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
Jan B
Jan is een van de vele filosofen die in de journalistiek zijn terechtgekomen. Hij werkt bij Het Financieele Dagblad, maar ook geeft hij cursussen filosofie en ethiek, aan de hand van een door hemzelf geschreven boekje. Hij redigeert en schrijft boeken en in zijn kast staan een paar honderd biografieën, waaruit afgeleid mag worden dat het zijn favoriete genre is. Zijn schrijvend verleden omvat verder onder meer romans, poëzie, novellen, korte verhalen, columns, kinderverhalen en interviews. Naast al dat lezen en schrijven mag hij graag een potje schaken of de geest laten doorwaaien op de fiets
United Kingdom
Senior
Joanna B
Joanna has been a professional writer for many years, working as a copywriter and journalist. She spent ten years as a successful freelance writer, before retraining as a cognitive behavioural psychotherapist, which involved less writing but a greater appreciation of the power of words. Her most valuable insight from this work is the importance of storytelling. Everyone has a story, and everything falls into place when we understand that story. Her great joy now is turning thoughts, feelings, experiences and memories into a story that’s meaningful, coherent and satisfying.
United Kingdom
Premium
Rebecca D
Writing since she was a teenager, Rebecca started out on a weekly local paper but spent most of her career at the BBC, where she worked on programmes including Newsnight, and the Six and Ten O’Clock News. During a break to bring up her family she gained a First-class Honours degree in English with Creative Writing. She then joined the press office at Citizens Advice. A change of direction, but one which continued her journalistic interest in trying to give a voice to those who find it difficult to be heard.
United Kingdom
Senior
Nicky P
Nicky is a best selling author, true crime buff, and has over 20 years experience working on B2B magazines. Working for professional member bodies such as the Federation of Small Businesses and Equity the Actors’ Union, Nicky got her degree in creative writing and had over 30 short stories featured in anthologies by publishers including Walker Books and Little Brown Books. She has 5 YA novellas published by Evernight Teen. In December 2020 her debut thriller, published by Harper Collins, became a Tesco bestseller.
United Kingdom
Senior
Birgit I
Birgit is AberdESTonian writer, and a published author. As a teenager, she discovered the power of stories, and she has used that power in every profession she’s had, including her career as a journalist for more than 13 years. In 2019, she followed her dream, and moved to Scotland. A few months later, she was a published author. As a ghostwriter, she enjoys writing memoirs and how-to business books the most. The only time when she's not thinking about writing is when she attends Latin Dance classes.
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
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.
United Kingdom
Senior
Alice M
Alice’s writing is driven by discovery. She recently travelled through India, Nepal and Thailand, sharing stories along the way in travel blogs, articles and photos. Alice balances writing alongside teaching yoga and managing local arts projects. Since graduating from Queen Mary University of London with a degree in English and Drama, she has also written scripts and theatre reviews. Alice regularly stretches her way across the globe in search of adventure. She has been kayaking with killer whales, diving in the Great Barrier Reef and trekking in the Himalayas.
United Kingdom
Senior
Rosie P
Rosie is a novelist and yoga teacher. When she isn’t writing, she is either boxing in London Fields or teaching maths to thirteen-year-olds. Rosie studied English at Cambridge University and her first novel, What Red Was – the story of a young woman overcoming the trauma of sexual assault – was published by Vintage in 2019. Rosie has written for Red Magazine and the Paris Review, and is an adamant believer in the power of narrative as a means of both processing and celebrating the extraordinary experience that is being human.
United Kingdom
Junior
Oliver M
After graduating from Oxford with a degree in French and Russian, Ollie has been learning more languages in the few years since. He has lived and worked abroad in several different countries, and has been writing pretty much constantly. He has produced short stories and a novel, as well as some travel writing. He is also a published translator of Georgian short fiction. Ollie runs the ‘Ollie and Sebastian’ YouTube channel with his friend Sebastian, which has taken them to a war zone and a country that doesn’t officially exist.
United Kingdom
Senior
Katarina S
With an Anglo-Indian father and German mother, Katarina was surrounded by fascinating, diverse life stories from an early age. After graduating from the universities of Southampton and Surrey, she made a career out of listening to people tell her about themselves, as a health journalist and researcher. Now, Katarina very much looks forward to working with your story.
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
George H
George is a graduate of the London School of Economics, where he studied human geography. He has worked in a national newsroom as a feature writer and is currently freelancing as an editor and ghostwriter, specialising in narrative nonfiction. He co-wrote Inside Allenwood, an Amazon bestseller about the life of a white-collar criminal, and has written and edited books which have sold thousands of copies and been turned into films. He also works as an editorial consultant with a UK literary agency. He lives in Norwich, where he spends frustrating Saturdays watching the football and relaxed Sundays reading.
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
Humphrey K
Humphrey is a qualified lawyer, seasoned journalist, historian and biographer. He mostly writes for law firms, and has clocked up six law firm histories. He likes to weave personal stories in with social and political history. He wrote the life story of his father-in-law, a diplomat whose professional life was dominated by the Cold War, and of his former boss’s father and mother, whose lives spanned the 20th century. When not penning words, Humphrey is often to be found on the sports field or attending concerts (more recently, in his mind).
