✍️ I Wrote a Novel About a Ghostwriter Who Spies for the FBI 👻

Preorder it in any format and I'll send you my secret unreleased book on memoir ghostwriting — free.

Here’s something I don’t talk about much on this newsletter: when I’m not writing about writing careers, I write novels. And the new one is the most fun I have ever had on the page.

Let Me Be Your Ghost is a romantic thriller about my actual day job, cranked up to eleven. Lola Whitman ghostwrites memoirs for powerful men — and feeds their secrets to the FBI. For 9 years she’s been planted in the lives of her clients, turning their confessions into evidence. One more book and she walks away free.

Then her last target finds her first. Ezekiel Crane, the world’s youngest billionaire and heir to a surveillance empire, walks into her dusty Arizona bookstore with a job offer: his memoir. He’s magnetic. He’s guarded. And he already knows things about Lola that no living person should. Moving into his fog-wrapped California estate is the assignment. Wanting him is the problem.

She was sent to destroy him. She fell in love with him instead.

It’s a slow-burn romantic thriller for readers of First Lie Wins and Verity, and it releases this November. The Kindle, paperback, and hardcover preorders are all live.

(You can purchase it on Kindle or Paperback. Hardcover coming soon!)

Here’s the truth about preorders: they decide how hard the bookstore algorithms work for a book on launch day, which makes them the single biggest gift a reader can give an author.

But I didn’t want to just ask you to help me get this book out there. I wanted to also give you some real gifts in exchange for your support — and if you’re a writer, these are built for you.

🎁 The secret book I’ve been sitting on for years

In between ghostwriting memoirs for clients whose names I will take to my grave, I once wrote a book called How to Write a Memoir: a ghostwriter’s secrets for turning your life into a bestseller. It’s the exact process I use on real memoir projects (the kind with six-figure payouts), start to finish. Then I never published it. It has been my private playbook ever since.

Until now.

Preorder ONE copy of Let Me Be Your Ghost (any format, any retailer) and I’ll send How to Write a Memoir to you — the whole book, in PDF and EPUB. If you’ve ever wanted to write your own story or add memoir ghostwriting to your income streams, this is the manual I never let out of the house. In the novel, Lola uses this tradecraft on dangerous men. You can use it on your clients (please choose nicer ones).

Once you preorder your copy, just fill out the form on this page with your receipt!

📚 For the ringleaders

Preordering for a book club, a team, or a whole org? The gifts scale with you.

Preordering 10+ print copies runs about $200 in paperbacks, and in exchange I’ll comp you a $550 annual founding membership to Sutoscience, my personal Substack. That includes our monthly Substack Lab workshops, the 6 Week Substack Sprint, every essay and behind-the-scenes post, and my serialized fiction. If growing a newsletter is on your goals list, this is the whole toolkit. The math is not subtle on purpose.

And 50+ print copies gets you a private session with me (consulting time I bill at $1,000 an hour) or a talk for your team or organization — over $1,500 in gifts before you count the books themselves. You also get everything in the previous tiers, founding membership included.

🧾 Claiming takes one minute

Preorder anywhere. Screenshot your receipt. Upload it on the claim page, and the gifts go out automatically by email within minutes. (Yes, I built a little receipt-reading machine for this. Yes, I’m very proud of it.)

I spend most of my time here telling you how to build a writing career. This book is what I built with mine, and I would love for you to read it.

Preorder the novel, steal the playbook, and go write something with your name on it.

-Amy