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
Michael S
Michael, a former university lecturer, has a PhD in Creative Writing. He’s written seven books and been published internationally. He wrote a regular column (‘Good Country’) for the magazine Adelaide Review. He’s created a writing program for South Australian prisoners, ‘Life Sentences’, and wrote a book with his daughter Olivia, One Dream Ago: The Beatles South Australian Connections. As a Beatles superfan/supertragic, he was thrilled to edit the autobiography of George Harrison’s sister Lou. He loves speaking to people, finding out what makes them unique and then writing their stories.
United Kingdom
Junior
Anna-Laila J
Anna is a passionate reader and daydreamer. She began writing creatively during her undergraduate degree in American Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt. Her poetry and short stories were published in the University’s Student Anthology as well as in Napizum Magazine. Anna holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Exeter and loves living in the South West of England. Whether they are told on paper or on screen, she believes that our stories connect us to one another in our shared human experience.
United Kingdom
Senior
Nigel S
Boats have always been Nigel’s main passion. He first went sailing when he was just a few months old and hasn’t stopped. He spent thirty-six years working in the boatbuilding industry before deciding, in 2010, to pursue a new career as a marine writer and photographer. Since then he has had numerous articles – historical pieces, boat reviews, race reports, technical boatbuilding issues and light-hearted looks at the world of boating – published in a dozen different nautical magazines. He has also written five nautical books.
United Kingdom
Senior
Katarina S
With an Anglo-Indian father and German mother, Katarina was surrounded by fascinating, diverse life stories from an early age. After graduating from the universities of Southampton and Surrey, she made a career out of listening to people tell her about themselves, as a health journalist and researcher. Now, Katarina very much looks forward to working with your story.
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.
Netherlands
Senior
Annet M
Eens journalist, altijd journalist. Dat is het motto van Annet, die na een halve eeuw nog altijd niets liever doet dan schrijven. Als socioloog heeft ze een scherp afgestelde antenne voor maatschappelijke en persoonlijke problematiek. Als redacteur van de weekbladen HP, HP/DeTijd en het maandblad Psy schreef ze talloze reportages over incest, verslaving, psychiatrie, ongewilde kinderloosheid, kindermishandeling, dementie en aanverwante onderwerpen. De reportages wisselde ze af met portretterende interviews met klassieke musici van naam en faam. In 2019 voltooide ze -in opdracht- haar eerste levensverhaal en wist dat hier haar toekomst moest liggen. Reflecteren op het leven impliceert een spannende zoektocht die ze graag begeleidt.
United Kingdom
Senior
Suzi F
Suzi has been writing for as long as she can remember – completing her first novel by hand when she was twelve years old. She had inherited a typewriter by the time she studied for an MA at Edinburgh University, where she discovered dancing and photography. Her writing credits include seven self-published novels for children and young adults, and several short stories. She also exploits her love of good food by reviewing restaurants for a national restaurant guide.
Premium
Andy R
Andy has worked as a journalist in the UK, edited a daily newspaper in Malta and managed a portfolio of luxury lifestyle and travel customer magazines in Dubai. His work has been published in more than 40 magazines and newspapers worldwide, including The Telegraph, The Guardian, Tatler, Portfolio, Elle, Harpers and Penthouse. Andy has also managed and created corporate publications for The Ritz-Carlton, Jumeirah, Destinations of the World and European Commission, magazines and books for organisations and companies such as Jumeirah Hotels & Resorts, Ritz-Carlton and the European Commission.
United Kingdom
Senior
Mary G
After training as a journalist on local newspapers in Birmingham, Mary moved to London where she spent five years at the Daily Telegraph and 17 years at The Times as a writer and editor. She gave up her career in the capital in 2007 to raise her daughter, adopted from an orphanage in Russia. Mary still writes extensively for newspapers and magazines about family dilemmas, women’s issues, adoption and human interest stories. She has written several life stories for friends and family, often to commemorate milestone birthdays and wedding anniversaries.
United Kingdom
Junior
Georgia R
After studying American Literature and History at Kings College London and the University of California, Berkeley, Georgia decided to pursue a career in film and TV. She currently works as a Producer/Director and has made a variety of content including hard-hitting documentaries such as ‘Learning to Grieve’ for BBC Three and more light-hearted content such as ‘Mimi on a Mission: Digital Detox’ for BBC iPlayer. Georgia is passionate about storytelling and has been a writer for Story Terrace since 2018.
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.)
Netherlands
Senior
Mireille van 't H
Mireille is schrijver en copywriter. Zo schreef ze samen met influencer 'Koen Kardashian' zijn spraakmakende biografie. Haar roman Ibiza, land van liefde verscheen in 2016 bij Ambo Anthos en speelt zich af in de woelige jaren zestig en zeventig. In haar boek Familiestuk (Overamstel Uitgevers) verweefde ze de oorlogsjaren en het katholieke Brabant met de moderne tijd. Het boek stond in de top 10 meest verkochte e-books van Bol.com 2012. Mireille werkt verder ook als tekstschrijver en ghostwriter. Ze heeft een aantal jaren in Spanje gewoond en is gek op jazz, kunst, klassieke muziek en geschiedenis
Senior
Sally MW
Sally has long believed words have power. In addition to personal creative writing, she works on projects for business clients, shaping ideas and stories into engaging narratives. Sally finds collaboration when writing rewarding. Client trust in sharing their stories means treating those with care and integrity is of utmost importance. Curiosity, clarity, and accuracy underpin her writing. Holder of a Monash University Bachelor of Arts and a Graduate Bachelor of Education from James Cook University in Australia, Sally lives in Dubai. She enjoys gardening, arts and crafts, walking and birdwatching.
