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
Florence G
Having studied History and Sociology at the University of Cambridge, Florence has been working with Members of Parliament and charities to try to change the world for the better. But, with her own book, Lessons I Have Unlearned, published by John Hunt in 2021, it’s the power of stories to change our perspectives and shape our world which fascinates her most. She has written, edited and ghost-written for national, local and trade press as well as academic journals.
United Kingdom
Junior
Amelia T
Amelia first published her writing at the age of nine. A newspaper called ‘The Fog Horn’. After a long career as an English teacher, she now lives on the Suffolk coast and can often be found wandering the shore line looking for treasure. Amelia is an experienced interviewer and listener, knowing just the right questions to capture as storytellers authentic voice She has a Masters Degree in Creative Writing and has written for several national publications. Her work has tackled such sensitive topics as child abuse, endometriosis and weight loss. Amelia is currently working on her debut novel, with the assistance of her small dog Teddie.
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.
Canada
Senior
Katia J P
If wealth were measured by obsessions, Katia would have one hefty pot of gold, filled to the brim. This freelance writer has reported on everything from culinary diplomacy to wearable art, and the artists and creatives behind such trends for print and digital publications alike. Her curiosities extend to travel, sated in recent years with cultural jaunts through London, Dublin, and Lyon, among other locales. In her spare time, she writes short stories, poems, and essays, all the while perfecting her plank and dreaming up her next solo sojourn.
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
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
Phil D
Experienced ghost writer and profiler for entrepreneurs, senior execs, thought leaders, highly successful people in all fields, from the Global CEO of DHL to Charles Schulz (creator of the Peanuts comic strip). Phil's eBooks have been read over 2.5 million times online, showing he knows how to write a book in a way that will attract a lot of attention. His leadership books are used by the United Nations and UK emergency services to train their employees in how to lead. Phil was voted into the 'Global Top 30 Leadership Gurus' list two years running. He has interviewed and profiled dozens of C Suite execs, high profile entrepreneurs and thought leaders from Body Shop Founder Anita Roddick to Yo! Sushi Founder (and Dragons' Den star) Simon Woodroffe, from Richard Branson to Harvard Professor Michael Porter ('The Godfather of Strategy'). His corporate writing clients include the McLaren Formula 1 team, Microsoft, Intel and Gartner Group. He has written thought pieces on business, science, society and culture for The Independent, GQ, New Scientist, Daily Telegraph, Campaign, The Observer Magazine, New Statesman, the TES and other high profile publications on both sides of the Atlantic. He has a history degree from Cambridge and was editor of two business journals. Lists of thought leadership quotes from Phil's writing have been compiled by websites from 'Goodreads' to 'Quotefancy' to 'What Should I Read next'. Phil is in demand as a ghost writer; John Wiley & Sons, who publish his business books, asked him to ghost write books for Simon Woodroffe and Karan Bilimoria (founder of Cobra Beer), but Phil was too busy on other book projects.
United Kingdom
Senior
Chris W
Chris is an author and journalist based in the historic city of Oxford, UK. He holds a BA (Hons), first class, in Creative Writing from the University of Derby, and has many years of experience in the book trade, covering all angles. He has worked as an editor, proof-reader, specialist book-seller and freelance writer, with several published works to his name. He enjoys music, reading, theology, history and designing robots with his son. Chris has too many guitars, too many books, and not enough cats!
United Kingdom
Premium
Felicity M
A BBC journalist for 20 years during the Northern Ireland Conflict, Felicity is a full-time writer and occasional broadcaster and arts facilitator. Her titles include fiction, non-fiction, young adult, ghostwriting and graphic novels and she has contributed to four anthologies. Theatre work includes production, acting, and she has had a dozen plays staged and toured professionally, as well as four screenplay credits. A committed activist, she has 40 years service with her union, the NUJ., and was Ireland’s first female Chair. Much of her writing aspires to give a voice to the marginalised and those dealing with trauma- survivors of childhood sexual abuse, addiction, bereavement by suicide and PTSD. From the autumn of 2022 she takes up a Royal Literary Fellowship at the University of Ulster.
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.
Netherlands
Senior
Kees V
Kees is als docent Engels gepokt en gemazeld in het voortgezet onderwijs. Naast zijn liefde voor de Engelse taal en literatuur gaat zijn belangstelling ook uit naar de geschiedenis van de Tweede Wereldoorlog. En met name naar de Shoah. Naast schrijver en co-auteur van verschillende toneelstukken over dit onderwerp heeft hij ook drie historische werken op zijn naam staan. Eén over de Jodenvervolging in zijn woonplaats (Waar ze ook heen gaan, ze hebben in elk geval mooi weer, 2012), één over een Alphense arts die ook in het verzet zat (Pilon, arts en verzetsman, 2016). Zijn meest recente boek bevat tientallen verhalen van bewoners en medewerkers van de Martha-Stichting, een voormalig kindertehuis in Alphen aan den Rijn (Het Boek der Martelaren, 2017). De drie boeken die hij heeft geschreven zijn gebaseerd op de verhalen die mensen hem verteld hebben. In zijn woonplaats geeft Kees regelmatig lezingen en gastlessen over de onderwerpen die hem bezighouden.
United Kingdom
Premium
Lydia B
Lydia is a journalist with more than twenty years of experience. She has been on staff at three national newspapers internationally and worked for magazines including Harper’s Bazaar and House & Garden. Her strongest specialism is in travel; she is particularly adept at writing about families with diverse international stories of immigration and upheaval, as well as adventures in foreign terrains. Lydia also writes fiction, poetry and screenplays and creates commercial content for businesses, from small outfits to global brands.
