The Bookseller - News - Okri warns authors over ghostwriting sites claiming to have written string of bestsellers

Okri first became aware of a scam, in which a ghost writer variously called Roseanne Wynter and Lisa P Whitle claimed she wrote his 1991 Booker-winning novel The Famished Road (Vintage) among others, when friends alerted him to people talking about it on Twitter. He said it was %u201Cabsolutely shocking%u201D that someone would claim to have written his book. %u201CI got hold of the Booker team to just make sure that this kind of scam is stamped down very quickly because it%u2019s very dangerous not only for writers, but also for the Booker reputation and [people] who want their books written, to pass money on to people who are clearly fraudulent,%u201D he told The Bookseller.