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
Developmental Editor
Kate Walsh
Kate entered the publishing industry via in-house foreign rights in a literary agency, moving on to academic editorial and landing in hugely commercial non-fiction agenting for the past nine years. As an agent, she worked predominantly with talent-led and celebrity memoirs, autobiographies and biographies, as well as a broad spectrum of music, history and sport titles, and was instrumental in the success of some of the biggest non-fiction bestsellers of the last few years. Bringing out the true essence and emotion of someone’s story is her bread and butter, and she’s passionate about honest, resonating storytelling. In her free time, Kate loves theatre, travel, snow sports and sampling London’s ever-growing restaurant selection.
United Kingdom
Premium
Rachel N
Rachel is a prolific shoe-buyer, chocolate eater, and coffee guzzler. When she’s not busying herself with those activities, she’s a freelance journalist, published in the national press, and ghostwrites autobiographies whilst surrounded by the lush scenery and stunning valleys of her native Wales. A former nurse, with a master’s degree in Medical Ethics and Law, she decided on a drastic career change in her mid-30s and became a journalist. Her passion is finding out people’s histories and writing compelling autobiographies for them to treasure.
United Kingdom
Premium
Amanda L
Amanda is the author of five bestselling novels and three works of non-fiction. She holds a degree in drama, appears regularly on BBC radio and LBC and was a contracted writer to the hit series Weekending on Radio 4. She researched and edited the leading directory for banks, The Banker’s Almanac, for Euromoney publications while also covering stories for them. She has written for, or contributed to, The Evening Standard, The Times, New Woman, US Cosmopolitan, Vagabond and Company Magazine as well as numerous online publications.
United Kingdom
Junior
Lorelli M
Lorelli is a professional writer for an international education company. She writes daily news and feature articles about an eclectic range of topics and people, including a 60-year-old scientist turned preschool teacher and an entrepreneurial grandmother. Lorelli, a child of the 80s, was raised in South London, where she gained a degree in Business, qualified as a teacher and juggled teaching and young motherhood with freelance writing for Scholastic. Now, she is juggling writing, writing and more writing with being beside her other long-term love: the seaside city of Brighton.
United Kingdom
Senior
Rebecca F
Rebecca spent her formative years in Gibraltar and Germany, as her father served in the RAF. She holds a degree in Multimedia Journalism and originally started working as an offshore and maritime writer before moving into regional reporting. Rebecca also writes historical fiction under a pseudonym for a Harper Collins digital offshoot and in 2015 had a manuscript shortlisted for the Tibor Jones Pageturner Prize. When not writing, Rebecca is usually found in the Wiltshire countryside in sturdy shoes with two muddy dogs, or volunteering for the National Trust.
United Kingdom
Senior
MaryAnn I
MaryAnn is a Nigerian writer with a deep love for languages, psychology, and film. She is fluent in Spanish and has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Hertfordshire. MaryAnn has been published in the African Writer’s Magazine and the Kalahari Review. She was shortlisted for the 2011 UBA National Essay Writing Competition, the 2017 African Rubiz Prize for Prose, and, most recently, the 2023 Fab Prize for Children’s Fiction. Her novella, An Estate of Ironies, was also a finalist for the 2024 WTAW Alcove Chapbook Competition, while her short story Mykonos in Congealed Blood was published as part of Flame Tree Publishing’s African Ghost Stories Anthology in April 2024. MaryAnn is a long-distance mom to two adorable cats and currently lives in England, where she spends time teaching, traveling, writing, and daydreaming.
United Kingdom
Senior
Will R
Will is a founder and editor at Peninsula Press, an independent publisher of fiction and narrative non-fiction. His own essays have appeared in the Guardian, Granta, and the TLS – among many other places – and he is currently writing his first book, to be published by Coach House Books. Titled Hypochondria, it is a literary and medical history of that condition. When Will isn’t writing, he is reading. When he isn’t writing or reading, he is sleeping, cycling, or swimming in cold water.
