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
Helena D
Helena is never bored. She started her career in publishing as a non-fiction editor before becoming a journalist contributing to both regional and national titles including the Guardian and Independent. Now, as a freelance journalist and The Sunday Times No 1 bestselling ghostwriter, she divides her time between discovering what makes the world tick alongside helping others bring their stories to life. Having reported from America, India, Africa and Europe, she loves travel, food, politics and the arts, in particular theatre and dance.
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
Jason J
Jason is a novelist, journalist and best-selling ghostwriter. He is a career storyteller with plenty of experience in bringing memories, ideas and personalities to light. Before turning to professional ghostwriting, he worked with national UK and Irish newspaper titles and penned comedy sketches and factual script for regional BBC TV and radio. His ghosted memoir Slave was an Amazon best-seller and the primary source for a 2018 primetime BBC drama. You’ll find Jason easy-going, creative and absolutely committed to helping you tell your story your way.
United Kingdom
Senior
Jackie N
Jackie has over 20 years of experience as a qualified journalist and worked at Good Housekeeping magazine and the Western Daily Press newspaper. She has written for the Guardian, Daily Mail, Huffington Post, Woman and Essentials. Jackie loves finding out about people’s lives, not only dealing sensitively with tragedies but also celebrating her interviewees’ successes. She was named Business Mother of the Year in the 2014 NatWest Venus Awards and won an award at the 2015 Guardians Small Business Showcase Awards. When not writing, Jackie enjoys pub quizzes and travelling around the world with her eight-year-old twins.
United Kingdom
Senior
Susan G
Susan began her working life in sales and retail management, but wanted to learn more about business, so took the leap and started an accountancy training contract with a mid-tier firm. After qualifying, she spent six years in various finance roles. In 2015, she began developing and audience-testing both comic and more dramatic scripts for theatre and short film. Committed to words and stories in their different forms, she retrained as a journalist and audio producer, works freelance, and is writing her first novel.
Senior
Nivriti B
Nivriti drifted into newspapers 20 years ago, not knowing what else to do with a college degree in English Literature. She's been a reporter, editor, columnist at national dailies in India and the UAE, where she lives. A part of her last role was helping authors structure and convey their thoughts, and drafting editorials for the newspaper, often on the bleak state of the world. Interests: reading, writing, doodling, stationery, Wordle, Scrabble, swimming, learning things, visiting places, roaming around bazaars, taking pictures of street scenes, watching people, making notes.
United Kingdom
Senior
Lance P
Lance has been a university academic and writer of non fiction for 30 years. As a Professor, he has a PhD (NUI Dublin) and four other degrees to his name. He has written three books, edited several others along with journals and is currently writing a novel. Interviewing people and oral history is key to his research. Lance has taught the world over: Germany, Brazil, Austria, Spain, Ireland, across a wide age range in formal university, school and community college settings. When he's not writing, he channels the depths of his writing experience to act as a private writing mentor to others.
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
Senior
Anne-L
Anne-Louise is a natural storyteller, with a genuine warm interest in people and she loves nothing better than unlocking your stories. A former English teacher, for the past decade she has been working as a features writer for a Bristol magazine, focusing on community good news. She takes great pleasure too, meeting her varied guests on her radio show, which provides her with a platform to celebrate her love of the outdoors and to share her podcasts, Walking & Talking. Anne-Louise is well experienced in interviewing people and conveying their narrative in a print, digital or audio format.
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.
United Kingdom
Senior
Cate L
Cate realised she loved writing when she won a national competition, aged eight, for an essay on nuts. Curious by nature, she enjoys exploring the past, leading to a history degree and, later, a journalism postgrad. Cate’s career began with book reviews and progressed to editing magazines, bringing to life stories on everything from soaps to skiing. She’s also a sometime blogger, a mentor to students – and a Scot who’s wild about London. Cate treasures her roots; if she’s not out walking with friends, she’s probably planning a family get-together.
United Kingdom
Premium
Mehrad V
Mehrad had nothing to do with writing until the age of 25. He was an engineer in Iran. In 2003, he moved to the UK to study history at Royal Holloway University of London. He got lucky and joined the BBC World Service, but quit two years later and went back to Royal Holloway for a history PhD. He’s written for History Today and the Guardian among others. Iran Unveiled, a documentary he co-produced for ITV in 2019, was nominated for a BAFTA and an Emmy.
United Kingdom
Premium
Caroline F
Caroline has for a long time inhabited an unusual space between entertainment and ethics. The former kept her busy in journalism for two decades, working first for the BBC, the latter took her to Australia to study, and the combination meant that Rupert Murdoch indirectly paid for her degree in Global Justice. She is now a writer and broadcaster, the author of three bestselling memoirs and always especially moved by tales of great romance and personal redemption.
