He Left His Law Career to Start a Ghostwriting Business — Now He Charges Over $100,000 a Book. Here’s What It Took to Get There.

Not long after Michael Levin graduated from Columbia Law School in 1985, he realized he didn’t want to be an attorney. “I worked briefly for two firms in Boston, was all but fired by the first and was sat down and fired by the second for not really belonging or having my head in the game,” Levin says.

Levin had another passion: writing.

Image Credit: Courtesy of The Meaning Company. Michael Levin.

By the time he was in his late 20s, Levin had sold three books to Simon & Schuster. Unfortunately, coming to terms on a fourth deal proved difficult, and as Levin’s former law school classmates became partners at New

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