United Kingdom
Premium
Rod G
Rod is an experienced journalist, ghostwriter and author with two decades of experience. He has written for just about every UK daily or Sunday newspaper, mainly across sport and lifestyle. Rod has written seven books, including several autobiographies, and has been nominated for awards including the prestigious William Hill Sports Book of the Year. Across his career - including several years at the Daily Telegraph and still as a freelancer - he has relished helping people and sportspersons tell their tales with open confidence, trust and avid storytelling. Rod’s passions lie in listening to people’s life stories, music, history, travel, any sport going and simply being by the ocean.
United Kingdom
Senior
Andy H
Andy has written extensively for Time Out, Metro, The Guardian, New York Post, easyJet Traveller, Clash and others, covering music, food, art, fashion, technology and travel. He studied history at London’s groovy Goldsmiths college, and spent the best years of his twenties crisscrossing the globe as a touring musician. Nowadays, Andy is cheerfully domesticated with two beautiful children, a smelly dog, and a piano that’s a hassle to shift so he’ll probably stay put in glorious Devon. He doesn’t have the accent – yet, anyway.
United Kingdom
Developmental Editor
Claire Dean
With more than 21 years’ experience in the publishing industry, Claire Dean (UK) has established great working relationships with many prestigious publishing houses, including HarperCollins, Orion/Hachette, Hay House, Bloomsbury, Bonnier, Poolbeg and Flame Tree. A few years back, she co-founded a limited publishing company to help authors bring their work up to a publishable standard, get their book in print and keep their work in the marketplace. She has edited hundreds of manuscripts, from fiction to nonfiction, including the Sunday Times bestseller Everyone Has a Plan Until They Get Punched in the Face by British boxing legend Tony Bellew (Orion); the #1 Sunday Times bestsellers Good Vibes, Good Life and Healing is the New High by Vex King (Hay House UK); and the New York Times bestseller The Sisters of Auschwitz by Roxane van Iperen (Harper).
United Kingdom
Junior
Stephan K
Stephan is a Creative Writing graduate who has been writing and reading ever since he first picked up a book and discovered the joy of the story at a very young age. Since finishing his degree at the University of Winchester, he has pursued many avenues of writing – from fiction and poetry, to journalism and copywriting for social media, to video scriptwriting and blogs. Stephan is also a passionate LGBT+ activist, and has been invited to speak at various events, both in person and online, to discuss gender identity, sexuality, and how to navigate the world as a person from a marginalised community.
United Kingdom
Senior
Akua M
Akua believes that everyone has a story to tell. But not everyone has the ability or the will to tell theirs by themselves. And this is where she comes in. As a TV Presenter, Akua helped people tell their stories, from stories of overcoming adversity to famous people sharing their success tips. As a writer, Akua was awarded “Best Journalist” by the Ghana-UK Society for her monthly column in New African Magazine. She holds an MA in Development Communication and a BA (Hons) in Social Science.
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
Senior
Martin G
Martin is an author, editor and journalist with three decade’s worth of experience. Martin has written ten books including the best-selling Hen & the Art of Chicken Maintenance, and Bluffer’s Guides on cars and chicken keeping. He was also commissioning editor for the London Evening Standard’s weekly ESWheels motoring supplement, working with a wide variety of writers. His day job involves writing about cars for titles including the Daily Telegraph and the Spectator. Martin edits a motoring agony column for a car magazine and has been a columnist in Your Chickens, WI Life and Classic Cars magazines.
United Kingdom
Junior
Pauline J
Born and raised in France, Pauline holds a BA in English Language, Literature, History and Culture from the Université Paris Diderot and an MSc in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh. She has lived in France, Australia, Scotland, and England, where she now works in educational publishing. Her writing has been published in a number of publications, and she is the founder and editor-in-chief of Middleground Magazine. When not reading, writing or working, Pauline can be found enjoying a long walk, a kickboxing class, or a trip abroad.
United Kingdom
Senior
Jane I
Jane is a writer from London. Her work has appeared in Mechanics Institute Review and Idle Ink. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Birkbeck. For many years Jane worked in film and tv where she was commissioned to write original screenplays and scripts for BBC and Channel Four. She has created and developed multiple comedy series with Tiger Aspect, Talkback and Objective, among others. Jane recently completed her first novel and is currently working on a short story collection. She loves reading and running, although not at the same time. She is also a massive film junkie. Her favourite pastime is enjoying a glass of Gavi at sunset under a blushing Tuscan sky.
United Kingdom
Premium
Jim K
Jim has been writing full time for the past 20 years, creating articles, features and interviews on a range of subjects for a wide array of publications, including The Guardian, The New Statesman and The Big Issue. Since 2014, he has also written seven sports titles, the most recent of which, How to Run a Football Club was shortlisted for the Telegraph’s 2021 Football Book of the Year Award. A History graduate of Durham (BA) and Sussex (MA), when he isn’t writing, Jim coaches grassroots football and plays the guitar (albeit badly).
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.
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