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
Humphrey K
Humphrey is a qualified lawyer, seasoned journalist, historian and biographer. He mostly writes for law firms, and has clocked up six law firm histories. He likes to weave personal stories in with social and political history. He wrote the life story of his father-in-law, a diplomat whose professional life was dominated by the Cold War, and of his former boss’s father and mother, whose lives spanned the 20th century. When not penning words, Humphrey is often to be found on the sports field or attending concerts (more recently, in his mind).
United Kingdom
Senior
Linda I
Linda Innes lives in Northern England, where a sense of humour comes with the territory. She used to be a high-school English teacher, but she’s recovered now. She’s been an arts manager, education officer, bid-writer, life coach, spiritual channel and NLP trainer. She was even a stand-up comedian, but now sits down a lot. A published novelist, poet and produced screenwriter, Linda has been a full-time professional ghostwriter for 10 years. She’s particularly interested in changing the world one person at a time. Or all at once.
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
Junior
Georgia R
After studying American Literature and History at Kings College London and the University of California, Berkeley, Georgia decided to pursue a career in film and TV. She currently works as a Producer/Director and has made a variety of content including hard-hitting documentaries such as ‘Learning to Grieve’ for BBC Three and more light-hearted content such as ‘Mimi on a Mission: Digital Detox’ for BBC iPlayer. Georgia is passionate about storytelling and has been a writer for Story Terrace since 2018.
United Kingdom
Junior
Michelle G
Michelle has written, edited and self-published 3 books of poetry, a book of funny anecdotes about her friends and family, and is currently writing her own memoir which is complete and ready for editing. Michelle attended Bristol University as a mature student and graduated with a 2:1 in British Archaeology, where she researched for many academic essays and a 12,000-word dissertation. She is spiritual but not religious, open-minded, and non-judgmental. Her writing is often humorous but also relevant and moving.
United Kingdom
Senior
Stuart W
Inspired by history's great legal dropouts, Stuart trained as a lawyer before not going back to the office one lunchtime. He soon found a new home in the arts therapies where he worked as a social and artistic researcher for 25 years. Somewhere between drafting client statements, drawing out complex thoughts and feelings in health care, and listening between the lines of social research, he landed at the simple joy of shaping people's stories so that they can be shared with others. Over the years he has written a PhD thesis, a full length academic book about music, health and society; original research papers published in leading international journals, major reports, and numerous chapters for text books. As a ghostwriter he has written blogs and opinion pieces for charities, companies and individual professionals about various corporate and creative topics, and a full length memoir which is to be published in 2025. His original novel is shaping up nicely.
United Kingdom
Senior
Neil E
Neil grew up as an actor, but quickly discovered the power of writing to breathe new life into tired stories, so he went to film school, where he worked on almost a hundred short and low-budget feature films. He’s written for film, theatre and radio (running Liverpool Playwrights from 2003-2007) and been nominated for a Manchester Evening News Theatre Award twice. After not one of the dozen fortune-tellers he’d consulted foresaw that he’d marry an Irish girl and father identical twin girls, he favours the belief that we’re each the author of our own destinies.
United Kingdom
Junior
Kat M
Kat holds a PgDip in Professional Writing and has written for the BFI, British Council and Oxford University Press. She honed her interviewing skills through her role as editor of the UK Film Council’s Film Street website. Kat is a retired baton twirler and a former primary school teacher who enjoys running and researching family histories. Kat loves storytelling in all its forms: she reads voraciously, loves art, film and theatre and is a playwright. She can’t wait to capture your voice and enable you to share your unique story.
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.
United Kingdom
Junior
Stephanie
Stephanie is a Creative Writing BA graduate with a 1st class degree, specialising in non-fiction. After her dissertation, focused on her great-aunt’s experiences in a Russian gulag, Stephanie worked as a freelancer: writing for video games, translating from French to English, personal comedic tales and accounts of experienced trauma. She wrote her first book aged 7, stappling the pages together and scribbling in an ISBN number on the back. Needless to say, writing is her passion. Stephanie is currently studying an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Hull.
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
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.
Netherlands
Junior
Ahmad R
Ahmad (Meppel, 1989) begon zijn schrijfcarrière in 2013, toen zijn eerste Disney-scenario bij weekblad Donald Duck werd geaccepteerd. Vervolgens ging hij ook als freelance redactiemedewerker bij het vrolijke weekblad aan de slag. Sindsdien ging zijn loopbaan in sneltreinvaart. Zo vertaalde hij onder andere stripboeken vanuit het Engels en Turks, schreef artikelen voor diverse stripinformatiebladen, werd columnist en journalist bij een krant en staat hij momenteel onder contract bij meerdere uitgeverijen om diverse (strip)boeken te schrijven. In zijn vrije tijd brengt Ahmad het liefst tijd door met zijn zoon, Ibke.
