A Nonprofit for Authors? - Greta Myers
From Ghostwriting the 1% to Serving the Overlooked w/ Greta Myers For years, the publishing world has worked the same way: if you have money or influence, you can get a book written. If you don’t, your story probably never gets told. In this episode, I sit down with Greta Myers to talk about the tension we both felt working in high-end ghostwriting — solving wealthy people’s problems while knowing there were powerful, important stories that couldn’t afford to be published. Since we last talked, Greta did something about it. She launched Sparrow Stories, a nonprofit dedicated to helping leaders who are transforming communities — rescuing women from trafficking, serving rural America, helping formerly homeless families — share their stories through books. We talk about: The real economics of ghostwriting (and why books often cost $30k–$100k) Why most nonfiction is shaped by those with weal
