There’s a lot to say about Prince Harry’s book Spare, and all of the situations and personalities associated with it, but one of the more interesting things it's done in my corner of the world is to open up a wider discourse about ghostwriting.

Ghostwriting is an interesting job, because it’s not so much a career trajectory or choice as it is something that most of us professional ghostwriters (or “book collaborators”) happened upon or fell into. I certainly never said, “I want to be a ghostwriter when I grow up,”—although I probably would have if I had known it was a thing. Instead, I learned about it by working in publishing because I had heard of editors.

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