— Jon Krakauer, author of Into Thin Air

Ascent is the premier English-language climbing and mountaineering publication. Sold world-wide, it celebrates the best of climbing writing and has a prestigious history dating back to 1968. Ghostwords editorial director David Harris joined long-time Ascent editors Allen Steck and Steve Roper to bring out the most recent (1999) edition.

Here’s an excerpt from the amazon.com editorial review...
“For three generations of American climbers and mountaineers, Ascent has represented the literary and photographic pinnacle of creative self-expression... Each edition of Ascent was greeted with universal acclaim by the world climbing community. Edited by legendary Yosemite climbing pioneers Allen Steck and Steve Roper (and joined this year by former Canadian Alpine Journal editor David Harris), Ascent launched the careers of such well-known authors and photographers as Galen Rowell, Jeff Long, Gordon Wiltsie, Ed Webster, and others.”

It is unusual to be able to show a ghostwritten book (after all, the whole idea of ghostwriting is to keep the ghost invisible) but here’s one we can show. Our client was so pleased with our work that he insisted on putting the ghostwriter’s name on the cover with his own.

Payback is becoming an underground classic. Here’s an excerpt from the amazon.com editorial review...
“Payback is a scathing account of the abuse suffered by an innocent young boy at the hands of the American foster care and judicial systems, his growth to manhood in the violent environment of a maximum-security penitentiary, his revenge on those who have destroyed his life, and his eventual coming to terms with himself and the imperfect world in which he, and all of us, must live. It is graphic in its depiction of physical and sexual brutality, but never gratuitously so — a highly moral tale told by a man who has been forced to forge his own morality.”