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
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
Junior
Lee W
Lee is a former literary agent of Pendle Hill Literary TV & Film Agency and has been a Member of the Chartered Medical Board for the last two decades. As a chartered musculoskeletal & orthopaedic specialist with interests in respiratory and mental health, Lee has had a long career as a medico-legal expert for the law courts. A prolific writer of true life, and fantasy fiction too, Lee holds an MA and Ph.D in English Literature and Creative Writing, and is the founder and host of Parchment-Inks Mentoring group. Additionally, Lee is a former British Heavyweight Gold Medallist Mixed Martial Arts Champion - a world champion contender - a former firefighter, and fell runner.
Netherlands
Senior
Ruud K
Na zijn opleiding tot leraar en tolk/vertaler Duits stapte Ruud over naar de journalistiek. Als schrijver en eindredacteur werkte hij jarenlang op de redactie van Dagblad De Limburger. Daarna was hij actief voor vrijwel alle grote kranten van Nederland en België als externe leverancier van featuremateriaal. Nadat zijn bedrijf opgegaan is in een grotere speler op de markt, heeft Ruud weer plaatsgenomen achter zijn laptop om zich te wijden aan zijn liefste werk, het schrijven van waar gebeurde verhalen.
United Kingdom
Senior
Claire OB
As a freelance journalist, Claire has managed to combine her favourite things – writing, of course, but also chatting to strangers and making new friends. After nine years in London as a features executive on a national paper, she moved home to Northern Ireland in 2016. Most of her work involves interviews, speaking to everyone from celebrities to those who simply have fascinating stories to tell. Claire’s aim with every piece she does is conveying what people have to say truthfully and sensitively – and in a voice that sounds like them.
United Kingdom
Junior
Hazel Y
Hazel’s ability to form connections with people is at the heart of her writing, and the stories she hopes to uncover. A former Features Editor of a vintage lifestyle magazine, Hazel loves to immerse herself in the past, and bring to life the stories that make us. She spent her childhood writing stories and making up newspapers. After gaining a 1st Class Honours degree in English, she thought she might work in real newspapers, but instead was drawn to literature, poetry and stories. She has worked as an editorial assistant, writer, editor and teacher. She has interviewed stars of stage and screen, and will never get over the thrill of seeing her name in print. She is also a yoga teacher, parent and music enthusiast with a solid knowledge of 70s rock.
United Kingdom
Senior
Paul D
Paul enjoyed 20 years of working as a chef and manager, including five years at The Royal College of Music serving both musical and actual royalty. Later, he went to university in Cambridge (no, the other one – Anglia Ruskin) to do what he should have done in his 20s; study English Literature and Creative Writing. He is currently teaching Creative Writing in a prison, assistant editing an online magazine and, of course, writing for StoryTerrace. In his spare time he is learning Italian and trying to organise some of his poems into a collection for publication.
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
Premium
Craig M
Craig has written 1,001 stories with people from all walks of life. He has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Sussex, and his novel, The Belle Hotel, is a family saga set at a seaside hotel over three generations (described as ‘a great read’ by Matt Haig). Craig ran custom publishing for Rough Guides/Penguin Random House and has been writing the story of people, families and businesses since the last century.
United Kingdom
Premium
Phil D
Experienced ghost writer and profiler for entrepreneurs, senior execs, thought leaders, highly successful people in all fields, from the Global CEO of DHL to Charles Schulz (creator of the Peanuts comic strip). Phil's eBooks have been read over 2.5 million times online, showing he knows how to write a book in a way that will attract a lot of attention. His leadership books are used by the United Nations and UK emergency services to train their employees in how to lead. Phil was voted into the 'Global Top 30 Leadership Gurus' list two years running. He has interviewed and profiled dozens of C Suite execs, high profile entrepreneurs and thought leaders from Body Shop Founder Anita Roddick to Yo! Sushi Founder (and Dragons' Den star) Simon Woodroffe, from Richard Branson to Harvard Professor Michael Porter ('The Godfather of Strategy'). His corporate writing clients include the McLaren Formula 1 team, Microsoft, Intel and Gartner Group. He has written thought pieces on business, science, society and culture for The Independent, GQ, New Scientist, Daily Telegraph, Campaign, The Observer Magazine, New Statesman, the TES and other high profile publications on both sides of the Atlantic. He has a history degree from Cambridge and was editor of two business journals. Lists of thought leadership quotes from Phil's writing have been compiled by websites from 'Goodreads' to 'Quotefancy' to 'What Should I Read next'. Phil is in demand as a ghost writer; John Wiley & Sons, who publish his business books, asked him to ghost write books for Simon Woodroffe and Karan Bilimoria (founder of Cobra Beer), but Phil was too busy on other book projects.
