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It is often said that everyone has a book in them. This is probably true and the purpose of this site is to help you find it. If you are looking for a ghostwriter to write your book, or if you have written a book and require an editor to help you make the best of your own writing, you have arrived at the right place. For people with an idea for a novel, biography or screenplay, or those now preparing submissions for publishers, literary agents, magazine editors or production companies, the competition is going to be stiff and projects must meet the high standards demanded in today's competitive market. You may get only one chance to have your work considered. A professional writer can help you make the most of it. During the past two decades I have ghost-written numerous books and as an editor I have helped guide many writers to publication. My work has allowed me to travel the world and meet the most interesting people, from the Hollywood actress planning her come back with her autobiography Carol Comes Home to the elderly woman who lived through the blitz and wanted to self-publish her story for her grandchildren. In Spain I ghosted the best-selling Sex, Surrealism, Dalí and Me with one of the painter's long-time aides. The paperback edition was published in 2004 with two new chapters and retitled The Sex Life of Salvador Dalí. In March 2005, Berg Publishers in the UK with Palgrave MacMillan in the US and the UNSW Press in Australia brought out Making Short Films: The Complete Guide From Script To Screen, a text book that guides filmmakers through the process from creating a script, to producing and directing, financing and distributing short films. This is not a ghost-written book but an example of how a qualified ghostwriter/editor can apply himself to the changing demands of the market. I have worked as the editor with both with a divorce lawyer whose book of advice became a mass circulation Penguin paperback, and with Jacky Trevane on Fatwa, the story of an English woman who married in Egypt and after years of abuse escaped across the desert with her two children, only to face a fatwa - an official sentence to death. The first edition of Fatwa sold out in two weeks. It is a true life adventure story but it is the telling of the tale, and the way that it is told, that matters. The idea is only 10%. The rest is hard graft and for any project to succeed, it first has to be written. CLICK on the menu below for more information:
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Clifford Thurlow is the best ghostwriter out there Penny Wark, The Times  'A compelling account of the strategies she has used to survive more than two decades of grotesque sexual, physical and emotional harm. It is not comfortable reading but it does offer insight into a form of mental illness that is more pervasive than we may realise.' "This is a remarkably lucid account of a life that has been fractured by multiple personality disorder… This isn't a misery memoir but an account of mental illness that's so beautifully written it reminded me of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar…You won't be able to get her story out of your head..."  Between coalition troops and the Iraqi security forces lies an unnamed and unaccounted third column: soldiers of fortune. This action-packed page turner tells the story of Captain James Ashcroft's 18 months on the front line in Baghdad and reveals with ghostwriter Clifford Thurlow how ex-soldiers employed to protect US and British interests are earning up to $1000 a day in a war that is slowly being privatised. 'Tales of bombs, shooting, corruption and, inevitably, death…in an Andy McNab style of derring-do…but Ashcroft is no lightweight and is not shy about offering his analysis of the anarchy he witnessed every day.' Penny Wark, The Times. Visit www.makingakilling.co.uk
‘Clifford Thurlow’s book is the definitive must have for any filmmaker contemplating making and marketing a short.’
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