A celebrity ghostwriter who has worked on more than 50 books shares the 2 reasons she would refuse to write someone's story

• Becca Grischow is a celebrity ghostwriter who has worked on more than 50 books. 
• Grischow told Insider there are only two reasons that she wouldn't write someone's story.
• She said she'd think twice if she wasn't morally aligned with the client or if they weren't honest.

Becca Grischow is a US-based ghostwriter of celebrity memoirs who shares writing advice on TikTok, where she has more than 85,600 followers at the time of writing.  

Grischow told Insider she has worked on more than 50 books over the past six years. While she can't publicly disclose the identity of her clients for legal reasons, she said some of the people she has worked with include entrepreneurs, social-media influencers, and reality TV stars. Grischow's employment has been verified by Insider. 

Grischow said she got into ghostwriting memoirs "entirely by accident" as she started off ghostwriting fiction novels after getting a degree in creative writing. She began focusing on memoirs after realizing that enjoyed "emulating other people's voices," she said, and now she runs Beegriz Writes, a ghostwriting, editing, and coaching agency.

Grischow said that while it's "few and far between," she has refused to work with clients in the past for two major reasons. Firstly, she said she won't work with someone if she feels they aren't morally and ethically aligned. 

"I do have some personal boundaries for who I am willing to work with," Grischow said, adding that there are certain "ethical and moral things that I refuse to touch."

"Because ghostwriting is such a highly personal thing, and you really have to embody the voice and step into the identity of someone else, if someone morally or ethically crosses a line that I'm not comfortable with, I'm not willing to step into their identity," she said. 

Grischow said the second reason she wouldn't work with someone is if she feels they aren't going to be completely honest during the writing process.

"It's very, very important when you are ghostwriting someone else's story, that the person is 100% honest with you about their story, even if all that honesty isn't going to make the book," she said, adding that she prefers to work with people who are "willing to be open books."