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
Edward C
International award-winning writer of fiction, researcher and published poet. Edward's written work, 'Bell in the Tree', about the goings-on in Glasgow, having found thousands of stories in historic council papers, was broadcast as a radio series and was a recipient of numerous international awards, including Gold and Bronze medals in New York for scripting radio dramas. His collection of special material including transcripts, news cuttings, notes, cassette tapes and artwork form a collection in the Glasgow Library. Edward has published books with mainstream publishers, he has written informational daily strips for the Herald and the Evening Times, and he's an accomplished painter. Dubbed 'the people's historian', he's an acknowledged expert on Glasgow.
United Kingdom
Senior
Paul D
Paul enjoyed 20 years of working as a chef and manager, including five years at The Royal College of Music serving both musical and actual royalty. Later, he went to university in Cambridge (no, the other one – Anglia Ruskin) to do what he should have done in his 20s; study English Literature and Creative Writing. He is currently teaching Creative Writing in a prison, assistant editing an online magazine and, of course, writing for StoryTerrace. In his spare time he is learning Italian and trying to organise some of his poems into a collection for publication.
United Kingdom
Senior
Alison C
After studying English at Oxford University, Alison worked in BBC Radio making sound effects, mixing & editing. She learned the art of telling stories from the hundreds of scripts that passed through her hands. In 2004 she began writing short fiction and serials, and her work is published about 70 times a year in magazines including Woman’s Weekly and The People’s Friend. Shaping the past is her speciality; she tries not to get lost in the research… Downtime involves long-distance swimming and cooking, though not at the same time.
United Kingdom
Senior
Emily D
Emily recently returned to the UK to study for an MA in Writing at Warwick University, after having spent the last two years living, teaching and sweating in Saigon, Vietnam. She balances out her love of all things sedentary by setting herself outlandish physical challenges. This year she ran the Amsterdam Marathon (she at least picked a flat one), trekked in Japan and Nepal and climbed Mount Fansipan – the tallest mountain in Indochina – in her pyjamas. Her superpower is the ability to complete cryptic crosswords.
United Kingdom
Senior
Margaret R
Margaret is an author and writer with a special interest in listening to people’s memories and getting them down on paper. Her latest book Creative, Successful, Dyslexic includes interviews with Darcey Bussell, David Bailey, Lord Richard Rogers, Zoe Wanamaker and others about their childhoods and beyond. She interviewed countless interesting personalities during her many years of magazine writing and believes everyone has a story to tell. Margaret is especially keen to preserve people’s memories for their children and grandchildren to value and enjoy.
United Kingdom
Senior
Cate L
Cate realised she loved writing when she won a national competition, aged eight, for an essay on nuts. Curious by nature, she enjoys exploring the past, leading to a history degree and, later, a journalism postgrad. Cate’s career began with book reviews and progressed to editing magazines, bringing to life stories on everything from soaps to skiing. She’s also a sometime blogger, a mentor to students – and a Scot who’s wild about London. Cate treasures her roots; if she’s not out walking with friends, she’s probably planning a family get-together.
United Kingdom
Junior
Sarah S EB
Sarah is a writer and translator born in Paris. She pursued her childhood obsessions — food and books — into adulthood, earning a BA in English Literature from the University of Exeter and a Master of Gastronomy from the University of Gastronomic Sciences. She is of Moroccan and Indian descent, and has lived in five different countries in the last decade, which has only deepened her appreciation for the universal ability of meals and stories to comfort and connect. Naturally curious and precise with her words, Sarah would love to help bring your voice to the page.
United Kingdom
Senior
Rosia C
Rosia is a freelance biographer, writer and editor with particular interests in oral history and African history. She graduated with a First in History from the University of Sheffield and completed an MSc in African Studies at the University of Edinburgh in 2010, graduating with Distinction. Her short fiction has been longlisted for Radio 4’s Opening Lines and for a Carve Esoteric Award, and she has won prizes for her travel writing. She believes that everyone carries a unique and fascinating story, and one that deserves to be told.
United Kingdom
Senior
Deborah S
Deborah grew up in the music industry. As a professional writer she understands the importance of good communication when getting to the core of a story. Her passion for writing led her to build her own PR Company and she has written for professional audio magazines including Audiofile and Audio Media International. Her innate ability to sniff out a good story led her to begin her own pro-audio magazine Behind the Glass. Deborah has also written memoirs for the famous and published her own book about living with a child who has mental health difficulties to help other parents.
United Kingdom
Premium
Fuad O
Fuad is a former entertainment journalist whose love of stories led him to his current position as a film producer, script advisor, story analyst and screenwriter. Having worked for over two decades in Hollywood and Bollywood, Fuad believes everyone has a great story to tell and enjoys hearing and documenting stories, then elevating them to allow a life’s lesson to take on thematic messages in hope of inspiring others. He’s ghostwritten biographies, been commissioned to write and edit film scripts and interviewed some true legends of the screen. Your story could be next!
United Kingdom
Senior
Caroline W
Caroline is a historian, passionate about telling the tales of ordinary folk. A proud Liverpudlian, she studied history at Cambridge University. She became a solicitor, latterly as a Director of Legal, but returned to study her first love, obtaining a doctorate from Oxford University. Her research, inspired by her port town roots, led ultimately to a fellowship at the National Maritime Museum. She is now writing a book based on that research, The Forgotten Boys of the Sea. See www.carolinewithall.com. She enjoys piano, dancing and activities with her family.
