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
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.
Netherlands
Senior
Freek W
Freek uit Ede laat zich graag raken door de levens van personen. ‘Iedereen heeft een verhaal’, is zijn motto. Van de bevlogen predikant en gedreven ondernemer tot de flamboyante kunstenaar. Hij heeft dertig jaar ervaring in de journalistiek, kan met álle genres uit de voeten en is hoofdredacteur van een muziekmagazine. De laatste jaren schrijft hij bij uitstek achtergrondverhalen voor een regionaal dagblad. Human interest staat voorop. Mountainbiken, (berg)wandelen, fotografie, voetbal en vooral muziek zijn de passies, naast het schrijven.
United Kingdom
Premium
Amarpreet B
Amarpreet enjoyed writing stories when he was a child, but somewhere along the line he abandoned his writerly ambitions. In 2008, he purchased a copy of Richard Yates’s <em>Revolutionary Road</em> and his passion for writing was rekindled. Indeed, Amarpreet’s prose is so delicately rich that we hardly believe he sidelines as an IT consultant too, a rare and exciting breed of writer. He’s currently working on a novel, having acquired an MA in Creative Writing from City University whilst working for an investment firm in Canary Wharf.
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
Senior
Erica W
Erica left Oxford with a degree in English and a blue in ballroom dancing. She’s since notched up 16 years in the media, ever since the BBC selected her for its prestigious journalism training and set her writing for flagship shows like Breakfast TV and Radio 4’s Today. A long-running autobiographical series for ITV and thousands of hours of interviews under her belt, Erica is something of an expert when it comes to story-telling. She loves nothing more than helping people express their tales in a wonderfully captivating way.
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
Premium
Martin D
Martin caught the writing bug after researching the life of his great-great grandfather (a nineteenth century soldier). After finding out so much information about him, he thought it might make for an interesting book. The book was well received and Martin’s writing career was underway! Now, with over ten fiction and non-fiction books to his name, as well as his family history, Martin lists his home city as one of his great inspirations. “Carlisle has over two-thousand years of history dating back to the Romans – if you can’t find something there of interest, there’s no hope for you!”
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
Premium
Traci O
An American poet living in the Channel Islands, Traci is the author of two poetry collections for which she received a Seed Funding Grant from Arthouse Jersey. Her writing appears in BBC Radio Jersey, Poetry, Literary Matters, The Jersey Evening Post, and elsewhere. She has two master’s degrees in creative writing from Johns Hopkins University and serves as an editor for multiple international literary journals. Traci loves to help others tell their stories. She has taught writing and literature in France and the Caribbean, and she currently teaches creative writing workshops in Jersey, writes for several lifestyle magazines, hosts a one-hour radio programme, and edits books for international authors.
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
Senior
Charlotte
Charlotte has two History degrees, 16+ years of experience in editing and writing. She also has a non-fiction book published, it’s about people looking to move into a healing/therapy career and is half interviews and case studies, and half her own research. Charlotte has a beautiful dog, almost 12 (11 and ¾) and lives in Kent on the coast.
United Kingdom
Senior
Paul P
Paul is a fiction and non-fiction writer with an extensive professional background in cognitive skills and wellbeing. A personal epiphany in his thirties led him to undertake a series of epic adventures, testing his physical and mental endurance in the wild places of the world. For Paul, telling our own stories and hearing the stories of others is integral to finding meaning as we navigate a path through the trials and joys of life. By consciously placing ourselves at the heart of our own story, we can make sense of chapters gone and shape chapters yet to come.
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
Lance P
Lance has been a university academic and writer of non fiction for 30 years. As a Professor, he has a PhD (NUI Dublin) and four other degrees to his name. He has written three books, edited several others along with journals and is currently writing a novel. Interviewing people and oral history is key to his research. Lance has taught the world over: Germany, Brazil, Austria, Spain, Ireland, across a wide age range in formal university, school and community college settings. When he's not writing, he channels the depths of his writing experience to act as a private writing mentor to others.
Canada
Senior
A.J. L
A.J. is a freelance writer and genealogist whose biographies and obituaries have appeared in The Globe & Mail and The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. He is also a former book reviewer for the Winnipeg Free Press. He is passionate about family history, writing, and the way both traditional research and genetics can illuminate our ancestry. In his spare time, he writes poetry, studies language, and plays several musical instrument.
