Clifford Thurlow

It is often said that everyone has a book in them. The job of a ghostwriter is to help you find it.

For people with an idea for a novel, biography or screenplay, or those preparing submissions for publishers, literary agents, magazine editors or production companies, the competition is going to be stiff and projects must meet the high standards demanded in today's competitive market.

You may get only one chance to have your work considered. A professional writer can help you make the most of it.

During the past two decades I have ghost-written numerous books and as an editor I have helped guide many writers to publication. My work has allowed me to travel the world and meet the most interesting people, from the Hollywood actress planning her come back with her autobiography Carol Comes Home to the inside story of the West's secret army in Iraq told by Captain James Ashcroft in Making A Killing and it's top-twenty best-selling sequel Escape From Baghdad.

Today I'm Alice, the story of Alice Jamieson's struggle with multiple personality disorder, spent several weeks in the Sunday Times best-seller lists and was the 18th top selling book in the UK in 2009.

I have worked as the editor with a divorce lawyer whose book of advice became a mass circulatio Penguin paperback, and with Jacky Trevane on Fatwa, the story of an English woman's escape from Egypt. Fatwa has been translated into ten languages. It is a true life adventure, but it is the telling of the tale, and the way that it is told, that matters. The idea is only 10%. The rest is hard graft and for any project to succeed, it first has to be written.

There is one more secret to getting your work into print and that is having a good agent. I am lucky that Andrew Lownie is one of the best. www.andrewlownie.co.uk