Writer
You’ve got a draft of what you want to write, but it still doesn’t feel right. Or maybe you just have an idea. Either way, you want something that sounds like you—only better.
That’s where bestselling ghostwriter and collaborator Linden Gross comes in.
Years ago, she worked with Vidal Sassoon, the pioneering hairstylist and philanthropist, on his memoir.
“It sounds like me!” he exclaimed after reading a draft of the first chapter.
“That’s because it is you,” she said.
And it was. Linden had woven bits and pieces of their taped interviews together to form a tapestry. Most of the words and all the content were his. She had just put them together in a way that hooked the reader and brought the story to life.
Perhaps more importantly, she had listened not just for the facts and details, but for the essence of Vidal and his message. So those were in there too. She worked the same way when writing national bestseller The Legacy of Luna and yes, despite a fear of heights, she did climb up to the 100-foot-high platform to meet tree-sitter Julia “Butterfly” Hill in person. The rest of the work was done with tapes and by phone.
Whether you’re writing a memoir, a novel, web copy or anything else, you want your writing to authentically reflect you. That’s what people are looking for these days, and Linden can help make that happen.
Interested in hiring Linden? Find out more about her rates.
Linden is the author of Surviving a Stalker (Incubation Press, 2003 & Marlowe & Company, 2000) and To Have or To Harm (Warner Books, 1994), the first book written about the stalking of ordinary people.
Books she has co-authored or ghostwritten range from the aforementioned national bestseller The Legacy of Luna, about Julia “Butterfly” Hill’s two-plus year tree sit, and Ms. Cahill for Congress, the story of a teacher who ran for Congress on a dare from her students, to It Pays to Talk, a financial book about how to have money conversations with your loved ones, by Charles Schwab and his daughter.
She also worked closely with HALL Wines’ Craig and Kathryn Hall, the authors of A Perfect Score, another New York Times bestseller, and a few years later co-authored BOOM with Craig Hall.
Whether working as a ghostwriter or a co-author, Linden uses her journalistic interviewing skills to extract the information and the story. She weaves those words together, then rewrites them just enough so they sound like you—only better.