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
PRO
Premium
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.
Canada
Senior
Tahiat M
Tahiat is a multimedia storyteller. Her work has appeared on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Global News, CTV News, Asia Society, The Daily Star, etc. She has also taught at Columbia University and CUNY. Her career spans two decades across America, Bangladesh and Canada. Along the way she took some detours, as a fashion designer, an IT technician, a community organizer, a data analyst, and most recently — for a hot minute — a construction worker. Tahiat is currently in the Online News Association Women’s Leadership Accelerator. When she’s not producing stories, Tahiat volunteers as a frontline healthcare worker.
United Kingdom
Developmental Editor
Eleanor Leese
Eleanor Leese (UK) has been a freelance editor for fifteen years and has worked with top publishers including Penguin Random House, where she was the editor for the upcoming book Speed, Aggression, Surprise: The Secret Origins of the Special Air Service by writer/director Tom Petch. She also edited The Stone Mason: A History of Building Britain by Andrew Ziminski, which was published by John Murray Press and called “delightful” by the The Daily Telegraph and “absorbing and engaging” by the Times Literary Supplement. Eleanor specialises in history non-fiction and has a postgraduate qualification in Historical Studies from the University of Oxford. She also enjoys narrative non-fiction on the topics of local history or genealogy, politics, political memoir, and true crime. When she’s not at her desk, Eleanor can usually be found chasing down forgotten historical women in an archive or library, continuing her extensive research into women in the sixteenth century.
United Kingdom
Senior
Alice M
Alice’s writing is driven by discovery. She recently travelled through India, Nepal and Thailand, sharing stories along the way in travel blogs, articles and photos. Alice balances writing alongside teaching yoga and managing local arts projects. Since graduating from Queen Mary University of London with a degree in English and Drama, she has also written scripts and theatre reviews. Alice regularly stretches her way across the globe in search of adventure. She has been kayaking with killer whales, diving in the Great Barrier Reef and trekking in the Himalayas.
United Kingdom
PRO
Premium
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Debbie M
Debbie grew up in Belfast before leaving to study English Literature at Trinity College Dublin, and then moving to London, where she still lives with her family. She started her career as an entertainment journalist, travelling the world to speak with A-list actors, musicians, and artists, such as Angelina Jolie and Tracey Emin, before expanding her roster to include authors, politicians, activists and entrepreneurs. She also has extensive experience in live events, interviewing and producing talks with an eclectic range of authors from Salman Rushdie to Caitlin Moran. As a ghostwriter she specialises in book proposals, taking a holistic approach, working with writers to hone a solid intention for telling their story and considering marketing potential post-publication, even at this earliest of stages. In this era of communication overload, Debbie believes that story telling strongly rooted in authenticity is the only way to connect in a meaningful – and successful - way with an audience. Amongst her completed work is a recent book on medical aesthetics with a Harley Street doctor for Penguin, and a book of interviews for a celebrity portrait photographer. Her personal interests lie in psychology and wellbeing, listening to podcasts and watching terrible films. She joined a book club for the first time in her life last year.
United Kingdom
Junior
Sarah S EB
Sarah is a writer and translator born in Paris. She pursued her childhood obsessions — food and books — into adulthood, earning a BA in English Literature from the University of Exeter and a Master of Gastronomy from the University of Gastronomic Sciences. She is of Moroccan and Indian descent, and has lived in five different countries in the last decade, which has only deepened her appreciation for the universal ability of meals and stories to comfort and connect. Naturally curious and precise with her words, Sarah would love to help bring your voice to the page.
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.
United Kingdom
Junior
Laurence C
Laurence is an experienced writer with a passion for languages and travel. He was fortunate enough to work as a travel journalist in Myanmar between 2016-2018, during its all-too-brief spell of democracy, and has since worked as a reporter for two newspapers on the Costa del Sol, Spain. A keen storyteller, his fiction has appeared in The Satirist and The Dark Lane Anthology Volume 12. He has an MA in Comparative Literature from The University of Heidelberg, Germany.
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