Katie Ludlow Rich is an award-winning historian, ghostwriter, developmental editor, and book coach in Saratoga Springs, Utah, who helps people turn the stories they’ve lived into books. As a historian, Katie brings overlooked Mormon women back into view. Her article in the Journal of Mormon History won the journal’s Best Article Award in 2025. Fifty Years of Exponent II, the history and anthology she co-wrote with Heather Sundahl, traces five decades of a grassroots Mormon feminist publication and makes the case for community over ideological purity. It won three book awards in 2025. For years, as a stay-at-home mom of four, Katie built her research and interviewing skills in stolen moments and assumed a PhD was the only way in. Then she built a career without one.
And the reason we’re all here today is a thank-you note Katie sent me on Instagram. She wrote that the work we do here on ✍️ Make Writing Your Job (and my books Six-Figure Freelance Writer and Write for Money and Power) helped her go from “essentially a free freelancer” to running a six-figure ghostwriting and developmental editing business, and she called it “truly life-changing.”
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