Dan Good – Ghostwriter

I specialize in a wide range of projects, including biographies & memoirs, business & management, history, political science & current affairs, and sports & outdoors projects. My enthusiasm in writing about lots of topics was forged during my years in NYC journalism, when I guided breaking news coverage at prominent newsrooms like ABC News and the NY Daily News and jumped on any interesting story that emerged. I shifted to book ghostwriting in 2019 to strike a better work-life balance and have since come to love it. I've completed 30+ manuscripts, the most prominent of which is a biography of baseball star Ken Caminiti, Playing Through the Pain, that received a starred review from Publishers Weekly (Abrams Press, 2022). Another well-received project involved my collaboration with author Jonathan Stanley, Purposeful Performance, which became a national bestseller in 2025 following a viral TikTok moment during a book signing that received coverage from NBC's Today Show and the Washington Post.

Among my other writing clientele and ghostwriting projects:

* A family ancestry memoir story involving a DNA test that revealed a long-buried secret

* A memoir involving personal trauma, addiction, and healing

* A book about growing your business using YouTube videos

* A business & management book about the power of collaboration in corporate and personal relationships

* A business & management book about usage-based economics and its growing importance in commerce

* A business profile book about Microsoft's founding, success and journey forward

* A true-crime project about a 1960s health-care serial killer

* A project with a prominent school leader about their school's history and path to flourishing following a crisis point

* A politics book written under a tight deadline

* A politics and legal project involving a lawsuit against a prominent politician

* A book with a successful sports coach

* A book with a sports team that overcame incredible odds to achieve national success

I help the authors I work with to unlock their message, uncover their purpose and own their story. I lean on my journalism skills -- deep reporting, skilled interviewing, and sharp writing on deadline -- to ghostwrite the strongest possible books. My process typically involves weekly meetings. From those discussions I then draft chapters. The first few meetings involve book foundation work (hook, audience, outline and positioning statement) to ensure that the project is aligned; this also ensures that the writing process is efficient. I enjoy helping people complete, typically in 3-6 months, the book they've always wished to write but could never finish.

*Client testimonial*

"The project was incredibly complex. Dan helped systemize it and with his cool head helped persistently come back time and again until we had an A+ outcome."

-Rich Christiansen, author, BlindSighted: A Journey of Identity, Faith, and Healing