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
Senior
Emily D
Emily recently returned to the UK to study for an MA in Writing at Warwick University, after having spent the last two years living, teaching and sweating in Saigon, Vietnam. She balances out her love of all things sedentary by setting herself outlandish physical challenges. This year she ran the Amsterdam Marathon (she at least picked a flat one), trekked in Japan and Nepal and climbed Mount Fansipan – the tallest mountain in Indochina – in her pyjamas. Her superpower is the ability to complete cryptic crosswords.
United Kingdom
Premium
Gill C
With 40 years in journalism, writer and editor Gill has the warmth to get people talking. Focusing on personal stories – in Good Housekeeping, Best, Woman, Radio Times, Reader’s Digest books among others – she believes: “Chance meetings or having a health or house crisis matter because handling them makes us the people we become. No wonder our family, who know us now, want to gather up that gold. As your memoir writer, I commit to bringing “you”, past and present, courage and quirks, to full, glorious life.”
United Kingdom
Senior
Gillian M
Gillian was born and brought up in Lancashire where she trained as a teacher, graduating from Lancaster University. Writing is her first love; she is now a full-time author. Gillian believes that we are the ancestors of tomorrow and it is vital that our stories are recorded. Gillian loves entertaining, her garden, history and the arts. She reads voraciously and writes copiously. She lives with her husband and son, four cats and two dogs in an old Victorian house in the heart of rural Snowdonia.
United Kingdom
Senior
Corinna C
Corinna has always been curious about people and their stories. She honed her storytelling craft with a BA in Film and Theatre, followed by a year of acting at The Oxford School of Drama. She wrote and starred in a 5-star reviewed play at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and gained a place on a writer’s program at the Royal Court Theatre in London. Now a ghostwriter (and actor), her curiosity continues to drive her to find and tell the stories that need to be told.
United Kingdom
Premium
Alison A
Having studied French and German at Oxford, worked for more than 25 years in financial communication and translation, as well as publishing a memoir of three transformational years living in Sweden with her family (So Sweden – Living Differently) Alison has a real passion for language and helping people tell their stories. She has lived abroad in France, too, and her work with Story Terrace has encompassed the stories of people from Denmark, Lebanon, Iran, Vietnam, Russia and Australia with the particular themes of family roots and culture which their international lives have brought, as well as those of people who have spent part of their lives in Germany, America, India, Pakistan, Wales and all around the UK. Her work has also included books with a business focus, including an insight into fintech regulation, a book inspiring people to set up their own small businesses and another exploring what it takes to start from nothing in business in a foreign country. She has also edited a number of books. Alison has written 25 books so far and loved every minute of the privileged relationship a StoryTerrace writer develops with their story tellers, and the amazing perspective people have when they have lived through decades of great change. An avid traveller, gardener, cook and lover of the arts, she spends her free time with her family, playing tennis, walking her dog Twiglet, reading, and going to concerts, the cinema and theatre as often as possible.
