William Hammett is a professional ghostwriter and editor
with more than twenty-five years of full-time experience working across fiction
and nonfiction. His work includes memoir, literary and genre fiction, and
complex nonfiction, often involving sensitive material, high-stakes subject
matter, or long-form projects requiring discretion and structural rigor.
He has collaborated with published authors, novelists,
public figures, and professionals across a wide range of fields, and much of
his work involves expanding or sustaining established writing projects and
narrative fiction franchises. His practice emphasizes ethical collaboration,
confidentiality (NDA plus contractual), and narrative intelligence rather than
formulaic production.
He is adept at utilizing a client’s narrative voice or
desired style, adapting the correct tone and rhythm to match the needs of a
given project. He is a literary ghostwriter with multiple advanced university
degrees and received academic training in editing, textual analysis, and literary
criticism. With intimate knowledge of publishing and the literary marketplace,
Hammett offers verified testimonials from past clients and has an extensive
online collection of fiction and nonfiction writing samples (forty-two) on his
website.
In addition to ghostwriting and editorial work, Hammett
publishes fiction under his own name. His novel John Lennon and the Mercy
Street Café (2007) has been taught in university courses on magical
realism, and his short fiction and poetry have appeared in over two hundred
respected literary journals. Recent titles include Street Magic, The
Ghost of Richard Brautigan, Rimsky Rises (YA), and Circling Goes
the Wind (middle reader). All are available commercially on Amazon.
He forwards work in installments and conducts a final
revision of all projects. He is skilled in working with source materials and
partial manuscripts as well as with AI-generated rough drafts. Fee structure is unique in that clients pay
for professional time used rather than flat fees. In fiction, his preferred
genres are science fiction, fantasy, horror, thriller, detective, mystery,
romance, literary, and juvenile.
Queries from literary agents, editors, and serious
collaborators are welcome. Hammett works selectively and values projects where
craft, credibility, and long-form thinking matter more than speed or volume.
Further information about scope and subject areas is available on his website.
