This already happens pretty often with low budget sci fi and other genre fiction. Publishers have a very specific template for a type of story and they bid it o

This already happens pretty often with low budget sci fi and other genre fiction. Publishers have a very specific template for a type of story and they bid it out to unknown authors. Maybe JK Rowling didn't know about this option, but obviously she had her own story she wanted to tell. Ghost authors are not given much freedom in character design or plot events. The plots are literally formulaic.