United Kingdom
Junior
Sabrina B
Sabrina is a freelance writer, proof-reader, and sensitivity reader with a love of all things books. She has written for local newspapers and online publications such as Black Ballad on topics ranging from international affairs to personal bereavement. She has a BA in English Literature from the University of Birmingham and an MSc in International Development. When she’s not reading and writing, Sabrina likes to travel, bake and watch re-runs on Netflix.
United Kingdom
Junior
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Wendy R
Wendy graduated from Swansea University with a First in Media Studies and has gone on to chase her writing dreams. Wendy wrote a successful family lifestyle blog for six years, working on campaigns with big brands such as Mumsnet and Emma’s Diary. As a blogger, Wendy wrote passionately about maternal mental health and grew a large readership of like minded mothers. Now, Wendy works as a freelance copywriter, creating website content for various clients and she regularly interviews foster carers for the company she has worked for since 2019. In her spare time Wendy likes to practise yoga and write short stories, rarely at the same time.
Canada
Premium
Ellen G H
Ellen grew up around the Southern NJ and Philadelphia areas and now lives near Ottawa, Canada. She has written 12 books (four of which are award-winners), contributed to 15 others, and has written hundreds of articles for print magazines and websites. She served as president of the Catholic Writers Guild from 2012-2015 and composed articles and press releases for a small non-profit from 2015-2018. When she’s not writing, Ellen enjoys spending time with her husband of 40 years, her extended family (especially her two-year-old grandson) and researching her family tree.
United Kingdom
PRO
Premium
Marion M
Marion is a writer and documentary film maker specialising in life stories. She is a New York Festival Gold Medal Winner for biography, and the writer and director of an Emmy award-winning documentary feature on the courage of the greatest generation who made D-Day happen. She is also Grierson Award and Royal Television Society nominee for her work, and the recipient of two special commendations by the Association of International Broadcasters. Her global, in-depth interviews range from Hiroshima survivors to Hollywood superstars. Her speciality is drawing people out and creating a lasting testimony from their own words. These include conversations with a British Prime Minister, two American Presidents and with our own King at his Welsh hideaway in his last years as Prince of Wales, who confided about what it was like to face the world’s cameras as a shy young man at his investiture. She has met soldiers and children of wars. She has travelled with a much-loved British actor to find his family’s roots in Barbados. She has met a grown man who as a boy sheltered Martin Luther King in his home in the era of the Birmingham riots. She is a fluent French speaker, and has interviewed heroes of the Resistance, Paris fashionistas, and political agitators. Along the way she has been privileged to transform these conversations into compelling biographies. Marion would love to write your story. To find out what makes you tick, to explore your own memories, and discover the world that shaped you.
United Kingdom
Senior
James M
James is an experienced writer and scriptwriter from London. After a degree in Creative Writing and working as a primary school teacher, he combined his skills to write editorial and scripts for children, for brands from the BBC to Disney. He balances that with developing some slightly more grown-up scripts and prose, working to capture humour and heart in equal measure. Alongside writing, James loves playing music, cooking, running and the immensely popular and very serious sport of dodgeball. He cites Kurt Vonnegut and Haruki Murakami amongst his literary heroes.
Canada
Senior
Ashley O
Ashley is a Nigerian born writer and journalist. She has written about everything from immigration, education, and politics to beauty and lifestyle. Her work has appeared on WNYC, Quartz, and other news sites. She holds a master’s degree from Columbia Journalism School, as well as a degree in Journalism and Women’s and Gender Studies from Rutgers University-Newark. When she is not writing, Ashley is nose deep in her favorite books or out looking for her next story.
United Kingdom
Senior
Roger H
Roger is a writer and journalist, who was Assistant Editor of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme from 1998-2010. He learned his trade on weekly newspapers, before spending three years as reporter and feature writer on the daily Yorkshire Post. He is the author of four non-fiction books, one a sporting biography (Clough and Revie) and the others set in World War 2 and the Cold War. He lives an idyllic life in Suffolk with his partner, together with their pony, two donkeys, three cats, three guinea fowl and six peacocks.
