PLEASE NOTE: The specimen service agreement below will be tailored specifically for you and the requirements of your project.

Right to Cancel
You have the right to cancel any of order placed with us within seven days of placing it.  You will receive a full refund but any work carried out on your project within that time will not be sent to you.

1. This contract is between [WRITER’S NAME] and [CLIENT’S NAME]. [WRITER’S NAME]  will be referred to hereafter as the “writer” and [CLIENT’S NAME] as the “client”.

2. The writer has agreed to write a piece no shorter than eighty thousand words for the client based on the instructions supplied by the client to the writer.

3. The writer has agreed to finish writing the eighty thousand words within sixteen weeks from the time that the material required to complete the work has been sent and payment of five thousand five pounds has been made by the client.  If payment is made by cheque (check), the sixteen week period will only begin when the payment has been cleared by the writer’s bank. The client may extend this sixteen week period by informing the writer of their intention to do so.  The writer may only extend this sixteen week period with the express agreement of the client.

4. If at the end of the work the client requires that part of the work be re-written, reasonable time must be afforded to the writer to complete such a re-write.  This re-write time must not exceed four weeks for every twenty thousand word section. The writer is only obligated to carry out one such re-write, if requested, on each twenty thousand word section and any further re-writes carried out by the writer is to be done at the writer’s discretion.

5. The writer agrees to keep all claims to the work private unless instructed by law to make such a disclosure to a court or other authority or body with relevant powers to make such a request, and only to those courts or authorities that have an influence or legal standing in the United Kingdom.

6. The client agrees not to hold the writer or Donard Ghosts responsible if the identity of the writer with respect to the project becomes public knowledge through theft, interception of e-mails or other correspondence, or through any other circumstances other than the writer or Donard Ghosts purposefully making this information available to the public.  

7. The writer agrees that they have no legal or other claim to authorship of the work.  Such claims include, but are not limited to, printed, televised, turned into a film or any other such formats, even those which have not yet been invented.  All authorship rights, at present, and in the future to the work will remain the sole property of the client.

8. Both writer and client agree that this is the only valid contract with respect to this project and that any modifications that both parties agree to with respect to this contract will be done through Donard Ghosts and formalised in writing. Until such a written agreement, signed by both client and writer is received by Donard Ghosts, this agreement will remain the only valid contract.

9. Failure of either party to meet in full the terms of this contract may result in the following actions:

- if the client fails to provide the writer within 52 weeks of paying for the project, sufficient information to complete the work in the stated time without notifying the writer that a time extension is necessary, the agreement will become void.  The writer will in those circumstances not be required to complete the project or turn over any work already carried out on the project.

- if the writer fails to complete any section within the agreed time period, all monies paid by the client will be returned and the client will be entitled to have the section written by the writer or by another writer appointed by Donard Ghosts, free of charge.  

I agree to abide by the terms and conditions set out in this service agreement:


Signed (Client):_______________________  Date:___________________

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Signed (Writer):_______________________  Date:___________________

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