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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Netherlands
Senior
Willem C
Willem is schrijver, journalist en columnist. Het liefst schrijft hij verhalen waarin hij het kleine (zoals een treffende anekdote) kan verbinden aan het grote (zoals een ingrijpende gebeurtenis in iemands leven). Speciale belangstelling heeft hij voor familieverhoudingen, geschiedenis, identiteit en afkomst. Zelf is hij afkomstig uit een boerengezin. Willem studeerde journalistiek en geschiedenis. Hij schrijft columns voor De Gelderlander en publiceerde een roman en twee verhalenbundels. Naast zijn werk houdt hij zich bezig met lezen, films kijken, muziek luisteren en beachvolleyballen. Hij is getrouwd en heeft twee kinderen.
United Kingdom
Senior
Kelly R
Kelly began her writing career contributing sketches for radio and television programmes, and had work produced by the BBC for the Russ Abbot Show. With a genuine interest, some may say nosiness, in other people’s lives, she has recently found her passion for ghostwriting, and is currently working on her fourth celebrity autobiography. Kelly loves theatre and was a judge for the Great British Pantomime Awards in 2018. She has been invited again for the 2021 season. In her spare time, she is a member of Bournemouth Rock Choir.
United Kingdom
Senior
Nicky P
Nicky is a best selling author, true crime buff, and has over 20 years experience working on B2B magazines. Working for professional member bodies such as the Federation of Small Businesses and Equity the Actors’ Union, Nicky got her degree in creative writing and had over 30 short stories featured in anthologies by publishers including Walker Books and Little Brown Books. She has 5 YA novellas published by Evernight Teen. In December 2020 her debut thriller, published by Harper Collins, became a Tesco bestseller.
United Kingdom
Junior
Stephanie
Stephanie is a Creative Writing BA graduate with a 1st class degree, specialising in non-fiction. After her dissertation, focused on her great-aunt’s experiences in a Russian gulag, Stephanie worked as a freelancer: writing for video games, translating from French to English, personal comedic tales and accounts of experienced trauma. She wrote her first book aged 7, stappling the pages together and scribbling in an ISBN number on the back. Needless to say, writing is her passion. Stephanie is currently studying an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Hull.
United Kingdom
Junior
Radmila S
Radmila is a former Microsoft and Google engineer who fell in love with storytelling. Her writing experience ranges from computer code behind artificial intelligence algorithms, to presentations and demos for high-tech executives, to theatre plays produced on the London stage, to wedding speeches. Her favorite hobbies are surfing and pruning the vines in her parents’ vineyard near Belgrade, in exchange for pear brandy and barbeque ribs.
United Kingdom
Senior
Greg W
Greg started out as a journalist, writing for publications such as The Times and the Evening Standard, and later doing stints in TV and radio. During his career as an author, he has ghosted ten books, including Don’t Drop the Coffin!, a memoir of a London undertaker, and From Gangland to Promised Land, the autobiography of a reformed gangster. His own books include a biography of Rembrandt, a comic novel, two memoirs, and the award-winning Ole! Ole! Passion on a Plate: The Rise of Spanish Cuisine in London.
United Kingdom
Developmental Editor
Nicola Doherty
Nicola has over twenty years’ experience in the publishing industry, both in trade publishing, and as an award-winning and bestselling author in her own right. She began her career working for Hodder & Stoughton, where she launched the literary careers of bestsellers Max Pemberton and Rae Earl, and worked with authors including Andy Riley, Graham Norton and Al Murray. She has also published eight novels in total, most recently with Penguin/Michael Joseph. She has worked as a consultant editor for the Romantic Novelists’ Association, Cornerstones Literary Consultancy, Curtis Brown Creative and HarperCollins among others. She loves working with authors and storytellers, finding that the best approach starts with positive feedback and a careful listening ear.
United Kingdom
Senior
Christopher L
Christopher has spent many years as an agency and freelance ghostwriter, helping people find their voice and tell their story. He established the editorial department at a publishing house for empowering, survival-against-the-odds stories – not misery memoirs as some people call them! He’s worked with a few people you may have heard of – including ex-Blue Peter and Sky Sports presenter, Simon Thomas on the Daily Mail’s ‘most moving book’ of 2019. After three decades writing, Christopher remains just as thrilled to be telling so many unique, powerful, and moving stories.
United Kingdom
Senior
Corinna C
Corinna has always been curious about people and their stories. She honed her storytelling craft with a BA in Film and Theatre, followed by a year of acting at The Oxford School of Drama. She wrote and starred in a 5-star reviewed play at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and gained a place on a writer’s program at the Royal Court Theatre in London. Now a ghostwriter (and actor), her curiosity continues to drive her to find and tell the stories that need to be told.