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
Annet M
Eens journalist, altijd journalist. Dat is het motto van Annet, die na een halve eeuw nog altijd niets liever doet dan schrijven. Als socioloog heeft ze een scherp afgestelde antenne voor maatschappelijke en persoonlijke problematiek. Als redacteur van de weekbladen HP, HP/DeTijd en het maandblad Psy schreef ze talloze reportages over incest, verslaving, psychiatrie, ongewilde kinderloosheid, kindermishandeling, dementie en aanverwante onderwerpen. De reportages wisselde ze af met portretterende interviews met klassieke musici van naam en faam. In 2019 voltooide ze -in opdracht- haar eerste levensverhaal en wist dat hier haar toekomst moest liggen. Reflecteren op het leven impliceert een spannende zoektocht die ze graag begeleidt.
United Kingdom
PRO
Premium
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Debbie M
Debbie grew up in Belfast before leaving to study English Literature at Trinity College Dublin, and then moving to London, where she still lives with her family. She started her career as an entertainment journalist, travelling the world to speak with A-list actors, musicians, and artists, such as Angelina Jolie and Tracey Emin, before expanding her roster to include authors, politicians, activists and entrepreneurs. She also has extensive experience in live events, interviewing and producing talks with an eclectic range of authors from Salman Rushdie to Caitlin Moran. As a ghostwriter she specialises in book proposals, taking a holistic approach, working with writers to hone a solid intention for telling their story and considering marketing potential post-publication, even at this earliest of stages. In this era of communication overload, Debbie believes that story telling strongly rooted in authenticity is the only way to connect in a meaningful – and successful - way with an audience. Amongst her completed work is a recent book on medical aesthetics with a Harley Street doctor for Penguin, and a book of interviews for a celebrity portrait photographer. Her personal interests lie in psychology and wellbeing, listening to podcasts and watching terrible films. She joined a book club for the first time in her life last year.
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
Junior
Andy S
An author of two novels with more to come, Andy also writes award winning poetry (Nottingham Festival of Words competition runner up 2014). The writing bug was buzzing around him for years, and once caught, it never left. Andy has an interest in a wide range of music including classical, popular and traditional, and he plays guitar in solo and ensemble formats, as well as writing song lyrics. His novels centre on family histories, carefully crafted from listening to family members and from available sources. A well-established career as a therapist has given him many opportunities to hear about people’s lives. His writing experience and achievements have illustrated the value of recording personal life stories, where a person’s history can touch so many.
United Kingdom
Junior
Iris M
Having moved to London from the Philippines to pursue a BA in Creative Writing, Iris is a writer who mainlines poetry, screenplays and short stories. Her works are often inspired by religion, mythology, water, and films. Consistently published and shortlisted in various zines and anthologies since 2010, Iris spends the majority of her time wrestling with her muses and participating at local literary events. Snacking is also a favourite pastime. Iris is currently finishing up her Masters in Creative Writing at Brunel University, and aims to begin her PhD soon afterwards.
United Kingdom
Senior
Steve M
Throughout his working life, Steve has written for governments, companies and trade associations. As a British diplomat in the first half of his career, he lived and worked in parts of Asia and Africa and throughout the Middle East. He then got a taste for helping companies in the Middle East like HSBC and the Qatar Financial Centre tell their stories and promote themselves. His freelance writing since returning back to the UK has included speeches, reports and his own reflections on a long and interesting life abroad. He is a keen choral singer and a regular, but sadly under-achieving, golfer.
United Kingdom
Junior
Georgia R
After studying American Literature and History at Kings College London and the University of California, Berkeley, Georgia decided to pursue a career in film and TV. She currently works as a Producer/Director and has made a variety of content including hard-hitting documentaries such as ‘Learning to Grieve’ for BBC Three and more light-hearted content such as ‘Mimi on a Mission: Digital Detox’ for BBC iPlayer. Georgia is passionate about storytelling and has been a writer for Story Terrace since 2018.
United Kingdom
Senior
Suzi F
Suzi has been writing for as long as she can remember – completing her first novel by hand when she was twelve years old. She had inherited a typewriter by the time she studied for an MA at Edinburgh University, where she discovered dancing and photography. Her writing credits include seven self-published novels for children and young adults, and several short stories. She also exploits her love of good food by reviewing restaurants for a national restaurant guide.
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