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
Developmental Editor
Elaine Tuffery
Elaine has over 25 years’ experience in publishing as an editor, commissioning editor, development editor and publisher. Born and raised in Bristol with degrees in History and Law, and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice, Elaine worked as a paralegal for a commercial law firm in London and then in various publishing roles for professional law publishers. Moving from the hustle and bustle of London to rural Oxfordshire, Elaine worked for publishers on professional, vocational and educational texts. At Oxford University Press, she set up and managed a team of development editors working on new works and major new editions. For the last 15 years, Elaine has been working as a freelance editor on vocational, academic and educational texts for a range of publishers. Her interests include travel and award-winning photography which she was able to combine some years ago on a six-month sabbatical to travel the world. When she isn’t busy with her two children, she enjoys reading, cycling, walking her dog around the country lanes of her village, coffee with friends and volunteering for local charities.
United Kingdom
Senior
Jennifer S
Jennifer is a freelance professional musician who studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She continued her post-graduate studies in the USA on a scholarship and has travelled internationally as an orchestral and solo musician. This has provided wonderful opportunities to develop her writing skills and her latest published novel is set in Italy. Jennifer is passionate about writing poetry and also contributes articles to various online platforms, including ‘Spotlight’. She now lives in rural Normandie, but continues to work in the UK both as a musician and writer.
United Kingdom
Senior
Charlotte B
Charlotte has worked as a journalist for a number of publications from the Independent to Prima, as well as organisations within the non-profit and charity sector. She is the author of four children’s books, in the Ultimate Football Heroes series, which tell the biographical stories of professional female footballers. Most recently, she wrote Great British Spirit: Acts of Kindness and Heroism, a compendium of stories featuring British figures from the 20th century and today. She probably couldn’t write or live without music and loves playing her favourite songs on piano.
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
Senior
Danny T
Danny is a married father of four from Coventry and a trained journalist with just under a decade of experience in professional writing. He is from a working class background and always secretly wished he could be a writer but assumed people like him, from where he is from, couldn't possibly make their living by writing things other people wanted to read. When he found himself out of work aged 28 due to health reasons, Danny decided to go and get some qualifications and completed a sociology degree at the University of Warwick. Since then he’s become an influential journalist, interviewed prime ministers and held powers to account all while writing to audiences of millions.
United Kingdom
PRO
Premium
Marie E
Marie is a number 1 Sunday Times bestselling ghostwriter with over 15 years of experience as a writer, journalist and editor. She’s written articles and books on a range of topics, including science and technology, health and nutrition, renewable energy, mental health, cooking, business and more. Her storytelling abilities are myriad, pulling from her experience as a journalist and theatre performer, and her strength as a ghostwriter lies in her natural curiosity and active listening skills. She has a master’s degree in literature from the University of Sussex and a bachelor’s in English from the University of California. When she’s not writing for clients, she’s either working on her fiction novel or participating in park runs with her husband and two children.
United Kingdom
Senior
Ruth M
Ruth has always written for a living, having worked in PR, and as a communications specialist, in the NGO and charity sectors in Zimbabwe, South Africa and the UK. She’s recently published her debut novel, Sweet Charity – a humorous, character-driven satire set in a fictitious London charity. A graduate of the University of Cape Town, Ruth recently moved north from London, and she now lives in Gourock in Scotland with her husband. They have two adult sons. When she’s not writing, or thinking up puns, Ruth’s reading, singing in a choir, walking, or planning another trip to Cape Town.
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.
Netherlands
Junior
Cleo B
Cleo heeft Nederlandse literatuur en samenleving gestudeerd aan de Vu. Sindsdien is ze begonnen als tekstschrijver en beeldmaker. Voordat ze de Nederlandse Literatuur ging bestuderen, studeerde ze Illustratie design aan de HKU, ze vindt tekst en beeld dan ook allebei erg interessant.
Netherlands
Senior
Mireille van 't H
Mireille is schrijver en copywriter. Zo schreef ze samen met influencer 'Koen Kardashian' zijn spraakmakende biografie. Haar roman Ibiza, land van liefde verscheen in 2016 bij Ambo Anthos en speelt zich af in de woelige jaren zestig en zeventig. In haar boek Familiestuk (Overamstel Uitgevers) verweefde ze de oorlogsjaren en het katholieke Brabant met de moderne tijd. Het boek stond in de top 10 meest verkochte e-books van Bol.com 2012. Mireille werkt verder ook als tekstschrijver en ghostwriter. Ze heeft een aantal jaren in Spanje gewoond en is gek op jazz, kunst, klassieke muziek en geschiedenis
United Kingdom
Premium
Beverley D
I am an eclectic sort with many different interests. I started out as an adult education teacher, teaching English and English as an Additional Language (EAL), and have enjoyed meeting people from many different walks of life. Having completed around 65 books for StoryTerrace at this point - many of which have been published - I am fully convinced that EVERYONE has a story to tell. Some of the books I have ghost-written and been credited for are: ‘Blood Sweat and Suspenders’, ‘A Wee Cromdale Loon’, ‘I Did What I Could’, ‘The One With The Key’ and ‘The Passing Of Time.’ I have worked on a very wide range of projects – both online and face to face, travelling the length and breadth of the country – and have covered a huge variety of themes. I was even given the opportunity to speak at a retirement home where I met some really lovely people and had chance to talk to them about my adventures with StoryTerrace. From the humorous anecdotes of midwives, to the highs and lows of being an entrepreneur, from stories of loss, abuse, resilience and recovery, to capturing precious stories from the past about ways of life that now exist only in people’s memories, it’s been amazing. I have written and completed structural edits for small books and books of over 60 thousand words and have also helped families to complete the memoirs of a family member who has passed away. With a Masters degree in Social Anthropology, different views on life have been something of a lifelong fascination of mine and have inspired me to volunteer as a telephone befriender for Age UK during Covid-19, as well as to train as a funeral celebrant. When I have some free time, I like playing chess (winning preferably), making dioramas (which is a very enjoyable form of escapism), drinking matcha latte and seeing new and far-flung places whenever possible.
Netherlands
Senior
Kees Z
Kees behaalde een bachelor en master Sociale Psychologie aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam en volgde een post-bachelor Eindredactie van Teksten aan de Hogeschool Utrecht. Voordat hij als zelfstandig schrijver begon, deed hij werkervaring op bij allerlei maatschappelijke organisaties in Amsterdam. Hij werkte met daklozen, vluchtelingen, ouderen en mensen met schulden – als sociaal werker, onderzoeker, projectcoördinator en fondsenwerver. Het heeft zijn blik op de wereld permanent verruimd.
United Kingdom
Senior
Annabel H
Since training as a journalist on an evening paper in South Wales in the 70s, I've focused on feature writing for newspapers and magazines, specialising in one-to-one profiles. I've always enjoyed the interviews as much as the writing, and for that reason, I have invariably ended up with far more background information and interesting quotes than I actually needed! I live in the country near the English/Welsh border. I'm an animal lover, a keen amateur photographer and painter, and a fan of many sports, with a lifelong interest in history and current affairs, languages, and all aspects of the performing arts.
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
Junior
Lee W
Lee is a former literary agent of Pendle Hill Literary TV & Film Agency and has been a Member of the Chartered Medical Board for the last two decades. As a chartered musculoskeletal & orthopaedic specialist with interests in respiratory and mental health, Lee has had a long career as a medico-legal expert for the law courts. A prolific writer of true life, and fantasy fiction too, Lee holds an MA and Ph.D in English Literature and Creative Writing, and is the founder and host of Parchment-Inks Mentoring group. Additionally, Lee is a former British Heavyweight Gold Medallist Mixed Martial Arts Champion - a world champion contender - a former firefighter, and fell runner.
United Kingdom
Premium
Tiffany C
Tiffany is a bilingual, prize-nominated writer, who grew up in Hong Kong and moved to London at sixteen. After receiving her MSc in Strategic Marketing from Imperial College, she worked as a digital marketer for several years, before transitioning to writing full-time. She has completed two novels since, one of which was “highly commended” in Faber & Faber’s Fab prize in 2020. As a plant-based vegan, Tiffany is a huge advocate for sustainability and wellbeing, and now copywrites and creates content for change makers and kind businesses.
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.
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
Premium
David S
Born in Australia, David’s professional writing career has spanned 40 years, starting as a reporter/newsreader in Sydney, before moving to the UK for a stint of 20 years as a celebrity interviewer on the Sunday Express. He’s interviewed dozens of top TV stars such as Sir David Attenborough and Sir Kenneth Branagh, plus sporting icons including Sir Alex Ferguson. David has a BA in Communications from Charles Sturt University, and MA in Drama from London University. He’s also published a successful book, How To Succeed in Newspaper Journalism.
United Kingdom
Premium
John A
There are very few subject areas that John hasn’t written about in a career that goes back to the early 1970s. Starting out as a general assignment newspaper reporter, he went on to specialize in covering white collar and organized crime. Moving to New York City in the early 1980s, he served as the Editor of the Economic Affairs Department at the Dun & Bradstreet Co., before moving on to a variety of senior communications positions with various investment banks in New York, London and the Middle East. In 2009, he served a temporary assignment as the speechwriter for the US Ambassador to the UK. He currently writes for several London-based magazines that concentrate on investment banking and capital markets.
United Kingdom
Premium
Carole R
Carole has spent more years than she’ll admit to writing for newspapers and women’s magazines. To give you a clue, she was at journalism college with Jeremy Clarkson but says she’s definitely younger than him. After qualifying, Carole joined the Sheffield Morning Telegraph, Yorkshire Post and Lancashire Evening Post before turning freelance. She’s covered hundreds of national in-depth real life and celebrity stories and worked closely with the lovely, late Lynda Bellingham. Recently she ghost wrote her first book for Simon & Schuster which was a Sunday Times bestseller.
United Kingdom
Senior
Peculiar M
Peculiar is an accomplished author of over ten books and a pioneer in regional journalism, with experience at The Tide, ThisDay, and The Abuja Inquirer, where she became a UK correspondent. As a versatile writer skilled in health, business, Christianity, and women-focused topics, she is also an experienced ghostwriter with expertise spanning developmental editing and customer operations. She holds a BA (Hons) and an MSc in Mass Communication and volunteers as a career coach, which reflects her commitment to helping others while showcasing her unique creative flair in storytelling.
United Kingdom
Senior
Denise T
Denise is a journalist specialising in magazine features and feature interviews, with over twenty years experience working in PR. Denise is also an author with two books to her name: ‘Broken Wand’ a novel and, ‘Working Mothers: The Essential Guide’ a nonfiction. Denise studied for a BA (Hons) in English Literature with Media and a Masters in Text and Performance Studies. In her spare time she likes to read widely (fiction and nonfiction), enjoy cultural events, and walks with her dog in the Sussex countryside.
United Kingdom
Junior
Iris M
Having moved to London from the Philippines to pursue a BA in Creative Writing, Iris is a writer who mainlines poetry, screenplays and short stories. Her works are often inspired by religion, mythology, water, and films. Consistently published and shortlisted in various zines and anthologies since 2010, Iris spends the majority of her time wrestling with her muses and participating at local literary events. Snacking is also a favourite pastime. Iris is currently finishing up her Masters in Creative Writing at Brunel University, and aims to begin her PhD soon afterwards.
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