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How To Write Your Life Story
Simon has recorded an online course for Idler magazine to encourage more people to consider trying to write their own life story. You can access the course here: https://www.idler.co.uk/course/how-to-write-your-life-story-with-simon-petherick/ The services of a ghostwriter will always be needed: by people who don’t feel able to tackle the task themselves, by the publishing industry which needs…
Ghostwriting interview with Michael Portillo
Simon Petherick was interviewed by Michael Portillo on GB News on Sunday 20th November 2022 on the craft and business of ghostwriting: You can also watch the ten-minute interview here on Youtube: https://youtu.be/a9xZ81IZWgs You can read more about the process of ghostwriting here: https://ghostwriter.works/the-ghostwriting-process/
Essay in The Guardian
Simon had an essay published in The Guardian in October 2022: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/oct/25/my-doomed-stand-margaret-thatcher-war-truth-central-office-information
In Search of Shangri-La
Simon Petherick has a new essay in Issue 84 of Idler Magazine. You can buy Idler magazine from these stockists — https://www.idler.co.uk/idler-stockists/ — or read the article here: ‘I am from the lamasery of Shangri-La.’ These first words spoken by Chang, the High Lama’s functionary, in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon by James Hilton, introduced the world…
Ghost in the machine
The following essay on ghostwriting and how to be a ghostwriter is published in the November-December issue of Idler magazine, available in selected WHSmiths, Waitrose and bookshops or by subscription at idler.co.uk/join. Full list of Idler stockists is here: https://www.idler.co.uk/idler-stockists/ ____________ Ghost in the machine I was talking to my sister the other day. She…
Seaborne Magazine
Simon Petherick has a new story in the second issue of Seaborne Magazine, available here: https://seabornemagazine.com/downloads/seaborne-issue-2-storms-omens-monsters/ The story, part of the magazine’s “storms, omens and monsters” theme, concerns an incident during a sailing trip in the Ionian sea.
Ghostwriter.works launches
Ghostwriter.works offers the services of professional ghostwriter Simon Petherick. Simon has worked as a successful ghostwriter for many years and this new site provides an opportunity to engage with him directly.