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Prince Harry’s Ghostwriter Broke the Rules

Prince Harry’s ghostwriter is making my job harder.

I’ve ghostwritten more than 80 books since 2011, and as of late many potential clients have expressed to me that they are nervous and unsure about moving forward with their project. Their biggest concern? That I might spill the beans on them, just as ghostwriter J.R. Moehringer, hired by Prince Harry to pen his bestselling memoir, Spare, has done, and as the ghostwriter behind Donald Trump’s Art of the Deal, Tony Schwartz, did before him.

“You’re not going to do that to me, are you?” they ask.

To be a ghostwriter is to

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