United Kingdom
Premium
Melanie L
Melanie is a highly experienced and qualified writer, coach, facilitator and retreat director. She has been helping others tell their stories for twenty years. Her debut novel, ‘Little Dancer,’ the fictionalised story of Marie van Goethem, the girl behind Degas’ iconic sculpture, will be published in 2022 and available in all good bookshops.
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
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.
Netherlands
Senior
Hagar J
‘Later word ik journalist.’ Als kind had Hagar jarenlang een briefje boven haar bed hangen met die woorden. Inmiddels is ze vierendertig en heeft ze geschreven voor tientallen kranten en tijdschriften, waaronder NRC, Trouw en Flow. Ze maakte verhalen in binnen-en buitenland. Bijvoorbeeld in Spanje waar ze vijf jaar correspondent was voor onder andere het Parool. Tegenwoordig woont Hagar weer in haar geboortestad Amsterdam en schrijft ze vooral over psychologie, carrière en het leven van de hedendaagse dertiger.
United Kingdom
Junior
Zoe K
Born and raised in the US, Zoe moved to Cardiff to get her BA in Journalism, Media and English Literature. She has written for a number of online publications, covering everything from current events to book and theatre reviews. She likes to have a finger in every literary pie, having published poetry as well as writing and directing her own one-act play. When she’s not writing, you can find her feeding the local birds, baking, or curled up with a book.
Senior
Batul T
Batul is an entrepreneurial and creative spirit, seeking to understand the driving stories behind people, and to establish genuine connections. Having lived in North America, South Asia & the Middle East, her career is shaped by a global perspective. Batul studied English Literature at the University of Toronto and have since woven her love for narrative into every role: she has written for lifestyle publications, as a creative copywriter at ad agencies, and a marketer for the Aga Khan Museum. Batul is also a children’s author, twice published by Oxford University Press.
United Kingdom
Senior
Liz F
Liz is a natural storyteller and lifelong wordsmith, but most of all, a really great listener. She has spent the past 20 years writing for women's magazines and immersing herself in tales of people from all walks of life. She believes our stories are what make us who we are, and she loves getting to know the narratives that live beneath the skins of strangers. She's trodden an interesting and varied path that's led her to where she is now - a single mum of a wonderful 10-year-old boy. In her spare time she loves to play the piano, sing, crochet granny squares, and her entire wardrobe is from the 1960s and 1970s.
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.
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.
United Kingdom
Senior
Sam E
Sam is a screenwriter, award winning filmmaker, and (almost) award winning stand-up comedian. He lived in Paris for many years, producing theatre and running comedy shows. However he returned to London because he missed the food and good weather. He studied film production at university and has an MA Screenwriting from the National Film and Television School. He’s taught English, worked in advertising and now freelances as a writer and video editor. Basically, Sam speaks in visuals but he has also been known to speak in broken French.
Netherlands
Senior
Kim S
Kim is kunsthistorica en letterkundige en schrijft voor de Historische Kring Breukelen en de Vechtstroom. Haar passies zijn reizen, lezen en schrijven. Ze joeg haar droom na en maakte met haar partner een reis van negen maanden door Zuidoost Afrika waar ze een boek over schreef. Niet lang daarna verhuisden ze naar Kenia, waar ze vier jaar woonden. Terug in Nederland is Kim begonnen om mensen te helpen hun levensverhaal op te schrijven.
United Kingdom
Senior
Patrick M
Born to a Chilean-Dutch mother and an Anglo-Argentine father, I had already lived in Italy, America, Peru, Egypt, and Spain by the time I came to the UK aged 11. Since starting my writing career covering the civil war in Yemen, I have worked on a wide variety of projects from kids’ series such as Shaun the Sheep to major wildlife series such as Human Planet. In 2017, I wrote and directed my first feature film which won Best Film at the British Independent Film Festival. To me, stories are everything.
Netherlands
Senior
Enno de W & Marry D
Enno de Witt schrijft al ruim dertig jaar allerhande verhalen over van alles en nog wat voor uiteenlopende media. Hij is de auteur van ondermeer De grens, langs de randen van Nederland (Athenaeum – Polak & Van Gennep) en werkt momenteel aan een nieuw boek over ruzie in de vaderlandse geschiedenis. Enno is een ervaren interviewer en helpt bij het schrijven van levensverhalen. Zijn laatste boekproject was de bestseller Menthol van Frank Drake. Voor StoryTerrace werkt Enno samen met zijn partner Marry Dijkshoorn: tevens schrijver en biograaf. Ze vullen elkaar aan en zullen als duo een persoonlijk en getailleerd boek maken voor onze klanten.
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
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).
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