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.
All writers
United Kingdom
Junior
Lizzie H
Lizzie is a writer, poet and lover of sentences. Her short story ‘Probably Just Foxes’, came third in the 2021 Aurora Prize from Writing East Midlands. In her years working for national charities, Lizzie has helped hundreds of people tell their stories. She’s an expert interviewer and knows just the right questions to ask to get to the heart of the story. As well as studying Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London, Lizzie is working on her debut novel.
Netherlands
Junior
Lise vd K
Ruin tien jaar was Lise verslaggeefster bij regionale kranten. Daarna heeft ze een carrière opgebouwd als leidinggevend uitgever bij grote uitgeefconcerns waar ze boeken en tijdschriften maakte op gebied van marketing en media. Ze is geboren in een gereformeerd middenstandsgezin op de Veluwe en heeft op eigen kracht een ontwikkeling doorgemaakt van bang dorpsmeisje naar zelfstandige selfmade woman. Ze woont in het centrum van Amsterdam is actief in het bedrijfsleven en in de politiek. Haar liefde voor het schrijversvak heeft ze opnieuw opgepakt sinds ze met pensioen is. Interesses: mode, economie en bovenal: mensen.
United Kingdom
Senior
Robin T
Robin is a writer and author who has written about subjects ranging from conspiracy theories to global surveillance, oil markets to North Korean tourism. He’s lived and worked in Chicago, Moscow, Beijing, Hanoi and Pyongyang, his most recent foray being Berlin in 2018 where he finished his debut novel, “Mr Whippy Goes to Schaumberg”, about ice-cream wars in Chicago. An erstwhile professional actor and freelance North Korea tour leader, he is currently in London working as an ambulance technician. When he can, he heads north to Newcastle to see his wife and dog.
United Kingdom
Premium
Lydia B
Lydia is a journalist with more than twenty years of experience. She has been on staff at three national newspapers internationally and worked for magazines including Harper’s Bazaar and House & Garden. Her strongest specialism is in travel; she is particularly adept at writing about families with diverse international stories of immigration and upheaval, as well as adventures in foreign terrains. Lydia also writes fiction, poetry and screenplays and creates commercial content for businesses, from small outfits to global brands.
United Kingdom
Senior
Paul D.G.
After 25 years in finance, Paul decided to spend his time more profitably and return to his love of writing. A career in law and banking that included a decade as a director of a FTSE 250 company gives him a deep understanding of all aspects of business. Outside of business, he also loves nature, exploring the poetry of the everyday and finding the connections between everything. A Cambridge English graduate, when not walking his golden retriever, transporting his children or providing communications advice to Idaho miners, he enjoys writing for his Substack and daydreaming about Arsenal, history and philosophy.
United Kingdom
Premium
Antoinette T
Antoinette’s debut novel, Home to Cavendish, a blend of historical and contemporary fiction, was published by Poolbeg Press in 2019. Her second novel, The Secrets Left Behind, is due for publication in late 2020. Antoinette’s love affair with history and storytelling began at an early age. Rarely seen without a book in her hand, she has a BA Degree in English and History. After university she worked as a journalist before spending 15 years as a writer in corporate public relations. Energised by variety, she now works fulltime as a novelist, and freelance ghost writer and journalist.
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.
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
Deborah D
Deborah has worked as a journalist for the past 22 years, and in that time has written for most of the UK’s national newspapers and women’s magazines. She also has 18 books published by mainstream publishers. She has three grown-up daughters whom she adores, six dogs, one rabbit and a guinea pig. In her spare time she renovates properties, listens to music, travels and she loves walking, but not hills – she hates hills!
United Kingdom
Senior
Saima L
Saima’s passion for journalism and psychology amalgamated to forge a career spanning 20 plus years as a freelance researcher, writer, therapist, psychologist and coach. She has a love for learning and a basketful of qualifications, right up to doctorate level. Saima is privileged to have interviewed thousands of people from across the globe, all with varied and colourful lives and no one story the same. She has stayed busy writing articles and working with journalists to produce magazine and newspaper content, focused on popular psychology articles.
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.
