The Largest Selection of Specialist Writers In The World
With the largest selection of specialist writers in the world, we can match you with the perfect biographer for your book based on your background, goals, personality and location. You can work with junior, senior and premium writers.
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United Kingdom
Senior
Andy B
Andy likes stories, and he likes people. He especially likes people with stories to tell… which is mostly everyone, really. Working as a writer back in the late 1980s, he contributed to music magazines and national dailies before moving into books, where he ghosted memoirs and covered true crime, psychic phenomena, and British horror film history. He has written two novels under his own name, and 28 under house names for thriller and sci-fi series. He has lately worked on documentary series and has also taught creative writing.
United Kingdom
Senior
Nick H
Nick is a writer and journalist who specialises in capturing the extraordinary in everyday stories. Something of a journeyman, Nick has tried his hand at everything from feature writing to music and film journalism, biographies, satire, documentaries and more. His work has been published by the Daily Telegraph, Vice and the East End Review, and he’s also written for some of the world’s biggest companies, including RBS, Microsoft and Virgin. He can be found in the darkest corner of your nearest cafe, inhaling coffee and twitching.
Netherlands
Senior
Henk S
Henk (1960) heeft altijd een zwak gehad voor mensen die buiten de gebaande paden denken. Hij verkeerde tussen oplichters en criminelen, maar interviewde ook ceo’s, filmsterren, staatshoofden en Nobelprijswinnaars. Tijdens zijn studie Journaiistiek werd hij aangenomen door weekblad Elsevier. Hij werkte vervolgens onder meer voor de Haagse Post, de Haagsche Courant, Het Parool en meer recent De Telegraaf en Follow The Money. Zijn eerste boek, over het Octopus-misdaadsyndicaat, stond maandenlang in de boeken-top 10. Als financieel verslaggever maakte hij de opkomst en neergang van de grote Nederlandse grootbanken mee en aan de vooravond van de oorlog in Irak schreef hij een boek over de ondergang van Saddam Hoessein. Met misdaadverslaggever Paul Vugts publiceerde hij de bestseller ‘Hells Angels - Motorclub of Misdaadbende’. Hij richtte een eigen uitgeverij op, liep vier marathons, componeert elektronische muziek, is getrouwd en heeft één zoon.
Netherlands
Senior
Igor D
Igor schrijft sinds 2015 levensverhalen en heeft er ondertussen meer dan vijfentwintig op zijn actief. Daarnaast werkt hij als redacteur mee aan tal van boeken. Zoals Over Tinnitus, over mensen die lijden aan oorsuizen en Op zoek naar vaste grond, een portret van de Somalische vluchtelinge Ayan. Beiden publicaties van Uitgeverij Manteau. Igor is ook docent van een cursus portretschrijven en schrijft in opdracht van tal van organisaties en bedrijven. Hij houdt van fietsen en droomt er nog altijd van om ooit de bolletjestrui in de Tour de France te winnen.
United Kingdom
Junior
Darius A
Darius' journey as a writer kickstarted with his desire to extend the memory of his existence past his lifetime, and with the mantra, "There is nothing more permanent than words inked onto paper". Studying English & Creative Writing at University College Dublin, Darius worked as a journalist, and has since published several short stories and poems online, and has worked on multiple long-form projects, as an active member on the Fiverr and Medium platforms. Darius hopes to extend his mission to others, and help them jot down their names and stories in such ways that would never be forgotten.
Canada
Premium
Samia M
Samia currently works at The Walrus, where she gets to edit magazine stories about everything from political protests and science explainers to personal essays. Before moving to Toronto, she lived in Yellowknife, in the Northwest Territories—a long way from Syria, her home country—where she helped edit Up Here magazine, cross-country skied on frozen lakes in the winter, and canoed in the summer. When she isn’t typing things, she spends her free time trying (and failing) to grow cucumbers, learning about fungi, and making hummus.
United Kingdom
Senior
Jessica S
Jessica Shepherd is a former national newspaper journalist who loves capturing people’s life stories and helping to preserve them for future generations. She is a sensitive interviewer with excellent listening skills. Jessica has interviewed a wide range of people from teachers to business leaders and government ministers. As well as being a ghostwriter, Jessica is a speechwriter, copywriter and communications consultant, mainly for organisations in the education, technology and culture sectors. She has a postgraduate degree in journalism and a degree in French and Italian.
