You talk. I'll write. They'll read.

Amanda Catarzi

Ghostwriting for founders who've done the work and haven't been discovered yet.

Eight years anti-trafficking 38 children released in Myanmar Bipartisan federal legislation, authored Advised the New Zealand government $5M a month, built 70% of a founder's time, returned

Hey, I'm Amanda

I'm here to get it out of your head.

Founders don't hire me because they need help figuring out what they think. They hire me because they already know, and it's been sitting in there for years with nowhere to go.

I ask the questions, you talk, and I turn it into a book that sounds like you on your best day.

You never have to open a blank document.

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The Problem

You talk, I'll write.

You're not blocked because you have nothing to say.

You've said it on stages and on other people's podcasts and across a dinner table where somebody's whole week turned around. It comes out clean every time a person is sitting across from you, and then you sit down alone with a keyboard and none of it comes.

Maybe your Drive is already full. There's a folder called Book with four files in it and two of them are named Outline v3.

Maybe you've started five times and started at chapter one every single time.

You have the thinking. What you're missing is somebody to build the thing around it.

Amanda Catarzi working through a page with a client

The part that actually bothers me...

You've watched somebody with a fraction of your experience build a whole audience saying a worse version of what you already know.

They've done half the work. They've lost less. They've never had the year you had. And they're on the stage, and they're on the podcast, and people are quoting them.

That's not because their thinking is better.

It's because they wrote it down and you didn't.

The people who should be listened to are almost always the ones too busy doing the work to package it. That's the whole problem. The doing and the telling take the same hours, and you've been spending all of yours on the doing, which is exactly why you have something worth saying and they don't.

You've earned the room. You just haven't been in it.

What I take on

Amanda Catarzi recording on a podcast set

The Book

01 Recorded extraction sessions where you talk and I ask
02 Finding your core message and putting it in one sentence
03 Chapter architecture and the order it all goes in
04 Full manuscript written in your voice
05 Revision rounds until it reads like you
06 Proofreading

Let's Talk

Three ways people come to me

01 Some people already have it out there in pieces, spread across podcasts and old writing and keynote decks. My job there is choosing and shaping.
02 Some people have a folder full of fragments with nothing holding them together, so I build the spine.
03 And some people have nothing written down at all and haven't landed on their core message yet, so we find that first and then build the book around it.

Every book caps at 50,000 words. When a book sprawls past two hundred pages it’s usually because nobody was willing to cut it, and cutting is the actual work. I do that part, so what you get is the version people finish and then hand to somebody else.

I write four books a year. Each one runs fourteen to twenty weeks and I don’t run them at the same time, because a book written in the margins reads like a book written in the margins.

What people are saying

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About

I'm Amanda Catarzi

Before I wrote books, I spent eight years in anti-trafficking work. International crisis negotiation, including the release of 38 trafficked children in Myanmar.

I wrote federal anti-trafficking legislation and advised the New Zealand government on policy reform.

That work is where the writing skill actually came from. The job was sitting across from somebody and asking the right question over and over until the truth came out in their own words, while everything was on the line.

Then I built a wholesale operation to $5M a month, so I understand the business you’re writing from and not just the sentences.

Here’s what that adds up to. I know how to get something true out of a person, and I know how to write it down so it lands.

I take on four books a year and I vet for character first. This only works if you’re willing to be honest about what’s actually going on.

Why me

I'm done watching people who've done the real work get out-talked by people who haven't.

You've got the experience. Hand me what you know and I'll turn it into something people can find and buy.

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Not sure where to start?

How To Start Writing Your Book

What has to happen before you write a single word. Forty-two pages, and the first three tell you whether you have a book at all.

1) Why your chapter one keeps failing, and it isn't your writing.
2) The six things that have to be true before drafting works.
3) How to find the one sentence the whole book hangs on.

By Sunday, you'll know what your book is actually about.

By next week, you'll know whether you can write it on your own or whether you need somebody in the room with you.

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You already know what you want to say.

Fill out the form and tell me what the book is about and what you've already got, even if what you've got is an empty folder and a title you've been sitting on since 2023.

If it's a fit we'll talk. If it isn't I'll tell you and point you somewhere better.