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
Senior
Susanna M
A lover of plants and prose, Susanna remembers as a child delivering her finished poems to the study for her Dad to review them. These formative moments of learning to write have stayed with Susanna and inspire her in her work with children to do the same. As an experienced teacher, she has promoted nature & the outdoors in primary schools for many years. When out of the garden, she is writing about it. Having studied English Literature & French at the University of Sussex, her love of language and reading continues to this day. She has worked as a copywriter for travel companies, and has published articles for the RHS and the British Council.
United Kingdom
Senior
Emily K
Emily’s love of books and the written word has taken her across the globe on trips both physical and fictional. She started her career editing poetry chapbooks and literary fiction for Brick House Books in Baltimore, Maryland, but when a job to copy edit and proofread non-fiction books in Dublin came across her desk, she leapt at the chance to explore a new country. Now settled in England, via New Zealand, Emily spends her days writing and editing romance, historical fiction, and narrative non-fiction books.
United Kingdom
Senior
Russ S
Russ is a self-confessed geek who loves to explore subjects in detail. He has written for publications as diverse as Encyclopedia Britannica and Private Eye, for national newspapers including the Times, Guardian, and Financial Times, and for a large number of magazines and websites. He has edited engineering and scientific magazines, and is the author of The Physics Behind…, a book explaining the science that makes the modern world tick. He grew up on Tyneside, and lived and worked in Scotland, Sheffield, and London before settling in Nottinghamshire. He enjoys walking his dog and tinkering with motorbikes.
United Kingdom
Senior
Lauren S
Lauren has been in love with the written word since childhood, a passion for storytelling that has come to define every aspect of her life and career. Following a BA in English Literature and an MA in publishing, she has spent many happy years as both a staff and freelance ghost writer specialising in memoir and biography. Lauren has written for a range of private clients and public figures, including political activists, models, inventors and artists. She is committed to amplifying unheard voices, and a creative process rooted in curiosity and compassion.
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
Junior
Mica B
Mica has been a professional writer and journalist since the age of 12 when she became Britain's Youngest Sports Reporter and published her debut novel in the same year. Home educated, in the decade that followed, Mica has gone on to write, collaborate and edit countless books and articles published all over the world on a range of topics from hedgehogs and history to business and beauty. She is a keen photographer, loves a good classic and is a qualified archer with a passion for interviewing people!
Netherlands
Senior
Ilse M
Ilse studeerde psychologie en Franse taal- en letterkunde in Leiden en Parijs. Als freelance journalist schreef ze onder meer voor Avenue en Trouw en maakte ze radiodocumentaires voor Human. Ze is auteur van de boeken Curaçao Geschiedenissen (2004) en Antroposofie ontmoet (2015). Ze kijkt graag documentaires en films en houdt van wandelen op het strand, koken voor en eten met grotere gezelschappen, werken in de tuin en theedrinken bij haar favoriete koffietent Borgman&Borgman in Leiden.
United Kingdom
Junior
Tom K
Tom is a ghost-writer, screenwriter and film producer with a passion for personal and unexpected true stories. In film and TV he has worked with the likes of Sky and the BBC, as well as production companies including Double Dutch, Happy Prince, Moonriver TV, Watford & Essex and 108 Media. Through his experiences working on a true WW1 story about motorcycle racers who went to the front lines - a story passed down the generations of a friend’s family – he discovered a desire to find and help people tell their own story. He has learnt that everyone has an amazing story – and believes everyone should have the chance to tell theirs.
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
Senior
Felice H
Felice’s career has been in journalism. She started as a sub-editor on Vogue and Brides magazines, followed by many years as a freelance travel writer. She has written for almost every national newspaper in the UK, and for magazines such as Condé Nast Traveller, Country Life, and House & Garden. She has written 18 travel guide books, and has just finished writing her own family memoir.
Netherlands
Senior
Annemiek E
‘Het leest alsof mijn moeder er weer even is, alsof ik haar weer hoor praten.’ Mijn wens is om het unieke in ieder mens te ontdekken en te verwoorden. Dat bracht mij tot schrijverschap. Ruim vijftig levensportretten heb ik inmiddels op mijn naam staan. Mijn kracht? Oog en oor voor mensen, openheid creëren, en beeldend schrijven. Mijn werk leest daardoor als een persoonlijke documentaire. Naast schrijver ben ik zelfstandig bedrijfspsycholoog en coach in Amsterdam.
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
Linda F K
Linda worked as a journalist on local and national newspapers in England after obtaining an arts degree at Edinburgh University. She has travelled around the world and filmed the first litter-cleaning expedition to Everest base camp. Linda then returned to Northern Ireland, where she was born, to work in business PR before she joined BBC NI. She loves prose and poetry, so once her twins were teenagers, she took a master’s degree in Irish Literature (in English). Another passion of hers is walking the coastline of Ireland, north and south.
United Kingdom
Senior
Allie M
As a kid Allie wanted to write stories instead of playing outside. She started copywriting in 2008, and since then she's written everything from software reports to self help books. She's helped many coaches, therapists and business leaders bring their stories to life, with practical advice their readers can use to improve their life or business. When Allie is not writing, you’ll find her watching sci-fi or hanging out with her betta fish.
