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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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
Jayne S
Jayne has always lived in London; her academic direction being English Literature. She attended The University of Westminster and later worked in advertising as a copywriter. Her engrained enthusiasm to write led her to dedicate her abilities to construct personal accounts into characterful, yet notable biographies. Jayne recently interviewed her grandmother who at 94, may sadly soon lose the ability to engage and communicate her memories. With a list of poignant questions stemming from childhood memories, Jayne recognises the value of hearing her story.
United Kingdom
Premium
Jean E
Jean has been writing stories since she was a child. In 2017, she published Goodbye Burma, a fictionalised account of her family’s evacuation from wartime Burma. Starting out as a historian, she spent two years in India searching for private papers and interviewing politicians active in the independence movement. Since then, Jean has travelled widely in Africa and South Asia and has two published books on communities in the north of England. Jean has been working as a freelance writer and editor for eight years, and enjoys bringing family histories and stories to life.
United Kingdom
Senior
Claire M
Claire has been writing professionally for 13 years. After graduating from the University of Derby with a BA in English, she trained as a Journalist and worked for local newspapers – the Lichfield Mercury, Tamworth Herald and Sutton Coldfield Observer. She went on to work as a Features Writer, Copywriter and Editor for various companies around Birmingham and Staffordshire. She’s now a Freelance Copywriter, working from home in Lichfield with her husband, two small children and lovely rescued greyhound.
United Kingdom
Senior
Gabriel F
Gabriel was born in Seattle and grew up in Manchester. He left school at 16, and spent his early twenties in Germany, recording, touring and working as a bike messenger. He gained a BA and MA in English and Creative Writing at UEA, going on to win a scholarship to study at Harvard University. Now living in Manchester, Gabriel’s fiction has appeared in various literary journals and in 2019, his story ‘Rockets and Blue Lights’ was shortlisted for the White Review Short Story Prize. He is currently writing his first novel.
Canada
Senior
Tahiat M
Tahiat is a multimedia storyteller. Her work has appeared on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Global News, CTV News, Asia Society, The Daily Star, etc. She has also taught at Columbia University and CUNY. Her career spans two decades across America, Bangladesh and Canada. Along the way she took some detours, as a fashion designer, an IT technician, a community organizer, a data analyst, and most recently — for a hot minute — a construction worker. Tahiat is currently in the Online News Association Women’s Leadership Accelerator. When she’s not producing stories, Tahiat volunteers as a frontline healthcare worker.
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
Martin D
Martin caught the writing bug after researching the life of his great-great grandfather (a nineteenth century soldier). After finding out so much information about him, he thought it might make for an interesting book. The book was well received and Martin’s writing career was underway! Now, with over ten fiction and non-fiction books to his name, as well as his family history, Martin lists his home city as one of his great inspirations. “Carlisle has over two-thousand years of history dating back to the Romans – if you can’t find something there of interest, there’s no hope for you!”
United Kingdom
Senior
Claire S
A journalist of more than ten years, Claire has interviewed everyone from politicians to celebrities and has written for publications including the Belfast Telegraph, Culture NI, Local Women Magazine and the Coleraine Chronicle. Also a copywriter and published children’s author, short story writer and poet, Claire was one of Lagan Online’s 12NOW (New Original Writers) for 2016/17. In 2017 she received a grant from the Arts Council NI to support her writing. Claire loves books and hosts the new Giant’s Causeway Book Club. She also enjoys baking, walking her dog and playing the violin.
United Kingdom
Senior
Corinna C
Corinna has always been curious about people and their stories. She honed her storytelling craft with a BA in Film and Theatre, followed by a year of acting at The Oxford School of Drama. She wrote and starred in a 5-star reviewed play at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and gained a place on a writer’s program at the Royal Court Theatre in London. Now a ghostwriter (and actor), her curiosity continues to drive her to find and tell the stories that need to be told.
Premium
Andy R
Andy has worked as a journalist in the UK, edited a daily newspaper in Malta and managed a portfolio of luxury lifestyle and travel customer magazines in Dubai. His work has been published in more than 40 magazines and newspapers worldwide, including The Telegraph, The Guardian, Tatler, Portfolio, Elle, Harpers and Penthouse. Andy has also managed and created corporate publications for The Ritz-Carlton, Jumeirah, Destinations of the World and European Commission, magazines and books for organisations and companies such as Jumeirah Hotels & Resorts, Ritz-Carlton and the European Commission.
United Kingdom
Junior
Dizz T
Dizz is a UK-based fiction writer. She has been published in various international magazines including The Stinging Fly, Dazed, The Tangerine, Five Dials, Prism International and No Tokens Journal. In 2018, she won the Bristol prize for short fiction. In 2019, she won the Best Original Fiction award from Stack Magazines, and in 2020, she was longlisted for the Sunday Times Short Story Award.
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!
