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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Canada
Senior
Angela J
Angela is a writer, an entrepreneur and the author of the nonfiction book <i>Trillions on the Table</i>. She loves her son, her cats and her red wine. Angela created and instructed her own serving course and wrote a dating blog with 90k+ reads. Currently, she is a consultant and a lifestyle blogger for Sixty and Me, with an online community of over 500k readers. Her Forbes hotel background allows her to connect easily with clients; active listening and genuine interest is how your story will be crafted, in your voice.
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
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
Junior
Nicola H
After a teaching career in secondary education, and ten years as a senior examiner for the UK’s largest examination board, Nicola studied MA Psychology at London Metropolitan University. Then she found a new passion for social history through a new role as a funeral celebrant, helping families to tell their loved one’s story and celebrate their lives. Nicola loves to read, walk her dog and plan the next adventure in her campervan, with her husband.
Netherlands
Senior
Igor D
Igor schrijft sinds 2015 levensverhalen en heeft er ondertussen meer dan vijfentwintig op zijn actief. Daarnaast werkt hij als redacteur mee aan tal van boeken. Zoals Over Tinnitus, over mensen die lijden aan oorsuizen en Op zoek naar vaste grond, een portret van de Somalische vluchtelinge Ayan. Beiden publicaties van Uitgeverij Manteau. Igor is ook docent van een cursus portretschrijven en schrijft in opdracht van tal van organisaties en bedrijven. Hij houdt van fietsen en droomt er nog altijd van om ooit de bolletjestrui in de Tour de France te winnen.
United Kingdom
Senior
Don M
Don is an award-winning journalist with 12 years’ experience and has written for the Yorkshire Weekly Newspaper Group, the Yorkshire Post and inews. Don was educated in North Yorkshire, before moving to Leeds in 1998. After working in a number of different jobs, he retrained as a journalist in 2005 and went on to become a specialist health reporter, covering Yorkshire NHS trusts. Outside of work, Don plays the guitar in blues and skiffle bands. He offers an empathic interviewing style and the ability to write compellingly and sensitively.
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
Adam F
Adam has worked as a Writer, Director and Performer in theatre for 20 years and has been involved in over 50 professional shows that have toured the UK and Europe. Currently writing his third novel manuscript while studying a Creative Writing MA at Bath Spa University, Adam enjoys exploring the realms of reality and imagination that speak of human relationships and the tiny, glowing moments in life. Adam is an avid reader and music lover who also enjoys the beauty and wonder of landscape and sea.
United Kingdom
Junior
Ben P
Ben is, unashamedly, an optimist. It’s a trait that’s served him well along the famously soul-crushing path of a freelance filmmaker, a career he pursues to satisfy his insatiable appetite for storytelling. It’s also helped him navigate a career as a writer. He’s at his best telling stories about real people and their own quests to make sense of the world, striving to share some of those slices of human truth that show us how rich and wonderful life can be.
Netherlands
Senior
Angelique vd P
Een levenslange fascinatie voor geschiedenis en dan met name het verhaal achter de geschiedenis, achter een gebouw, of vergeten verhalen uit archieven. Met mijn eigen bedrijf Verhalenschat vooral gespecialiseerd in Amsterdamse geschiedenis en de Tweede Wereldoorlog waar ik verschillende publicaties over heb geschreven en gastelessen/lezingen over geef, maar zelf ben ik veel breder georiënteerd. Ik ben eigenlijk altijd bezig met het uitbreiden van mijn kennis door lezen, documentaires en reizen.
Netherlands
Senior
Annet M
Eens journalist, altijd journalist. Dat is het motto van Annet, die na een halve eeuw nog altijd niets liever doet dan schrijven. Als socioloog heeft ze een scherp afgestelde antenne voor maatschappelijke en persoonlijke problematiek. Als redacteur van de weekbladen HP, HP/DeTijd en het maandblad Psy schreef ze talloze reportages over incest, verslaving, psychiatrie, ongewilde kinderloosheid, kindermishandeling, dementie en aanverwante onderwerpen. De reportages wisselde ze af met portretterende interviews met klassieke musici van naam en faam. In 2019 voltooide ze -in opdracht- haar eerste levensverhaal en wist dat hier haar toekomst moest liggen. Reflecteren op het leven impliceert een spannende zoektocht die ze graag begeleidt.
United Kingdom
Senior
Lorraine L
Lorraine has always been creative. In fact, at the age of thirteen, she won first prize in a songwriting competition. Before becoming a writer, Lorraine worked as a nurse, receiving university qualifications from both Dublin and Galway City. Her passion for writing has taken on a whole new level in recent years. She self-published her childhood memoir in 2020 and her adult memoir in 2021. Lorraine is truly an altruistic writer combining compassion with professional editing. She now works as a freelance author, specialising in memoir creation.
