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.
All writers
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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.
Netherlands
Junior
Julia-Beth H
Born in Cape Town, as the youngest of a lively family, Julia-Beth’s first role was that of observer. Crafting this attentiveness into a lifelong practice of writing and documenting ultimately led to a study in creative writing at the International Writer’s Collective in Amsterdam, where she’s now based. With a background in Graphic and Fashion Design, her words embody a visual, multi-layered quality, which brings the everyday anecdote to life. Julia-Beth works as creative copywriter for art instituions such as Nxt Museum, she also does commissioned poetry for dance and fashion performances. As a seasoned bed and breakfast owner, Julia-Beth’s enthusiasm for stories from varied backgrounds meets her passion for writing in bespoke ghostwriting services.
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
Rod G
Rod is an experienced journalist, ghostwriter and author with two decades of experience. He has written for just about every UK daily or Sunday newspaper, mainly across sport and lifestyle. Rod has written seven books, including several autobiographies, and has been nominated for awards including the prestigious William Hill Sports Book of the Year. Across his career - including several years at the Daily Telegraph and still as a freelancer - he has relished helping people and sportspersons tell their tales with open confidence, trust and avid storytelling. Rod’s passions lie in listening to people’s life stories, music, history, travel, any sport going and simply being by the ocean.
United Kingdom
Senior
Nadine W
Formerly an editor for a trade publication, Nadine turned to becoming a professional storyteller after delving into her own mother’s survival as a baby during the Second World War. Nadine loves any human-interest story but her heartfelt passion is to tell the stories of those brave individuals who have been able to overcome trauma to lead full lives. She is most at home tapping a way on her rose-coloured laptop, creating legacies for the people she has had the privilege of meeting.
United Kingdom
Premium
Liz G
Liz has been writing and editing books and magazines for over thirty years. She’s ghostwritten bestsellers for people on TV (Suzie Fletcher from BBC’s The Repair Shop and Florence St George from Channel 4’s The Great Pottery Throwdown) or in the public eye (sometimes you have to sign a NDA so she can’t say who!). She’s written biographies about John Lennon (Short Books), David Bowie (Ammonite) and Nelson Mandela (Hodder) - to name a few. These days Liz is mostly collaborating with others to help them turn their life stories into beautiful books. But she always has a soft spot for everyday heroes and extraordinary characters - she reckons everyone has a tale to tell. By capturing individual voices, adding little details and scattering in a few special, intimate moments, Liz gets to the heart of every story…
United Kingdom
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Marion M
Marion is a writer and documentary film maker specialising in life stories. She is a New York Festival Gold Medal Winner for biography, and the writer and director of an Emmy award-winning documentary feature on the courage of the greatest generation who made D-Day happen. She is also Grierson Award and Royal Television Society nominee for her work, and the recipient of two special commendations by the Association of International Broadcasters. Her global, in-depth interviews range from Hiroshima survivors to Hollywood superstars. Her speciality is drawing people out and creating a lasting testimony from their own words. These include conversations with a British Prime Minister, two American Presidents and with our own King at his Welsh hideaway in his last years as Prince of Wales, who confided about what it was like to face the world’s cameras as a shy young man at his investiture. She has met soldiers and children of wars. She has travelled with a much-loved British actor to find his family’s roots in Barbados. She has met a grown man who as a boy sheltered Martin Luther King in his home in the era of the Birmingham riots. She is a fluent French speaker, and has interviewed heroes of the Resistance, Paris fashionistas, and political agitators. Along the way she has been privileged to transform these conversations into compelling biographies. Marion would love to write your story. To find out what makes you tick, to explore your own memories, and discover the world that shaped you.
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.
United Kingdom
Senior
Victoria L
Victoria is a former intensive care nurse who has been fascinated by the stories people have shared with her about their lives over the years, their struggles, regrets and joys. Now a journalist and writer, Victoria combines her natural empathy with her creative ability to help you reach for the words you want to say to craft a lasting memoir for generations to come.
United Kingdom
Premium
Sophie M L
Sophie is a multi-award-winning journalist, ghost writer and content creator with Masters' in Journalism, Philosophy, and Italian. She has written a range of books for celebrities and influencers alongside her work as a journalist and columnist for national magazines and newspapers. She has been published in Metro, Huffington Post, Daily Mirror, The Independent, Grazia Magazine and The Sunday Times as well as extensively across online publications. Heavily involved in broadcasting on TV and radio, Sophie has also worked for Channel 4 News, ITV News and BBC News to name but a few. Sophie has helped to catapult people to international acclaim. She loves nothing more than telling people’s stories in the most powerful way through words, audio and visual. Sophie specialises in social affairs issues, health, enterprise and business as well as life stories.
United Kingdom
Premium
Rebecca C
Rebecca is a writer and documentary-maker and was one of the first writers to join our pool. Alongside writing, she directs and produces observational documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4. While studying English and Drama at Queen Mary, University of London, she trained as a helpline counsellor and worked as a journalist for a mental health magazine. Rebecca grew up in the Nottinghamshire countryside surrounded by dogs, cats and a family of six; being one of triplets. She is a keen swimmer, rock climber and photographer.
