Writer-entrepreneur Ankur Warikoo has revealed the key behind his bestsellers — ghostwriters. Warikoo’s LinkedIn publish got here after Nishtha Gehija, a CA-turned-writer, claimed she wrote his second e-book, Get Epic Shit Carried out, in “lower than 3 months” whereas holding down a full-time job.
Warikoo didn’t maintain again, responding with a cheeky twist: “Nishtha is mendacity. She didn’t simply write my second e-book. She wrote my first e-book too!” Seems, the author behind the scenes was additionally chargeable for Do Epic Shit, Warikoo’s breakout bestseller.
The candid confession set social media buzzing, with Warikoo shedding mild on the powerful work ghostwriters do to convey concepts to life.
“The creator of the e-book shares their ideas, experiences, and tales. This could possibly be by means of private interviews, like in Shoe Canine by Phil Knight, or by following the creator’s life, like Prince Harry’s autobiography,” he defined.
For his books, Gehija sifted by means of his huge library of movies, weblog posts, and notes to piece collectively the content material.
“Nishtha and I used to get on Zoom calls, the place she would ask questions (posing as a scholar), and I’d reply (as a instructor),” Warikoo revealed. The calls have been recorded, transcribed, after which reworked right into a structured manuscript. “Think about going by means of 1000’s of items of content material, making sense of them, after which crafting them right into a e-book. An extremely powerful activity, which she did commendably properly,” he added.
This course of was removed from a hidden association. Warikoo shared a photograph of the acknowledgment web page from his second e-book, the place he had written, “Nishtha, the one who really wrote this e-book. We spent three months on a number of Zoom calls.” He emphasised that ghostwriting is knowledgeable collaboration, and in his case, a paid project.
When a LinkedIn person questioned why he calls himself an “writer” regardless of not writing his books, Warikoo replied candidly: “Writer appeared the best to me, to recommend that I additionally publish books. When you can consider a greater description, let me know, and I’ll fortunately change.”
“Cannot imagine I described ghostwriting as a career, to LinkedIn,” he wrote.
“All my future books will even be written by another person,” he joked.
