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
Caroline W
Caroline is a historian, passionate about telling the tales of ordinary folk. A proud Liverpudlian, she studied history at Cambridge University. She became a solicitor, latterly as a Director of Legal, but returned to study her first love, obtaining a doctorate from Oxford University. Her research, inspired by her port town roots, led ultimately to a fellowship at the National Maritime Museum. She is now writing a book based on that research, The Forgotten Boys of the Sea. See www.carolinewithall.com. She enjoys piano, dancing and activities with her family.
United Kingdom
Premium
Sanj S
Sanj is an author who has worked extensively as a journalist for the BBC and latterly as a speechwriter for the Mayor of London. His publications include a biography of Lionel Messi and a chronicle of the great British middleweight boxers of the 1990s. Sanj was born and raised in the south of England by Indian parents.
United Kingdom
Senior
Kathryn K
Kathryn wrote her first story at age five. Her favourite subject at school after English literature was history but she was more curious about the people who never made it into the history books. Who would write their stories? She's gone on to write and teach writing and has helped people start writing through creativity coaching and understands how daunting writing can be. This shouldn't stop anyone from getting their story on the page and she'd love to help you write your story. Kathryn is the author of Palimpsest, a novel; holds a Master of Philosophy degree in Creative Writing; and leads workshops on Stoic journalling, memory writing, meditative and therapeutic writing, and writing to leave behind a legacy.
United Kingdom
Senior
Cathal C
Cathal has written articles on cultural and educational issues for a range of publications such as Irish America and Ireland’s Own over the past decade, including three books with The History Press. After completing his degree in English and Modern History at Queen’s University Belfast, Cathal worked as a genealogist for Irish World Heritage Organisation, interviewing clients and researching online records to trace their family history, leading to a successful weekly series in The Dungannon Observer. He is passionate about libraries, and campaigns to promote better awareness of Critical Literacy.
United Kingdom
Senior
Kim M
Kim is a writer of books, magazine articles, company profiles, blogs, and literary analyses. Her childhood on the move as an Air Force brat prepared her to take risks, like attending Columbia College sight unseen, some 2,000 miles from home; moving to Chicago as a young adult; reuniting with her high school sweetheart after a chance encounter while on vacation; and having a baby at age 41. Her natural curiosity drives her desire to know the backstory of strangers and ask the questions that get people talking about their lives
United Kingdom
Premium
Barbara J
With 20 years as a foreign correspondent in Africa, and a war reporter in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, Barbara was always drawn to the human stories, exploring the emotional ingredients that motivate people - the great, the good and the man in the street. She has ghost-written four biographies and enjoyed putting aside any personal ego or judgement to properly portray the person telling his or her own story. Barabara has a home in rural France where the pace of life is almost medieval, and a seaside home in East Sussex within easy reach of London and its inviting energy.
United Kingdom
Premium
Rachel N
Rachel is a prolific shoe-buyer, chocolate eater, and coffee guzzler. When she’s not busying herself with those activities, she’s a freelance journalist, published in the national press, and ghostwrites autobiographies whilst surrounded by the lush scenery and stunning valleys of her native Wales. A former nurse, with a master’s degree in Medical Ethics and Law, she decided on a drastic career change in her mid-30s and became a journalist. Her passion is finding out people’s histories and writing compelling autobiographies for them to treasure.
Netherlands
Senior
Mireille van 't H
Mireille is schrijver en copywriter. Zo schreef ze samen met influencer 'Koen Kardashian' zijn spraakmakende biografie. Haar roman Ibiza, land van liefde verscheen in 2016 bij Ambo Anthos en speelt zich af in de woelige jaren zestig en zeventig. In haar boek Familiestuk (Overamstel Uitgevers) verweefde ze de oorlogsjaren en het katholieke Brabant met de moderne tijd. Het boek stond in de top 10 meest verkochte e-books van Bol.com 2012. Mireille werkt verder ook als tekstschrijver en ghostwriter. Ze heeft een aantal jaren in Spanje gewoond en is gek op jazz, kunst, klassieke muziek en geschiedenis
United Kingdom
Senior
Emma-Jane B
Emma-Jane started penning poetry at the age of seven, when she began filling notebooks with stories and poems. During the pandemic in 2020, she released her first poetry collection, Darkness & Light, about her journey with mental illness, which became a multiple bestseller on Amazon. She is a former primary school teacher and has a BA Honours degree in Creative Writing. You will often find her with a cup of tea and her nose in a book. She also enjoys stitching, playing guitar and ukulele and practising yoga and meditation.
United Kingdom
Senior
Gemma A
Gemma is a freelance writer and Post Production Supervisor, with a BA in Fine Art from Norwich School of Art and Design. Telling stories is her passion, whether they are written or visually expressed in film. Gemma has lived all over the world, in Europe, the US, and Asia. She worked for Jamie Oliver in London, editing his short videos, and writing for his online content. She now works in the film marketing world, based in London, and as a writer for StoryTerrace.
United Kingdom
Senior
Tanya W
Tanya writes, edits, keeps bees, runs, parents, bakes, reads… not all at once and some more than others. Having moved to the UK from South Africa in 2001 she soon found her niche writing for a magazine specialising in design and engineering. Her career has taken her from staff writer to the editorship of a number of publications in this field before embarking on a freelance career in 2018. She genuinely enjoys wrangling words and crafting copy, especially when it involves people and their stories.
