A ghostwriter is a professional writer who writes your book for you for a fee. They let you put your name on the cover. You’re still the author. But they do the writing.  Ghostwriters are hired to do the writing for everything — from blog posts and white papers to movie scripts, public speeches, and even books. They trade their credit rights for profit and that’s usually good for both sides. You get high-quality text and the ghostwriter gets paid, but there is so much more to this relationship than just a basic trade of words for money.