Carolyn Murnick – Ghostwriter

I'll help you hone your voice and craft a story that makes publishers—and readers—take notice. I'm a veteran magazine editor with over a decade of experience and a Big-Five published author with a passion for storytelling. We'll work together to take your story to the next level, from the proposal stage all the way to completed manuscript. I'm experienced with ghostwriting, developmental editing, and book coaching and I'd be thrilled to discuss your next project with you. Say hello!

Praise for my memoir, The Hot One

"Carolyn Murnick’s insights into the freighted complexities of youth, beauty, and sexuality, and how these forces collide within long, close female friendships, turn an already affecting murder mystery into a story for our time. Never morbid or sentimental, always honest, The Hot One is a wholly original memoir that explores and unpacks the often vexing reality of what it means to be a young woman in the 21st century."
—Kate Bolick, bestselling author of SPINSTER: Making a Life of One’s Own

"A journalist’s investigation into her childhood friend’s murder—a riveting subject on its own—is so much more in writer Carolyn Murnick’s hands. Murnick exposes the sticky complexity of female friendship and identity. She questions what our debts are to the dead and forces us to look at ourselves. Three pages in and I knew that I wouldn’t get anything else done. I inhaled The Hot One in 24 hours, riveted from its haunting preface to its heartbreaking final sentence."
—Susannah Cahalan, bestselling author of BRAIN ON FIRE: My Month of Madness