Freelancing in the News: Concerning Zoella
Buzzfeed reported on December 8 that YouTuber Zoella's book, Girl Online, was ghostwritten.
The news ignited a debate over the use of ghostwriters when the book's publisher noted that it would be innacurate to say Zoe Sugg wrote the best-selling novel on her own.
In the following days, Ms. Sugg and her boyfriend, Alfie Deyes, have both taken a hiatus from Youtube and vlogging; In the interest of fairness, I should not that whether or not this is related to the ghostwriting flak isn't entirely clear to me.
I'm a ghostwriter, for those of you who don't know. I've written Making All the Write Moves on behalf of author L. David Harris, for example, and I am the contributing writer behind the interviews at 7 Magic Islands in their blog series, Wizards of Words. I'm sure there are other examples out there as well.
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