United Kingdom
Junior
Sabrina B
Sabrina is a freelance writer, proof-reader, and sensitivity reader with a love of all things books. She has written for local newspapers and online publications such as Black Ballad on topics ranging from international affairs to personal bereavement. She has a BA in English Literature from the University of Birmingham and an MSc in International Development. When she’s not reading and writing, Sabrina likes to travel, bake and watch re-runs on Netflix.
United Kingdom
Premium
Carole R
Carole has spent more years than she’ll admit to writing for newspapers and women’s magazines. To give you a clue, she was at journalism college with Jeremy Clarkson but says she’s definitely younger than him. After qualifying, Carole joined the Sheffield Morning Telegraph, Yorkshire Post and Lancashire Evening Post before turning freelance. She’s covered hundreds of national in-depth real life and celebrity stories and worked closely with the lovely, late Lynda Bellingham. Recently she ghost wrote her first book for Simon & Schuster which was a Sunday Times bestseller.
United Kingdom
Senior
Jackie H
Jackie abandoned a fashion design course to become a journalist, spending a decade reporting and sub-editing for several top news agencies. She has interviewed and written profile pieces on numerous key figures over her career, including Sir Anthony Hopkins. She then worked in-house for an agency before joining a local government corporate communications team. As a trained Samaritans listener, Jackie prides herself on being empathetic and connecting with people. A former international distance runner, she still enjoys jogging, swimming and cycling. She is also a town councillor.
United Kingdom
Senior
Andy B
Andy likes stories, and he likes people. He especially likes people with stories to tell… which is mostly everyone, really. Working as a writer back in the late 1980s, he contributed to music magazines and national dailies before moving into books, where he ghosted memoirs and covered true crime, psychic phenomena, and British horror film history. He has written two novels under his own name, and 28 under house names for thriller and sci-fi series. He has lately worked on documentary series and has also taught creative writing.
Netherlands
Senior
Persis B
Persis (1987) debuteerde met de roman Een heldenleven (Prometheus, 2018), die werd genomineerd voor de ANV Debutantenprijs (shortlist). Ze schrijft essays, interviews en literaire kritiek voor onder andere NRC Handelsblad, De Gids en Mister Motley. Haar werk bestrijkt een breed cultureel spectrum, waaronder literatuur, beeldende kunst en de podiumkunsten, en werpt een kritische blik op hedendaagse politieke en maatschappelijke discussies. Persis is ook een graag geziene gast op culturele podia en festivals, waaronder recentelijk Crossing Border, Gaudeamus Muziekweek en Wiener Festwochen. Haar tweede roman Exces kwam in april 2021 uit, tevens bij Prometheus, en ontving goede recensies. beeld: Stine Sampers.
United Kingdom
Premium
Philip H W
Phil was awarded an MA in Professional Writing at University College Falmouth in 2009. In September 2016 The History Press published his book, War on Wheels, telling the story of the thousands of ordinary men and women who together worked to mechanise the British Army in WW2. In December 2016, Story Terrace published the book he wrote in collaboration with Phil Jeffs, the son of the sole survivor of the crash in WW2 of The MacRobert’s Reply. He has just completed "Ordnance", a prequel on WW1, which was published in June 2018. He also writes regularly on contemporary issues for a number of periodicals. He has been writing for fifteen years, having spent much of his career in professional services and the not for profit sector. Follow this link to his Amazon author page: http://amzn.to/2yaWPva.
Senior
Tania B
Born in India, Tania spent her childhood travelling across the country with her parents and ended up studying in eight different schools. She learned to adapt quickly and meeting new people all the time shaped her worldview to be compassionate and accepting of others. Tania studied sociology in college and university before segueing into journalism. She worked at The Telegraph India and Gulf News in Dubai before turning into a full-time freelance writer, editor and content strategist ten years ago. Over the past 18 years, she has covered a wide range of topics, specialising in people profiles, art, culture and film. Her work has appeared in The National, Al Jazeera, Ozy Media, Quartz, and Scroll India. Tania writes for Hindi films as well, and she is also the co-founder and director of MobiCrew, a Mumbai-based health-tech startup that services people with limited mobility. She loves to cook and read, and is addicted to movies and shows.
United Kingdom
Junior
Masimba M
Masimba is a screenwriter, novelist, essayist and blogger. He was born in Zimbabwe in 1976, and moved to the UK in 2002, settling in the North East England town of Middlesbrough. He has been published all over the world, mostly in the speculative fiction realm. In the real world, he takes a keen interest in international and local history, culture and society, politics, and, of course, biography. He believes that everyone has a story or a perspective of a bigger story waiting to be told and preserved for future generations, and is always ready to work with people who are ready to tell theirs.
United Kingdom
Junior
Mabinty TK
Mabinty is a self-published poet and copywriter with a knack for using cleverly crafted words to tell stories and create heart-warming content. With over 7 years writing experience, Mabinty is able to turn words into stories and believes we should celebrate the essence of who we are. This is what informs her writing style and process.
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