United Kingdom
Premium
Philip H W
Phil was awarded an MA in Professional Writing at University College Falmouth in 2009. In September 2016 The History Press published his book, War on Wheels, telling the story of the thousands of ordinary men and women who together worked to mechanise the British Army in WW2. In December 2016, Story Terrace published the book he wrote in collaboration with Phil Jeffs, the son of the sole survivor of the crash in WW2 of The MacRobert’s Reply. He has just completed "Ordnance", a prequel on WW1, which was published in June 2018. He also writes regularly on contemporary issues for a number of periodicals. He has been writing for fifteen years, having spent much of his career in professional services and the not for profit sector. Follow this link to his Amazon author page: http://amzn.to/2yaWPva.
United Kingdom
Premium
Liz G
Liz has been writing and editing books and magazines for over thirty years. She’s ghostwritten bestsellers for people on TV (Suzie Fletcher from BBC’s The Repair Shop and Florence St George from Channel 4’s The Great Pottery Throwdown) or in the public eye (sometimes you have to sign a NDA so she can’t say who!). She’s written biographies about John Lennon (Short Books), David Bowie (Ammonite) and Nelson Mandela (Hodder) - to name a few. These days Liz is mostly collaborating with others to help them turn their life stories into beautiful books. But she always has a soft spot for everyday heroes and extraordinary characters - she reckons everyone has a tale to tell. By capturing individual voices, adding little details and scattering in a few special, intimate moments, Liz gets to the heart of every story…
United Kingdom
Senior
Hannah N
As well as being a skilled writer, Hannah is a fan of Marie Kondo and is getting ‘decluttering’ down to a fine art. Having caught the gardening bug during lockdown, she is enjoying her first crop of tomatoes. Her day job is writing about anything from personal finance and wedding fashion to homes and property. She has written for publications including the Sunday Telegraph, Jewish Chronicle, Ideal Home, House Beautiful and Moneywise, and has interviewed a whole host of people from top chefs to CEOs of building societies.
Netherlands
Senior
Edith T
Edith schrijft verhalen zoals filmmakers dat met hun camera doen. Haar stijl is beeldend, direct en makkelijk leesbaar. Zelf een liefhebber van pageturners streeft ze ernaar de lezer tot aan het eind toe geboeid te houden. Avontuurlijk ingesteld bereisde ze als freelance journalist en toerist de hele wereld, met regelmatige stops in Afrika waar ze in Namibië, Zuid Afrika en Oeganda woonde. Terug in Amsterdam schreef ze de roman ‘De bushsoldaat’ (uitgeverij In de Knipscheer) en werkt ze als journalist en columnist voor diverse media. Bij StoryTerrace staat Edith bekend als een allround schrijver die met iedereen om kan gaan
United Kingdom
Junior
Mica B
Mica has been a professional writer and journalist since the age of 12 when she became Britain's Youngest Sports Reporter and published her debut novel in the same year. Home educated, in the decade that followed, Mica has gone on to write, collaborate and edit countless books and articles published all over the world on a range of topics from hedgehogs and history to business and beauty. She is a keen photographer, loves a good classic and is a qualified archer with a passion for interviewing people!
United Kingdom
Junior
Lindz M
Lindz is a Scottish writer, editor, and writing coach who is represented by Headwater Literary Management. Her background in contract management/editing for a global corporate company has given her a keen eye for detail. Her prose has been published by Catapult, Flash Fiction Online, Pseudopod, and many more. Lindz is a full member of the SFWA, a mentor to six talented new writers, and she is also the competition secretary of the Edinburgh Writers' Club. Her novelette called 'Love, Happiness, and All The Things You May Not Be Destined For' is being pitched as a TV show by Assemble Media. Her short story collection is forthcoming with Bear Creek Press in 2022, and her debut novel is forthcoming with Brigid's Gate Press in 2023.
United Kingdom
Premium
Mehrad V
Mehrad had nothing to do with writing until the age of 25. He was an engineer in Iran. In 2003, he moved to the UK to study history at Royal Holloway University of London. He got lucky and joined the BBC World Service, but quit two years later and went back to Royal Holloway for a history PhD. He’s written for History Today and the Guardian among others. Iran Unveiled, a documentary he co-produced for ITV in 2019, was nominated for a BAFTA and an Emmy.
United Kingdom
Senior
Dale M
Dale is a professional writer and former child who has his very own star sign. As a jack of no trades and a master of fewer, Dale has been stringing sentences together for marketing companies, blogs and magazines for the past five years. He has established his own Publishing Company, which is responsible for the successful monthly magazine ‘This Is Empty.’ This has seen him interview comedians, rappers and TV Personalities. Dale is also in the process of finalising his first novel, ‘All Things In Between’ for release later this year.
