Ginny Carter
@ginnycarter.bsky.social
Ghostwriter of business books, self-help and memoirs. Book coach and award-winning author. I pull the ideas out of your head and into a brilliant book.
Loving watching your interview on Author Insider @willstorr.bsky.social ! I recognised many of the insights and gain a quite a few new ones too.
September 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Loving watching your interview on Author Insider @willstorr.bsky.social ! I recognised many of the insights and gain a quite a few new ones too.
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How to write a book that captivates your readers
When you're uncertain about how to write a book, it can stop you from getting started. Here are four ways to write a great book.
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July 31, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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How to finish writing a book
How to finish writing a book - if you're stuck in 'almost finished' mode with your book, these are three reliable ways to finish writing it.
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July 3, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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I love this poem even more now I've grown old and achy when I get such days as Czeslaw describes here, though it's usually the Eccup Reservoir rather than blue sea and sails.
May 6, 2025 at 11:46 AM
I love this poem even more now I've grown old and achy when I get such days as Czeslaw describes here, though it's usually the Eccup Reservoir rather than blue sea and sails.
Did you know about the AI book fakers? Whether you're an author or reader, or both, they will only get worse. Here's how they work www.unitedghostwriters.co.uk/here-come-th...
Here come the AI book-fakers
When an author is robbed by AI, we all suffer. Readers who pay good money to buy books that are simply copyright-dodging rehashes of real memoirs and non-fiction get ripped off. Authors, usually wo…
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May 2, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Did you know about the AI book fakers? Whether you're an author or reader, or both, they will only get worse. Here's how they work www.unitedghostwriters.co.uk/here-come-th...
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10 smart ways to win clients with your business book
If you've ever wondered how to use your business book to gain more (and better) clients, this post gives you 10 smart ways to do it.
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April 24, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Why you might want to share your true story as a novel www.unitedghostwriters.co.uk/adapting-a-t...
Adapting a true story when writing fiction
Many authors opt for fiction over memoir when writing a story, or stories, based on real events. For some, the subject matter is far too personal to reveal in its rawest, truest form, or might carr…
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April 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Same, medieval dudes. Same.
April 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Same, medieval dudes. Same.
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Can someone who isn't me do a feature on spending a week using non-US alternatives to Google, X, Meta, Amazon etc etc, and tell us what it's like? I just need to see one person successfully doing it to jump.
April 7, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Can someone who isn't me do a feature on spending a week using non-US alternatives to Google, X, Meta, Amazon etc etc, and tell us what it's like? I just need to see one person successfully doing it to jump.
Writers get their story ideas from the most unlikely places www.unitedghostwriters.co.uk/tales-from-t...
Tales from the City
Pompeii has been inspiring stories for generations: for example and most recently Robert Harris’s Pompeii, a cracking thriller even if you already suspect what’s going to happen with that big point…
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March 4, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Writers get their story ideas from the most unlikely places www.unitedghostwriters.co.uk/tales-from-t...
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Creatives! It's the last day to appeal the upcoming AI legislation. The website is here: ipoconsultations.citizenspace.com/ipo/consulta... and the key bit is the section below. TICK OPTION 1. Strengthen copyright! Option 3 - which the government prefer - is no good for us.
February 25, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Creatives! It's the last day to appeal the upcoming AI legislation. The website is here: ipoconsultations.citizenspace.com/ipo/consulta... and the key bit is the section below. TICK OPTION 1. Strengthen copyright! Option 3 - which the government prefer - is no good for us.
Chuffed that 'How to Write a Self-Help Book' is recommended in this lovely blog by Dr Diana Antia drdianaantia.com/author-journ...
Writing: My Influences as an Author & Writing Publicly
When I first decided to write, I felt pure joy, followed by many moments of "What am I thinking?"
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February 21, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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February 20, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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'The drama of a situation is where the gold lies'. This is what writers (and ghostwriters) do - they sniff out the exciting stuff and place it front and centre www.unitedghostwriters.co.uk/wheres-the-d...
Where’s The Drama?
“We won’t make a drama out of a crisis.” Nine little words. Put them in the right order and what have you got? In this case, eye-watering returns for Commercial Union plc and its shareholders. Good…
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February 18, 2025 at 11:29 AM
'The drama of a situation is where the gold lies'. This is what writers (and ghostwriters) do - they sniff out the exciting stuff and place it front and centre www.unitedghostwriters.co.uk/wheres-the-d...
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That’s more like it.
February 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
That’s more like it.
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Neneh Cherry and Jenni Fagan longlisted for 2025 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction 👇 #BookSky
Neneh Cherry and Jenni Fagan longlisted for 2025 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction
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February 12, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Neneh Cherry and Jenni Fagan longlisted for 2025 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction 👇 #BookSky
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Word of the day is ‘arsle’ (19th century): to have a distinct sense of going backwards.
February 12, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Word of the day is ‘arsle’ (19th century): to have a distinct sense of going backwards.
Love the airline analogy! 50 years of being a full time writer, by Andrew Crofts wearewhitefox.com/fifty-years-...
Fifty years of being a full-time freelance writer - Whitefox
With 50 years of experience as a bestselling author and ghostwriter of over 100 books, Andrew Crofts has navigated the highs of literary success and the challenges of the publishing world.
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February 10, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Love the airline analogy! 50 years of being a full time writer, by Andrew Crofts wearewhitefox.com/fifty-years-...
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On dreich days like these it might cheer you up to know that in 19th-century slang an umbrella was a ‘bumbershoot’.
February 10, 2025 at 8:45 AM
On dreich days like these it might cheer you up to know that in 19th-century slang an umbrella was a ‘bumbershoot’.
The magic that happens when a ghost hires another ghost to write a world-changing story . . . that then gets optioned by Netflix www.unitedghostwriters.co.uk/a-message-fr...
A Message from the Other Side…
‘I’m a psychic and I’ve been sent a message about nuclear war. It’s coming soon and I need you to help me with this book so that we can stop it happening.’ As an opening line, it was hard to beat. …
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February 4, 2025 at 9:22 AM
The magic that happens when a ghost hires another ghost to write a world-changing story . . . that then gets optioned by Netflix www.unitedghostwriters.co.uk/a-message-fr...
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How to get started in writing a book
Three transformational ways to unblock your writing as you start your own business book. Get started in writing a book now.
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January 16, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Word of the day is ‘depooperit’, from 18th-century Scots: ‘enfeebled both mentally and physically’.
January 15, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Word of the day is ‘depooperit’, from 18th-century Scots: ‘enfeebled both mentally and physically’.
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I get that AI COULD be the new, trillion-dollar industry that a post-Brexit UK has to make attractive to outside investors - but at the expense of creative industries, which ARE, PROVABLY, insanely profitable? Plus have unique global soft-power? Essentially fucking Harry Potter over for Elon Musk?
Today, the UK government announced a proposal to change copyright law - for the benefit of AI companies - that would cause huge, irreversible harm to creators.
More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live):
1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇
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More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live):
1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇
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January 14, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I get that AI COULD be the new, trillion-dollar industry that a post-Brexit UK has to make attractive to outside investors - but at the expense of creative industries, which ARE, PROVABLY, insanely profitable? Plus have unique global soft-power? Essentially fucking Harry Potter over for Elon Musk?
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Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
January 10, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.