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Who You Gonna Call? Ghostwriters!

Not all ghosts say "Boo!" Ghostwriters are writers hired to write books for other people, especially celebrities. The ghostwriter gets paid, and the celebrity gets the credit and their name on the book. This is a list of adult fiction about women ghostwriters. The books are from a variety of genres, from Romance to Thriller to literal ghost stories. *Titles may be available in multiple formats.

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  • I read A Novel Love Story by Ashley Poston and loved it! This book is "about a disillusioned millennial ghostwriter who, quite literally, has some ghosts of her own." [Bibliocommons]
    Book, 2022New York : Jove, 2022. — Fiction Poston
  • This was a really sweet romance! A ghostwriter ends up writing the memoir of a B-list actor who she had been on a date with without realizing who he was.
    Book, 2023New York : Berkley Romance, 2023. — Fiction Solomon
  • Publisher Annotation: From USA Today-bestselling Jillian Cantor, The Fiction Writer follows a writer hired by a handsome billionaire to write about his family history with Daphne du Maurier and finds herself drawn into a tangled web of obsession,…
    Book, 2023Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Park Row Books, [2023] — Fiction Cantor
  • After a rough year at NYU, aspiring writer Lora Ricci is thrilled to land a summer internship at ELLE magazine where she meets Cat Wolff, contributing editor and enigmatic daughter of a clean-energy mogul. Cat takes Lora under her wing, soliciting…
    Book, 2022New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2022] — Fiction Rigetti
  • Mhairi McFarlane's books are always fun! "After alleged scandalous behavior at two work colleagues' wedding, Edie is assigned to ghostwrite an autobiography during an extended sabbatical that includes moving back to her Nottingham childhood home…
    Book, 2016London : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2016. — Fiction McFarlane
  • This story is about a ghostwriter for a presidential candidate's memoir.
    Book, 2024New York : John Scognamiglio Books, 2024 — Mystery Donovan
  • After years of working as a ghostwriter for other celebrities, Allie believes she knows the drill: she has learned how to inhabit the lives of others and tell their stories better than they can. But this time, everything becomes more complicated.…
    Book, 2020Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2020. — Fiction Pitlor
  • A ghostwriter is assigned to write the autobiography of a man who broke her heart years ago.
    Book, 2020[United States] : Hallmark Publishing/Crown Media Publishing, [2020] — Fiction Jump
  • A gifted and reclusive ghostwriter, Alice Lovett makes a living helping other people tell their stories. But she is haunted by the one story she cannot tell: the story of, as she puts it, "the things that happened while I was asleep." [Bibliocommons]
    Large Print, 2020[New York] : Random House Large Print, [2020] — Fiction Petty Large Type
  • This book is set in the Plaza Hotel in New York City and it's about a ghostwriter.
    Book, 2021New York, NY : St. Martin's Griffin, 2021. — Fiction Hughes