Netherlands
Senior
Walter H
Walter (1965) is een selfmade tekstschrijver. Heeft door de jaren heen een passie ontwikkeld voor mensen die in armoede leven. In Nederland en daarbuiten. Hij schrijft altijd met het doel om mensen in beweging te brengen om ook daadwerkelijk iets te gaan 'doen'. Om ze te inspireren om met zichzelf en/of een ander aan de slag te gaan. Hij is christen en denkt niet in hokjes of vakjes. In het dagelijkse leven is hij actief als zelfstandig tekstschrijver en freelance journalist. Een zzp-er dus, met alle mooie en minder mooie kanten die daar bij horen.
United Kingdom
Junior
Vikki C
Vikki’s mantra in life is to create a meaningful connection for and with others, whether that is through reading personal anecdotes or encouraging honest discussion. She has learned, through years of yoga practice, that it is via vulnerability and authenticity our experiences resonate with those we wish to share ourselves with. Vikki’s journalism and history degree from Queen Mary, UoL, ignited her curiosity, exploration and love for storytelling. Her writing work, and work with parents and their babies, aims to help others discover and take pride in their own voice.
United Kingdom
Premium
Ian M
After university, Ian trained at The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and worked successfully as an actor. Inspired by the words of great writers such as Shakespeare, Coward and Rattigan, he ran a new-writing theatre company at The Young Vic Studio, writing and directing ten plays. He wrote a book based on this experience, <em>Special Talents, Special Needs</em>, which was translated into several languages. He went on to write for the Guardian, the Independent, the Wall Street Journal et al. People’s stories fascinate Ian and profiles are one of his greatest passions.
Netherlands
Junior
Shanna P
Shanna studeerde Taal- en Letterkunde (Nederlands – Duits) aan de Universiteit van Antwerpen en behaalde daarna een Master Meertalige Communicatie. In de jaren die daarop volgden werkte ze als Sales Representative. In haar vrije tijd las ze fictie en non-fictie boeken, was ze vast proeflezer voor een bevriend auteur en schreef ze zelf kortverhalen. Vorig jaar besloot ze dat ze van haar hobby haar beroep wilde maken. Begin dit jaar behaalde ze een diploma Copywriting. Haar interesses gaan uit naar psychologie, spiritualiteit en zelfverwezenlijking.
Senior
Nivriti B
Nivriti drifted into newspapers 20 years ago, not knowing what else to do with a college degree in English Literature. She's been a reporter, editor, columnist at national dailies in India and the UAE, where she lives. A part of her last role was helping authors structure and convey their thoughts, and drafting editorials for the newspaper, often on the bleak state of the world. Interests: reading, writing, doodling, stationery, Wordle, Scrabble, swimming, learning things, visiting places, roaming around bazaars, taking pictures of street scenes, watching people, making notes.
United Kingdom
Senior
Jackie N
Jackie has over 20 years of experience as a qualified journalist and worked at Good Housekeeping magazine and the Western Daily Press newspaper. She has written for the Guardian, Daily Mail, Huffington Post, Woman and Essentials. Jackie loves finding out about people’s lives, not only dealing sensitively with tragedies but also celebrating her interviewees’ successes. She was named Business Mother of the Year in the 2014 NatWest Venus Awards and won an award at the 2015 Guardians Small Business Showcase Awards. When not writing, Jackie enjoys pub quizzes and travelling around the world with her eight-year-old twins.
United Kingdom
Senior
Steve M
Throughout his working life, Steve has written for governments, companies and trade associations. As a British diplomat in the first half of his career, he lived and worked in parts of Asia and Africa and throughout the Middle East. He then got a taste for helping companies in the Middle East like HSBC and the Qatar Financial Centre tell their stories and promote themselves. His freelance writing since returning back to the UK has included speeches, reports and his own reflections on a long and interesting life abroad. He is a keen choral singer and a regular, but sadly under-achieving, golfer.
Senior
Mai N
As a bilingual Vietnamese-English writer with 5+ years of experience, Mai has created and translated content spanning marketing, education, and life stories. She believes in the timeless power of words to connect, inspire, and endure beyond moments. Her passion lies in creating writing that lives, breathes, and continues to speak long after it’s read. Every project is an opportunity to shape meaning and share the quiet magic that only words can hold.
United Kingdom
Senior
Suzi F
Suzi has been writing for as long as she can remember – completing her first novel by hand when she was twelve years old. She had inherited a typewriter by the time she studied for an MA at Edinburgh University, where she discovered dancing and photography. Her writing credits include seven self-published novels for children and young adults, and several short stories. She also exploits her love of good food by reviewing restaurants for a national restaurant guide.
Australia
Senior
Sue S
Sue is a storyteller with a passion for bringing people’s stories to life with the written word. With a degree in journalism, she has been a features writer and reporter for newspapers in Australia and the UK and has also turned her hand to creative writing, content writing and blogging. Life continues to excite her, and since discovering the joys of ghostwriting, Sue now spends most of her time working with people to write their unique life stories, as well as writing features for Fab UK magazine.
United Kingdom
Junior
Zoe K
Born and raised in the US, Zoe moved to Cardiff to get her BA in Journalism, Media and English Literature. She has written for a number of online publications, covering everything from current events to book and theatre reviews. She likes to have a finger in every literary pie, having published poetry as well as writing and directing her own one-act play. When she’s not writing, you can find her feeding the local birds, baking, or curled up with a book.
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