“There’s an old saying that you should never judge a book by its cover. Today, perhaps, that conventional wisdom has rarely had more meaning. To a degree that might astonish the reading public, a significant percentage of any current bestseller list will not have been written by the authors whose names appear on the jackets.”

Andrew Crofts, “one of Britain’s most invisible and yet successful writers,” has written out his experiences as a ghostwriter for 40 years. Bestselling ghosted works include a lot of “misery memoirs.” (via Prufrock)