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
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
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
Premium
Peter B
Peter has published 20+ titles, either as named author or ghost writer, by Weidenfeld and Nicolson, Hodder & Stoughton, Headline, Macmillan, Bloomsbury, Orion and others. Peter has also written for The Guardian, The Independent, and Kensington & Chelsea Today and has wide commercial experience in the fashion industry, publishing, furniture and antiques retailing. An enthusiastic walker, Peter has undertaken a number of long walks, most notably from Sarajevo to Medjugorje in Bosnia; now widely in Wales and the Marches.
Netherlands
Senior
Marjolein B
Marjolein (1978) ervaarde, na het overlijden van haar 3-jarige dochtertje, hoe belangrijk het is om herinneringen uit het leven vast te leggen. Als freelancer maakt ze persoonlijke verhalen voormensen rondom betekenisvolle momenten in hun leven, publicaties over rouw en on- en offline content voor bedrijven. Daarbij gebruikt ze haar voelsprieten, levenservaring en de jarenlange kennis die ze opdeed in het communicatievak.
Netherlands
Junior
Eelco C
Eelco heeft ruim vijftien jaar ervaring als muziekjournalist. Hij was hoofdredacteur van een platform voor elektronische muziek in Amsterdam en Berlijn, en werkte freelance voor festivals als TodaysArt en Dekmantel. In 2020 stond hij met een essay over zijn Indische familiegeschiedenis op de shortlist van de Joost Zwagerman Essayprijs. Over dit onderwerp verschijnt in 2022 een roman bij De Arbeiderspers. Naast boeken lezen, muziek verzamelen en hardlopen kijkt hij zoveel mogelijk wedstrijden van Ajax.
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.
United Kingdom
Senior
Maddy F
Maddy studied African history at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London before becoming a journalist. She has written for the Daily Telegraph, the New Statesman and Time magazine, to name a few, and loves finding the unique at the heart of the ordinary in people’s lives. Passionate about theatre, film and TV, she co-founded ScriptWright, a business helping screenwriters and playwrights make their ideas flourish. In a spare moment, she can be found singing, working on her novel, making podcasts and mixing cocktails. She dreams of one day having an owl as a pet.
Netherlands
Junior
Cleo B
Cleo heeft Nederlandse literatuur en samenleving gestudeerd aan de Vu. Sindsdien is ze begonnen als tekstschrijver en beeldmaker. Voordat ze de Nederlandse Literatuur ging bestuderen, studeerde ze Illustratie design aan de HKU, ze vindt tekst en beeld dan ook allebei erg interessant.
United Kingdom
Senior
Rose S
Rose is a British writer and singer with an MSt (Distinction) in Creative Writing from Brasenose College, Oxford, where she specialised in poetry about the natural world. She lives overlooking the Brecon Beacons in Wales with her growing family and menagerie, performing her indie-folk music locally and gaining a variety of poetry publications in print and online. Rose writes with a musical ear, and is fascinated by the craft of capturing moments.
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
Joep B
Joep B schreef een portret van Neelie Kroes in De Nederlandse Eurocommissarissen en in 2016 verscheen zijn biografie van Jan Terlouw. Hij is redacteur van Biografieportaal.nl, interviewde schrijvers, tekende persoonlijke verhalen op en publiceerde in onder meer NRC Handelsblad en Trouw. Joep werkte voor provincies, het rijk en de Europese Unie. In 2017 volgt hij de post doctorale opleiding journalistiek aan de Erasmusuniversiteit.
United Kingdom
Senior
Alison C
After studying English at Oxford University, Alison worked in BBC Radio making sound effects, mixing & editing. She learned the art of telling stories from the hundreds of scripts that passed through her hands. In 2004 she began writing short fiction and serials, and her work is published about 70 times a year in magazines including Woman’s Weekly and The People’s Friend. Shaping the past is her speciality; she tries not to get lost in the research… Downtime involves long-distance swimming and cooking, though not at the same time.
United Kingdom
Premium
Alex G
Alex has been ghostwriting biographies since 2015 and joined StoryTerrace in 2017. He specialises in politics, history, the built environment & the law. He is the author of Sex, Spies and Scandal: The John Vassall Affair (Biteback, 2024), an acclaimed biography of a 1960s spy which sheds new light on an important part of British political and LGBT history. He is currently writing a book about British whistleblowers, due to be published by Icon Books in 2026. Working with his brother, Alex helped to research the bestselling Court Number One: The Old Bailey Trials that Defined Modern Britain, and a biography of the veteran anti-Apartheid lawyer Sydney Kentridge. After studying English at Oxford, Alex was a journalist in both the US and the UK and then spent 16 years as a Labour councillor in the London Borough of Greenwich, and worked in parliament. He has lectured about the history and development of London at the Universities of London and Sheffield, and written for the Times, the Guardian and Building Design.