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
Premium
Chris H
With an insatiable passion for people and a fascination with how life-threatening illnesses can be incredibly inspirational, Chris is the proud author of two critically-acclaimed books. Through competing in international sport and equipped with an entrepreneurial spirit, his life has been one of innovation, by pioneering new corporate performance concepts, creating new businesses, producing and directing TV documentaries and writing about life. He has also been a Samaritans councillor and trainer.
United Kingdom
Senior
Shikainah C
When Shikainah is not practicing as a psychologist with the NHS, specialising in trauma and refugee groups and contributing to the World Health Organisation’s global clinical practice network, she works as a freelance writer and theatre reviewer. Shikainah speaks fluent Hindi, Urdu and Tamil, devours Agatha Christies, savours Earl Grey tea at 4pm and cooks for her family and friends. She held on to her little Nokia phone until 2019, at which point she was finally forced to upgrade to a smartphone in order to keep up with her work.
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
Premium
Paddy M
Paddy has written for the Guardian, Observer, Independent and Telegraph. He was born in the Middle East, an experience that led to an insatiable wanderlust that’s seen him live in New York and travel to destinations as far flung as Eritrea, Ethiopia and Syria. These days, with two daughters, he’s more likely to be found in Devon, working on the third in his series of conspiracy thrillers (published by Fahrenheit Press), or practising as a psychotherapist. Paddy’s a great listener with a deep interest in what makes people tick.
United Kingdom
Junior
Andy S
An author of two novels with more to come, Andy also writes award winning poetry (Nottingham Festival of Words competition runner up 2014). The writing bug was buzzing around him for years, and once caught, it never left. Andy has an interest in a wide range of music including classical, popular and traditional, and he plays guitar in solo and ensemble formats, as well as writing song lyrics. His novels centre on family histories, carefully crafted from listening to family members and from available sources. A well-established career as a therapist has given him many opportunities to hear about people’s lives. His writing experience and achievements have illustrated the value of recording personal life stories, where a person’s history can touch so many.
United Kingdom
Junior
Xenia R
Xenia is a journalist, poet and neurodivergent activist. She currently working as an investigative journalist/researcher with the global journalism and production studio, ‘Project Brazen’ and regularly guests on the ‘Unpacking Neuroqueerness’ podcast. Of Russian origin, Xenia attended an international school in Moscow before moving to London for her Bachelors in History and Masters in Digital Culture & Society (MA) from King’s College London.
United Kingdom
Senior
Linda F K
Linda worked as a journalist on local and national newspapers in England after obtaining an arts degree at Edinburgh University. She has travelled around the world and filmed the first litter-cleaning expedition to Everest base camp. Linda then returned to Northern Ireland, where she was born, to work in business PR before she joined BBC NI. She loves prose and poetry, so once her twins were teenagers, she took a master’s degree in Irish Literature (in English). Another passion of hers is walking the coastline of Ireland, north and south.
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
Senior
Allie M
As a kid Allie wanted to write stories instead of playing outside. She started copywriting in 2008, and since then she's written everything from software reports to self help books. She's helped many coaches, therapists and business leaders bring their stories to life, with practical advice their readers can use to improve their life or business. When Allie is not writing, you’ll find her watching sci-fi or hanging out with her betta fish.
United Kingdom
Senior
Gareth S
Gareth is an award-winning British-Canadian poet, novelist, dramatist, and filmmaker. He has a BA in English Literature and MA in Scriptwriting & Playwriting. Commercially, Gareth has licensed a brand of typographic greeting cards to Camden Graphics; won Creative Future's National Poetry Award; and was a finalist in The Literary Consultancy's Pen Factor Award. In 2022, he won a DIT-British Embassy Pitch Fund for his science-fiction animation, miBOTS, subsequently shortlisted in Cannes. In 2023, he was named ‘Producer to Watch’. Gareth’s films and plays have been shown in London, Toronto, Brighton and Cannes. He lives in Brighton with his rescue dog, Pimms.
United Kingdom
Premium
Rebecca D
Writing since she was a teenager, Rebecca started out on a weekly local paper but spent most of her career at the BBC, where she worked on programmes including Newsnight, and the Six and Ten O’Clock News. During a break to bring up her family she gained a First-class Honours degree in English with Creative Writing. She then joined the press office at Citizens Advice. A change of direction, but one which continued her journalistic interest in trying to give a voice to those who find it difficult to be heard.
Netherlands
Junior
Ahmad R
Ahmad (Meppel, 1989) begon zijn schrijfcarrière in 2013, toen zijn eerste Disney-scenario bij weekblad Donald Duck werd geaccepteerd. Vervolgens ging hij ook als freelance redactiemedewerker bij het vrolijke weekblad aan de slag. Sindsdien ging zijn loopbaan in sneltreinvaart. Zo vertaalde hij onder andere stripboeken vanuit het Engels en Turks, schreef artikelen voor diverse stripinformatiebladen, werd columnist en journalist bij een krant en staat hij momenteel onder contract bij meerdere uitgeverijen om diverse (strip)boeken te schrijven. In zijn vrije tijd brengt Ahmad het liefst tijd door met zijn zoon, Ibke.
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