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
Senior
Jackie H
Jackie abandoned a fashion design course to become a journalist, spending a decade reporting and sub-editing for several top news agencies. She has interviewed and written profile pieces on numerous key figures over her career, including Sir Anthony Hopkins. She then worked in-house for an agency before joining a local government corporate communications team. As a trained Samaritans listener, Jackie prides herself on being empathetic and connecting with people. A former international distance runner, she still enjoys jogging, swimming and cycling. She is also a town councillor.
United Kingdom
Senior
Gabriel F
Gabriel was born in Seattle and grew up in Manchester. He left school at 16, and spent his early twenties in Germany, recording, touring and working as a bike messenger. He gained a BA and MA in English and Creative Writing at UEA, going on to win a scholarship to study at Harvard University. Now living in Manchester, Gabriel’s fiction has appeared in various literary journals and in 2019, his story ‘Rockets and Blue Lights’ was shortlisted for the White Review Short Story Prize. He is currently writing his first novel.
United Kingdom
Developmental Editor
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Hugh Barker
Hugh Barker is a freelance editor and writer. He has 23 years of publishing experience, specifically within commissioning, editing, writing, selling and creating books. He is currently working on a range of freelance writing and editing projects (including titles on humour, popular science, history and business) for publishers including Ebury, Atlantic, Michael O’Mara, Constable & Robinson and Elwin Street. His most recent in-house post was as Publishing Director (Adult) for Michael O'Mara Books, managing a hugely profitable list of commercial titles ranging across practical art, biography, business, popular science, humour, gift and trivia, business, self-help, design, reference. Prior to this, he was commissioning editor for the Constable list (now part of Hachette), as well as acquiring additional fiction and non-fiction titles for special sales channels.
Netherlands
Senior
Linda van 't L
Ghostwriter, tekstschrijver en copywriter. Dat is Linda. Als afgestudeerd Neerlandicus helpt ze vanuit haar kantoor in het buitengebied tussen de Veluwe en de IJssel ondernemers, redacties, bureaus, merken en bedrijven om hun verhaal zo mooi, aansprekend en eerlijk mogelijk te vertellen. Als het eenmaal op papier staat, gaat ze het liefst naar buiten. De tuin in, met haar hond op stap, door de bossen dwalen. Vaak komen er dan vanzelf al nieuwe verhalen bovendrijven!
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
Netherlands
Senior
Henk S
Henk (1960) heeft altijd een zwak gehad voor mensen die buiten de gebaande paden denken. Hij verkeerde tussen oplichters en criminelen, maar interviewde ook ceo’s, filmsterren, staatshoofden en Nobelprijswinnaars. Tijdens zijn studie Journaiistiek werd hij aangenomen door weekblad Elsevier. Hij werkte vervolgens onder meer voor de Haagse Post, de Haagsche Courant, Het Parool en meer recent De Telegraaf en Follow The Money. Zijn eerste boek, over het Octopus-misdaadsyndicaat, stond maandenlang in de boeken-top 10. Als financieel verslaggever maakte hij de opkomst en neergang van de grote Nederlandse grootbanken mee en aan de vooravond van de oorlog in Irak schreef hij een boek over de ondergang van Saddam Hoessein. Met misdaadverslaggever Paul Vugts publiceerde hij de bestseller ‘Hells Angels - Motorclub of Misdaadbende’. Hij richtte een eigen uitgeverij op, liep vier marathons, componeert elektronische muziek, is getrouwd en heeft één zoon.
United Kingdom
Premium
Sabi P
Sabi is a NCTJ trained journalist with 20+ years' experience working in national newspapers, TV, radio and online. She began her career in local newspapers in Aldershot, Hampshire and within 10 months started to freelance for the national press. A couple of editors saw Sabi’s potential as an investigative journalist and she was involved in a number of high-profile cases which led to successful prosecutions. Sabi lives in Caversham, Berkshire from where she travels the world covering health, fitness, lifestyle for a number of online outlets. As a people person, there’s nothing more enjoyable than getting her teeth into a good human interest story.
United Kingdom
Premium
Mark C
An experienced ghostwriter, investigative journalist and editor, Mark has written books on subjects as diverse as organised crime, business and sport. He has also written for most UK national newspapers including The Guardian, The Observer and The Sun. Mark qualified (NCTJ) as a journalist in 1998 and has spent decades covering some of the biggest issues around the world. He specialises in current affairs, politics, public policy, business and crime. But Mark is never more at home than when listening to, and bringing to life, remarkable personal stories.
United Kingdom
Senior
Charlotte B
Charlotte has worked as a journalist for a number of publications from the Independent to Prima, as well as organisations within the non-profit and charity sector. She is the author of four children’s books, in the Ultimate Football Heroes series, which tell the biographical stories of professional female footballers. Most recently, she wrote Great British Spirit: Acts of Kindness and Heroism, a compendium of stories featuring British figures from the 20th century and today. She probably couldn’t write or live without music and loves playing her favourite songs on piano.
Australia
Senior
Sue S
Sue is a storyteller with a passion for bringing people’s stories to life with the written word. With a degree in journalism, she has been a features writer and reporter for newspapers in Australia and the UK and has also turned her hand to creative writing, content writing and blogging. Life continues to excite her, and since discovering the joys of ghostwriting, Sue now spends most of her time working with people to write their unique life stories, as well as writing features for Fab UK magazine.