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
Senior
Kate R
Helping people tell their stories has been Kate’s privilege over four careers and two continents. An American living in the UK, she has worked in television news, corporate communications and a tech start-up. In every role, Kate has worked to reveal important messages and themes and convey them in the best way for each audience. In this, her fourth - and favourite - storytelling career, she loves finding the hidden gems in customer stories, bringing to life their experiences and knowledge for the benefit of generations to come.
United Kingdom
Junior
Fiona G
Fiona is a freelance writer and accredited copywriter, editor and proofreader, creating copy for small businesses and entrepreneurs. She loves building relationships with her clients, who range from life coaches to holistic therapists, telling their life stories and sharing their business messages. Before becoming a freelance writer, Fiona spent many years working in the heritage and cultural sector, crafting narratives about people with objects and art. Telling people’s stories is in her blood! When she’s not being a word nerd, she loves having outdoor adventures with her son, Ted, reading and visiting museums.
United Kingdom
Premium
Melanie L
Melanie is a highly experienced and qualified writer, coach, facilitator and retreat director. She has been helping others tell their stories for twenty years. Her debut novel, ‘Little Dancer,’ the fictionalised story of Marie van Goethem, the girl behind Degas’ iconic sculpture, will be published in 2022 and available in all good bookshops.
United Kingdom
Junior
Martin C
Martin has a degree in Linguistics from Leeds University, so he has a lifelong love of language. He's written one novel and published several short stories, alongside non-fiction content that includes interviews with Booker Prize-nominated authors. He's also spent over a decade honing his editing and proofreading skills while working in TV subtitling, which means he can spot a dodgy apostrophe from a hundred yards away. When not hunched over a computer keyboard he likes to hunch over his road bike, cycling over hills and through lanes across the country.
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.
United Kingdom
Developmental Editor
Kate Walsh
Kate entered the publishing industry via in-house foreign rights in a literary agency, moving on to academic editorial and landing in hugely commercial non-fiction agenting for the past nine years. As an agent, she worked predominantly with talent-led and celebrity memoirs, autobiographies and biographies, as well as a broad spectrum of music, history and sport titles, and was instrumental in the success of some of the biggest non-fiction bestsellers of the last few years. Bringing out the true essence and emotion of someone’s story is her bread and butter, and she’s passionate about honest, resonating storytelling. In her free time, Kate loves theatre, travel, snow sports and sampling London’s ever-growing restaurant selection.
United Kingdom
Premium
Rick B
Rick is an award-winning author and journalist for The Times. He has interviewed celebrities ranging from Usain Bolt to Sir Bobby Charlton, and has also developed a literacy scheme to get young people reading and writing. Rick has written nine books of his own, including ghosted autobiographies of Olympian Jessica Ennis-Hill, and Jeremy Keeling, a maverick who built an ape sanctuary. He was short-listed three times for the prestigious William Hill Prize and won the British Sports Book Awards. He is nice, friendly (so he says) and a good listener.
United Kingdom
Senior
Robin T
Robin is a writer and author who has written about subjects ranging from conspiracy theories to global surveillance, oil markets to North Korean tourism. He’s lived and worked in Chicago, Moscow, Beijing, Hanoi and Pyongyang, his most recent foray being Berlin in 2018 where he finished his debut novel, “Mr Whippy Goes to Schaumberg”, about ice-cream wars in Chicago. An erstwhile professional actor and freelance North Korea tour leader, he is currently in London working as an ambulance technician. When he can, he heads north to Newcastle to see his wife and dog.
United Kingdom
Senior
Sharlene M
Sharlene is an experienced writer and former educator who is adept at teasing out the funny little anecdotes you’d almost forgotten. She is patient and sensitive with other people’s histories and likes to rebuild them with care. As an author of original fiction for learners, educational materials for teachers, articles for parents, lifestyle pieces and the odd children’s book, writing is simply the thing that she does best. Born in London, Sharlene grew up listening to her parents’ colourful tales of childhoods in Malaysia and Kenya. She believes that real life holds the very best stories and that sharing them is the ultimate legacy.
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.
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