It’s usually the first question I am asked: “How much do you charge?” It is also the hardest question for a ghostwriter to answer.That’s because ghostwriting fees can have an extensive range, depending on a host of factors. Costs are unique to each project. Some of the factors which may determine the price are: the probable length of the manuscript what kind of book it is (memoir, business or financial, technical, scholarly, how-to, children, fiction, and so on) how much, if any, research needs to be done, and what kind of research it is how much, if any, material already exists (such as articles, blog posts, speeches or speaker notes, class notes or scripts, audios and videos, diaries, napkin jottings, etc.) how many interviews with how many people will be needed if there is travel involved if there are tables, graphs, or unusual formatting when the book needs to be finished and many more The next most popular question I am asked is whether I will ghostwrite a book in exchan...