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 or premium writer.
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Vicky C
A native of San Francisco, Vicky is an experienced storyteller with a past life as an executive in the entertainment industry. She worked on TV movies as Vice President of Movies at a company owned by HBO. World traveler, screenwriter, and content marketing professional, Vicky believes everyone has an interesting story to tell.
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Valerie B
Valerie is the author of the award-winning Circle of Nine series, stories inspired by Celtic mythology and Irish legend. The UK Writers Hub has honored her blog as one of the top 50 of 2018. When she’s not writing, she’s wrangling her overgrown garden, traveling the world, researching genealogy, and reading everything she can find. She holds journalism and political science degrees from the University of Wisconsin, and lives in rural Wisconsin with her husband and occasionally a grown child or two. She passionately believes that everyone has a story to tell and would be honored to help you tell yours.
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Tyler W
A writer and journalist living in Brooklyn. Tyler’s work has appeared in The Guardian, The Times, The Telegraph, The Irish Independent, The Brooklyn Magazine, and Vice. Her first book, No Way Home: A Memoir of Life on the Run, is forthcoming from Macmillan in April 2018. It tells the story of her childhood growing up as the daughter of a federal fugitive. Her fiction has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, and she is Deputy Editor of literary journal The Wrong Quarterly. She also teaches journalism and creative writing at Manhattanville College.
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Tony H
Tony was an award-winning news and features writer for Bay Area News Group for more than 20 years. He was the features columnist of the Contra Costa Times and Oakland Tribune, emphasizing his adventures with his four daughters and their many dogs, cats, and rodents. Before journalism, Tony tried being a rock star in Hollywood, which he’ll one day chronicle once his kids can understand why people used to dress like that. Now freelancing for magazines and websites, he believes great personal stories are the key to great writing.
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Tony D
Tony is an author and the award-winning screenwriter of “Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk.” First a novel also penned by Tony and published by Soft Skull Press, the feature film was directed by Eric Stoltz and released on Amazon Prime in 2019. Tony teaches novel and screenwriting at UCLA Extension. He has written features for Mother Jones, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Los Angeles Times, and other outlets.
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Todd S
Todd’s experience as a screenwriter, biographer and attorney helps him create thoroughly researched, visually entertaining and emotionally compelling narratives. He has written for Warner Bros., Lionsgate, ABC/Disney, USA, SyFy, Lifetime and BET. He has also ghostwritten many personal biographies. Todd believes that you don’t have to be famous to make history; everyone has a life story worthy of sharing. A graduate of University of Michigan (B.A. in History) and Southwestern University School of Law, Todd lives in Studio City with his wife, three children and dog.
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Steven F
Steven has worked as an editor and a writer for four decades—first in New York City for AVENUE, Home Video, and the parodies The Post New York Post and Off the Wall Street Journal II; for many years at Whittle Communications in Knoxville, Tennessee; and as CEO of A3 Creative Group, an education-focused communications and marketing company. He was, for five years, the editor-in-chief of Cityview, Knoxville’s city magazine. He is also a lecturer at the University of Tennessee teaching the Magazine Industry Workshop.
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Steve J
Steve honed his writing skills at Colorado State University and channeled that experience into a portfolio of engaging projects from children’s books and where-to to climate change and inspirational memoirs. Blending a genuine voice with a literary wallop, he deftly navigates the intricacies of a book’s publishing orbit. Steve brings big-picture editing talents and natural finesse to orchestrate projects to their very best, complemented with a generations-proud family history and soul-deep appreciation of where he comes from.
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Stephen C
Stephen is a freelance writer, storyteller, ghostwriter, and collaborator. He has collaborated on or ghostwritten nearly a dozen books with people from all over the sports and entertainment industry, including NFL quarterbacks, Hall of Fame coaches, and media personalities. His first book in his own voice, Where the Colors Blend, was released in November 2018. He loves working alongside genuine, authentic people and helping them share their stories and ideas in a compelling way. He is a coffee snob and craft beer enthusiast. His dog, Bailee, keeps him sane.
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Serginho R
Serginho is a freelance multimedia journalist based in Oakland, California. His work has been published by Voice of America, One.org, AJ+, Al Jazeera America, The Africa Report, Africa is a Country, Radio France International, and Amnesty International. He has traveled to and reported from over a dozen African and European countries. In 2012 he obtained an MPhil. in African Studies at the University of Cape Town. Serginho is currently Dean’s Merit Fellow in the class of ’18 at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Serena S
Now an award-winning journalist, Serena’s career did not start in news or stories. It started as a social worker with homeless teenagers in her hometown of Sydney, Australia. During that time she learned three things: listen, listen, and listen. It is a lesson that served her well when she transitioned into journalism with a BA in Media. After a decade in journalism, Serena has written for publications such as The New York Times, The Guardian, and the BBC, covering subjects from a rare Fijian flower to the advantages of surfing in New York’s winter.
