steve miller – Ghostwriter

With over 20 years of experience as a seasoned reporter and investigative journalist, I bring a reporter’s eye to memoir, interrogating memory the way facts demand to be tested. Whether you are a music icon or business legend looking to cement your legacy or an individual with a complex, untold history, I capture the voice of my subjects through research and a easy conversations. If there are other voices you seek to bring in, I can find and work with them.

The process is intensive by design. As a licensed private investigator and Brechner Reporting Fellow, I know how to dig. I don’t wait for memories to appear; I help surface them as a focused, high-energy partner.

Proven Ghostwriting Success: I am the ghostwriter of Commando: The Johnny Ramone Autobiography. I know how to navigate powerful personalities and complicated legacies to produce work that holds up. Among my other subjects have been a powerful higher education official and an accomplished real estate magnate.

You may have a heroic undertaking, uncommon travels, a story of adversity or simply a life worth recording. I can help you tell it.

Award-Winning Storytelling: I am an Edgar Award finalist and a multi-year winner of the Society of Professional Journalists’ First Amendment Award for investigative reporting.

Versatile Voice: From the drama of true crime (as seen in my books Murder in Grosse Pointe Park and Nobody's Women) to the subculture of Juggalos and the lifestyle and travel reporting of Cigar Snob Magazine, where I am senior editor, I can adapt tone to the project.

My Expertise

I’m especially drawn to true crime, music history, political memoirs and investigative biographies. If your story calls for a writer willing to dig into archives, ask hard questions and enjoy the work along the way, let’s talk.