Course Overview

This course takes you on a practical and nurturing journey from initial perceptions about ghostwriting to everything you need to know to book your first client. Self-paced, with a worksheet for every lesson, contract templates, and a complimentary 20-minute call with Laura.

What’s Inside:

• ✨ Lesson 1: Introduction. The morality divide, what ghostwriting really looks like today, your core values, and your worth as a writer.
• ✨ Lesson 2: Finding Clients. Where to set up shop, which platforms to skip, where the high-budget clients are, and why you probably already know your first client.
• ✨ Lesson 3: The Business Side. Taxes, tools, the services you offer, pricing, NDAs, contracts, your portfolio, and testimonials.
• ✨ Lesson 4: Your First Client . . . or How to Over-Deliver. The first call, writing in your client’s voice, managing expectations, and finding joy in the process.
• ✨ Lesson 5: Finding Balance. Protecting your own writing time, your boundaries, and your creative well.
• ✨ Lesson 6: Show Me the Money. The ghostwriting gigs that pay the most, and how to structure your work so you always have income.
• ✨ Lesson 7: Beyond Your First Client. Growing your speed, skills, and services, and measuring success by your freedom.
• ✨ A worksheet with every lesson, including a Business Launch Checklist and a pricing worksheet
• ✨ Letter of Agreement and NDA templates to adapt for your own clients
• ✨ Lesson forums, plus an Ask Laura forum for your questions
• ✨ A complimentary 20-minute call with Laura
• ✨ Self-paced, with access that never expires

Your Instructor

L.A. Mitchell

Writing professionally as L.A. Mitchell, Laura has spent the past 17 years building a career as a full-time ghostwriter, editor, story architect, and writing coach. She is currently at work on her 48th professional book. She built her business without an agency, a giant social-media following, or a paid advertising machine. That is the business she teaches here.