Book writing services

Book writing services in your own voice, one hour a week

Big Impact Books offers book writing services built on weekly one-hour interviews, so busy experts can write a book by talking instead of typing.

You talk through each chapter in an organized way; the Big Impact Books team pieces your words together into a manuscript that sounds like you. Writing comes second in the process, after publishing is planned, so every interview serves the finished book.

Last updated: November 2026

The main question

How can I write a book when I have no time?

You can write a book with no spare time by replacing writing sessions with conversations. Many CEOs, attorneys, and business owners communicate brilliantly out loud but stall in front of a blank page. The Big Impact Books process is designed to respect your time, asking for about one hour a week, and to turn what you already know into chapters.

The founder has written about why writing a book feels intimidating for accomplished people, and why your book needs your voice rather than a polished voice that is not yours. Weekly interviews solve both problems at once: there is no blank page, and every chapter starts from your own words.

The weekly interviews made the process manageable. Talking comes easily to me, so I was able to talk through each chapter in an organized way.

Manisha P. Patel, attorney and author of End Your Marriage Peacefully

Definition

What are interview-based book writing services?

Interview-based book writing services turn an author's spoken expertise into a manuscript. Instead of writing alone or handing the book to a hidden writer, the author takes part in regular interviews and talks through stories, ideas, and advice chapter by chapter. At Big Impact Books, those weekly interviews take about one hour a week, and the team pieces the conversations together into chapters that honor the author's authentic voice. The result is a book the author genuinely owns, written in their language, without months away from the business. It sits between self-written books and ghostwritten ones.

Ghostwriting

Book ghostwriting services: how this differs

People searching for book ghostwriting services usually want one thing: a finished book without writing it themselves. Big Impact Books delivers that outcome differently. Founder Melanie Herschorn says she refuses to churn out cookie-cutter content or hide behind ghostwriting, and that clients get to own their brilliance.

If you want a writer to produce a book with almost no involvement from you, a traditional ghostwriter is the better fit. If you want the time savings of ghostwriting with a book that is unmistakably yours, the interview approach fits better.

Compare

Writing it yourself, ghostwriting, or Big Impact Books interviews?

Three ways to get a book written, compared on the same criteria, including the Big Impact Books interview process
Criteria	Big Impact Books interviews	Traditional ghostwriting	Writing it yourself
Your time	About one hour a week	Usually limited	Many hours a week
Whose words	Yours, from interviews	The ghostwriter’s, from your input	Yours
Voice	Built to honor your authentic voice	Depends on the writer	Yours
Blank page	None; you talk	None for you	Yes
Publishing and marketing	Included in the same process	Usually separate	Separate

Procedure

What does a writing week look like?

Prepare the chapter topic
Each interview focuses on a chapter planned during the publishing-first stage.
Talk it through
You explain your ideas, stories, and client examples in about an hour.
The team pieces it together
Your spoken words are shaped into an organized chapter.
Review in your voice
Chapters build up week by week into a manuscript that sounds like you.

Once the manuscript is complete, the book moves into publishing and then book marketing services. See how it all fits together on the Big Impact Books book publishing service overview, or read about professional book publishing services.

FAQ

Common questions

What are book writing services?: Book writing services help you turn ideas and expertise into a finished manuscript. They range from coaching, where you write and someone guides you, to ghostwriting, where someone writes for you, to interview-based writing. Big Impact Books uses weekly interviews of about one hour, then its team shapes what you say into chapters in your own voice.
How does the one hour a week writing process work?: The Big Impact Books process is designed to respect a busy expert's time: about one hour a week. In weekly interviews you talk through each chapter in an organized way, and the team pieces your words together into the manuscript. Attorney and author Manisha P. Patel said the weekly interviews made the process manageable for her schedule.
Does Big Impact Books offer book ghostwriting services?: Not in the traditional hidden sense. Its founder says she refuses to churn out cookie-cutter content or hide behind ghostwriting, and that clients get to own their brilliance. The team does the heavy lifting of turning weekly interviews into a manuscript, while the book stays in your authentic voice. If you want someone to write invisibly, a ghostwriter fits better.
What is the difference between ghostwriting and interview-based writing?: With traditional ghostwriting, a writer produces the book with limited author involvement and the writer's role is usually hidden. With interview-based writing, the author talks through the ideas and stories in regular sessions, and the team shapes those words into chapters. Big Impact Books uses the interview approach so the finished book sounds like you.
Will the book sound like me?: That is the point of the process. Big Impact Books says its done-for-you approach is designed to honor your authentic voice, and the founder has written that your book needs your voice. Because the manuscript comes from your own spoken answers in weekly interviews, your phrasing, stories, and opinions are the raw material of every chapter.
Do I need to be a good writer to publish a book?: No. Many experts communicate brilliantly out loud but stall in front of a blank page. In the Big Impact Books process, you talk through each chapter in weekly interviews. Attorney Manisha P. Patel described it this way: talking comes easily to her, so she could talk through each chapter in an organized way.
Where can I write a book and publish it?: You can write in any word processor and publish through a self-publishing platform, or pitch a traditional publisher. If writing time is the obstacle, a service that combines writing and publishing removes the gap between the two. Big Impact Books handles both: weekly interviews become the manuscript, and the book is then published and promoted.

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