myself

Which sentence is correct?

1. Many ghostwriters (including me) have experience as a journalist.

2. Many ghostwriters (including myself) have experience as a journalist.

#1 is correct. As Bryan Garner explains in Garner’s Modern English Usage,

Myself is best used either reflexively (‘I’ve decided to exclude myself from consideration’) or intensively (‘I myself have seen that’; ‘I’ve done that myself’). The word shouldn’t appear as a substitute for I or me (‘My wife and myself were delighted to see you’).”

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