Michael Springer – Ghostwriter

With a background in academic research and teaching, I have now been ghostwriting and editing for more than ten years. The majority of my ghostwriting clients are innovators who want to reach a broad general audience. I accordingly specialize in turning technical information into accessible and engaging narrative, and finding ways to make potentially abstruse material resonate. Areas I've worked in include psychology, therapy and wellness; business culture and philosophy; visual culture, media and politics; and social media influence and marketing.

Good writing makes the reader feel intelligent. Achieving this requires that the writer have a strong grasp of the material to be communicated, and a clear sense of its relations to other topics. I accordingly approach projects with a focus on the fundamental ideas, and let form follow organically from this function (within the parameters specified by the client). In terms of practical arrangements, this usually means that each project takes shape organically, out of the dual influences of the requirements of the material and the client's vision of their own role.

I do most of the research and writing independently: clients send me relevant reference materials, and from these I search out others, and use this as a basis for the work. I follow an iterative process of drafting, review by the client, and redrafting in response to feedback. Face-to-face meetings at the beginning of the process, and sporadically throughout it, help ensure clear communication. I tend to work out the nuts-and-bolts of such arrangements according to what works best for the client: how much direct input they want, how much time they have, etc.