Honestly, I had no plans to be a ghostwriter. I actually started in self-publishing many years ago when you could make pretty good money as a kindle author. Which was fine, I usually puled 50-70k a year doing that but it a huge grind and the marketing is exhausting.

I needed to take a break from the marketing and other indie authors utilized ghosts so I decided I'd do that "temporarily." Obviously, jokes on me. At that level, I didn't get paid a ton, but it was enough to make a living.

This will sound ridiculous and it is, but one day I just googled what ghostwriters made and google was like 20,000-100,000 a book. And I was like, no way. But at the higher level, that was absolutely true. I'd already written a ton by that point and made it my absolute mission to be a ghostwriter at that level, focusing on traditionally published books.