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
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
Juliet E
Former journalist Juliet is a writer, editor and proof-reader who has earned her living through words for 25 years. Credits range from Woman’s Own to the Guardian and Berkshire Life. She’s the author of two non-fiction books, graduated from Winchester University’s Creative Writing MA and has won or been placed in various writing competitions. She was bitten as a child in Sri Lanka by Arthur C. Clarke’s monkey, but has since recovered from the experience. Other adventures have included cycling across Cuba and spending the night on a Land Rover roof in Costa Rica.
United Kingdom
Senior
Deborah D
Deborah has worked as a journalist for the past 22 years, and in that time has written for most of the UK’s national newspapers and women’s magazines. She also has 18 books published by mainstream publishers. She has three grown-up daughters whom she adores, six dogs, one rabbit and a guinea pig. In her spare time she renovates properties, listens to music, travels and she loves walking, but not hills – she hates hills!
United Kingdom
Senior
Aileen OB
Aileen has always loved stories. From a book-obsessed child, she went on to a career as a magazine journalist. She has been privileged to be allowed into the lives of the famous and non-famous as they shared their experiences. As well as writing for magazine titles from Hello! to Ideal Home and TV Times, she is an experienced book editor. Aileen is a trained actress and has worked in theatres all over the country. Half Irish, she grew up in the Peak District and now lives in Hastings.
United Kingdom
Senior
Minreet Kaur
Minreet is a freelance journalist at the BBC and Sky News. She is the daughter of the famous Skipping Sikh and is the person who inspired him to start skipping during the COVID-19 lockdown. Minreet is particularly interested in stories from the BAME communities, stating that we don’t hear from them as much as we should. In her spare time, Minreet is also a freelance henna artist and loves different cultures and community stories. She enjoys travelling and staying active and has a real passion for human stories.
United Kingdom
Senior
Joanna B
Joanna has been a professional writer for many years, working as a copywriter and journalist. She spent ten years as a successful freelance writer, before retraining as a cognitive behavioural psychotherapist, which involved less writing but a greater appreciation of the power of words. Her most valuable insight from this work is the importance of storytelling. Everyone has a story, and everything falls into place when we understand that story. Her great joy now is turning thoughts, feelings, experiences and memories into a story that’s meaningful, coherent and satisfying.
United Kingdom
Senior
Tanya W
Tanya writes, edits, keeps bees, runs, parents, bakes, reads… not all at once and some more than others. Having moved to the UK from South Africa in 2001 she soon found her niche writing for a magazine specialising in design and engineering. Her career has taken her from staff writer to the editorship of a number of publications in this field before embarking on a freelance career in 2018. She genuinely enjoys wrangling words and crafting copy, especially when it involves people and their stories.
United Kingdom
Senior
Liz R
Liz started her journalistic career almost by accident. Having had a somewhat itinerant childhood that cost her significant chunks of her education, she abandoned school altogether at the age of 17 with no idea where her future lay. She’d always loved writing, so when she spotted an advert for a ‘cub’ reporter on her local newspaper she jumped at the chance – and the rest, as they say, is history. Over 50 years later, Liz is a ‘weel kent’ face within the Scottish media industry, with a wealth of experience as a news reporter, features writer, editor and public relations expert. Her own troubled childhood inspired her to join the Children’s Panel – Scotland’s unique system of juvenile justice – and she served for 25 years, often dealing with the most harrowing cases of abuse and neglect. During her long and varied career, Liz visited Kosovo while serving as PR person with the Black Watch Regiment, witnessing the horrific aftermath of the Balkans War, and even spent several years as editor of a caravan magazine, travelling the length and breadth of Scotland and beyond. Now semi-retired, Liz has four wonderful grandchildren and lives happily with her two rescue dogs (both of indeterminate parentage) near Loch Leven in Kinross-shire, famous for its links with Mary, Queen of Scots. She’s currently writing a book about life with her narcissistic mother; you can read part of its prologue below.
United Kingdom
Premium
Garth C
Garth is a New Zealand-born, London-based, award winning journalist and author. Widely travelled and conversant with people from all walks of life, Garth contributes to The Guardian, The Telegraph, The New European and many other publications. His books include <em>Going For a Song: A Chronicle Of The UK Record Shop; Miles Davis: The Complete Photographic History</em> and <em>More Miles Than Money: Journeys Through American Music</em>. Garth loves to work with people to tell their stories, noting that one of his skills is being “a good listener.”
