continuing a sci-fi novel series, full outlines given in London

We're looking for an experienced ghostwriter to help continue an established science fiction series. Multi‐book arc, established voice, full outlines for each remaining book, with scope for many more books beyond this series.

The series is character‐driven SF space opera in the tradition of CJ Cherryh, David Weber and Eric Thomson. It features rigorous physics with FTL and telepaths bolted on, distinctive voices, emotional immersion, plot twists, and no Hollywood nonsense.

If you've read CJ Cherryh's Alliance‐Union, Company Wars and Chanur books, David Weber's Honor Harrington, or Eric Thomson's Siobhan Dunmoore, you'll recognise the territory. The focus is less on military hardware and more on political maneuvering and character interiority, with themes of duty and honour running throughout.

The physics generally behaves (low‐mass bodies don't hold atmospheres, spacecraft don't bank in space to manoeuvre, vacuum doesn't act like air) even though FTL and gestalt telepathic aliens exist. The series follows a young woman from a fallen aristocracy, navigating lethal human and alien politics, conspiracy, and an invasion nobody saw coming.

You'll be given the existing books to read as part of onboarding, full outlines for each remaining book, and clear editorial guidance. The voice is specific. Here's what you need to be able to do:

• Write first person, present tense, with italicised inner thoughts in a register distinct from the narration
• Switch POV to third person on occasion (POV only changes at chapter breaks, with the POV character named in the chapter heading)
• Build scenes on subtext, where surface dialogue and real stakes don't match
• Differential characters through rhythm, phrasing and word choice, not dialect or verbal tics
• Use short sentences and fragments to escalate tension at emotional peaks
• Handle plot logic. Interrogations, political maneuvering, relationships and investigative scenes all need to hold up
• Weave hard‐SF physics into any scene, even emotional or physical conflict, without pausing to lecture
• Keep emotional stakes restrained and earned. No purple prose

What we're filtering against: flowery writing at emotional peaks, characters that blur together in dialogue, physics errors, inner thoughts that read like narration with italics.

Pay: 3 c per word. Pace: 10,000 polished words per week. Revisions and editorial feedback are part of the process. If the pace doesn't work for you, please don't apply. Writers who deliver to deadline and match the voice will be offered the full series, with potential for further work across additional series. No AI‐generated text. This is non‐negotiable.