Dream on!
Tuesday, January 22, 2013 @ 9:27 PM
Dream on
I am busy and I have four clients on the go at the moment. The spark goes out after a few hours and I then chill by browsing. This evening I decided to check out the competition. I typed in ghost-writers UK.
GULP!
How do they get away with it? The first one I clicked looked nothing special but his price certainly was. “You will be commissioning a professional published writer who has bills to pay just like everyone else, so a book will cost a few thousand a month, payable in stages.”
Do people pay it?
I clicked the next one down; “Expect to pay £7,000 - £10,000 for a 75,000 word bio or novel.” You then presumably have to fork out an outrageous sum to have your book placed on an e-reader like Kindle. My friend-client Chris (Nand) tells me he was quoted €600. OMG!
Maybe I am the idiot; at €20 per 1,000 words a 75k novel would work out at €1,500 in total; just €150 extra to put it on Kindle.
Perhaps this is the year when I will be able to treble my prices and sell with an attitude of take it or leave it. Well, dreams do come true!
Mike