Ghostwriting Services

Welcome to my ghostwriting page!

I am a seasoned storyteller, a crafter of words and ideas; the guy that can put emotions on the page, and make whatever specialty you have readable by a less specialized audience.  I have ghostwritten quite a wide range of nonfiction works, including books for professionals, businesses, relationship specialists, leadership books, medical, Physics, investment books, and pretty much any subject you can think of at this point.  But even beyond that, however, my particular specialties concern just about any subgenre of Fantasy, Science-Fiction, and YA, as well as real-world biographies, memoirs, and personal stories. I put emotions on the page and make it come to life. That MS in Physics of mine also certainly helps with the grittier details from time to time.

I have been writing for closing in on 30 years now, with over 35 books to my own credit (totaling over 10 million words with well over 550 characters) and about a hundred more books for my clients. The obvious legalities prevent me from listing specifics, but the types of stories that I have crafted for clients include:

-A novel about an ancient civilization on Mars and the cause of its destruction.

-Another Mars-based story (different client), where the artificial intelligence of an ancient alien base seeks to prepare some people from Earth to fend off an invasion.

-An Earth wherein supernatural creatures exist beneath general notice, a world where the game is set by Death itself and a lowly human must play detective to find a killer while staying away from Death and various supernatural denizens.

-A series of several books that provides a unique angle to the entire Santa Claus mythology and the dreaded Krampus.

-A three-book series about a government agency with a time travel machine and the team they send to explore the past and future while trying to maintain the integrity of their own time-line.  The last I heard from this client he was trying to get it picked up as a TV series.

-A Sci-Fi story about AI and androids in the future and their possible threats to humanity.

-The real-life story of an old man simply wanting to retire to his new ranch only to discover corruption running rampant in the Sheriff’s office, and the physical threats that the author had to endure even before bringing his case to court.

-A real-life story told by a man while in jail. His confession as to what bad decisions landed him there and how events got out of his control. His case actually appeared on the national news.

-Another one told while the client was dealing with jail time for her legal troubles with small-minded people that had it out for her and her quite-legal brothel.

Storytelling is my heart and soul; be it fictional or your own personal tale, it still involves a story, emotions, and a plot. The secret to a great story is getting the reader to feel, to shedding tears of joy or grief, and jumping up for joy at all the right moments. That is part of what I do.

I have a MS in Physics, which has proven helpful in all the little scientific and theoretical details, and has trained me to always keep things consistent and aware of the littlest details; to always have a logic behind even the most fantastic tale, even if it involves a world of magic. It means that I can see the questions that need to be asked of a client’s real-life story, details that might be obvious only to himself.

A book can be more than just a How-To manual; it can be your best marketing tool, help promote both your business and expertise, brand you as the expert that you are.  Are you a professional with a rarified expertise you want to share with the world?  A book will show the world that you are indeed an expert in your field.  Have a business that needs some more colorful prose to captivate potential customers?  I paint worlds with words, I put emotions on the page.  Having trouble explaining what you do to the man in the street?  My Masters in Physics coupled with my extensive background in novelizations means I can be your intellectual translator.

I started in writing science-fiction and fantasy books, which gives me a skillset that can be applied to any genre; not just fiction but nonfiction subjects, memoirs, that dramatic history of your family’s company, anything where painting a mental portrait is important.  (Spoiler: that would be any book at all.)

You can view my LinkedIn Profile here:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-anthony-tierno-author-of-the-maldene-series-07ab47a/

You can also see my resume and writing accomplishments here:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-anthony-tierno-author-of-the-maldene-series-07ab47a/details/experience/

If you need a good Ghost, then let’s talk.

FREE 30-minute consultation for your book project. No commitments, I’ll simply explain what I can do for you and provide a quote for my services.

Portfolio

Need to see some samples?  Well, being as this is also the site for my own fictional pursuits, you can find a few posted samples if you just back up to http://www.maldene.com.  They’re taken from my first Maldene and Cyberdawn novels.  Here’s the direct links to what’s currently posted:

excerpt from Maldene

excerpt from Maldene II: Mysteries of Olde

excerpt from Cyberdawn Beginnings

excerpt from Land of the Hive: Journey of the Queen

More samples are available upon request from these and others of my novels.  You can also go to my Amazon Author’s Page  to see all of my current releases.  I do have some samples from past clients, both fiction and nonfiction, but cannot post them here due to NDAs; however, I have some limited selections available that I can send you direct via email to check out.

My Rates

Base Rate:  $.75/word (equates to $187.50/page for the standard 250 word-page)*

• Extensive research, travel, expedited turnaround, and other extenuating circumstances can increase this rate.

Estimated book length is as agreed upon between Client and Ghostwriter.

The service includes:

• Outlining
• Reworking and editing of any existing draft
• Preparatory work (interviews with client, development of needed characters, assembly of available notes and other materials from the client, and all required development work before beginning the actual writing)
• Full book writing.

Process involves:

• Preparation
• Full written draft of the book
• Weekly work in progress reports for client feedback
• Up to two full edits of the final draft based on client feedback.

Example:  To give you an idea of what this might typically cost, most nonfiction books are in the range of 70,000 to 90,000 words, which equates to $52,500 to $67,500.  Fiction novels can go from there up to 100,000 words or more.

Scripts:  Negotiable (let’s talk).

 

An NDA is part of the final contract, but even before that I assume that one is in force during negotiations.

So if you need a book written, you know where to go.