United Kingdom
Senior
Gabriel F
Gabriel was born in Seattle and grew up in Manchester. He left school at 16, and spent his early twenties in Germany, recording, touring and working as a bike messenger. He gained a BA and MA in English and Creative Writing at UEA, going on to win a scholarship to study at Harvard University. Now living in Manchester, Gabriel’s fiction has appeared in various literary journals and in 2019, his story ‘Rockets and Blue Lights’ was shortlisted for the White Review Short Story Prize. He is currently writing his first novel.
United Kingdom
Senior
Claire OB
As a freelance journalist, Claire has managed to combine her favourite things – writing, of course, but also chatting to strangers and making new friends. After nine years in London as a features executive on a national paper, she moved home to Northern Ireland in 2016. Most of her work involves interviews, speaking to everyone from celebrities to those who simply have fascinating stories to tell. Claire’s aim with every piece she does is conveying what people have to say truthfully and sensitively – and in a voice that sounds like them.
United Kingdom
Premium
John A
There are very few subject areas that John hasn’t written about in a career that goes back to the early 1970s. Starting out as a general assignment newspaper reporter, he went on to specialize in covering white collar and organized crime. Moving to New York City in the early 1980s, he served as the Editor of the Economic Affairs Department at the Dun & Bradstreet Co., before moving on to a variety of senior communications positions with various investment banks in New York, London and the Middle East. In 2009, he served a temporary assignment as the speechwriter for the US Ambassador to the UK. He currently writes for several London-based magazines that concentrate on investment banking and capital markets.
United Kingdom
Senior
Ffion LJ
Ffion is a journalist, writer and editor, and book author. She lived in Canada for 20+ years, travelling and working from coast to coast. She's also explored places and people's stories in the USA, Mexico, Italy, France and Croatia. She now lives in Wales, where she enjoys speaking the language, and hearing even more stories. Ffion enjoys finding out what makes people 'tick': from managing a multi-national business, coping with a life-changing accident, or the joy of being a dog walker. She's also worked for UNICEF, UNESCO and BCUK.
United Kingdom
Senior
Susanna M
A lover of plants and prose, Susanna remembers as a child delivering her finished poems to the study for her Dad to review them. These formative moments of learning to write have stayed with Susanna and inspire her in her work with children to do the same. As an experienced teacher, she has promoted nature & the outdoors in primary schools for many years. When out of the garden, she is writing about it. Having studied English Literature & French at the University of Sussex, her love of language and reading continues to this day. She has worked as a copywriter for travel companies, and has published articles for the RHS and the British Council.
United Kingdom
Premium
Anthony S
Anthony started standup comedy at sixteen years old. He has appeared on Comedy Central and sold television scripts to 20th Century Fox, Castlerock Entertainment, and the FX network. Anthony holds an MFA from Columbia University and has ghostwritten award-winning memoirs, novels, and poetry collections. For ten years, he taught gifted kids in Colorado. He now lives in London with his fiancée and their rescue dog, Sunny.
Netherlands
Senior
Erik R
Erik is an American fiction writer living in Amsterdam with his three sons, his wife, his dog, and his cat. He has been teaching writing for nearly twenty years and has been published widely including The Atlantic Monthly and the New York Times. He often writes about autism, disability, cycling, family, and being an ex-pat. His latest novel, To The Mountain, is about a father who loses his autistic son in the mountains of Colorado during a blizzard.
United Kingdom
Junior
Fiona G
Fiona is a freelance writer and accredited copywriter, editor and proofreader, creating copy for small businesses and entrepreneurs. She loves building relationships with her clients, who range from life coaches to holistic therapists, telling their life stories and sharing their business messages. Before becoming a freelance writer, Fiona spent many years working in the heritage and cultural sector, crafting narratives about people with objects and art. Telling people’s stories is in her blood! When she’s not being a word nerd, she loves having outdoor adventures with her son, Ted, reading and visiting museums.
Netherlands
Senior
Esther T
Esther heeft verschillende banen in de communicatie gehad, maar in de journalistiek voelde ze zich het gelukkigst. Schrijven is haar passie. Met name het schrijven van human interest verhalen heeft haar voorkeur. Esther vindt het elke keer weer een voorrecht om naar de verhalen van mensen te mogen luisteren. Naast schrijven, leest ze graag en kan ze erg genieten van de natuur: tuinieren en lange wandelingen.
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