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The Writer Behind the Books You Think Someone Else Wrote

The Writer Behind the Books You Think Someone Else Wrote

Tobiloba Afolayan is a ghostwriter with three books of his own and nine years of writing behind other people’s names. In this edition of The Lane, he reflects on discovering a career he didn’t know existed, the clients who kept coming back, and why not getting the credit has never bothered him.

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