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And sometimes we just do not want to hear "No" as an answer, so we keep asking the same questions in the hope the replies will change. Been there, have the T-shirt.Consider seriously the advice you’ve been given. The best advice is almost always painful to hear.
Everyone here with more experience on this sort of thing has assured you that it is a bad deal for you with an unrealistic deadline.
Again, I would ask why this client is seeking out an inexperienced writer for this job?
Yes, you spent many years in advertising and worked with words. But one may spend many years as a brain surgeon and not know squat about how to pull a tooth. They're different specialties.
Yes, you want to write for money--we ALL do!--but until you've sold something, until you've interviewed a number of people, until you've put in your due diligence of serious sit-in-the-library research, until you've done Butt In Chair-sell-what-you-wrote kind of work to at least get your feet wet, this job is just a bad idea.
There's nothing we can say that will change your mind. You wanted to know the pitfalls, we've told you, and you want to go ahead regardless.
Come back in a month and tell us how you triumphed and your client's book is selling well on Kindle with no lawsuits pending from famous people / events mentioned.
We'll be glad to be proved wrong.