More than a thousand books written, co-written, edited or published
You run the race. I run every mile beside you.
I’m Michael Levin, ghostwriter and New York Times bestselling author. Your name goes on the cover. Let’s capture your legacy.
Not ready to talk? Read my book first. It’s free.
Michael LevinFounder, Legacy by Levin
The guide calls the turns. The athlete crosses the line.
I run the Boston and New York marathons, and I’m a guide runner for Achilles International, running beside athletes with disabilities and keeping the pace.
Ghostwriting is the same job. It’s your story and your name on the cover, and I make sure you get there.
Here’s the course.
My team and I write for people with a story to tell, from a Baseball Hall of Famer and an undercover FBI agent to CEOs, financial advisors and families. Every book runs the same route.
The planning session
Every book starts with a planning session I lead myself. That’s where we decide whether I write it with you or my team does.
Dave Winfield, Baseball Hall of Famer
He came in wanting a book for parents. It became Dropping the Ball, a national bestseller about all of baseball.
How it came togetherThe interviews
Several days of conversations, in person or on Zoom.
Doug & Jackie Christie
Interviews in a day and a half, and the book in hardcover within six weeks.
How it came togetherThe draft, in your voice
We write it so it sounds like you on your best day: your phrases, your humor, your way of telling it.
Gary Kadi, NextLevel Practice
Million Dollar Dentistry has sold more than 50,000 copies.
How it came togetherThe edit
In Boston, Heartbreak Hill comes around mile 20. In a book, it’s the edit, where a good manuscript either gets better or gets abandoned.
Zig Ziglar, Born to Win
My comment letter on Zig’s last book unlocked more of his stories.
How it came togetherPublish and launch
We don’t stop at the manuscript. We offer Simon & Schuster distribution, placement in bookstores and airports, and launches at places like the Cannes Film Festival and Davos.
The cheering section.
“Michael Levin is the Michael Jordan of ghostwriting.”
“Simply the best and most accomplished ghostwriter in the English-speaking world.”
“Hiring Michael Levin to help me get a book out was the smartest thing I’ve ever done for marketing my business.”
“Michael Levin is an industry transformer.”
“Levin’s verbal humor glistens.”
The book is what you keep.
Some of the books I’ve written with clients.
Making Jack Falcone
New York Times bestseller. Joaquin “Jack” Garcia, the FBI agent who went undercover in the Gambino family. Simon & Schuster/Touchstone. Featured on 60 Minutes; optioned by Paramount for Steven Soderbergh.
Dave Winfield
National bestseller. Scribner. #2 on the Los Angeles Times list.
Howard Bragman
National bestseller. Hollywood publicist. Penguin/Portfolio.
The Christies
National bestseller. From interviews to hardcover in six weeks.
Nealy Fischer
Hachette deal. The Flexible Chef. A proposal that sold.
Giants
Pat Summerall. Wiley.
When All Else Fails, Sell!
David Oliphant. Reader’s Digest Books.
Million Dollar Dentistry
Gary Kadi. 50,000+ copies.
The Best Policy
G. Tate Groome.
The Wow Factor
Rená Puebla.
Money, Family, Murder
Timothy Patten. A true story, told as a novel.
How I got to the start line.
I’d like to tell you I had a master plan. I didn’t. I went to Columbia Law, kept failing the bar, and started teaching writing classes in a rented yoga studio. My students asked me to write their books.
You may have seen me on Shark Tank.
- ABCShark Tank, Season 3 premiere. And Model Behavior, an ABC Sunday Night movie of my novel.
- ParamountOptioned Making Jack Falcone for Steven Soderbergh.
- The New York TimesMy op-eds, and reviews of my books.
- The Wall Street JournalMy commentary.
- BBCGuest on BBC TV and radio.
- EsquireCalled Dropping the Ball “recommended reading.”
- PeopleFeatured my books.
- Politico · Forbes · HuffPostMore than 400 published pieces, along with the Los Angeles Times and the Boston Globe.
Read my book first. It’s free.
The Meaning Of Your Life: Writing a Book About What Matters Most to You. A #1 Amazon bestseller.
Download the PDFYour book starts at mile 1.
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