ghost-write

English

Verb

ghost-write (third-person singular simple present ghost-writes, present participle ghost-writing, simple past ghost-wrote, past participle ghost-written)

1. Alternative form of ghostwrite
   • 2011, Ken Reamy, A Coveted Servitude, page 308:

     In his late seventies, Barclay was already an accomplished writer and published author when Truman Voigt contracted with him to ghost-write his first book.

   • 2015, E.J. Fleming, Carole Landis: A Tragic Life in Hollywood, page 147:

     Although the book's content would be Carole's, Brand hired Edwin Seaver to help ghost-write the project. Seaver was a well-known writer and editor prominent in New York literary circles.

   • 2015, Romesh Gunesekera, A.L. Kennedy, Novel Writing: A Writers' and Artists' Companion, page 76:

     I have met authors who ghost-write for golfers, doctor scripts, produce advertising copy, do panel TV shows. . . . These activities can help your books, they can be fun, they can earn money, they can encourage people to gie you free vegetables, or suits.

   • 2015, John T. Soister, Of Gods and Monsters:

     In flashback, we see Dumont hire Verin to ghost-write some pacifistic essays for publication.

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