United Kingdom
Senior
James H
James’ ten years in journalism have largely been about exploration. They’ve been about life and travel outside the comfort zone, getting backstage with rock bands, dropping into North Korea, or exploring climate change in El Salvador, yet one of his biggest and proudest achievements remains becoming a rare English face in Ireland’s GAA press boxes. Amongst others, his work has appeared in the Irish Independent, NME, RTE, Newstalk and the Sunday Business Post.
United Kingdom
Senior
Nick H
Nick is a writer and journalist who specialises in capturing the extraordinary in everyday stories. Something of a journeyman, Nick has tried his hand at everything from feature writing to music and film journalism, biographies, satire, documentaries and more. His work has been published by the Daily Telegraph, Vice and the East End Review, and he’s also written for some of the world’s biggest companies, including RBS, Microsoft and Virgin. He can be found in the darkest corner of your nearest cafe, inhaling coffee and twitching.
Netherlands
Senior
Kim S
Kim is kunsthistorica en letterkundige en schrijft voor de Historische Kring Breukelen en de Vechtstroom. Haar passies zijn reizen, lezen en schrijven. Ze joeg haar droom na en maakte met haar partner een reis van negen maanden door Zuidoost Afrika waar ze een boek over schreef. Niet lang daarna verhuisden ze naar Kenia, waar ze vier jaar woonden. Terug in Nederland is Kim begonnen om mensen te helpen hun levensverhaal op te schrijven.
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
Premium
Andrew C
A Yorkshireman in training by way of Chicago, USA, Andrew is a historical researcher and author with a unique specialty for telling the stories of businesses, inventors, and entrepreneurs. As the founder and curator of the Made In Chicago Museum, he has written extensively for more than a decade about the hundreds of manufacturing businesses that helped create that city’s industrial standing in the 20th century. One of those businesses, the famous candy giant Mars Inc., commissioned Andrew to write an official company history book to mark the closing of its original Chicago factory. The Mars Wrigley Candy Factory - Chicago: A Farewell Yearbook, was published in 2024. Andrew was also proud to write the first official company history book for one of the pioneers of automated music: Roll with the Punches: The Story of QRS Music (2024). Across a varied 20-year career, Andrew has always embraced the opportunity to tell previously untold story. Whether as a music journalist, sports writer, researcher, DIY museum curator, or copy-editing desk jockey, his central pursuit is the unique character of the subject and the relatable, engaging (and factually accurate!) translation of that subject’s experience. When writing about a business or organization, he takes particular care in digging beneath the usual bullet points of “About Us” company bios to find the human experiences of the people involved; the risk takers who developed an idea, overcame obstacles, and achieved something significant—be it worldwide fame or just a steady living for themselves and their family.
United Kingdom
Senior
Martin G
Martin is an author, editor and journalist with three decade’s worth of experience. Martin has written ten books including the best-selling Hen & the Art of Chicken Maintenance, and Bluffer’s Guides on cars and chicken keeping. He was also commissioning editor for the London Evening Standard’s weekly ESWheels motoring supplement, working with a wide variety of writers. His day job involves writing about cars for titles including the Daily Telegraph and the Spectator. Martin edits a motoring agony column for a car magazine and has been a columnist in Your Chickens, WI Life and Classic Cars magazines.
United Kingdom
Senior
Laura S
Laura is a freelance writer, teacher, and author. As the founder of Derbyshire Writing School, Laura is passionate about helping others write their stories and find their voice. She regularly teaches memoir courses and runs writing retreats. Laura has an MA in Creative Writing and lectures at the University of Derby. You’ll often find Laura in a café, drinking buckets of black coffee and eating an obscene amount of cake. If she had one superpower, it would be reading a book just by touching the cover. Can you imagine?
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
Junior
Maisie P
Maisie is a seasoned journalist and copywriter with a portfolio of published work for leading publications such as HELLO! Magazine, Stylist, HELLO! Fashion, and The C Word. She is currently writing for the leading digital wedding planning platform, Hitched. Throughout her work, Maisie has interviewed celebrities and drawn upon her own experiences to destigmatize the topic of women’s health - particularly around the subject of hormones, sexuality, and mental health.
United Kingdom
Senior
Kelly R
Kelly began her writing career contributing sketches for radio and television programmes, and had work produced by the BBC for the Russ Abbot Show. With a genuine interest, some may say nosiness, in other people’s lives, she has recently found her passion for ghostwriting, and is currently working on her fourth celebrity autobiography. Kelly loves theatre and was a judge for the Great British Pantomime Awards in 2018. She has been invited again for the 2021 season. In her spare time, she is a member of Bournemouth Rock Choir.
United Kingdom
Premium
Marc L
Marc has more than 30 years’ experience as a writer and editor for national newspapers, primarily the Daily Telegraph and the Guardian. His hundreds of interviewees include Oscar winners (among them Julia Roberts, Jeff Bridges and Aaron Sorkin) and he has talked at length to one sixth of all the human beings to have walked on the moon. As an interviewer, Marc always adopts a quietly sympathetic approach while ensuring that none of the key questions go unanswered. This has resulted in emotional encounters that led to revealing but sensitive accounts of many of his subjects’ lives.
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.
United Kingdom
Premium
Amanda L
Amanda is the author of five bestselling novels and three works of non-fiction. She holds a degree in drama, appears regularly on BBC radio and LBC and was a contracted writer to the hit series Weekending on Radio 4. She researched and edited the leading directory for banks, The Banker’s Almanac, for Euromoney publications while also covering stories for them. She has written for, or contributed to, The Evening Standard, The Times, New Woman, US Cosmopolitan, Vagabond and Company Magazine as well as numerous online publications.
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