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
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Emily B
Emily is a writing coach and former publisher who loves working with writers and storytellers to help them realise their creative vision. Following a BA (Hons) in English Literature and an MA in Creative Writing with Merit, Emily was nominated as her university’s ‘writer of the future,’ which led to a Jerwood/Arvon national award for her first book After the Rains. More books have followed, along with poems and plays. She is a book developmental editor of over two decades, occasional journalist and a one-time film maker for English PEN. Emily has a special interest in the arts for wellbeing, and her award-winning blog is Em-Phatic.
Canada
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Ellen G H
Ellen grew up around the Southern NJ and Philadelphia areas and now lives near Ottawa, Canada. She has written 12 books (four of which are award-winners), contributed to 15 others, and has written hundreds of articles for print magazines and websites. She served as president of the Catholic Writers Guild from 2012-2015 and composed articles and press releases for a small non-profit from 2015-2018. When she’s not writing, Ellen enjoys spending time with her husband of 40 years, her extended family (especially her two-year-old grandson) and researching her family tree.
United Kingdom
Senior
Mona P
Mona has been writing and producing travel programs, documentaries, TV specials, commercials, corporate videos, and off-the-wall events for the best part of two decades. Her magazine articles have seen print in several countries, and she published a music, arts and events magazine for three years. She is a fountain of semi-useless information, and when she grows up, she’s going to be a visual artist. Mona graduated with a double degree in Psychology, and Guidance & Counselling but she never went into practice. Instead, she took her sense of empathy and excellent interviewing skills on the road to support her wanderlust. The ability to connect to people is a gift which she pays forward by writing stories that engage and encourage.
United Kingdom
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John
John has always enjoyed writing since he was a boy growing up by the seaside in East Yorkshire. He spent 25 years as a sports reporter on regional titles in the North of England where as well as interviewing personalities, he attended major events including the Commonwealth Games in Manchester. A fan of films, John was a runner-up in the Lloyds Bank National Screenwriting competition, while a co-authored short - ‘Bicycle’ - reached the final of the IMDb Script to Screen Award. John has self-published three novels and is working on a fourth featuring problem child Chris Roberts as he tries to make sense of adulthood.
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
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.
United Kingdom
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Jason J
Jason is a novelist, journalist and best-selling ghostwriter. He is a career storyteller with plenty of experience in bringing memories, ideas and personalities to light. Before turning to professional ghostwriting, he worked with national UK and Irish newspaper titles and penned comedy sketches and factual script for regional BBC TV and radio. His ghosted memoir Slave was an Amazon best-seller and the primary source for a 2018 primetime BBC drama. You’ll find Jason easy-going, creative and absolutely committed to helping you tell your story your way.
United Kingdom
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Ian S
Ian has written for the Financial Times, the Independent, and won the London round of The Stage newspaper’s New Theatre Critic Search 2016. He also writes fiction, and his short stories have appeared in numerous books and magazines. Sally Rooney praised his story Cute on The Stinging Fly Podcast, and his piece Legs and Feet Dangling was read out at legendary Paris bookshop Shakespeare and Company. Ian has been interviewed by Litro magazine about his work and is seeking a publisher for his first collection of short stories.
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
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Joy P
Joy remembers sitting in various classrooms, too shy to raise her hand. It was only as an adult that she realised those years spent listening had helped her to develop the skills to read between the lines – to glean what people didn’t say. Her journalistic spans nearly three decades and has garnered her two awards. She currently works as a freelance journalist and copywriter and has been commissioned as the biographer for a book that celebrates the lives of people working within the NHS, to be published in 2021. Joy has been told on several occasions by interviewees that she is, ‘Better than a therapist,’ which she considers high praise. She lives by the sea on the English south coast with her family and tortoiseshell cat.
United Kingdom
Senior
Susan G
Susan began her working life in sales and retail management, but wanted to learn more about business, so took the leap and started an accountancy training contract with a mid-tier firm. After qualifying, she spent six years in various finance roles. In 2015, she began developing and audience-testing both comic and more dramatic scripts for theatre and short film. Committed to words and stories in their different forms, she retrained as a journalist and audio producer, works freelance, and is writing her first novel.
