A new poll conducted by Gotham Ghostwriters has found that 1/3 of ghostwriters make upwards of $100,000 per year. Gotham surveyed 269 working ghostwriters and collaborators following the first Gathering of the Ghosts Conference, at which ghostwriters called for more fee transparency in the field. The findings of the survey reinforce PL’s reporting from earlier this year that high-quality, experienced ghosts mostly charge in the six figures for long-form projects, but provided this additional, more granular data: -25 percent of ghostwriters charged at least $100,000 for their last nonfiction manuscript -8 percent of ghostwriters charged more than $150,000 for their […]
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Dreamscape Institutes Layoffs Following RB Media Acquisition
As part of the acquisition by RBmedia, this week Dreamscape laid off several people, indicated by one anonymous employee to be more than 10 positions. Dreamscape offered the following statement: “As part of integrating Dreamscape with RBmedia, it became clear that RBmedia had capacity and infrastructure that could be leveraged by Dreamscape while still enabling us to deliver the same high-level of service to authors, publishers, distributors and the narrator community. Unfortunately, this resulted in a portion of the team being given notice.”
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Paul Coates’s NBF Literarian Award Is Questioned
This year’s National Book Foundation Literarian Award recipient Paul Coates has been accused of publishing “racist, antisemitic, and homophobic books and authors” in an “enthusiastic and uncritical” manner, in an article by Mark Oppenheimer in Arc Magazine. That article expands considerably on questions first raised in a piece in The Jewish Insider by Matthew Kassel, which focused on one book in particular. Additionally, Oppenheimer suggests the selection “was a surprising choice” because Coates previously served as a National Book Foundation board member. The Literarian Award is given for “outstanding service to the literary community.” Coates, who is the father of […]