United Kingdom
Premium
Stuart B
Stuart has been a journalist and writer for nearly 40 years after graduating in history and politics from Lancaster University. He has written a biography of former Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini and interviewed many of the great names in British sporting history. He is not just a sports writer, however, being a keen historian and genealogist, as well as having a love of the northern hills and an insatiable curiosity for just about everything!
United Kingdom
Senior
Lisa D S
Lisa has always loved stories. Listening to stories, telling stories and creating stories, so it’s no wonder she works as a journalist and writer of memoirs. Everyone has a story inside of them and Lisa enjoys nothing more than hearing about the life experiences and anecdotes of others. A published author, when she’s not writing, Lisa can be found either reading or playing poker – but that’s another story.
United Kingdom
Senior
Neil R
Neil was born in London in 1971. He has published five true crime non-fiction books with publishers including Random House, and writes for several national newspapers and websites. Neil is a member of the National Union of Journalists as well as the Crime Writers’ Association. He has also worked as a freelance English teacher for some years, and has worked abroad in several countries. He lives in London, spending time with his girlfriend Tracy and her daughter Shana. He enjoys meeting people from all backgrounds, reading, watching films and swimming (but doesn’t do that enough).
United Kingdom
Damien P
As a professional writer and editor for 12 years, Damien’s clients have included CEOs, COOs, credentialed academics, and award-winning filmmakers. He also spent more than ten years producing scripts and novels for an independent film company based in Amman, Jordan. At the outset of his career, Damien taught European history, academic writing, and political science in the Far East. During recent years, Damien has switched to online writing, providing creators like HistoryMarch, the History Guy, and Vox Stoica with video scripts that have accumulated tens of millions of views.
United Kingdom
Premium
Matt E
As Editor-in-Chief of the BBC’s in-house newspaper Ariel, Matt was fortunate enough to meet many luminaries but interviewing the great Sir David Attenborough at the naturalist’s London home for his 90th birthday was an undoubted highlight. Matt has been a journalist and writer for more than 30 years. He is the author of nine books, appeared on The One Show to discuss his book about the 1966 World Cup Final, is a sports commentator for the BBC and owns, on vinyl, every UK number one single since the charts began.
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
Premium
LiYing L
LiYing is a multilingual Malaysian-born Chinese. She currently resides in Edinburgh, Scotland after many years of travelling and living in different cities such as Manchester, Paris and Hong Kong. A former Beauty Editor of Harper’s BAZAAR and Senior Digital Content Manager at South China Morning Post, her life has always been governed by her passion for writing fiction and poetry, stories that inspire and transform the human heart, luxury, and beauty, all of which informs and influences the ceremonial spaces where she also now creates and guides others to their greatest transformation and ownership of their creatorship in her work as a Tea Ceremony Artist. She writes primarily in English, but has experience in translating from the languages of Mandarin, Cantonese, and Malay.
United Kingdom
Senior
Crispin OT B
Being a writer is all Crispin ever wanted, and after two decades in the wrong profession, his wife convinced him to go full time. Now an award-winning novelist with his dark humour series <em>A Very English Necromancer</em>, Crispin has a near-perfect career. A ghostwriter of multiple published novels, and a copywriter with a successful business, Crispin is a diverse writer who thrives when there’s something to learn. Writing memoirs is part of that, feeding his passion for experiencing and understanding the world through others’ unique perspectives.
United Kingdom
Premium
Gill C
With 40 years in journalism, writer and editor Gill has the warmth to get people talking. Focusing on personal stories – in Good Housekeeping, Best, Woman, Radio Times, Reader’s Digest books among others – she believes: “Chance meetings or having a health or house crisis matter because handling them makes us the people we become. No wonder our family, who know us now, want to gather up that gold. As your memoir writer, I commit to bringing “you”, past and present, courage and quirks, to full, glorious life.”
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.
Netherlands
Senior
Joep B
Joep B schreef een portret van Neelie Kroes in De Nederlandse Eurocommissarissen en in 2016 verscheen zijn biografie van Jan Terlouw. Hij is redacteur van Biografieportaal.nl, interviewde schrijvers, tekende persoonlijke verhalen op en publiceerde in onder meer NRC Handelsblad en Trouw. Joep werkte voor provincies, het rijk en de Europese Unie. In 2017 volgt hij de post doctorale opleiding journalistiek aan de Erasmusuniversiteit.
United Kingdom
Premium
David S
Born in Australia, David’s professional writing career has spanned 40 years, starting as a reporter/newsreader in Sydney, before moving to the UK for a stint of 20 years as a celebrity interviewer on the Sunday Express. He’s interviewed dozens of top TV stars such as Sir David Attenborough and Sir Kenneth Branagh, plus sporting icons including Sir Alex Ferguson. David has a BA in Communications from Charles Sturt University, and MA in Drama from London University. He’s also published a successful book, How To Succeed in Newspaper Journalism.
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
Senior
Danny T
Danny is a married father of four from Coventry and a trained journalist with just under a decade of experience in professional writing. He is from a working class background and always secretly wished he could be a writer but assumed people like him, from where he is from, couldn't possibly make their living by writing things other people wanted to read. When he found himself out of work aged 28 due to health reasons, Danny decided to go and get some qualifications and completed a sociology degree at the University of Warwick. Since then he’s become an influential journalist, interviewed prime ministers and held powers to account all while writing to audiences of millions.
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