reporter experience...how do you come to work for the New York Times as a contributor? Think about that for a minute. Someone figured all this out back four years ago...kinda like a wrestling script deal. They knew how this would eventually play out.
There's a spectrum. From writing and publishing yourself, o having it edited by the publisher, to having a co-writer, to having it written "as told to", to unacknowleged collaborator, to putting yor name on a book entirely written by someone else.
General Rule: if the other guy's name is on the cover, he's a co-writer.
To say that this means Paula Broadwell isn't a writer is to say the same about Tom Clancy (where did all these worms come from?)