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.
All writers
United Kingdom
Senior
Rebecca F
Rebecca spent her formative years in Gibraltar and Germany, as her father served in the RAF. She holds a degree in Multimedia Journalism and originally started working as an offshore and maritime writer before moving into regional reporting. Rebecca also writes historical fiction under a pseudonym for a Harper Collins digital offshoot and in 2015 had a manuscript shortlisted for the Tibor Jones Pageturner Prize. When not writing, Rebecca is usually found in the Wiltshire countryside in sturdy shoes with two muddy dogs, or volunteering for the National Trust.
United Kingdom
Senior
Jennifer L
Jennifer is an author and environmental writer with a background in nature conservation. Throughout her varied career in magazine publishing, she has written for Vogue, The Week, Dazed, BBC, Wildlife Trusts, and RSPB to encourage people to get outdoors and explore nature in order to de-stress their lives. Her book The Wheel, on her year exploring Pagan practices and reconnecting with nature, will be published by September Publishing in October 2021. In June 2018, she won a Northern Writers’ Award for her children’s fiction, which looks at destigmatising mental health issues for a younger audience.
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
Peculiar M
Peculiar is an accomplished author of over ten books and a pioneer in regional journalism, with experience at The Tide, ThisDay, and The Abuja Inquirer, where she became a UK correspondent. As a versatile writer skilled in health, business, Christianity, and women-focused topics, she is also an experienced ghostwriter with expertise spanning developmental editing and customer operations. She holds a BA (Hons) and an MSc in Mass Communication and volunteers as a career coach, which reflects her commitment to helping others while showcasing her unique creative flair in storytelling.
Netherlands
Senior
Erik R
Erik is an American fiction writer living in Amsterdam with his three sons, his wife, his dog, and his cat. He has been teaching writing for nearly twenty years and has been published widely including The Atlantic Monthly and the New York Times. He often writes about autism, disability, cycling, family, and being an ex-pat. His latest novel, To The Mountain, is about a father who loses his autistic son in the mountains of Colorado during a blizzard.
Canada
Senior
Angela J
Angela is a writer, an entrepreneur and the author of the nonfiction book <i>Trillions on the Table</i>. She loves her son, her cats and her red wine. Angela created and instructed her own serving course and wrote a dating blog with 90k+ reads. Currently, she is a consultant and a lifestyle blogger for Sixty and Me, with an online community of over 500k readers. Her Forbes hotel background allows her to connect easily with clients; active listening and genuine interest is how your story will be crafted, in your voice.
United Kingdom
Premium
Jools AH
Originally from the North West and now living in the South East, Jools was the recipient of an Arts Council Award that led to the publication of her novel, Girl in the Mirror, a work of historical fiction based on the life of her Nan in Manchester at the turn of the last century. Published by Mslexia, Wasafiri, The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators and Walker Books, her writing has won awards and appeared in local and national press. Her stories have been performed in London, Kent and locally. She has ghost written over thirty books in the last six years, and three novels for children, was Writer in Residence at Talliston House and is a member of The Society of Authors. Jools used to be a teacher, in primary and forest school, and when not writing has adventures with She Who Dares, a group of ordinary women doing extraordinary things. She wrote a book about them too.
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.
United Kingdom
Senior
Elizabeth M
Liz has been writing all her life, and made it her profession in 2012 working as a copywriter, ghostwriter and creative editor. The holder of a first-class honours Bachelor of Arts degree in Creative Writing with English Literature, and having attained a distinction in her Master of Arts degree in Creative Writing and Publication, she is currently working on her PhD in Creative Writing. Liz is immersed in every aspect of writing: teaching, writing and critiquing in the field. Liz is fascinated with historical and contemporary biography, as well as fiction. When not writing she loves crafting; trying her hand at sketching and painting; and photography.
United Kingdom
Premium
David S
Born in Australia, David’s professional writing career has spanned 40 years, starting as a reporter/newsreader in Sydney, before moving to the UK for a stint of 20 years as a celebrity interviewer on the Sunday Express. He’s interviewed dozens of top TV stars such as Sir David Attenborough and Sir Kenneth Branagh, plus sporting icons including Sir Alex Ferguson. David has a BA in Communications from Charles Sturt University, and MA in Drama from London University. He’s also published a successful book, How To Succeed in Newspaper Journalism.
United Kingdom
Junior
Penny M
Penny came to life story writing by way of teaching, community arts and Civil Celebrancy, as well as volunteering with Samaritans and Cruse. As a Celebrant she’s written several hundred life stories, and she knows how to listen and help people tell their stories in a vivid and compelling way. Fascinated by the myriad of ways human beings respond and grow through their experiences, Penny loves working with people to create an authentic 'word picture' of their life. At home, she greatly enjoys the soap-opera lives of her twelve rare breed hens.
