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What is ghostwriting really like?
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What is ghostwriting really like?

Everything I've learned from writing celebrity memoirs

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Daisy Buchanan
May 12, 2023
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I loved reading JR Moehringer’s account of what it was like to be Prince Harry’s ghostwriter.

To write Spare was to undertake one of the most high profile jobs in journalism – while maintaining a low profile, or no profile. Moehringer writes so evocatively about wrangling egos – his subject’s, and his own – about the horse …

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