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How Racket Publishing helps first-time and experienced scribes.
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Fun Fact
This actually happened ...
When Marillion keyboardist and crowdfunding co-inventor Mark Kelly was writing his memior, the title and subtitle eluded him. Racket founder—and huge Marillion fan—Phil Simon suggested Marillion, Misadventures & Marathons: The Life & Times of Mad Jack, and Mark loved it.
Mark sent Phil a signed copy of the book:
But it gets even better. Mark thanked Phil in the book's written acknowledgements:
#lifehighlight

Ghostwriting
You’ve got ideas for a full-length, non-fiction book. The desire? Check. Lamentably, you lack the time or experience to take your writing project into the end zone. In the words of the late great Daniel Kahneman, “Thinking is to humans as swimming is to cats; they can do it, but they’d prefer not to.”
Go ahead and give it a go on your own if you like, but it’s a heavy lift. Ghostwriting a quality book requires wearing many different hats. The odds that you’ll independently stick the landing are exactly zero. Ditto if your well-intentioned friends have generously offered to help you out on the side. At a bare minimum, when you finish writing, you’ll need an expensive development edit.
Let award-winning author, serial ghostwriter, and Racket founder Phil Simon help you publish a quality text that will make you proud.

Author Coaching
Writing a book takes a tremendous amount of effort—and then there’s the publishing and the marketing. (Yikes.) Even formatting the manuscript improperly can result in a world of pain.
Let Racket founder Phil Simon help you avoid the mistakes that plague most first-time and even experienced scribes.
A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
—THOMAS MANN

Developmental Editing
You wrote tens of thousands of words, but readers find your manuscript confusing. There’s no throughline to connect the chapters, ideas, stories, and data in your book. The word morass comes to mind. You realize that a Band-Aid won’t work; it’s time for major freakin’ surgery.
Let Racket help separate the wheat from the chaff in your non-fiction manuscript.

Rapid Writing
Do you find yourself wasting a great deal of time on manual writing tasks? Does this inefficiency distract you from your flow state and introduce thorny formatting errors into your manuscript?
Odds are that you’re unaware of some useful Microsoft Word hacks. Ditto for some sweet time-saving apps, shortcuts, and websites.
Let self-described geek and Racket founder Phil Simon teach you ways to save hours as you write.
The session lasts one hour, and you can record it.

Book Brainstorming
Far too many would-be non-fiction authors begin on the wrong foot: their core concept or big idea is flawed, hackneyed, outdated, and/or just plain boring. Let Racket founder and 14-time author help you find a compelling hook. You’ll walk away with the following:
- Detailed personas of your future book’s target audience.
- A title and subtitle that excites you and your prospective readers.
- A 300-word(ish) synopsis of your book that will serve as its north star.
The process typically takes about ten hours.

Project Management
Taking a book from idea to manuscript to finished product is no small endeavor for experienced scribes, let alone newbies. A few missed steps or incomplete tasks can cause a great deal of agita, not to mention many sleepless nights.
Via RacketHub, Racket founder Phil Simon will guide you through the research, writing, editing, and publication processes. Expect to hit your dates and goals and safely land the plane.
Pricing
A breakdown of fees.