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
Liam T
Liam has been writing professionally for the last five years and as an amateur for as long as he can remember. His work has appeared in publications including the Guardian, Rolling Stone, the Independent, Vice, Huffington Post and The Lancet. As a journalist he has interviewed everyone from former prime ministers to Russian dissidents. He is currently working on his first novel, and is also a keen guitarist, playing in a folk band while finding the time to raise his young family.
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
Senior
Ffion LJ
Ffion is a journalist, writer and editor, and book author. She lived in Canada for 20+ years, travelling and working from coast to coast. She's also explored places and people's stories in the USA, Mexico, Italy, France and Croatia. She now lives in Wales, where she enjoys speaking the language, and hearing even more stories. Ffion enjoys finding out what makes people 'tick': from managing a multi-national business, coping with a life-changing accident, or the joy of being a dog walker. She's also worked for UNICEF, UNESCO and BCUK.
United Kingdom
Senior
James M
James is an experienced writer and scriptwriter from London. After a degree in Creative Writing and working as a primary school teacher, he combined his skills to write editorial and scripts for children, for brands from the BBC to Disney. He balances that with developing some slightly more grown-up scripts and prose, working to capture humour and heart in equal measure. Alongside writing, James loves playing music, cooking, running and the immensely popular and very serious sport of dodgeball. He cites Kurt Vonnegut and Haruki Murakami amongst his literary heroes.
United Kingdom
Senior
Minreet Kaur
Minreet is a freelance journalist at the BBC and Sky News. She is the daughter of the famous Skipping Sikh and is the person who inspired him to start skipping during the COVID-19 lockdown. Minreet is particularly interested in stories from the BAME communities, stating that we don’t hear from them as much as we should. In her spare time, Minreet is also a freelance henna artist and loves different cultures and community stories. She enjoys travelling and staying active and has a real passion for human stories.
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
John L
Born in Stoke Newington and brought up in Enfield, John has been writing for more than four decades. He was a singer and lyricist with a punk band before becoming a video journalist for the Reuters news agency, reporting from Iraq, Jerusalem, Hong Kong and elsewhere. As a corporate writer, he has helped scores of leading brands tell their stories. His short fiction has appeared in print and online magazines. He recently completed a creative writing course at the Faber Academy and is working on a novel set in 1938.
United Kingdom
Junior
Vanessa K
What Vanessa fights for more than anything is a decent education and an ordinary life for her autistic son. Malaysian-born and now based in Scotland, Vanessa took up writing when she had to give up work in the NHS Biochemistry laboratories to care for her son, and made a success of both her son and her writing. She has seven fantasy books published, with others on submission. She holds a BSc (Hons) Biochemistry, and was recently awarded an MSc (Dist) in Forensic Science. She has a Dip in Literature & Creative Writing.
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.
Netherlands
Senior
Annet M
Eens journalist, altijd journalist. Dat is het motto van Annet, die na een halve eeuw nog altijd niets liever doet dan schrijven. Als socioloog heeft ze een scherp afgestelde antenne voor maatschappelijke en persoonlijke problematiek. Als redacteur van de weekbladen HP, HP/DeTijd en het maandblad Psy schreef ze talloze reportages over incest, verslaving, psychiatrie, ongewilde kinderloosheid, kindermishandeling, dementie en aanverwante onderwerpen. De reportages wisselde ze af met portretterende interviews met klassieke musici van naam en faam. In 2019 voltooide ze -in opdracht- haar eerste levensverhaal en wist dat hier haar toekomst moest liggen. Reflecteren op het leven impliceert een spannende zoektocht die ze graag begeleidt.
United Kingdom
Junior
Radmila S
Radmila is a former Microsoft and Google engineer who fell in love with storytelling. Her writing experience ranges from computer code behind artificial intelligence algorithms, to presentations and demos for high-tech executives, to theatre plays produced on the London stage, to wedding speeches. Her favorite hobbies are surfing and pruning the vines in her parents’ vineyard near Belgrade, in exchange for pear brandy and barbeque ribs.
United Kingdom
Senior
Corinne M
Corinne’s early travels led her to Hong Kong, where she lived and worked for almost two decades. From special reports for the South China Morning Post and the Asian Wall Street Journal, to hotel press kits and in-depth interviews for lifestyle magazines, her versatile writing style enables her to communicate with a wide variety of audiences. After returning to the UK, she handled the publicity for an animal charity before becoming a communications consultant. Writing, discovering different cultures and animal welfare are abiding passions. She would love to tell your story.
United Kingdom
Senior
Suad K
Suad is a British-Nigerian writer, photographer and programmer. She hopes to use her writing to show that this world is so diverse; there are many ways in which people choose to live their lives. In 2017, she co-authored a book titled, <i>Soulful Stories: of Hope, Love and Light</i>, a compilation of short stories by Muslim individuals from all walks of life. Two of her novels-in-progress were shortlisted for the Stylist Prize for Feminist Fiction 2021 and FAB Prize 2021 respectively. She co-hosts the <i>Bookversations</i> podcast with her friend, where they have reflective conversations inspired by books.
