Welcome to significant others. I'm Liza Powell O'Brien and in yesterday's episode

we learned about how Amelia Earhart's husband George Palmer Putnam may have

single-handedly caused the ghost writing market to explode.

Here to tell us more about what it's like to work as a writer for hire is author Hillary Lifton.

Hillary, it's so nice of you to do this.

Thank you for being here.

I'm so glad to be here.

Thanks for having me.

So you are a professional ghostwriter.

Is that the proper term?

Correct.

If we wanted to be formal about it,

we would say collaborator, but collaborators not as sexy a title,

so I just go with a ghostwriter.

Well, I don't know that it's not sexy I would just say it's

less specific because Collaborator can apply to so many things that's right so if yeah if I'm

at a dinner party and I say I'm a ghost writer

It people get an idea of what I do even though it isn't always in the shadows

Mm-hmm. How often do you find yourself talking about what you do?

You know, you'd be surprised.

People, I think people are curious about ghost writing just because they're aware the books that goes that are

ghosted it's a huge number of the books that are out there and so people are aware

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