United Kingdom
Developmental Editor
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Lauren Howard
Lauren Howard is an editor and writer with several years’ experience working in some of the most competitive and successful editorial teams in the UK publishing industry, including Penguin Random House and Hachette UK. Over the course of her career, she has edited and developed a wide range of bestselling and award-winning books. Some of these include: Rambling Man by Sir Billy Connolly, a major bestselling memoir about the comedian and national treasure’s life on the road; My Beautiful Sisters by co-founder and former captain of the Afghanistan national women’s football team, Khalida Popal, which won multiple awards, along with being shortlisted for more, and was named both a Financial Times and Guardian’s Best Sports Books of the Year; and the critically-acclaimed, investigative memoir I Seek a Kind Person by Pulitzer Prize–winning author and Guardian World Affairs Editor Julian Borger. She has also worked on an extensive list of internationally acclaimed and bestselling books, including: Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman, An Immense World by Ed Yong, 1,000 Years of Joys and Sorrows by Ai Weiwei, Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake, Spider Woman by Lady Hale and How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi. Lauren has worked with leading voices across science, culture and politics, including bestselling author of The Secret Lives of Colour, Kassia St Clair, TV presenter Megan McCubbin and music journalist Miranda Sawyer. She has extensive experience working closely with and nurturing the development of authors at every stage of their careers – from debut writers to established bestsellers – helping to shape ideas into compelling, accessible narratives with strong commercial potential. Alongside her editorial work, Lauren serves as a Trustee on the Board of the Charlotte Aitken Trust (CAT), alongside novelist and bestselling author Sebastian Faulks CBE FRSL, renowned literary agent Clare Alexander and Simon Murray FCA. CAT awards prizes, grants and scholarships to organisations that promote the creative arts; it is the principal sponsor of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award and supports organisations including the Arvon Foundation, First Story, Young Vic and New Writing North, as well as the Forward Poetry Prize and a range of other projects across the UK. Lauren is also a writer, currently working on her debut book, and is represented by Janklow & Nesbit UK.
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
Premium
Michael H
Michael has been writing professionally since the early 1990’s. Published and syndicated around the world, he has worked as a columnist and contributor for The Guardian and other UK papers including The Sunday Times and the Mail on Sunday, is a magazine features writer. He has been a contributing editor at Esquire for over a decade, as well as working as a screenwriter, author, and teacher. As a journalist, Michael specializes in arts and creative coverage as well as real life reportage, interviews, profiles, and biography. He has a particular interest and experience in issues relating to mental health and psychology. He has both won and been shortlisted for journalism awards in the UK including PPA and PTC writer of the year. Accustomed to working with A list and emerging talent as both a journalist and collaborator, Michael has rewritten feature projects for Warner Brothers and Disney as well as independent productions.
United Kingdom
Junior
Dizz T
Dizz is a UK-based fiction writer. She has been published in various international magazines including The Stinging Fly, Dazed, The Tangerine, Five Dials, Prism International and No Tokens Journal. In 2018, she won the Bristol prize for short fiction. In 2019, she won the Best Original Fiction award from Stack Magazines, and in 2020, she was longlisted for the Sunday Times Short Story Award.
United Kingdom
Junior
Helen F
As a published author of several books, two of which were oral histories, articles and short stories, Helen is adept at engaging people into relaying their stories in a relaxed and interesting manner. A Diploma in Creative Writing from the Regent Academy, London and a background as a legal secretary, has given Helen the skills to write professionally and precisely. Free time is spent researching her Italian ancestor from newspaper archives, online resources and original material; sewing with her vintage machines; enjoying time with the family exploring the outdoors, driving and maintaining their classic vehicles.
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
Cara B
As a professional writer, fiction editor, and creative translator (DE-EN), Cara knows how to tap into that emotional bond between writer and reader. A writer of historical fiction (her novel was shortlisted in the Cinnamon Press Pencil Prize), she understands what makes a story work and how to communicate through effective prose. With research degrees from Glasgow and Oxford, she is an expert in getting to the core of your story and presenting your narrative in a clear and engaging way. A passionate gardener, Cara loves to help flowers and stories flourish.
United Kingdom
Senior
Robin T
Robin is a writer and author who has written about subjects ranging from conspiracy theories to global surveillance, oil markets to North Korean tourism. He’s lived and worked in Chicago, Moscow, Beijing, Hanoi and Pyongyang, his most recent foray being Berlin in 2018 where he finished his debut novel, “Mr Whippy Goes to Schaumberg”, about ice-cream wars in Chicago. An erstwhile professional actor and freelance North Korea tour leader, he is currently in London working as an ambulance technician. When he can, he heads north to Newcastle to see his wife and dog.
United Kingdom
Senior
Steve M
Throughout his working life, Steve has written for governments, companies and trade associations. As a British diplomat in the first half of his career, he lived and worked in parts of Asia and Africa and throughout the Middle East. He then got a taste for helping companies in the Middle East like HSBC and the Qatar Financial Centre tell their stories and promote themselves. His freelance writing since returning back to the UK has included speeches, reports and his own reflections on a long and interesting life abroad. He is a keen choral singer and a regular, but sadly under-achieving, golfer.
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.
United Kingdom
Premium
Alex B
Alex is an academic, model, fashion activist and writer. She has recently published a book about contemporary fashion in Indonesia, and is currently researching fashion, embroidery and social integration of refugees. Of Italian origin, Alex was schooled in Italy and in the UK and studied for her degree(s) in London, obtaining a PhD in Art History and Archaeology from SOAS, University of London. She has travelled extensively in south and southeast Asia, and lectured at several universities in the UK and Europe.
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.
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