United Kingdom
Senior
MaryAnn I
MaryAnn is a Nigerian writer with a deep love for languages, psychology, and film. She is fluent in Spanish and has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Hertfordshire. MaryAnn has been published in the African Writer’s Magazine and the Kalahari Review. She was shortlisted for the 2011 UBA National Essay Writing Competition, the 2017 African Rubiz Prize for Prose, and, most recently, the 2023 Fab Prize for Children’s Fiction. Her novella, An Estate of Ironies, was also a finalist for the 2024 WTAW Alcove Chapbook Competition, while her short story Mykonos in Congealed Blood was published as part of Flame Tree Publishing’s African Ghost Stories Anthology in April 2024. MaryAnn is a long-distance mom to two adorable cats and currently lives in England, where she spends time teaching, traveling, writing, and daydreaming.
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
Junior
Darius A
Darius' journey as a writer kickstarted with his desire to extend the memory of his existence past his lifetime, and with the mantra, "There is nothing more permanent than words inked onto paper". Studying English & Creative Writing at University College Dublin, Darius worked as a journalist, and has since published several short stories and poems online, and has worked on multiple long-form projects, as an active member on the Fiverr and Medium platforms. Darius hopes to extend his mission to others, and help them jot down their names and stories in such ways that would never be forgotten.
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.
United Kingdom
Senior
Caroline W
Caroline is a historian, passionate about telling the tales of ordinary folk. A proud Liverpudlian, she studied history at Cambridge University. She became a solicitor, latterly as a Director of Legal, but returned to study her first love, obtaining a doctorate from Oxford University. Her research, inspired by her port town roots, led ultimately to a fellowship at the National Maritime Museum. She is now writing a book based on that research, The Forgotten Boys of the Sea. See www.carolinewithall.com. She enjoys piano, dancing and activities with her family.
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
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.
United Kingdom
Premium
Ian M
After university, Ian trained at The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and worked successfully as an actor. Inspired by the words of great writers such as Shakespeare, Coward and Rattigan, he ran a new-writing theatre company at The Young Vic Studio, writing and directing ten plays. He wrote a book based on this experience, <em>Special Talents, Special Needs</em>, which was translated into several languages. He went on to write for the Guardian, the Independent, the Wall Street Journal et al. People’s stories fascinate Ian and profiles are one of his greatest passions.
United Kingdom
Premium
Angela H
Angela developed a listening ear as a teacher and as a hospital volunteer. She enjoys hearing people’s life experiences, believing we should all cherish what makes us unique. Her short stories have been published in Prima, Fiction Feast, Kookie, Yours and in anthologies plus articles published in The Times Educational Supplement, Stella (the Sunday Telegraph) Woman Alive, The People’s Friend, The Dalesman, Writing Magazine and newspapers. Endeavour Press published two novels. Angela leads writing classes, enjoys travel, dog walks, swimming, reading and being a member of the WI.
United Kingdom
Premium
Peter B
Peter has published 20+ titles, either as named author or ghost writer, by Weidenfeld and Nicolson, Hodder & Stoughton, Headline, Macmillan, Bloomsbury, Orion and others. Peter has also written for The Guardian, The Independent, and Kensington & Chelsea Today and has wide commercial experience in the fashion industry, publishing, furniture and antiques retailing. An enthusiastic walker, Peter has undertaken a number of long walks, most notably from Sarajevo to Medjugorje in Bosnia; now widely in Wales and the Marches.
United Kingdom
Junior
Angela Y
Angela is a former school teacher and experienced freelance writer who has written for clients including Reader’s Digest, Stylist, and The Evening Standard. Because teachers never really leave education behind, Angela regularly produces educational materials for several careers and revision companies. When not writing for clients, Angela is completing her novel for children, which was longlisted for Write Mentor’s Novel-in-Development award. She also collaborates with her singer-songwriter brother, telling stories through lyrics and the beauty of music.
United Kingdom
Developmental Editor
Claire Dean
With more than 21 years’ experience in the publishing industry, Claire Dean (UK) has established great working relationships with many prestigious publishing houses, including HarperCollins, Orion/Hachette, Hay House, Bloomsbury, Bonnier, Poolbeg and Flame Tree. A few years back, she co-founded a limited publishing company to help authors bring their work up to a publishable standard, get their book in print and keep their work in the marketplace. She has edited hundreds of manuscripts, from fiction to nonfiction, including the Sunday Times bestseller Everyone Has a Plan Until They Get Punched in the Face by British boxing legend Tony Bellew (Orion); the #1 Sunday Times bestsellers Good Vibes, Good Life and Healing is the New High by Vex King (Hay House UK); and the New York Times bestseller The Sisters of Auschwitz by Roxane van Iperen (Harper).
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.
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