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
Premium
Helena D
Helena is never bored. She started her career in publishing as a non-fiction editor before becoming a journalist contributing to both regional and national titles including the Guardian and Independent. Now, as a freelance journalist and The Sunday Times No 1 bestselling ghostwriter, she divides her time between discovering what makes the world tick alongside helping others bring their stories to life. Having reported from America, India, Africa and Europe, she loves travel, food, politics and the arts, in particular theatre and dance.
United Kingdom
Premium
Rhiannon H
Rhiannon is a published author with Penguin Random House and worked in non-fiction publishing for many years before becoming a freelance editor and ghost-writer. History enthrals her, from Regency sea captains’ diaries to stories of the social fallout from 20th century conflicts. Since learning about her Cornish and German ancestors who arrived in Australia in the nineteenth century, and great-grandparents who lived in India during the British Raj, she’s been fascinated by family histories. Originally from Melbourne, Australia, she now lives in London.
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.
United Kingdom
Senior
Claire S
A journalist of more than ten years, Claire has interviewed everyone from politicians to celebrities and has written for publications including the Belfast Telegraph, Culture NI, Local Women Magazine and the Coleraine Chronicle. Also a copywriter and published children’s author, short story writer and poet, Claire was one of Lagan Online’s 12NOW (New Original Writers) for 2016/17. In 2017 she received a grant from the Arts Council NI to support her writing. Claire loves books and hosts the new Giant’s Causeway Book Club. She also enjoys baking, walking her dog and playing the violin.
United Kingdom
Senior
Kim M
Kim is a writer of books, magazine articles, company profiles, blogs, and literary analyses. Her childhood on the move as an Air Force brat prepared her to take risks, like attending Columbia College sight unseen, some 2,000 miles from home; moving to Chicago as a young adult; reuniting with her high school sweetheart after a chance encounter while on vacation; and having a baby at age 41. Her natural curiosity drives her desire to know the backstory of strangers and ask the questions that get people talking about their lives
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
Junior
Ashley M
Having worked as a ghostwriter for a number of years now, Ashley sure does know how to get a story told. As an avid word-lover she uses her creativity to craft interesting, compelling, and clear narratives in all her works. Currently, she works closely with a number of writing clients to provide concise long-form content for both books and websites, in a variety of niches. Ashley is a mother of three, loves a nice cup of coffee, and can probably be found watching a Quentin Tarantino film in her free time.
United Kingdom
Premium
Patric M
Patric is a multi-award-winning and bestselling author and ghostwriter whose work has been read by millions, both in print and online. Specialising in memoirs, he has over 20 years of professional writing experience. He has written books and screenplays for high profile celebrities but being able to capture and retell the lives of individuals is one of the greatest services and honours he feels he can offer. As one client once told him, ‘When I’m gone, I’ll be able to speak directly to my descendants through my book.’
United Kingdom
Premium
Alison A
Having studied French and German at Oxford, worked for more than 25 years in financial communication and translation, as well as publishing a memoir of three transformational years living in Sweden with her family (So Sweden – Living Differently) Alison has a real passion for language and helping people tell their stories. She has lived abroad in France, too, and her work with Story Terrace has encompassed the stories of people from Denmark, Lebanon, Iran, Vietnam, Russia and Australia with the particular themes of family roots and culture which their international lives have brought, as well as those of people who have spent part of their lives in Germany, America, India, Pakistan, Wales and all around the UK. Her work has also included books with a business focus, including an insight into fintech regulation, a book inspiring people to set up their own small businesses and another exploring what it takes to start from nothing in business in a foreign country. She has also edited a number of books. Alison has written 25 books so far and loved every minute of the privileged relationship a StoryTerrace writer develops with their story tellers, and the amazing perspective people have when they have lived through decades of great change. An avid traveller, gardener, cook and lover of the arts, she spends her free time with her family, playing tennis, walking her dog Twiglet, reading, and going to concerts, the cinema and theatre as often as possible.
United Kingdom
Senior
Chris W
Chris is an author and journalist based in the historic city of Oxford, UK. He holds a BA (Hons), first class, in Creative Writing from the University of Derby, and has many years of experience in the book trade, covering all angles. He has worked as an editor, proof-reader, specialist book-seller and freelance writer, with several published works to his name. He enjoys music, reading, theology, history and designing robots with his son. Chris has too many guitars, too many books, and not enough cats!
Netherlands
Junior
Lise vd K
Ruin tien jaar was Lise verslaggeefster bij regionale kranten. Daarna heeft ze een carrière opgebouwd als leidinggevend uitgever bij grote uitgeefconcerns waar ze boeken en tijdschriften maakte op gebied van marketing en media. Ze is geboren in een gereformeerd middenstandsgezin op de Veluwe en heeft op eigen kracht een ontwikkeling doorgemaakt van bang dorpsmeisje naar zelfstandige selfmade woman. Ze woont in het centrum van Amsterdam is actief in het bedrijfsleven en in de politiek. Haar liefde voor het schrijversvak heeft ze opnieuw opgepakt sinds ze met pensioen is. Interesses: mode, economie en bovenal: mensen.
United Kingdom
Senior
Don M
Don is an award-winning journalist with 12 years’ experience and has written for the Yorkshire Weekly Newspaper Group, the Yorkshire Post and inews. Don was educated in North Yorkshire, before moving to Leeds in 1998. After working in a number of different jobs, he retrained as a journalist in 2005 and went on to become a specialist health reporter, covering Yorkshire NHS trusts. Outside of work, Don plays the guitar in blues and skiffle bands. He offers an empathic interviewing style and the ability to write compellingly and sensitively.