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
Senior
Gareth S
Gareth is an award-winning British-Canadian poet, novelist, dramatist, and filmmaker. He has a BA in English Literature and MA in Scriptwriting & Playwriting. Commercially, Gareth has licensed a brand of typographic greeting cards to Camden Graphics; won Creative Future's National Poetry Award; and was a finalist in The Literary Consultancy's Pen Factor Award. In 2022, he won a DIT-British Embassy Pitch Fund for his science-fiction animation, miBOTS, subsequently shortlisted in Cannes. In 2023, he was named ‘Producer to Watch’. Gareth’s films and plays have been shown in London, Toronto, Brighton and Cannes. He lives in Brighton with his rescue dog, Pimms.
United Kingdom
Premium
Alice J
Alice is a skilled writer with a keen eye for detail. She is a self-confessed stickler for spelling and grammar and has a degree in English Literature. She worked in the Middle East as a journalist and freelance writer for almost a decade, reporting and developing stories from people in the GCC and Afghanistan. Alice has researched and written several non-fiction books for corporate clients and her most recent biography The Real Agatha Christie will be published by Pen and Sword in 2026.
United Kingdom
Senior
Vanwy A
Vanwy is an award-winning writer who has performed her work alongside Daljit Nagra, Imtiaz Dharker and Ian MacMillan. Her work has been exhibited in various art spaces and museums in London and Cornwall. She has been placed in many writing competitions and is published in a variety of anthologies. Vanwy has been a writer in residence at the Bloomsbury Festival many times. She obtained her Writing MA from the acclaimed Warwick University Writing Programme and her post-graduate qualification in teaching writing from the University of Cambridge. Vanwy teaches writing and her course, ‘Writing a Successful Memoir’, has been identified by the Workers Education Association as one of the most popular courses it has run nationally.
United Kingdom
Premium
Edward C
International award-winning writer of fiction, researcher and published poet. Edward's written work, 'Bell in the Tree', about the goings-on in Glasgow, having found thousands of stories in historic council papers, was broadcast as a radio series and was a recipient of numerous international awards, including Gold and Bronze medals in New York for scripting radio dramas. His collection of special material including transcripts, news cuttings, notes, cassette tapes and artwork form a collection in the Glasgow Library. Edward has published books with mainstream publishers, he has written informational daily strips for the Herald and the Evening Times, and he's an accomplished painter. Dubbed 'the people's historian', he's an acknowledged expert on Glasgow.
United Kingdom
Senior
Annabel H
Since training as a journalist on an evening paper in South Wales in the 70s, I've focused on feature writing for newspapers and magazines, specialising in one-to-one profiles. I've always enjoyed the interviews as much as the writing, and for that reason, I have invariably ended up with far more background information and interesting quotes than I actually needed! I live in the country near the English/Welsh border. I'm an animal lover, a keen amateur photographer and painter, and a fan of many sports, with a lifelong interest in history and current affairs, languages, and all aspects of the performing arts.
United Kingdom
Premium
Martin D
Martin caught the writing bug after researching the life of his great-great grandfather (a nineteenth century soldier). After finding out so much information about him, he thought it might make for an interesting book. The book was well received and Martin’s writing career was underway! Now, with over ten fiction and non-fiction books to his name, as well as his family history, Martin lists his home city as one of his great inspirations. “Carlisle has over two-thousand years of history dating back to the Romans – if you can’t find something there of interest, there’s no hope for you!”
United Kingdom
Premium
Jeremy P
Jeremy is a prize-winning writer who lives in Cornwall with his wife and son. Alongside Britain and the US he has been published in places as far away as Lithuania and China. He has travelled all over the world researching his books; he’s been frozen in Siberia and burnt by the sun on the plains of Montana in pursuit of General Custer. Above all he understands what it takes to tell a story and would like to tell yours.
Netherlands
Senior
Kees V
Kees is als docent Engels gepokt en gemazeld in het voortgezet onderwijs. Naast zijn liefde voor de Engelse taal en literatuur gaat zijn belangstelling ook uit naar de geschiedenis van de Tweede Wereldoorlog. En met name naar de Shoah. Naast schrijver en co-auteur van verschillende toneelstukken over dit onderwerp heeft hij ook drie historische werken op zijn naam staan. Eén over de Jodenvervolging in zijn woonplaats (Waar ze ook heen gaan, ze hebben in elk geval mooi weer, 2012), één over een Alphense arts die ook in het verzet zat (Pilon, arts en verzetsman, 2016). Zijn meest recente boek bevat tientallen verhalen van bewoners en medewerkers van de Martha-Stichting, een voormalig kindertehuis in Alphen aan den Rijn (Het Boek der Martelaren, 2017). De drie boeken die hij heeft geschreven zijn gebaseerd op de verhalen die mensen hem verteld hebben. In zijn woonplaats geeft Kees regelmatig lezingen en gastlessen over de onderwerpen die hem bezighouden.
United Kingdom
Senior
Dale M
Dale is a professional writer and former child who has his very own star sign. As a jack of no trades and a master of fewer, Dale has been stringing sentences together for marketing companies, blogs and magazines for the past five years. He has established his own Publishing Company, which is responsible for the successful monthly magazine ‘This Is Empty.’ This has seen him interview comedians, rappers and TV Personalities. Dale is also in the process of finalising his first novel, ‘All Things In Between’ for release later this year.
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