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
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Philip H W
Phil was awarded an MA in Professional Writing at University College Falmouth in 2009. In September 2016 The History Press published his book, War on Wheels, telling the story of the thousands of ordinary men and women who together worked to mechanise the British Army in WW2. In December 2016, Story Terrace published the book he wrote in collaboration with Phil Jeffs, the son of the sole survivor of the crash in WW2 of The MacRobert’s Reply. He has just completed "Ordnance", a prequel on WW1, which was published in June 2018. He also writes regularly on contemporary issues for a number of periodicals. He has been writing for fifteen years, having spent much of his career in professional services and the not for profit sector. Follow this link to his Amazon author page: http://amzn.to/2yaWPva.
United Kingdom
Junior
Masimba M
Masimba is a screenwriter, novelist, essayist and blogger. He was born in Zimbabwe in 1976, and moved to the UK in 2002, settling in the North East England town of Middlesbrough. He has been published all over the world, mostly in the speculative fiction realm. In the real world, he takes a keen interest in international and local history, culture and society, politics, and, of course, biography. He believes that everyone has a story or a perspective of a bigger story waiting to be told and preserved for future generations, and is always ready to work with people who are ready to tell theirs.
United Kingdom
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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
Maryann T
Armed with a Masters in Media & Communication from LSE, Maryann has written extensively, from lifestyle and travel features to news articles and eBooks. She has worked at Google, as a lifestyle journalist for the New Indian Express and as a blog writer and editor in reputed education companies. Her work has been published in the Guardian, LSE’s student journal The Clare Market Review and the Hindu, a leading news daily in India She enjoys cooking, travel and curating stories about music for her pet project, Songs of my Life.
United Kingdom
Senior
Claire OB
As a freelance journalist, Claire has managed to combine her favourite things – writing, of course, but also chatting to strangers and making new friends. After nine years in London as a features executive on a national paper, she moved home to Northern Ireland in 2016. Most of her work involves interviews, speaking to everyone from celebrities to those who simply have fascinating stories to tell. Claire’s aim with every piece she does is conveying what people have to say truthfully and sensitively – and in a voice that sounds like them.
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.
Netherlands
Senior
Joep B
Joep B schreef een portret van Neelie Kroes in De Nederlandse Eurocommissarissen en in 2016 verscheen zijn biografie van Jan Terlouw. Hij is redacteur van Biografieportaal.nl, interviewde schrijvers, tekende persoonlijke verhalen op en publiceerde in onder meer NRC Handelsblad en Trouw. Joep werkte voor provincies, het rijk en de Europese Unie. In 2017 volgt hij de post doctorale opleiding journalistiek aan de Erasmusuniversiteit.
United Kingdom
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George L
George is a prolific freelance writer and an award-winning radio producer. In a career that began in music journalism in the 1990s, George has interviewed hundreds of bands, as well as authors, scientists and political activists. In 2023, George won a Silver award at the “Radio Oscars”, the Audio & Radio Industry Awards. George lives in Buckinghamshire with his wife and two daughters. He enjoys baking, windsurfing, reading and listening to music.
United Kingdom
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Michael H
Michael has been writing professionally since the early 1990’s. Published and syndicated around the world, he has worked as a columnist and contributor for The Guardian and other UK papers including The Sunday Times and the Mail on Sunday, is a magazine features writer. He has been a contributing editor at Esquire for over a decade, as well as working as a screenwriter, author, and teacher. As a journalist, Michael specializes in arts and creative coverage as well as real life reportage, interviews, profiles, and biography. He has a particular interest and experience in issues relating to mental health and psychology. He has both won and been shortlisted for journalism awards in the UK including PPA and PTC writer of the year. Accustomed to working with A list and emerging talent as both a journalist and collaborator, Michael has rewritten feature projects for Warner Brothers and Disney as well as independent productions.
United Kingdom
Senior
Josephine G
Josephine loves stories: both fictional and other people’s life experiences. Despite having careers in education and the travel industry, she always aimed to return to university and complete a writing MA. After graduating from The Manchester Writing School, she went on to have stories published in anthologies and literary journals. Her recent story ‘Going Downhill’ was chosen for The Best British Short Stories 2021. Having just successfully completed a ghostwriting project with a prestigious client, she welcomes the privilege and satisfaction of being trusted to bring personal stories to life.
United Kingdom
Junior
Natalie-Claire L
Natalie-Claire’s passion for personal development led to her writing career. She writes about life lessons and experiences. Her academic background in engineering allows her to simplify complex stories or ideas and present them to any audience. She combines her love for solving problems with her passion for helping people through coaching, writing and speaking. Her writing focuses on personal development, women, and diversity. Natalie-Claire has written for online and print publications such as Girl Geeks, AfroFutures and various personal development websites and SME Businesses.
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.
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