United Kingdom
PRO
Premium
Marie E
Marie is a number 1 Sunday Times bestselling ghostwriter with over 15 years of experience as a writer, journalist and editor. She’s written articles and books on a range of topics, including science and technology, health and nutrition, renewable energy, mental health, cooking, business and more. Her storytelling abilities are myriad, pulling from her experience as a journalist and theatre performer, and her strength as a ghostwriter lies in her natural curiosity and active listening skills. She has a master’s degree in literature from the University of Sussex and a bachelor’s in English from the University of California. When she’s not writing for clients, she’s either working on her fiction novel or participating in park runs with her husband and two children.
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.
United Kingdom
Senior
Danny T
Danny is a married father of four from Coventry and a trained journalist with just under a decade of experience in professional writing. He is from a working class background and always secretly wished he could be a writer but assumed people like him, from where he is from, couldn't possibly make their living by writing things other people wanted to read. When he found himself out of work aged 28 due to health reasons, Danny decided to go and get some qualifications and completed a sociology degree at the University of Warwick. Since then he’s become an influential journalist, interviewed prime ministers and held powers to account all while writing to audiences of millions.
United Kingdom
Senior
Ron S
Ron is loving life in England again after eight years working in the Caribbean – despite London’s notorious chilly and changeable weather. He was a sports editor in the Cayman Islands but the lure of big city life again was irresistible, plus he is building awareness of his fitness workout Maxathon. A best-selling author and novelist, Ron is now a sub-editor on national newspapers, writing assignments and ghostwriting memoirs.
United Kingdom
Developmental Editor
Elaine Tuffery
Elaine has over 25 years’ experience in publishing as an editor, commissioning editor, development editor and publisher. Born and raised in Bristol with degrees in History and Law, and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice, Elaine worked as a paralegal for a commercial law firm in London and then in various publishing roles for professional law publishers. Moving from the hustle and bustle of London to rural Oxfordshire, Elaine worked for publishers on professional, vocational and educational texts. At Oxford University Press, she set up and managed a team of development editors working on new works and major new editions. For the last 15 years, Elaine has been working as a freelance editor on vocational, academic and educational texts for a range of publishers. Her interests include travel and award-winning photography which she was able to combine some years ago on a six-month sabbatical to travel the world. When she isn’t busy with her two children, she enjoys reading, cycling, walking her dog around the country lanes of her village, coffee with friends and volunteering for local charities.
Netherlands
Junior
Lise vd K
Ruin tien jaar was Lise verslaggeefster bij regionale kranten. Daarna heeft ze een carrière opgebouwd als leidinggevend uitgever bij grote uitgeefconcerns waar ze boeken en tijdschriften maakte op gebied van marketing en media. Ze is geboren in een gereformeerd middenstandsgezin op de Veluwe en heeft op eigen kracht een ontwikkeling doorgemaakt van bang dorpsmeisje naar zelfstandige selfmade woman. Ze woont in het centrum van Amsterdam is actief in het bedrijfsleven en in de politiek. Haar liefde voor het schrijversvak heeft ze opnieuw opgepakt sinds ze met pensioen is. Interesses: mode, economie en bovenal: mensen.
United Kingdom
Junior
Fiona B
Fiona’s passion for words was born in childhood, as she made up bedtime stories to help her brother sleep – though sometimes they kept him awake instead! She has a Master’s degree in English, and spent years honing her skills as a copywriter, then as creative director, at top international advertising agencies like BBDO, Young & Rubicam, and Ogilvy & Mather. Since moving to the UK from South Africa in 2019 (and staying at home like the rest of the world), she has rediscovered the art of storytelling purely for the love of it.
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
Senior
Rachel B-D
Rachel grew up in Hong Kong and has experience of transitioning from one culture to another. Rachel predominantly writes narrative non-fiction and has had two pieces published in the anthology Notes from a Barren Rock. She also writes short stories and has been published online through Fairlight Books and Words for the Wild, and also in the print anthololgy In the Kitchen. She has been highly commended in a number of competitions, been published on the Mslexia website, and shortlisted for the Bridport short story prize.
United Kingdom
Senior
Eve G
Eve is a singer-songwriter from the North Wales coast. Her writing took her South to Cardiff, where she studied a degree in English Literature and joined a band. Her musical roots and love of poetry gives her writing a lyrical, visual quality. Eve lives in South Wales surrounded by nature, where she is working on an album and learning to surf. She likes to ask questions.
United Kingdom
Senior
Neil R
Neil was born in London in 1971. He has published five true crime non-fiction books with publishers including Random House, and writes for several national newspapers and websites. Neil is a member of the National Union of Journalists as well as the Crime Writers’ Association. He has also worked as a freelance English teacher for some years, and has worked abroad in several countries. He lives in London, spending time with his girlfriend Tracy and her daughter Shana. He enjoys meeting people from all backgrounds, reading, watching films and swimming (but doesn’t do that enough).
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
Premium
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.
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