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Alison McBain is an award-winning author whose novels have picked up more than 13 awards, including the Foreword INDIES. She’s also a ghostwriter, an editor and associate editor of the magazine ScribesMICRO. She joins Jo Szewczyk to compare notes from the publishing trenches: how editing turned into ghostwriting, why most of that work was romance, and what it took to write 34 books in a single year without touching AI.
Key Moments
- How one client’s ‘can you implement these edits for me?’ turned an editor into a ghostwriter
- The romance secret: roughly 80% of Alison’s ghostwriting was romance, and prolific romance authors sometimes get help
- Author Versus AI: 34 books in 2024 with zero AI, and the burnout that followed
- Steal from other genres: why moving one genre’s tropes into another makes a story feel new
The Takeaway
Don’t wish away the detours. Alison wouldn’t go back and fix the hard parts, because the lows gave her the lived experience she needed before she had a voice and knew what she wanted to say.
Guest Links
Website (books and all socials): https://www.alisonmcbain.com/
Alison McBain’s books on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B01BQZ9IDW/allbooks
Jo’s novel Scarlet Shadows: https://amzn.to/4wJk4cc
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