Barry Napier – Ghostwriter

In 2012, I won Amazon’s Write a Dead Man contest. My entry was selected by NY Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg out more than 2,000 entries, awarding me a contract with 47 North to write an installment of Amazon’s Dead Man series. In 2014, my horror novel Nests was published by Severed Press, a small horror press. It was translated into German by another press, Luziver Verlag, whom I am also signed with, making me an international author. My flash fiction story “Through Tiny Windows” was included in Norton’s Hint Fiction anthology in 2011 alongside names like Peter Straub and Joyce Carol Oates. The story was one of three selections that was featured on NPR to promote the book. In 2015, I worked with a small mobile game start-up, developing and writing the script for a mobile game that riffs on Choose-Your-Adventure books. Marketed as “interactive fiction,” it is currently selling in consistent numbers for most mobile devices. Was hired in 2016 as a creative consultant by Rabbit Publishers to improve their middle grade product. This resulted in a 6-book deal to work as co-writer on future books. Have ghostwritten 21 novels for indie writers between 2012 - 2019. Eight of those novels are part of a series that have consistently been in the top 20 of their genres on Amazon while another, a middle grade project, has been nominated for several awards.