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
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.
Premium
Anupa K
Anupa is a multi-skilled writer and journalist with decades of global media experience, including as an editor and writer based in the UAE. Her expertise spans launching successful media start-ups, implementing groundbreaking content strategies, and managing complex international image and crisis communications. A well-travelled individual with a background in science and journalism, she uniquely blends analytical depth with compelling storytelling in her writing. Beyond her media expertise, she is a passionate polyglot, gardener, snorkeler, and free-diving enthusiast who actively supports marine conservation. Her life is defined by deep cultural engagement—meeting people from CEOs to artists—and a creative spirit expressed through pottery, sculpture, and baking. She excels at crafting narratives that engage, ensuring she lets the voices and lives of the people she speaks to shine through.
United Kingdom
Senior
Susanna M
A lover of plants and prose, Susanna remembers as a child delivering her finished poems to the study for her Dad to review them. These formative moments of learning to write have stayed with Susanna and inspire her in her work with children to do the same. As an experienced teacher, she has promoted nature & the outdoors in primary schools for many years. When out of the garden, she is writing about it. Having studied English Literature & French at the University of Sussex, her love of language and reading continues to this day. She has worked as a copywriter for travel companies, and has published articles for the RHS and the British Council.
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
Russ S
Russ is a self-confessed geek who loves to explore subjects in detail. He has written for publications as diverse as Encyclopedia Britannica and Private Eye, for national newspapers including the Times, Guardian, and Financial Times, and for a large number of magazines and websites. He has edited engineering and scientific magazines, and is the author of The Physics Behind…, a book explaining the science that makes the modern world tick. He grew up on Tyneside, and lived and worked in Scotland, Sheffield, and London before settling in Nottinghamshire. He enjoys walking his dog and tinkering with motorbikes.
United Kingdom
Senior
Jennifer L
Jennifer is an author and environmental writer with a background in nature conservation. Throughout her varied career in magazine publishing, she has written for Vogue, The Week, Dazed, BBC, Wildlife Trusts, and RSPB to encourage people to get outdoors and explore nature in order to de-stress their lives. Her book The Wheel, on her year exploring Pagan practices and reconnecting with nature, will be published by September Publishing in October 2021. In June 2018, she won a Northern Writers’ Award for her children’s fiction, which looks at destigmatising mental health issues for a younger audience.
United Kingdom
Premium
John M
John was born in Southern Ireland in 1948, and educated at St. Mary’s Academy and later at London South Bank University. He has been a professional writer for twenty years. He has written six novels and ghosted eight memoirs with the likes of Penguin and Simon & Schuster. He also recently adapted Shakespeare to graphic novel format with Classical Comics. His work has been widely reviewed in the press; reviews and samples of his work can be viewed on his website: https://www.johnfmcdonald.co.uk.
United Kingdom
Senior
Mark F
Mark has loved creative writing for as long as he can remember, with short stories published in diverse outlets, from Scotland to Canada. He has also ghostwritten many biographies, recently completing a memoir based on his own mental health experiences. Passionate about the crucial role storytelling plays in maintaining wellbeing and preserving memories, he has been invited to promote his work in schools, community groups, prisons, and in radio interviews. Away from his laptop he loves music – his claim to fame was his band once playing a session on BBC Radio 1.
United Kingdom
Senior
Linda I
Linda Innes lives in Northern England, where a sense of humour comes with the territory. She used to be a high-school English teacher, but she’s recovered now. She’s been an arts manager, education officer, bid-writer, life coach, spiritual channel and NLP trainer. She was even a stand-up comedian, but now sits down a lot. A published novelist, poet and produced screenwriter, Linda has been a full-time professional ghostwriter for 10 years. She’s particularly interested in changing the world one person at a time. Or all at once.
United Kingdom
Senior
Peter H
Peter completed his MA in Creative Writing (with distinction) at MMU in 2004, after which he combined work as a freelance writer with a civil service career that saw him travel the world, forming life-long friendships with people from a range of cultural backgrounds. In recent years, he found publishing success in Hong Kong, where he co-edited two fiction anthologies and saw his latest novel released by an international publisher. These days, Peter lives in Lancashire – where at least some of his roots spring from – when he's not exploring his new roots in Argentina, from where both his amazing wife and globetrotting cat hail. He loves working on projects that offer a genuine connection, whether that’s creating inspiring educational texts for high school students, helping a Hong Kong shoemaker tell his rags-to-riches story, interviewing designers as an unlikely fashion correspondent, or producing a podcast that allows other writers, musicians and artists to talk about their life and work.
PRO
Premium
Jason O
Jason is an award-winning author and ghostwriter of ten books under his own name and has ghostwritten several bestsellers for leading political, business, and media figures. He wrote the authorised biography of an Irish Prime Minister (Transworld) and has ghostwritten a #1 title on The Irish Times bestsellers list for a senior government minister, a #2 bestseller for an iconic TV broadcaster, and the life story of Fr Shay Cullen, a four-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee. His book The Gilligan Tapes was adapted into the three-part Amazon Prime documentary Confessions of a Crime Boss, which he also directed. Jason holds an MA in Political Communication and a BA in Humanities from Dublin City University.
