The agreement
What stays, what moves, what is cut. In writing, before new pages.
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Rewriting is not a surprise edit. We rebuild chapters to a shape you have agreed, in a voice we have already matched. If there is no map yet, the honest first job is a critique, not a new draft.
What stays, what moves, what is cut. In writing, before new pages.
A sample you approve, so the book does not come back sounding like us.
Chapters rebuilt to that map, not a polish of the old order.
You remain the author. We do not take the jacket.
The brief
Authors ask for a rewrite when they can see the problem and do not want to rebuild the pages alone. That is a fair job. It goes wrong when the rewriting starts before anyone has said what the book is supposed to become. We will not burn a draft on a hunch.
The sequence is the map, then a sample chapter in your voice, then the rest. You can stop after the sample. If the voice is wrong, continuing would only produce more wrong pages. Your copyright covers the new text. The byline does not change.
How the rewrite runs
Keep, move, cut, rebuild. If this does not exist yet, we stop and diagnose.
Facts, scenes, and lines you will not give up.
One chapter. You approve the voice or we adjust before going on.
The rebuild, in the order the map named.
You read, you mark, we revise the places the plan was wrong. Not an endless new vision.
Before you send the manuscript
Ghostwriting builds a book from an idea or from notes. Rewriting starts from a manuscript that already exists and a plan for what it should become. If what you have is a pile of notes, say so. That is a different contract.
You accept the plan, then the sample, then the book. You can stop after the sample. You should not expect a full rewrite and also a completely different book at the end.
That is what the sample is for. If we cannot hear your voice in the draft you sent, we will tell you before we invent one. A rewrite can clarify a voice. It should not replace it.
You do. Copyright in the revised manuscript stays with you. We do not claim authorship.
When you are ready
If you do not know yet, ask for a critique first. It will save the rewrite. Call (833) 688-4166 or write [email protected].
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