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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Netherlands
Senior
Henk S
Henk (1960) heeft altijd een zwak gehad voor mensen die buiten de gebaande paden denken. Hij verkeerde tussen oplichters en criminelen, maar interviewde ook ceo’s, filmsterren, staatshoofden en Nobelprijswinnaars. Tijdens zijn studie Journaiistiek werd hij aangenomen door weekblad Elsevier. Hij werkte vervolgens onder meer voor de Haagse Post, de Haagsche Courant, Het Parool en meer recent De Telegraaf en Follow The Money. Zijn eerste boek, over het Octopus-misdaadsyndicaat, stond maandenlang in de boeken-top 10. Als financieel verslaggever maakte hij de opkomst en neergang van de grote Nederlandse grootbanken mee en aan de vooravond van de oorlog in Irak schreef hij een boek over de ondergang van Saddam Hoessein. Met misdaadverslaggever Paul Vugts publiceerde hij de bestseller ‘Hells Angels - Motorclub of Misdaadbende’. Hij richtte een eigen uitgeverij op, liep vier marathons, componeert elektronische muziek, is getrouwd en heeft één zoon.
United Kingdom
Premium
Traci O
An American poet living in the Channel Islands, Traci is the author of two poetry collections for which she received a Seed Funding Grant from Arthouse Jersey. Her writing appears in BBC Radio Jersey, Poetry, Literary Matters, The Jersey Evening Post, and elsewhere. She has two master’s degrees in creative writing from Johns Hopkins University and serves as an editor for multiple international literary journals. Traci loves to help others tell their stories. She has taught writing and literature in France and the Caribbean, and she currently teaches creative writing workshops in Jersey, writes for several lifestyle magazines, hosts a one-hour radio programme, and edits books for international authors.
United Kingdom
Premium
Rick B
Rick is an award-winning author and journalist for The Times. He has interviewed celebrities ranging from Usain Bolt to Sir Bobby Charlton, and has also developed a literacy scheme to get young people reading and writing. Rick has written nine books of his own, including ghosted autobiographies of Olympian Jessica Ennis-Hill, and Jeremy Keeling, a maverick who built an ape sanctuary. He was short-listed three times for the prestigious William Hill Prize and won the British Sports Book Awards. He is nice, friendly (so he says) and a good listener.
United Kingdom
PRO
Premium
Roz M
Roz is a writer, collaborator, developmental editor and ghostwriter, working in adult fiction and non-fiction, including creative non-fiction and memoir. She works with all kinds of writers – from first-timers to seasoned pros, some of whom are transitioning from other written media such as radio drama, academic writing and journalism. She does story consultancy for a variety of media, including genre publishers and games developers. She's had even longer experience writing novels and non-fiction herself and working with editors in the major publishing houses. Writing and editing has been her livelihood since 1987. Where did she learn this? First, editing and coaching debut authors for Cornerstones Literary Consultancy. Then, ghostwriting novels and memoirs for Random House and Puffin. She can’t tell you what those titles are as they’re a trade secret and she’s bound by confidentiality clauses, but this work has given her a sixth sense for the powerful stories, themes and dimensions that lurk below the waterline. Third, teaching creative self-editing masterclasses for The Guardian newspaper in London. Last but not least, writing her own novels, memoirs and writing craft books. She's still practising what she preaches, every day. Roz has also taught masterclasses for Writers & Artists and spoken at the Chartered Institute for Editing & Proofreading. She's editor-in-chief for the Alliance of Independent Authors. She's judged major writing competitions in fiction and creative non-fiction (including the Amazon Kindle Storyteller Award and the Vine Leaves Press International Voices Award). And a manuscript she doctored in its early stages went on to win the Roald Dahl Funny Prize. It's hard to get Roz away from her writing desk, but when she steps into meatworld you'll find her running, lifting weights, dancing and training her horse in classical Freanch dressage.