Netherlands
Senior
Neda N
Neda has been telling stories with her work from the very beginning: first in TV, then in print and online. Fascinated with language and the possibilities it creates, it has taken her on many adventures: she has worked as a journalist in London, Sofia, Paris and Istanbul, an academic copywriter for Cambridge University, and is now teaching in Brussels. Her writing is published internationally in the London Review of Books and VICE, among others, and her literary translations can be found in bookshops in the UK and Bulgaria.
United Kingdom
Premium
Traci O
An American poet living in the Channel Islands, Traci is the author of two poetry collections for which she received a Seed Funding Grant from Arthouse Jersey. Her writing appears in BBC Radio Jersey, Poetry, Literary Matters, The Jersey Evening Post, and elsewhere. She has two master’s degrees in creative writing from Johns Hopkins University and serves as an editor for multiple international literary journals. Traci loves to help others tell their stories. She has taught writing and literature in France and the Caribbean, and she currently teaches creative writing workshops in Jersey, writes for several lifestyle magazines, hosts a one-hour radio programme, and edits books for international authors.
United Kingdom
Senior
Aude K
Aude is a writer and workshop facilitator. Aude’s first novel was published by the publishing company Dagan. Aude designs and leads creative communications training and workshops for Expedia, UK Black Pride, Amnesty International, Stonewall, Livity, etc. She writes scripts and directs films. Her newest short film, Pearls, was selected at Bafta-qualifying festival Iris Prize, Wxool festival, and more. Her articles has been published in magazines such as Complex UK, Style Caster, Gal-Dem, Okay Africa, and The Guardian. She likes traveling, swimming, learning new languages and going to the museum.
United Kingdom
Senior
Susan M
Susan is a professional freelance writer with a degree in Creative Writing and a Masters in Activism and Social Change. Starting out as an advertising copywriter, she spent over a decade as a digital nomad, flitting between urban Europe and the palm-fringed shores of South East Asia — earning her keep with stories along the way. Today she is settled in a tiny cottage by the sea in North Devon, where she spends her days writing, swimming, and messing about in boats. Susan particularly enjoys spinning tales of the weird and wonderful, and has had her work published in the Fortean Times. She has written for everything from international brands to small local charities, and recently penned a stage play about a talking mongoose called Gef.
United Kingdom
Senior
George H
George is a graduate of the London School of Economics, where he studied human geography. He has worked in a national newsroom as a feature writer and is currently freelancing as an editor and ghostwriter, specialising in narrative nonfiction. He co-wrote Inside Allenwood, an Amazon bestseller about the life of a white-collar criminal, and has written and edited books which have sold thousands of copies and been turned into films. He also works as an editorial consultant with a UK literary agency. He lives in Norwich, where he spends frustrating Saturdays watching the football and relaxed Sundays reading.
United Kingdom
Senior
John B
Only an avid listener could write a guide to birdsong! John is an established author whose titles range from nature and photography to art and true crime, and he has written about his experiences as a cancer survivor. John’s life in books includes not only writing, but editing, printing, publishing and bookselling. After training at London College of Printing, he honed his skills at the Victoria & Albert Museum. He also happens to be a member of every public library in England! When not walking or running in the Shropshire countryside, John works as a freelance writer and copy editor.
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
Junior
Masimba M
Masimba is a screenwriter, novelist, essayist and blogger. He was born in Zimbabwe in 1976, and moved to the UK in 2002, settling in the North East England town of Middlesbrough. He has been published all over the world, mostly in the speculative fiction realm. In the real world, he takes a keen interest in international and local history, culture and society, politics, and, of course, biography. He believes that everyone has a story or a perspective of a bigger story waiting to be told and preserved for future generations, and is always ready to work with people who are ready to tell theirs.
United Kingdom
Junior
Oliver M
After graduating from Oxford with a degree in French and Russian, Ollie has been learning more languages in the few years since. He has lived and worked abroad in several different countries, and has been writing pretty much constantly. He has produced short stories and a novel, as well as some travel writing. He is also a published translator of Georgian short fiction. Ollie runs the ‘Ollie and Sebastian’ YouTube channel with his friend Sebastian, which has taken them to a war zone and a country that doesn’t officially exist.
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.
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