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Scott L C
Best-selling author, Scott, has had a 15+ year career in publishing spanning multiple genres (including biography, humor, spirituality, young adult, and technical writing). Writing under the pen name Scott Douglas, his first book Quiet, Please: Dispatches From a Public Librarian was a LA Times Discovery and Chicago Tribune Editors Choice selection. Scott has been a librarian for over 20 years and has a Master’s in Library and Information Science (in addition to a dual-BA in English Literature and Comparative Religion). He also teaches writing for the Gotham Writers Workshop.
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Samia M
Samia currently works at The Walrus, where she gets to edit magazine stories about everything from political protests and science explainers to personal essays. Before moving to Toronto, she lived in Yellowknife, in the Northwest Territories—a long way from Syria, her home country—where she helped edit Up Here magazine, cross-country skied on frozen lakes in the winter, and canoed in the summer. When she isn’t typing things, she spends her free time trying (and failing) to grow cucumbers, learning about fungi, and making hummus.
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Ryan D
After working in the film and television industry for over a decade, Ryan co-authored OpTic Gaming: The Making of eSports Champions in 2016. It become a New York Times bestseller and was recently optioned by Unique Features. In 2018, he co-authored No Malice, the memoir by controversial NBA basketball player Metta World Peace. In addition to Ryan’s work as an author, ghostwriter, and editor for clients looking to tell their life stories, he also works with professionals and social media influencers to craft business and self-help books.
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Renee M
Renee is a freelance writer focused on health and science, technology, and personal finance. She has been published in The New York Times, Scientific American, Forbes, and NPR, among others. She was a staff reporter for the Wall Street Journal’s personal finance magazine SmartMoney and an editor for Xfinity.com. She is a graduate of New York University with a BA in Journalism. Prior to her journalism career, Renee was a professional contemporary ballet dancer, performing in New York City and on a cruise ship that sailed around Scandinavia, Mediterranean Europe, and the Caribbean.
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Reid S
Motivated by a passion for faithful and original storytelling, Reid has worked hard to depict unique and obscure subjects in a fresh and authentic voice. A graduate of the University of Chicago, he has written stories on art school activism, Brooklyn speakeasies, urban archaeology, and guerilla traffic engineering, with bylines in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Forward, and The Art Newspaper. His favorite novelist is Philip Roth, his favorite comedian is Jonathan Winters, and his greatest living hero is Tom Brands, the head wrestling coach for the University of Iowa.
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Randy S
Randy likes helping people create better stories. Formally a Green Beret and an Army Ranger, he received his BA in History from Campbell University and MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Texas in El Paso while in the service. He began a career as a freelance editor and writer after he separated from the military. Randy was the chief editor and co-writer of the NYT bestseller Operation Pineapple Express by Scott Mann and co-wrote (as a ghostwriter) The Wise Investor by Rich Fettke which was an Amazon bestseller in numerous financial categories. He hosted the Story Grid Showrunners podcast for two years, analyzing stories across different mediums to determine if they work or not. Randy is a certified Story Grid editor trained by Shawn Coyne and currently works as a book coach, freelance writer, and freelance editor.
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Rick H
I have been a journalist, interviewer, and transcriber with over 20 years’ experience covering popular culture, urban culture, professional and collegiate sports, music and politics for dozens of publications and online outlets, including The Root, Bleacher Report, The Shadow League, EURweb.com, and many more. Over that span, I have interviewed and written about some of the biggest names in entertainment and sports. From Harry Belafonte to Denzel Washington in Hollywood, and Deacon Jones to Allen Iverson in pro sports, I have honed my ability to communicate and engage interview subjects with questions that garner answers and offer insight into the heart of the subject matter.
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Radha B
From an early age, Radha was interested in the arts; especially in books and paintings. After graduating from the Fieldston School in New York, she studied Political Science and English in India. Since she loved books and words as well as pictures, working in the mainstream Hollywood movie business turned out to be a natural fit. After overseeing such productions as Rainman and Batman, she served as a speechwriter to the head of the United Nations Population Fund. After another pause to attend to a serious health crisis, here she is, writing again.
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Rachel S
Much of Rachel’s background has been in the field of sports, where she was the first regularly published female sports columnist on the national level. She frequently wrote on the offbeat side of sports and on issues impacting minorities and women, including athletes and domestic violence. She has covered three Olympics and numerous Super Bowls and World Series and edited such breaking news events as 9/11, deaths of prominent stars, election night results, etc. Her freelance work includes editing fiction and nonfiction manuscripts, including one that became a best-selling eBook.
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