Netherlands
Senior
Igor D
Igor schrijft sinds 2015 levensverhalen en heeft er ondertussen meer dan vijfentwintig op zijn actief. Daarnaast werkt hij als redacteur mee aan tal van boeken. Zoals Over Tinnitus, over mensen die lijden aan oorsuizen en Op zoek naar vaste grond, een portret van de Somalische vluchtelinge Ayan. Beiden publicaties van Uitgeverij Manteau. Igor is ook docent van een cursus portretschrijven en schrijft in opdracht van tal van organisaties en bedrijven. Hij houdt van fietsen en droomt er nog altijd van om ooit de bolletjestrui in de Tour de France te winnen.
United Kingdom
Premium
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George L
George is a prolific freelance writer and an award-winning radio producer. In a career that began in music journalism in the 1990s, George has interviewed hundreds of bands, as well as authors, scientists and political activists. In 2023, George won a Silver award at the “Radio Oscars”, the Audio & Radio Industry Awards. George lives in Buckinghamshire with his wife and two daughters. He enjoys baking, windsurfing, reading and listening to music.
United Kingdom
Senior
Deborah S
Deborah grew up in the music industry. As a professional writer she understands the importance of good communication when getting to the core of a story. Her passion for writing led her to build her own PR Company and she has written for professional audio magazines including Audiofile and Audio Media International. Her innate ability to sniff out a good story led her to begin her own pro-audio magazine Behind the Glass. Deborah has also written memoirs for the famous and published her own book about living with a child who has mental health difficulties to help other parents.
United Kingdom
PRO
Premium
Marion M
Marion is a writer and documentary film maker specialising in life stories. She is a New York Festival Gold Medal Winner for biography, and the writer and director of an Emmy award-winning documentary feature on the courage of the greatest generation who made D-Day happen. She is also Grierson Award and Royal Television Society nominee for her work, and the recipient of two special commendations by the Association of International Broadcasters. Her global, in-depth interviews range from Hiroshima survivors to Hollywood superstars. Her speciality is drawing people out and creating a lasting testimony from their own words. These include conversations with a British Prime Minister, two American Presidents and with our own King at his Welsh hideaway in his last years as Prince of Wales, who confided about what it was like to face the world’s cameras as a shy young man at his investiture. She has met soldiers and children of wars. She has travelled with a much-loved British actor to find his family’s roots in Barbados. She has met a grown man who as a boy sheltered Martin Luther King in his home in the era of the Birmingham riots. She is a fluent French speaker, and has interviewed heroes of the Resistance, Paris fashionistas, and political agitators. Along the way she has been privileged to transform these conversations into compelling biographies. Marion would love to write your story. To find out what makes you tick, to explore your own memories, and discover the world that shaped you.
United Kingdom
Junior
Laurence C
Laurence is an experienced writer with a passion for languages and travel. He was fortunate enough to work as a travel journalist in Myanmar between 2016-2018, during its all-too-brief spell of democracy, and has since worked as a reporter for two newspapers on the Costa del Sol, Spain. A keen storyteller, his fiction has appeared in The Satirist and The Dark Lane Anthology Volume 12. He has an MA in Comparative Literature from The University of Heidelberg, Germany.
United Kingdom
Senior
Debasmita R
Debasmita has a strong background in academics. She collected degrees and learned five languages as a hobby. Long ago, she realised her calling for the written word. The narratives that we build for ourselves impress her the most. From holding a corporate job to working with the most vulnerable, she has a vast range of experience. Being a content writer for the past nine years, she got the opportunity to work with the best brands and raise important questions. As a published author of a media and gender studies book, she is still looking for stories to tell. When not writing she is busy cooking Bengali vegetarian dishes to familiarise friends and acquaintances with some near-lost recipes.
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
Junior
Lindz M
Lindz is a Scottish writer, editor, and writing coach who is represented by Headwater Literary Management. Her background in contract management/editing for a global corporate company has given her a keen eye for detail. Her prose has been published by Catapult, Flash Fiction Online, Pseudopod, and many more. Lindz is a full member of the SFWA, a mentor to six talented new writers, and she is also the competition secretary of the Edinburgh Writers' Club. Her novelette called 'Love, Happiness, and All The Things You May Not Be Destined For' is being pitched as a TV show by Assemble Media. Her short story collection is forthcoming with Bear Creek Press in 2022, and her debut novel is forthcoming with Brigid's Gate Press in 2023.