United Kingdom
Premium
Matthew P
Matthew is a freelance writer and editor specialising in culture and storytelling. He has created guides to far-flung destinations and reviewed events and restaurants just a couple of minutes’ walk from his East London home. As a researcher in the television industry, he helped develop a wide range of TV programmes, from gritty prison documentaries to light-hearted comedy panel shows. Matthew writes with a creative and humorous edge. He knows a lot about music, less than he’d like about food and more than he should about football. His degree in politics has left him with a current affairs addiction. In his spare time, he’s written a novel, a number of short stories and a script which is under consideration at the BBC.
United Kingdom
Senior
Annabel H
Since training as a journalist on an evening paper in South Wales in the 70s, I've focused on feature writing for newspapers and magazines, specialising in one-to-one profiles. I've always enjoyed the interviews as much as the writing, and for that reason, I have invariably ended up with far more background information and interesting quotes than I actually needed! I live in the country near the English/Welsh border. I'm an animal lover, a keen amateur photographer and painter, and a fan of many sports, with a lifelong interest in history and current affairs, languages, and all aspects of the performing arts.
United Kingdom
Premium
Jools AH
Originally from the North West and now living in the South East, Jools was the recipient of an Arts Council Award that led to the publication of her novel, Girl in the Mirror, a work of historical fiction based on the life of her Nan in Manchester at the turn of the last century. Published by Mslexia, Wasafiri, The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators and Walker Books, her writing has won awards and appeared in local and national press. Her stories have been performed in London, Kent and locally. She has ghost written over thirty books in the last six years, and three novels for children, was Writer in Residence at Talliston House and is a member of The Society of Authors. Jools used to be a teacher, in primary and forest school, and when not writing has adventures with She Who Dares, a group of ordinary women doing extraordinary things. She wrote a book about them too.
United Kingdom
Premium
Jeremy P
Jeremy is a prize-winning writer who lives in Cornwall with his wife and son. Alongside Britain and the US he has been published in places as far away as Lithuania and China. He has travelled all over the world researching his books; he’s been frozen in Siberia and burnt by the sun on the plains of Montana in pursuit of General Custer. Above all he understands what it takes to tell a story and would like to tell yours.
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.
Netherlands
Junior
Cleo B
Cleo heeft Nederlandse literatuur en samenleving gestudeerd aan de Vu. Sindsdien is ze begonnen als tekstschrijver en beeldmaker. Voordat ze de Nederlandse Literatuur ging bestuderen, studeerde ze Illustratie design aan de HKU, ze vindt tekst en beeld dan ook allebei erg interessant.
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
United Kingdom
Premium
Sanj S
Sanj is an author who has worked extensively as a journalist for the BBC and latterly as a speechwriter for the Mayor of London. His publications include a biography of Lionel Messi and a chronicle of the great British middleweight boxers of the 1990s. Sanj was born and raised in the south of England by Indian parents.
United Kingdom
Premium
Pia A
I studied French and Drama at Manchester University and then got a job for a French speaking touring theatre company, travelling around the UK, and the Channel Islands and also in Canada. Subsequently, I worked as a dramaturg in the Literary Department at the Royal Court Theatre developing the plays of fledgling writers, as well as writing myself, for the Royal Court Young People’s theatre and Lewisham and Peckham youth theatres. I then moved into television and for the past twenty years have been working as a Script Writer, Script Editor, Executive Producer and Development Producer for various television production companies.
Netherlands
Senior
Ruud K
Na zijn opleiding tot leraar en tolk/vertaler Duits stapte Ruud over naar de journalistiek. Als schrijver en eindredacteur werkte hij jarenlang op de redactie van Dagblad De Limburger. Daarna was hij actief voor vrijwel alle grote kranten van Nederland en België als externe leverancier van featuremateriaal. Nadat zijn bedrijf opgegaan is in een grotere speler op de markt, heeft Ruud weer plaatsgenomen achter zijn laptop om zich te wijden aan zijn liefste werk, het schrijven van waar gebeurde verhalen.
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
Senior
Colette D
Colette has worked in magazine publishing for over 20 years – a career that’s given her the opportunity to meet scores of fascinating people. She’s equally at home chatting to famous faces such as Fleet Street editor turned TV presenter Janet Street-Porter and Dragons’ Den doyenne Deborah Meaden, as she is finding out about the life stories of chefs, artisans or cruise ship captains. When not working, Colette loves travelling; she never tires of the thrill of going to a new destination, exploring the local sights and sounds and enjoying authentic foodie experiences.
United Kingdom
Premium
Tamasin F
Tamasin is a journalist, presenter and filmmaker, with more than 25 years of experience of writing, reporting and interviewing people for the BBC. She lived in West Africa for nearly a decade, first in Liberia and then in Ivory Coast as the BBC’s stringer. She was a regular contributor to the Guardian and NPR from across West Africa. She now works on award winning documentaries in the BBC’s investigation unit and trains aspiring journalists when she’s not being one herself. She’s currently writing her first novel while trying to instil the love of storytelling in her two young children.
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