United Kingdom
Developmental Editor
Claire Dean
With more than 21 years’ experience in the publishing industry, Claire Dean (UK) has established great working relationships with many prestigious publishing houses, including HarperCollins, Orion/Hachette, Hay House, Bloomsbury, Bonnier, Poolbeg and Flame Tree. A few years back, she co-founded a limited publishing company to help authors bring their work up to a publishable standard, get their book in print and keep their work in the marketplace. She has edited hundreds of manuscripts, from fiction to nonfiction, including the Sunday Times bestseller Everyone Has a Plan Until They Get Punched in the Face by British boxing legend Tony Bellew (Orion); the #1 Sunday Times bestsellers Good Vibes, Good Life and Healing is the New High by Vex King (Hay House UK); and the New York Times bestseller The Sisters of Auschwitz by Roxane van Iperen (Harper).
United Kingdom
Senior
Neil E
Neil grew up as an actor, but quickly discovered the power of writing to breathe new life into tired stories, so he went to film school, where he worked on almost a hundred short and low-budget feature films. He’s written for film, theatre and radio (running Liverpool Playwrights from 2003-2007) and been nominated for a Manchester Evening News Theatre Award twice. After not one of the dozen fortune-tellers he’d consulted foresaw that he’d marry an Irish girl and father identical twin girls, he favours the belief that we’re each the author of our own destinies.
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
Senior
Nadine W
Formerly an editor for a trade publication, Nadine turned to becoming a professional storyteller after delving into her own mother’s survival as a baby during the Second World War. Nadine loves any human-interest story but her heartfelt passion is to tell the stories of those brave individuals who have been able to overcome trauma to lead full lives. She is most at home tapping a way on her rose-coloured laptop, creating legacies for the people she has had the privilege of meeting.
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
Premium
Marc L
Marc has more than 30 years’ experience as a writer and editor for national newspapers, primarily the Daily Telegraph and the Guardian. His hundreds of interviewees include Oscar winners (among them Julia Roberts, Jeff Bridges and Aaron Sorkin) and he has talked at length to one sixth of all the human beings to have walked on the moon. As an interviewer, Marc always adopts a quietly sympathetic approach while ensuring that none of the key questions go unanswered. This has resulted in emotional encounters that led to revealing but sensitive accounts of many of his subjects’ lives.
United Kingdom
Junior
Helen F
As a published author of several books, two of which were oral histories, articles and short stories, Helen is adept at engaging people into relaying their stories in a relaxed and interesting manner. A Diploma in Creative Writing from the Regent Academy, London and a background as a legal secretary, has given Helen the skills to write professionally and precisely. Free time is spent researching her Italian ancestor from newspaper archives, online resources and original material; sewing with her vintage machines; enjoying time with the family exploring the outdoors, driving and maintaining their classic vehicles.
United Kingdom
Junior
Amelia T
Amelia first published her writing at the age of nine. A newspaper called ‘The Fog Horn’. After a long career as an English teacher, she now lives on the Suffolk coast and can often be found wandering the shore line looking for treasure. Amelia is an experienced interviewer and listener, knowing just the right questions to capture as storytellers authentic voice She has a Masters Degree in Creative Writing and has written for several national publications. Her work has tackled such sensitive topics as child abuse, endometriosis and weight loss. Amelia is currently working on her debut novel, with the assistance of her small dog Teddie.
United Kingdom
Junior
Janine H
Janine has written her own fiction for the past twenty years, has completed several creative writing courses, and is a qualified editor who understands the value of preserving your ‘voice’. She has a BA in English and Theology and recently graduated (with distinction) with an MA in Publishing. Janine loves discussing books within her book group. She spent 12 years in Seattle, Washington, before settling back home in Hampshire where she can often be found walking her dog across fields and trails well-trodden by Jane Austen centuries before.
United Kingdom
Junior
Angela N
Angela is a professional writer with an MLitt (Masters) in creative writing from the University of Strathclyde. She began her career as a playwright in the early 2000s and have written many plays for schools and festivals including the Edinburgh Festival. She regularly copywrites for commercials. She also ghostwrites for obituaries and other speeches. She is currently writing her first novel 'The Giraffe Photograph'.
United Kingdom
Senior
Gouri S
Gouri is a journalist and writer from London. She has been working in the media industry for nearly 20 years, including roles at the British Asian newspaper Eastern Eye and Al Jazeera's flagship media critique show, The Listening Post. Today, she writes for Al Jazeera and other international media outlets on topics such as culture, migration, history, race and gender. With roots in Lahore, Mumbai, Punjab, Kenya, London and Berlin, she has a passion to write about the unheard and untold stories from our rich and complicated cultures.
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