United Kingdom
Senior
Gouri S
Gouri is a journalist and writer from London. She has been working in the media industry for nearly 20 years, including roles at the British Asian newspaper Eastern Eye and Al Jazeera's flagship media critique show, The Listening Post. Today, she writes for Al Jazeera and other international media outlets on topics such as culture, migration, history, race and gender. With roots in Lahore, Mumbai, Punjab, Kenya, London and Berlin, she has a passion to write about the unheard and untold stories from our rich and complicated cultures.
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
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
Junior
Cinzia A
After growing up in Italy, Cinzia moved to the UK to attend university, where she earned a BA and an MA in Journalism while nurturing her passion for writing. Her professional journey spans journalism, content strategy, and long-form storytelling, enabling her to capture different tones, voices, and nuances. She is deeply interested in personal history, identity, and the small moments that reveal a life. Outside of work, you’ll find her reading, going to the theatre to watch musicals, and travelling, always seeking inspiration to tell new stories.
United Kingdom
Junior
Tom K
Tom is a ghost-writer, screenwriter and film producer with a passion for personal and unexpected true stories. In film and TV he has worked with the likes of Sky and the BBC, as well as production companies including Double Dutch, Happy Prince, Moonriver TV, Watford & Essex and 108 Media. Through his experiences working on a true WW1 story about motorcycle racers who went to the front lines - a story passed down the generations of a friend’s family – he discovered a desire to find and help people tell their own story. He has learnt that everyone has an amazing story – and believes everyone should have the chance to tell theirs.
United Kingdom
Senior
Josephine G
Josephine loves stories: both fictional and other people’s life experiences. Despite having careers in education and the travel industry, she always aimed to return to university and complete a writing MA. After graduating from The Manchester Writing School, she went on to have stories published in anthologies and literary journals. Her recent story ‘Going Downhill’ was chosen for The Best British Short Stories 2021. Having just successfully completed a ghostwriting project with a prestigious client, she welcomes the privilege and satisfaction of being trusted to bring personal stories to life.
United Kingdom
Senior
James H
James’ ten years in journalism have largely been about exploration. They’ve been about life and travel outside the comfort zone, getting backstage with rock bands, dropping into North Korea, or exploring climate change in El Salvador, yet one of his biggest and proudest achievements remains becoming a rare English face in Ireland’s GAA press boxes. Amongst others, his work has appeared in the Irish Independent, NME, RTE, Newstalk and the Sunday Business Post.
United Kingdom
Premium
John L
Born in Stoke Newington and brought up in Enfield, John has been writing for more than four decades. He was a singer and lyricist with a punk band before becoming a video journalist for the Reuters news agency, reporting from Iraq, Jerusalem, Hong Kong and elsewhere. As a corporate writer, he has helped scores of leading brands tell their stories. His short fiction has appeared in print and online magazines. He recently completed a creative writing course at the Faber Academy and is working on a novel set in 1938.
United Kingdom
Premium
Desta H
Desta is a British-Eritrean writer, educator, and musician. Her short stories have won awards (Afritondo and To Speak Europe in Different Languages) and she was runner-up in Cassava Republic’s Global Black Women’s Non-Fiction Manuscript Prize, judged by Bernardine Evaristo in 2024. She is the former director of the festivals Africa Writes and Film Africa. A multilingual advocate for creative learning, she is also the founder of Languages through Music, a platform that blends language education with rhythm, culture, and connection.
United Kingdom
Senior
Amanda T
Amanda started her career in newspapers, then moved on to medical journals in the UK and Middle East. As well as writing short stories for women’s magazines in the UK, she worked for the Royal Mail, the UK Police Force and the NHS on their in-house magazines and has taught creative writing in prisons. Amanda’s clients range from a former MI5 agent to a brain tumour sufferer. Amanda loves meeting new people and has a passion for helping them tell their own unique stories.
Netherlands
Junior
Eelco C
Eelco heeft ruim vijftien jaar ervaring als muziekjournalist. Hij was hoofdredacteur van een platform voor elektronische muziek in Amsterdam en Berlijn, en werkte freelance voor festivals als TodaysArt en Dekmantel. In 2020 stond hij met een essay over zijn Indische familiegeschiedenis op de shortlist van de Joost Zwagerman Essayprijs. Over dit onderwerp verschijnt in 2022 een roman bij De Arbeiderspers. Naast boeken lezen, muziek verzamelen en hardlopen kijkt hij zoveel mogelijk wedstrijden van Ajax.
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
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
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
Premium
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George L
George is a prolific freelance writer and an award-winning radio producer. In a career that began in music journalism in the 1990s, George has interviewed hundreds of bands, as well as authors, scientists and political activists. In 2023, George won a Silver award at the “Radio Oscars”, the Audio & Radio Industry Awards. George lives in Buckinghamshire with his wife and two daughters. He enjoys baking, windsurfing, reading and listening to music.
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