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
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
Anne-L
Anne-Louise is a natural storyteller, with a genuine warm interest in people and she loves nothing better than unlocking your stories. A former English teacher, for the past decade she has been working as a features writer for a Bristol magazine, focusing on community good news. She takes great pleasure too, meeting her varied guests on her radio show, which provides her with a platform to celebrate her love of the outdoors and to share her podcasts, Walking & Talking. Anne-Louise is well experienced in interviewing people and conveying their narrative in a print, digital or audio format.
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.
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
Humphrey K
Humphrey is a qualified lawyer, seasoned journalist, historian and biographer. He mostly writes for law firms, and has clocked up six law firm histories. He likes to weave personal stories in with social and political history. He wrote the life story of his father-in-law, a diplomat whose professional life was dominated by the Cold War, and of his former boss’s father and mother, whose lives spanned the 20th century. When not penning words, Humphrey is often to be found on the sports field or attending concerts (more recently, in his mind).
United Kingdom
Premium
Conal U
Conal's driving passions are history and international culture. This led him to study history at the University of Edinburgh and work in Italy and France before starting life as a journalist. Over the course of his career, Conal has written for major titles in the UK and the US. Conal was particularly proud covering events in the Balkans and the Middle East where he lived for nine years. He loves anything to do with water, swimming, kayaking and diving, and this year he’s resumed playing football and touch rugby.
Netherlands
Senior
Saskia L
Saskia is journalist en tekstschrijver en heeft een speciale interesse voor het persoonlijke verhaal in zijn historische context. Hoe ontwikkelt een leven zich en welke rol speelt de tijdgeest daarin? Voor het Algemeen Dagblad schreef Saskia meer dan honderd afleveringen van de rubriek Van Wieg tot Graf, waarin ze nabestaanden het levensverhaal van hun dierbare liet vertellen. Haar grote interesse in geschiedenis kon ze voor die krant kwijt in de historische rubriek De Tijdreis. Saskia publiceerde twee boeken waarin het persoonlijke verhaal centraal staat. In Dordrecht, stad in oorlogstijd (2015, met co-auteur Caty Groen) komen ruim tachtig ouderen aan het woord die de Tweede Wereldoorlog meemaakten. En Dochters van Dordrecht (2020) bevat de levensverhalen van vrouwen uit de geschiedenis van Saskia’s woonplaats Dordrecht. Voor StoryTerrace schreef ze de afgelopen jaren meerdere levensverhalen en jubileumboeken. In de jubileumboeken over bedrijven of organisaties zocht Saskia ook naar persoonlijke verhalen die op de achtergrond spelen of speelden. Ze interviewde in en om Dordrecht eigenaren van oude familiebedrijven, zoals een chique herenmodezaak of de oudste zaadhandel van de stad. Ook een deurenfabrikant, een keukenboer, horecaondernemers, hoveniers, architecten, een voormalige circusbaas en vele anderen liet ze aan het woord.
United Kingdom
Junior
Fiona B
Fiona’s passion for words was born in childhood, as she made up bedtime stories to help her brother sleep – though sometimes they kept him awake instead! She has a Master’s degree in English, and spent years honing her skills as a copywriter, then as creative director, at top international advertising agencies like BBDO, Young & Rubicam, and Ogilvy & Mather. Since moving to the UK from South Africa in 2019 (and staying at home like the rest of the world), she has rediscovered the art of storytelling purely for the love of it.
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
Nicki B
Following an extensive marketing career within the music, film and publishing world for Time Warner, Virgin and Viacom, Nicki set up her own PR Consultancy with Dreamworks Films USA as her first client. She founded ‘The Influential Women Podcast’ as host presenter and executive producer and has appeared as a radio guest and presenter on BBC Essex, BBC Radio Suffolk and Cambridge 105FM. Her passion for storytelling, positive good news stories and strong narrative with an emotive arch is what drives her stories, giving women and men a voice while supporting health and wellness.
United Kingdom
Senior
Claire M
Claire has been writing professionally for 13 years. After graduating from the University of Derby with a BA in English, she trained as a Journalist and worked for local newspapers – the Lichfield Mercury, Tamworth Herald and Sutton Coldfield Observer. She went on to work as a Features Writer, Copywriter and Editor for various companies around Birmingham and Staffordshire. She’s now a Freelance Copywriter, working from home in Lichfield with her husband, two small children and lovely rescued greyhound.
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