In their capacity of producers or writers of texts, authors pursue text-related activities. Broadly speaking, literary authors include writers (novelists, technical authors), publicists (e.g., journalists) or lyricists (poets). The characteristic feature of all authors is authorship and intellectual ownership of their works.
In our digital day and age, the demand for qualified authors is larger than ever, notably as regards factual and technical texts. While prior to the digital revolution freelance authors used to work in the conventional print media, today additional and manifold work opportunities are provided by the so-called new media. One only needs to think of optimization of website content to realize that there is permanent demand for authors capable of generating appealing search engine-optimized content that generates best-possible traffic and a favourable Google ranking for a particular website. Added to the mix are the various freelancer portals that give authors the opportunity to get connected with companies and benefit from the millions of assignments posted every year. Often, all it takes is submitting a work sample or else completing a writing test to get started immediately and make money. However, caution is required: Many such portals are known for wage dumping.
Much better earning opportunities for freelancers can be found in the field of ghostwriting. This is true for both ghostwriting in general and academic ghostwriting in particular. Talented ghostwriters never run out of work. Besides, working as a ghostwriter ensures plenty of variety. A ghostwriter’s writing skills are used for producing all kinds of texts, ranging from product descriptions and speeches, through company reports, market analyses, case studies and letters of application, to journalistic texts and autobiographies. Academic ghostwriters, on the other hand, are specialized in academic or scientific texts. The scope of tasks includes, for example, writing term papers, essays, texts for presentations and lectures, PowerPoint presentations, and degree theses. The job of an academic ghostwriter is to create templates that serve clients of ghostwriting agencies as an orientation guide for their academic work proper. Not least the increased number of students in Germany gives academic ghostwriters good prospects for their professional future. A major prerequisite for becoming a ghostwriter as well as an academic ghostwriter, typically, is to have a successfully completed academic degree, preferably in such courses of studies that are demand-related and/or involve much writing (e.g., business administration and economics, business information technology, law, literature studies, media studies, natural sciences, medicine, political sciences, health and nursing sciences, social sciences and social work, engineering, philosophy, psychology).
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