United Kingdom
Premium
John M
John was born in Southern Ireland in 1948, and educated at St. Mary’s Academy and later at London South Bank University. He has been a professional writer for twenty years. He has written six novels and ghosted eight memoirs with the likes of Penguin and Simon & Schuster. He also recently adapted Shakespeare to graphic novel format with Classical Comics. His work has been widely reviewed in the press; reviews and samples of his work can be viewed on his website: https://www.johnfmcdonald.co.uk.
United Kingdom
Senior
Saima L
Saima’s passion for journalism and psychology amalgamated to forge a career spanning 20 plus years as a freelance researcher, writer, therapist, psychologist and coach. She has a love for learning and a basketful of qualifications, right up to doctorate level. Saima is privileged to have interviewed thousands of people from across the globe, all with varied and colourful lives and no one story the same. She has stayed busy writing articles and working with journalists to produce magazine and newspaper content, focused on popular psychology articles.
United Kingdom
Junior
Charlie T
Charlie is an author of a best-selling psychological thriller and has four cosy crime mysteries coming out this year. Her favourite part about writing is capturing the authentic voice. She studied Theology at Oxford University and has taught Latin, worked promoting literacy within a prison, and is a counsellor for a children’s charity. Charlie is a morning person and gets up at 5am to commit fictional murder. She loves coffee, carrot cake and walking in rural Leicestershire with her cavapoo, Otto.
United Kingdom
Junior
Michelle G
Michelle has written, edited and self-published 3 books of poetry, a book of funny anecdotes about her friends and family, and is currently writing her own memoir which is complete and ready for editing. Michelle attended Bristol University as a mature student and graduated with a 2:1 in British Archaeology, where she researched for many academic essays and a 12,000-word dissertation. She is spiritual but not religious, open-minded, and non-judgmental. Her writing is often humorous but also relevant and moving.
United Kingdom
Senior
Howard T
Born at a surprisingly early age, Howard has achieved major international obscurity as “HP Tinker”, the almost entirely non-existent short story writer. Since his first publication – a letter in Beatles Monthly, aged 11 – like Bob Dylan he has simply never looked back. The author of two books of fiction, his experimental “comedy” prose has appeared in Ambit, 3:AM Magazine, Best British Short Stories, Best British Crime, and countless other journals and anthologies. (Quite literally countless as he’s never counted them.)
United Kingdom
Premium
Jean E
Jean has been writing stories since she was a child. In 2017, she published Goodbye Burma, a fictionalised account of her family’s evacuation from wartime Burma. Starting out as a historian, she spent two years in India searching for private papers and interviewing politicians active in the independence movement. Since then, Jean has travelled widely in Africa and South Asia and has two published books on communities in the north of England. Jean has been working as a freelance writer and editor for eight years, and enjoys bringing family histories and stories to life.
United Kingdom
Junior
Maisie P
Maisie is a seasoned journalist and copywriter with a portfolio of published work for leading publications such as HELLO! Magazine, Stylist, HELLO! Fashion, and The C Word. She is currently writing for the leading digital wedding planning platform, Hitched. Throughout her work, Maisie has interviewed celebrities and drawn upon her own experiences to destigmatize the topic of women’s health - particularly around the subject of hormones, sexuality, and mental health.
United Kingdom
Senior
Corinne M
Corinne’s early travels led her to Hong Kong, where she lived and worked for almost two decades. From special reports for the South China Morning Post and the Asian Wall Street Journal, to hotel press kits and in-depth interviews for lifestyle magazines, her versatile writing style enables her to communicate with a wide variety of audiences. After returning to the UK, she handled the publicity for an animal charity before becoming a communications consultant. Writing, discovering different cultures and animal welfare are abiding passions. She would love to tell your story.
United Kingdom
Premium
Caroline F
Caroline has for a long time inhabited an unusual space between entertainment and ethics. The former kept her busy in journalism for two decades, working first for the BBC, the latter took her to Australia to study, and the combination meant that Rupert Murdoch indirectly paid for her degree in Global Justice. She is now a writer and broadcaster, the author of three bestselling memoirs and always especially moved by tales of great romance and personal redemption.
United Kingdom
Premium
Rick B
Rick is an award-winning author and journalist for The Times. He has interviewed celebrities ranging from Usain Bolt to Sir Bobby Charlton, and has also developed a literacy scheme to get young people reading and writing. Rick has written nine books of his own, including ghosted autobiographies of Olympian Jessica Ennis-Hill, and Jeremy Keeling, a maverick who built an ape sanctuary. He was short-listed three times for the prestigious William Hill Prize and won the British Sports Book Awards. He is nice, friendly (so he says) and a good listener.
United Kingdom
Senior
Tarai C
Son of poet, author, artist and musician parents, Tarai is a true creative. He stepped into the performing arts at age 4 and currently works as a freelance scriptwriter and video editor. He is a keen investor and former business owner. His journey to achieve financial freedom whilst battling personal adversity drives Tarai to inspire and help others achieve their goals. Free time includes endurance hiking (sore feet), long-distance cycling (sore knees) and working on side projects (sore brain cells).
United Kingdom
Senior
Kate R
Helping people tell their stories has been Kate’s privilege over four careers and two continents. An American living in the UK, she has worked in television news, corporate communications and a tech start-up. In every role, Kate has worked to reveal important messages and themes and convey them in the best way for each audience. In this, her fourth - and favourite - storytelling career, she loves finding the hidden gems in customer stories, bringing to life their experiences and knowledge for the benefit of generations to come.
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