United Kingdom
Premium
Liz G
Liz has been writing and editing books and magazines for over thirty years. She’s ghostwritten bestsellers for people on TV (Suzie Fletcher from BBC’s The Repair Shop and Florence St George from Channel 4’s The Great Pottery Throwdown) or in the public eye (sometimes you have to sign a NDA so she can’t say who!). She’s written biographies about John Lennon (Short Books), David Bowie (Ammonite) and Nelson Mandela (Hodder) - to name a few. These days Liz is mostly collaborating with others to help them turn their life stories into beautiful books. But she always has a soft spot for everyday heroes and extraordinary characters - she reckons everyone has a tale to tell. By capturing individual voices, adding little details and scattering in a few special, intimate moments, Liz gets to the heart of every story…
PRO
Premium
Jason O
Jason is an award-winning author and ghostwriter of ten books under his own name and has ghostwritten several bestsellers for leading political, business, and media figures. He wrote the authorised biography of an Irish Prime Minister (Transworld) and has ghostwritten a #1 title on The Irish Times bestsellers list for a senior government minister, a #2 bestseller for an iconic TV broadcaster, and the life story of Fr Shay Cullen, a four-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee. His book The Gilligan Tapes was adapted into the three-part Amazon Prime documentary Confessions of a Crime Boss, which he also directed. Jason holds an MA in Political Communication and a BA in Humanities from Dublin City University.
United Kingdom
Junior
Andy S
An author of two novels with more to come, Andy also writes award winning poetry (Nottingham Festival of Words competition runner up 2014). The writing bug was buzzing around him for years, and once caught, it never left. Andy has an interest in a wide range of music including classical, popular and traditional, and he plays guitar in solo and ensemble formats, as well as writing song lyrics. His novels centre on family histories, carefully crafted from listening to family members and from available sources. A well-established career as a therapist has given him many opportunities to hear about people’s lives. His writing experience and achievements have illustrated the value of recording personal life stories, where a person’s history can touch so many.
United Kingdom
Junior
Lizzie H
Lizzie is a writer, poet and lover of sentences. Her short story ‘Probably Just Foxes’, came third in the 2021 Aurora Prize from Writing East Midlands. In her years working for national charities, Lizzie has helped hundreds of people tell their stories. She’s an expert interviewer and knows just the right questions to ask to get to the heart of the story. As well as studying Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London, Lizzie is working on her debut novel.
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
Katarina S
With an Anglo-Indian father and German mother, Katarina was surrounded by fascinating, diverse life stories from an early age. After graduating from the universities of Southampton and Surrey, she made a career out of listening to people tell her about themselves, as a health journalist and researcher. Now, Katarina very much looks forward to working with your story.
United Kingdom
Junior
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Wendy R
Wendy graduated from Swansea University with a First in Media Studies and has gone on to chase her writing dreams. Wendy wrote a successful family lifestyle blog for six years, working on campaigns with big brands such as Mumsnet and Emma’s Diary. As a blogger, Wendy wrote passionately about maternal mental health and grew a large readership of like minded mothers. Now, Wendy works as a freelance copywriter, creating website content for various clients and she regularly interviews foster carers for the company she has worked for since 2019. In her spare time Wendy likes to practise yoga and write short stories, rarely at the same time.
United Kingdom
Premium
Emma M
Emma is an experienced ghostwriter and author of twelve high-profile non-fiction books. Born in Uganda, Emma grew up in London and Shropshire, and worked for nine years as a senior editor for Pan Macmillan Publishers. As a freelancer, she has edited and written a broad range of books, from autobiography and history to humour and lifestyle titles. She enjoys the interview process and delights in capturing people’s memories, stories and past adventures.
United Kingdom
Premium
Angela H
Angela developed a listening ear as a teacher and as a hospital volunteer. She enjoys hearing people’s life experiences, believing we should all cherish what makes us unique. Her short stories have been published in Prima, Fiction Feast, Kookie, Yours and in anthologies plus articles published in The Times Educational Supplement, Stella (the Sunday Telegraph) Woman Alive, The People’s Friend, The Dalesman, Writing Magazine and newspapers. Endeavour Press published two novels. Angela leads writing classes, enjoys travel, dog walks, swimming, reading and being a member of the WI.
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.
Senior
Tania B
Born in India, Tania spent her childhood travelling across the country with her parents and ended up studying in eight different schools. She learned to adapt quickly and meeting new people all the time shaped her worldview to be compassionate and accepting of others. Tania studied sociology in college and university before segueing into journalism. She worked at The Telegraph India and Gulf News in Dubai before turning into a full-time freelance writer, editor and content strategist ten years ago. Over the past 18 years, she has covered a wide range of topics, specialising in people profiles, art, culture and film. Her work has appeared in The National, Al Jazeera, Ozy Media, Quartz, and Scroll India. Tania writes for Hindi films as well, and she is also the co-founder and director of MobiCrew, a Mumbai-based health-tech startup that services people with limited mobility. She loves to cook and read, and is addicted to movies and shows.
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