Your Book:

“Tell me your story; I’ll take it from there,” says Marjorie. Your book blossoms through a close collaboration between you and the ghostwriter. She travels to your home or office and spends as many sessions interviewing you as it takes to tell the complete story. In the case of a business or organizational history, interviews are conducted with as many narrators as you choose.

Next, the interviews are transcribed with attention to meaning, roughly edited and shaped from an oral narrative to a consistent and logical written work. The manuscript is then sent to you as a preliminary draft.

At your direction, additional episodes, explanations, and reflections are added, and sensitive material is deleted. These revisions usually require several rounds of close editing and consulting until you are completely satisfied the entire story has been authentically told.

Supplementary materials, such as photographs, letters, maps, and charts, are selected, organized, scanned, and captioned. At your request, the ghostwriter will conduct research, commission professional maps or genealogical charts, as well as have foreign letters or documents translated.

After you are satisfied with the shape and comprehension of the manuscript as edited and revised, Marjorie commissions a book designer to match the style and integrity of your narrative. When the design is complete with your story and graphics, the formatted draft is sent to you for final revisions. Following your approval, the ghostwriter and her proofreader read the formatted manuscript several times.

Printing and binding your book is the next step, and the cost will be extra. Marjorie can advise you on a variety of choices from self-publishing to selling your work to a traditional publisher through a literary agent. If you choose to self-publish through her company, Treasured Legacies, she will help you with the exacting details of book manufacture. If you wish to sell your self-published book, she can also advise you on promotion and marketing.

Self-publishing your manuscript with help from professionals is like building your house with help from a building contractor, and well-respected authors have been doing it for ages. Self-published authors include Margaret Atwood, James M. Barrie, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Willa Cather, Stephen Crane, T. S. Eliot, Zane Grey, Rudyard Kipling, D. H. Lawrence, Vachel Lindsay, Edgar Allen Poe, Alexander Pope, Ezra Pound, Edward Arlington Robinson, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, and Virginia Woolf

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