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.
Netherlands
Junior
Ahmad R
Ahmad (Meppel, 1989) begon zijn schrijfcarrière in 2013, toen zijn eerste Disney-scenario bij weekblad Donald Duck werd geaccepteerd. Vervolgens ging hij ook als freelance redactiemedewerker bij het vrolijke weekblad aan de slag. Sindsdien ging zijn loopbaan in sneltreinvaart. Zo vertaalde hij onder andere stripboeken vanuit het Engels en Turks, schreef artikelen voor diverse stripinformatiebladen, werd columnist en journalist bij een krant en staat hij momenteel onder contract bij meerdere uitgeverijen om diverse (strip)boeken te schrijven. In zijn vrije tijd brengt Ahmad het liefst tijd door met zijn zoon, Ibke.
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…
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
Premium
Rachel L.
Rachel has more than 30 years’ experience in writing and interviewing. After beginning her journalism career on a Sunday newspaper in Australia, she moved to the Daily Mirror in London as a staff feature writer, which saw her doing everything from shadowing doctors to interviewing Olympic gold medal ice-skaters. After writing for a range of magazines, from the Daily Telegraph to The Times, she left newspapers for glossy magazines – first as deputy editor of ELLE, then editor of ELLE Decoration. After living in France for ten years, she is now freelancing in the Dorset countryside, where she continues to contribute to magazines and national newspapers as well as to a local news website she launched with her husband. In addition to journalism, she has published a book, Art at Home: An Accessible Guide to Collecting and Curating Art in Your Home, and ghost-written a story about a World War Two evacuee. She loves discovering people’s real life stories which are so often unexpected and extraordinary.
United Kingdom
Senior
Sharlene M
Sharlene is an experienced writer and former educator who is adept at teasing out the funny little anecdotes you’d almost forgotten. She is patient and sensitive with other people’s histories and likes to rebuild them with care. As an author of original fiction for learners, educational materials for teachers, articles for parents, lifestyle pieces and the odd children’s book, writing is simply the thing that she does best. Born in London, Sharlene grew up listening to her parents’ colourful tales of childhoods in Malaysia and Kenya. She believes that real life holds the very best stories and that sharing them is the ultimate legacy.
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
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
Junior
Eloise W
Eloise is a freelance writer, researcher and editor. She holds an MA in Creative and Life Writing from Goldsmiths, University of London. In 2013, she was the recipient of Plymouth University’s Creative Writing Award for her work of literary non-fiction. She loves to travel and on separate trips has travelled solo around the world, surfed in Indonesia, backpacked in Central America, and ridden a motorbike around much of Europe. Her work has been published in national magazines and journals.
United Kingdom
Senior
Paul D.G.
After 25 years in finance, Paul decided to spend his time more profitably and return to his love of writing. A career in law and banking that included a decade as a director of a FTSE 250 company gives him a deep understanding of all aspects of business. Outside of business, he also loves nature, exploring the poetry of the everyday and finding the connections between everything. A Cambridge English graduate, when not walking his golden retriever, transporting his children or providing communications advice to Idaho miners, he enjoys writing for his Substack and daydreaming about Arsenal, history and philosophy.
Senior
Batul T
Batul is an entrepreneurial and creative spirit, seeking to understand the driving stories behind people, and to establish genuine connections. Having lived in North America, South Asia & the Middle East, her career is shaped by a global perspective. Batul studied English Literature at the University of Toronto and have since woven her love for narrative into every role: she has written for lifestyle publications, as a creative copywriter at ad agencies, and a marketer for the Aga Khan Museum. Batul is also a children’s author, twice published by Oxford University Press.
United Kingdom
Junior
Nicola H
After a teaching career in secondary education, and ten years as a senior examiner for the UK’s largest examination board, Nicola studied MA Psychology at London Metropolitan University. Then she found a new passion for social history through a new role as a funeral celebrant, helping families to tell their loved one’s story and celebrate their lives. Nicola loves to read, walk her dog and plan the next adventure in her campervan, with her husband.
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