Tim Rayborn

Tim Rayborn has been a professional writer for more than two decades. He is an experienced book author and ghost writer. He is the author of more than forty books for seven publishers, and has written dozens of articles for national and international periodicals. Tim is represented by the Rudy Literary Agency.

Tim has written for city government and private industry, as well as the entertainment field and various universities, on topics as diverse as travel, coaching, business skills, and human rights. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Leeds, England, and is the recipient of the 2018 Susan Koppelman Award from the Popular Culture Association. Several of his Amazon-bestselling books have received excellent reviews from Publisher’s Weekly, Booklist, Library Journal, the USA Today, the Seattle Times, and many others.

He is an experienced book coach, and assists clients in the planning, outlining, and preparation of non-fiction book projects, including memoir, business, and self-help, as well as novels.

His many books are held in several prestigious academic and national libraries, including: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Stanford, UC Berkeley, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, UCLA, Oxford, Cambridge, the British Library, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de la Sorbonne, the American University of Nigeria, and the University of Cape Town Libraries.

His diverse selection of past clients includes: The San Francisco Human Rights Commission, The California Public Utilities Commission, Kaiser Permanente, Verisign, Matthew Bender/LexisNexis, Cengage Learning, Gale Publishing, Railbookers, Thinc Strategy, Current Publishing (UK), the University of Leeds (UK), Indigo Books (Canada), and more than two dozen others.

“I had the pleasure of working with Tim as a ghost writer on my first book. This was a new experience for me going into this process and I just want to say Tim was awesome. His approach, questions, and guidance really brought my story to light and helped craft the storyline. I enjoyed and looked forward to our video sessions to explore the book and our story, and it was amazing to see the chapters developed. I would highly recommend Tim and look forward to working with him on my next book.”

~ Frank Marini, President & CEO of Railbookers Group, author of Staying on Track

“Thank you, Tim Rayborn, for serving as my writing coach and initial editor. Your guidance was invaluable in gaining clarity, establishing structure, and serving the process of organization.”

~ Gareth Gwyn, author of You Are Us: How to Build Bridges in a Polarized World 

                             Tim works as a ghost writer, book coach, and editor. Below are some of his recent clients and book projects: