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
Junior
Stephan K
Stephan is a Creative Writing graduate who has been writing and reading ever since he first picked up a book and discovered the joy of the story at a very young age. Since finishing his degree at the University of Winchester, he has pursued many avenues of writing – from fiction and poetry, to journalism and copywriting for social media, to video scriptwriting and blogs. Stephan is also a passionate LGBT+ activist, and has been invited to speak at various events, both in person and online, to discuss gender identity, sexuality, and how to navigate the world as a person from a marginalised community.
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.
United Kingdom
Premium
Nicola R
Nicola is the author of two novels: The Girl Before You and You and Me, both published by Avon, a division of HarperCollins. Born in South Wales, she studied Classics at Oxford and has worked for almost two decades as a journalist. Specialising in dance, travel and history, her articles have appeared in a number of publications including The Guardian, The Independent and Time Out. In addition to her twin passions of reading and writing, she has a soft spot for musical theatre, Strictly Come Dancing and Jack Russell terriers.
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
Emma-Jane B
Emma-Jane started penning poetry at the age of seven, when she began filling notebooks with stories and poems. During the pandemic in 2020, she released her first poetry collection, Darkness & Light, about her journey with mental illness, which became a multiple bestseller on Amazon. She is a former primary school teacher and has a BA Honours degree in Creative Writing. You will often find her with a cup of tea and her nose in a book. She also enjoys stitching, playing guitar and ukulele and practising yoga and meditation.
United Kingdom
Premium
Francis W
Francis used to be found roaming Southeast Asia, where he lived and worked as a journalist for six years, writing for The Guardian, TIME and others. He published his first book in 2017, on the genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, and now lives back in London where he continues to write. He has a deep love of the craft of storytelling, and uses journalism as an excuse to sit for hours and talk with people about the worlds they inhabit.
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
Premium
Patric M
Patric is a multi-award-winning and bestselling author and ghostwriter whose work has been read by millions, both in print and online. Specialising in memoirs, he has over 20 years of professional writing experience. He has written books and screenplays for high profile celebrities but being able to capture and retell the lives of individuals is one of the greatest services and honours he feels he can offer. As one client once told him, ‘When I’m gone, I’ll be able to speak directly to my descendants through my book.’
United Kingdom
Senior
Barnaby T
As a poet, Barnaby knows how to do more with less; setting a scene with a handful of words, or bringing out a character with the right turn of phrase. He has been published in various poetry anthologies, and had his own chapbook released. He has been a professional writer for over a decade, working up to his current role with an international educational publisher. A UCL graduate, his experience as a secondary school teacher in East London, Italy and Greece brings an awareness of community to his work. He likes old films, cycling, and people.
Canada
Senior
Shreya K
Shreya’s birth outside of her home country in Singapore was a portentous one, setting her up for a life of travel. Growing up in the multicultural milieu of six countries, listening to people’s stories, their way of life became a way for her to integrate into new places. She ultimately combined her two grand passions for life and people by graduating with degrees in philosophy and journalism, giving her a platform to tell reflective and empowering stories. Her work has been published in VICE, Huffpost, The Independent, and others. She’s also a yoga teacher, poet, self-certified philosopher, and a firm believer of savoring every bit of life till its very last drop.
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
Gareth S
Gareth is an award-winning British-Canadian poet, novelist, dramatist, and filmmaker. He has a BA in English Literature and MA in Scriptwriting & Playwriting. Commercially, Gareth has licensed a brand of typographic greeting cards to Camden Graphics; won Creative Future's National Poetry Award; and was a finalist in The Literary Consultancy's Pen Factor Award. In 2022, he won a DIT-British Embassy Pitch Fund for his science-fiction animation, miBOTS, subsequently shortlisted in Cannes. In 2023, he was named ‘Producer to Watch’. Gareth’s films and plays have been shown in London, Toronto, Brighton and Cannes. He lives in Brighton with his rescue dog, Pimms.
United Kingdom
Premium
Stuart B
Stuart has been a journalist and writer for nearly 40 years after graduating in history and politics from Lancaster University. He has written a biography of former Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini and interviewed many of the great names in British sporting history. He is not just a sports writer, however, being a keen historian and genealogist, as well as having a love of the northern hills and an insatiable curiosity for just about everything!
United Kingdom
Premium
Phil D
Experienced ghost writer and profiler for entrepreneurs, senior execs, thought leaders, highly successful people in all fields, from the Global CEO of DHL to Charles Schulz (creator of the Peanuts comic strip). Phil's eBooks have been read over 2.5 million times online, showing he knows how to write a book in a way that will attract a lot of attention. His leadership books are used by the United Nations and UK emergency services to train their employees in how to lead. Phil was voted into the 'Global Top 30 Leadership Gurus' list two years running. He has interviewed and profiled dozens of C Suite execs, high profile entrepreneurs and thought leaders from Body Shop Founder Anita Roddick to Yo! Sushi Founder (and Dragons' Den star) Simon Woodroffe, from Richard Branson to Harvard Professor Michael Porter ('The Godfather of Strategy'). His corporate writing clients include the McLaren Formula 1 team, Microsoft, Intel and Gartner Group. He has written thought pieces on business, science, society and culture for The Independent, GQ, New Scientist, Daily Telegraph, Campaign, The Observer Magazine, New Statesman, the TES and other high profile publications on both sides of the Atlantic. He has a history degree from Cambridge and was editor of two business journals. Lists of thought leadership quotes from Phil's writing have been compiled by websites from 'Goodreads' to 'Quotefancy' to 'What Should I Read next'. Phil is in demand as a ghost writer; John Wiley & Sons, who publish his business books, asked him to ghost write books for Simon Woodroffe and Karan Bilimoria (founder of Cobra Beer), but Phil was too busy on other book projects.
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
Junior
Xenia R
Xenia is a journalist, poet and neurodivergent activist. She currently working as an investigative journalist/researcher with the global journalism and production studio, ‘Project Brazen’ and regularly guests on the ‘Unpacking Neuroqueerness’ podcast. Of Russian origin, Xenia attended an international school in Moscow before moving to London for her Bachelors in History and Masters in Digital Culture & Society (MA) from King’s College London.
United Kingdom
Premium
Jamie M
Educated at Edinburgh College of Art, Jamie subsequently worked for Sotheby’s where he ran the Victorian paintings department before setting up his own commercial art gallery, for which he produced many catalogues. He wrote a monthly column for House and Garden for seven years. He has also written for the Observer, Evening Standard and New Statesman. In 1995 he founded the Erotic Review, a literary/lifestyle magazine which he edited until 2023. In 2014 he joined the CMM literary agency. He loves travel, cycling, cooking, music and life with his family.
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
Colette D
Colette has worked in magazine publishing for over 20 years – a career that’s given her the opportunity to meet scores of fascinating people. She’s equally at home chatting to famous faces such as Fleet Street editor turned TV presenter Janet Street-Porter and Dragons’ Den doyenne Deborah Meaden, as she is finding out about the life stories of chefs, artisans or cruise ship captains. When not working, Colette loves travelling; she never tires of the thrill of going to a new destination, exploring the local sights and sounds and enjoying authentic foodie experiences.
United Kingdom
Senior
Sarah L
Writing runs in Sarah’s family. She’s a journalist and editor just like her dad (heck, her parents even met in a college creative writing course), with nearly a decade of experience. After university she did grassroots environmental work and then spent 6.5 years at The Guardian. She’s based in Hertfordshire, UK, but often travels to her native Ottawa, Canada. She does ongoing work for Positive News, research platform Canvas8 and Guardian Labs. When she’s not writing or looking after her little girl, Layla, she’s running her ‘side-hustle’, an online vintage clothing shop.
United Kingdom
Premium
Barbara F
Barbara seems to spend most of her time in the past these days. She studied modern languages for her degree then worked in publishing and journalism for several years before having two sons. Since reading the letters her mother sent home from America in the 1950s – which became the book Bedpans & Bobby Socks – a few years ago, she has made a career for herself as a writer and ghostwriter of memoirs. When she’s not putting herself in someone else’s shoes she likes music, walking and spending time in the garden.
United Kingdom
Senior
Sarah S
Sarah is a trained journalist and has written for national newspapers and magazines including the Independent, Guardian, Daily Telegraph and Marie Claire. She spent 14 years living abroad in Italy, India, the US and Thailand where her daughter was born before finally settling back home in London. She has interviewed people from all walks of life, covering everything from education to foreign affairs (including how to ride an elephant). She recently completed an MA at King’s College, London, and has also worked for charities such as UNICEF and Comic Relief.
United Kingdom
Junior
Janine H
Janine has written her own fiction for the past twenty years, has completed several creative writing courses, and is a qualified editor who understands the value of preserving your ‘voice’. She has a BA in English and Theology and recently graduated (with distinction) with an MA in Publishing. Janine loves discussing books within her book group. She spent 12 years in Seattle, Washington, before settling back home in Hampshire where she can often be found walking her dog across fields and trails well-trodden by Jane Austen centuries before.
United Kingdom
Senior
Stella K
Stella has a Master’s degree with distinction in Creative Writing from Birkbeck, University of London. Her fiction, poetry and life writing has been published by The Mechanics Institute Review, Blue Nib, Pyramid Press, Southbank Poetry and theotherstories.org, and she is currently working on a collection of short stories. With a first degree in Linguistics with French, and a background in subtitling, teaching and copy editing, she has worked for many years as a writing coach and dyslexia tutor in higher education. From this mix Stella brings to story writing a special ability to find the most unique and interesting human material and distil it into polished, captivating text. Stella has two grown-up children and lives with her husband in their empty nest in South-East London. She is a keen swimmer, sings in a soul gospel choir, and loves long, fast train journeys.
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