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In 2024, Southern took a step back from public life, choosing to focus on family and personal reflection, distancing herself from the digital chaos she once inhabited.
Her 2025 memoir, This Is Not Real Life, is a candid, introspective account of her experiences, offering an unfiltered look at the highs and lows of political fame, personal transformation, and the disillusionment that comes with life online.
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The last year of my working life has had nothing to do with politics. I've been writing.
Ghostwriting, mostly, alongside consultancy for people who know what they want to say and need help getting it onto the page and out into the world.
This isn't a service with a price list. I only take on a few projects at a time, which means it comes down to whether I'm the right person for what you're making and whether I can give it the attention it deserves.
Fiction and memoir, primarily — that's where I do my best work and enjoy it most. The projects I say yes to tend to be the ones where the story could only have come from one person.
If you have something outside that, send it anyway. I'd love to hear about it.
Me, and a collaborator I've known for over a decade. He's my go-to for the kind of critical feedback I actually trust, as both an author and a ghostwriter. He wrote a book the New York Times named one of the top ten thrillers of 2020, has had work optioned by multiple major studios, and has written for high-level political clients, including officeholders and figures with global audiences.
I brought him in towards the end of my last ghostwriting project because I was too close to the text and needed someone to lay fresh eyes on it and take a red pen to it. The push and pull between us made the book the best piece it could be. Consultancy projects we take on together.
Worth saying plainly, since it comes up.
AI is genuinely useful for editing and for catching what you've missed. It is not a writer. Anyone with a feel for prose can tell within a paragraph whether a human actually wrote it. It doesn't have a soul, or the creative spark a writer develops over years of doing it the hard way. It also can't pull from nothing. Part of my process with ghostwriting is long, almost therapy-like conversations with my clients to understand the ideas they're really trying to get across.
My collaborator and I both started writing long before AI was an option, the slow way.
Email me at contactlsouthern@gmail.com. Tell me what the project is, where you're at with it, and what your budget looks like. If it's a fit, I'll let you know.
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Lauren Southern is a Canadian author and media commentator who first rose to viral prominence during the turbulent political climate of the 2010s.
After years inside the high-conflict world of online political media, she stepped back to reflect on the structural forces that shape digital discourse, algorithms, monetisation, outrage incentives, and the personal cost of public life.
Her recent work focuses on transparency, media literacy, and the psychological realities of online influence.
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