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.   

William Hammett is a member of The Association of Ghostwriters, Nonfiction Authors Association, The National Association of Independent Writers and Editors (NAIWE), Medium, Goodreads, and Webs and Blogs for Writers