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Compte, meanwhile, considers himself "a mercenary of letters." “In fact, my last autobiography, which I worked on for six to seven months, was not published and will never be published, but I was paid. The only thing we are interested in is charging. The advantage we have with the traditional writer per publisher is that we charge in advance and without affecting sales. Unless you make a contract with a very important public figure, you do participate in the profits there”.
The advantage we have with the traditional writer per publisher is that we charge in advance and without affecting sales And he explains that ghosts are divided between those who practice independently, like him, and those who work for publishers. “I have a partner who is a ghost of a publishing house, she works only for publishing houses. I always won three, four times more than she earned, as a parameter. I know other ghostwriters who worked for publishers and I always charged more”. "Casper", foreign correspondent for US magazines, reiterates throughout the interview that working as a ghost "is the job opportunity for colleagues (journalists) due to the media crisis." And he highlights the profitability of ghost book writing services: “You don't invest anything you don't have, a computer, an Internet connection, a smartphone. All you do is type and interview”. At the same time, he regrets because he had everything ready to give a ghost book writing company seminar at the National University of La Matanza (UNLaM), which was frustrated by the pandemic. Being a writer, being a ghost Do the ghostwriters decide to sacrifice their own literary work or can they develop it at the same time? How profitable is this activity for them in the shadows? Do they specialize in any particular genre? Do you work only for Argentina or also abroad? Maqueira's beginnings as a ghostwriter influenced his later fiction debut. In his first novel, Ruda macho, “recipes for gualichos and rites are sneaked in. It is full of esoteric references and everything comes directly from what I was writing for work as a ghost, "he says. And he comments that many ghosts adopt this profession “as a way of life and write one book after another. I didn't meet anyone who didn't like it, usually we all have a lot of fun. It gives you the possibility of looking into worlds that you might not have looked at”. Maqueira wrote between 15 and 20 books for the Argentine market, although he also had surprises. “I remember once I found myself walking down a street in La Paz with a guy who sold books, including a pirated edition of a book that I had written as a ghost. It was so sold that they had already pirated it in Bolivia and there I had a little pride”. His preferences when producing commissioned texts were “to give an entity to a non-existent writer”, something that was “more pleasant, easier, it was a literary exercise”. “But when the other person did exist, but I didn't have the capacity to write a book and they hired me to write it, there it cost me more. I couldn't let my imagination run wild, write whatever came to my mind and find the way around the character, but on the other side there was an answer”. So, it was "a much more journalistic job perhaps, in which I felt much more limited."
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