United Kingdom
Senior
Deborah D
Deborah has worked as a journalist for the past 22 years, and in that time has written for most of the UK’s national newspapers and women’s magazines. She also has 18 books published by mainstream publishers. She has three grown-up daughters whom she adores, six dogs, one rabbit and a guinea pig. In her spare time she renovates properties, listens to music, travels and she loves walking, but not hills – she hates hills!
United Kingdom
Premium
Matt E
As Editor-in-Chief of the BBC’s in-house newspaper Ariel, Matt was fortunate enough to meet many luminaries but interviewing the great Sir David Attenborough at the naturalist’s London home for his 90th birthday was an undoubted highlight. Matt has been a journalist and writer for more than 30 years. He is the author of nine books, appeared on The One Show to discuss his book about the 1966 World Cup Final, is a sports commentator for the BBC and owns, on vinyl, every UK number one single since the charts began.
United Kingdom
Premium
Jamie M
Educated at Edinburgh College of Art, Jamie subsequently worked for Sotheby’s where he ran the Victorian paintings department before setting up his own commercial art gallery, for which he produced many catalogues. He wrote a monthly column for House and Garden for seven years. He has also written for the Observer, Evening Standard and New Statesman. In 1995 he founded the Erotic Review, a literary/lifestyle magazine which he edited until 2023. In 2014 he joined the CMM literary agency. He loves travel, cycling, cooking, music and life with his family.
United Kingdom
Senior
Nadia S
Nadia’s love of books and storytelling started from the age of seven when she discovered theatre and acting. With a vivid imagination and curious spirit mixed with a love of meeting people, she has always been a keen writer able to engage with people easily. Her career in drama and factual TV-making has broadened her creative horizons.
United Kingdom
Senior
Christopher L
Christopher has spent many years as an agency and freelance ghostwriter, helping people find their voice and tell their story. He established the editorial department at a publishing house for empowering, survival-against-the-odds stories – not misery memoirs as some people call them! He’s worked with a few people you may have heard of – including ex-Blue Peter and Sky Sports presenter, Simon Thomas on the Daily Mail’s ‘most moving book’ of 2019. After three decades writing, Christopher remains just as thrilled to be telling so many unique, powerful, and moving stories.
Netherlands
Senior
Esther T
Esther heeft verschillende banen in de communicatie gehad, maar in de journalistiek voelde ze zich het gelukkigst. Schrijven is haar passie. Met name het schrijven van human interest verhalen heeft haar voorkeur. Esther vindt het elke keer weer een voorrecht om naar de verhalen van mensen te mogen luisteren. Naast schrijven, leest ze graag en kan ze erg genieten van de natuur: tuinieren en lange wandelingen.
Senior
Lisa D
Lisa is a biographer, end-of-life doula, and copywriter with more than 20 years’ experience in communication and management roles across healthcare, community, and not-for-profit organisations. She considers her superpower to be her ability to connect with people. Her passion lies in helping individuals record their stories in their own words. What she values most is creating a space where people feel safe to share whatever is on their mind and in their heart, knowing they will be listened to without judgement. She sees it as a privilege to shape those stories into authentic narratives that honour a life well lived.
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
Will R
Will is a founder and editor at Peninsula Press, an independent publisher of fiction and narrative non-fiction. His own essays have appeared in the Guardian, Granta, and the TLS – among many other places – and he is currently writing his first book, to be published by Coach House Books. Titled Hypochondria, it is a literary and medical history of that condition. When Will isn’t writing, he is reading. When he isn’t writing or reading, he is sleeping, cycling, or swimming in cold water.
United Kingdom
Developmental Editor
Ruth Charnock
Dr Ruth Charnock is a freelance editor, writer, creative mentor and artist. She has over 20 years of experience working with writers, specifically from teaching literature within universities, writing and editing books. She is currently writing a novel, as well as working with a range of clients who are developing their own projects - particularly in the fields of prose, life-writing and creative non-fiction. She is the editor and author of Joni Mitchell: New Critical Readings (Bloomsbury, 2023), and has worked as an editor with Routledge, Rodopi, Taylor and Frances, Bloomsbury, Duke University Press, and AUP.
United Kingdom
Senior
Susan M
Susan is a professional freelance writer with a degree in Creative Writing and a Masters in Activism and Social Change. Starting out as an advertising copywriter, she spent over a decade as a digital nomad, flitting between urban Europe and the palm-fringed shores of South East Asia — earning her keep with stories along the way. Today she is settled in a tiny cottage by the sea in North Devon, where she spends her days writing, swimming, and messing about in boats. Susan particularly enjoys spinning tales of the weird and wonderful, and has had her work published in the Fortean Times. She has written for everything from international brands to small local charities, and recently penned a stage play about a talking mongoose called Gef.
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