YOMI GARNETT
Ghostwriter
Creating Authors Out of Storytellers “Inside each one of us is a book waiting to be written, if only because inside each one of us is a story simply waiting to be told.” - Yomi Garnett
Richard Llewelyn-Jones, a member of the British aristocracy, sometime in the summer of 2021, wrote to his close friend, Lord David Strathclyde, 45th Duke of Strathclyde, to recommend Dr Yomi Garnett’s ghostwriting services. He wrote, “My Lord, if you are the rare sort of person that believes that raw talent is as rare as the rarest of gemstones, the Red Garnet, then I would encourage you to read further. If, on the other hand, you are the sort of person who believes that talent exists only within the confines of what is as ordinarily available as 14-Carat Gold, and therefore permit it to casually slip through your fingers, then I graciously spare you the agony of reading further, and you can disregard this mail. Yet, being of the firm conviction that you are sufficiently enlightened, intuitive and sophisticated, not only to be open to rare possibilities, but to also be the sort of person who can sincerely appreciate the prescient value in discovering new talent, and can insightfully and instantly recognize new talent when it appears on your horizon, I will take the liberty of introducing Dr Yomi Garnett.” Richard Llewelyn-Jones was not exaggerating, nor was he engaging in sophistry. Yomi Garnett easily belongs to the new generation of skilled ghostwriters that are fast gaining recognition for their uncanny ability to deploy a unique and refreshing style to creative writing, in the process blending a formidable
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intellect with a combination of empathy and intuition to achieve the best outcome for an author’s manuscript. His philosophy is a study in the sublime strategy he adopts towards a vocation he views in somewhat reverent light. He believes that a good book is written twice. It is first written in the mental realm. Then, it is written on the material plane. In other words, the book would first be written in the author’s head. Next, the ghostwriter creeps into the author’s head to retrieve the story, in the process creating authors out of storytellers. Considered a consummate player at the most proficient level of ghostwriting advisory in the United States, he is famed for the phenomenal ability to deliver a 200-page manuscript in a record time of two weeks, should that sort of urgency be absolutely compelling, and in a ‘voice’ so unique to the author as to render the book a strong personal statement of his client’s vision and values. Having assisted in excess of 60 authors to achieve their manuscript objectives, Garnett’s peculiar forte now appears to be the dual ability to achieve a strong emotional connection with his clients, and the exceptional ability to write in a wide range of tones, genres and subjects that cover the entire gamut of the human experience, in the process inspiring the uncommon devotion of a formidable backdrop of a loyal clientele base that cuts all across the globe.
