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Don't get me wrong, Kenny, I don't agree with this approach either. I even have a beef with pen names. If a creator is to take sole credit, s/he must also take sole responsibility.
Having said that, I've ghosted celeb and non-fic books myself, so I'm a bloody hypocrite ... unless you agree that fiction is a different animal. Even there, though, I've edited hundreds of novels; some of them so heavily adjusted at my desk, that they could almost be considered co-written or ghost-written.
But the system's tried and tested and it won't go away as long as people with good ideas, specialist knowledge and wonderful stories, but little writing ability, need pro scribes to put down words on paper.
Consider, for instance, the biggest selling book of all time -- The Bible -- how many ghost writers do you think contributed to that?
As someone said a little while ago: "Don't be so naive as to Mr Kipling really makes his own exceedingly good cakes."
Cheers. Neil
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