Premium
Andy R
Andy has worked as a journalist in the UK, edited a daily newspaper in Malta and managed a portfolio of luxury lifestyle and travel customer magazines in Dubai. His work has been published in more than 40 magazines and newspapers worldwide, including The Telegraph, The Guardian, Tatler, Portfolio, Elle, Harpers and Penthouse. Andy has also managed and created corporate publications for The Ritz-Carlton, Jumeirah, Destinations of the World and European Commission, magazines and books for organisations and companies such as Jumeirah Hotels & Resorts, Ritz-Carlton and the European Commission.
Netherlands
Senior
Linda van 't L
Ghostwriter, tekstschrijver en copywriter. Dat is Linda. Als afgestudeerd Neerlandicus helpt ze vanuit haar kantoor in het buitengebied tussen de Veluwe en de IJssel ondernemers, redacties, bureaus, merken en bedrijven om hun verhaal zo mooi, aansprekend en eerlijk mogelijk te vertellen. Als het eenmaal op papier staat, gaat ze het liefst naar buiten. De tuin in, met haar hond op stap, door de bossen dwalen. Vaak komen er dan vanzelf al nieuwe verhalen bovendrijven!
United Kingdom
Junior
Maisie P
Maisie is a seasoned journalist and copywriter with a portfolio of published work for leading publications such as HELLO! Magazine, Stylist, HELLO! Fashion, and The C Word. She is currently writing for the leading digital wedding planning platform, Hitched. Throughout her work, Maisie has interviewed celebrities and drawn upon her own experiences to destigmatize the topic of women’s health - particularly around the subject of hormones, sexuality, and mental health.
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.
Netherlands
Senior
Walter H
Walter (1965) is een selfmade tekstschrijver. Heeft door de jaren heen een passie ontwikkeld voor mensen die in armoede leven. In Nederland en daarbuiten. Hij schrijft altijd met het doel om mensen in beweging te brengen om ook daadwerkelijk iets te gaan 'doen'. Om ze te inspireren om met zichzelf en/of een ander aan de slag te gaan. Hij is christen en denkt niet in hokjes of vakjes. In het dagelijkse leven is hij actief als zelfstandig tekstschrijver en freelance journalist. Een zzp-er dus, met alle mooie en minder mooie kanten die daar bij horen.
United Kingdom
Damien P
As a professional writer and editor for 12 years, Damien’s clients have included CEOs, COOs, credentialed academics, and award-winning filmmakers. He also spent more than ten years producing scripts and novels for an independent film company based in Amman, Jordan. At the outset of his career, Damien taught European history, academic writing, and political science in the Far East. During recent years, Damien has switched to online writing, providing creators like HistoryMarch, the History Guy, and Vox Stoica with video scripts that have accumulated tens of millions of views.
United Kingdom
Senior
Ruth M
Ruth has always written for a living, having worked in PR, and as a communications specialist, in the NGO and charity sectors in Zimbabwe, South Africa and the UK. She’s recently published her debut novel, Sweet Charity – a humorous, character-driven satire set in a fictitious London charity. A graduate of the University of Cape Town, Ruth recently moved north from London, and she now lives in Gourock in Scotland with her husband. They have two adult sons. When she’s not writing, or thinking up puns, Ruth’s reading, singing in a choir, walking, or planning another trip to Cape Town.
United Kingdom
Premium
Sophie M L
Sophie is a multi-award-winning journalist, ghost writer and content creator with Masters' in Journalism, Philosophy, and Italian. She has written a range of books for celebrities and influencers alongside her work as a journalist and columnist for national magazines and newspapers. She has been published in Metro, Huffington Post, Daily Mirror, The Independent, Grazia Magazine and The Sunday Times as well as extensively across online publications. Heavily involved in broadcasting on TV and radio, Sophie has also worked for Channel 4 News, ITV News and BBC News to name but a few. Sophie has helped to catapult people to international acclaim. She loves nothing more than telling people’s stories in the most powerful way through words, audio and visual. Sophie specialises in social affairs issues, health, enterprise and business as well as life stories.
United Kingdom
Premium
Tiffany C
Tiffany is a bilingual, prize-nominated writer, who grew up in Hong Kong and moved to London at sixteen. After receiving her MSc in Strategic Marketing from Imperial College, she worked as a digital marketer for several years, before transitioning to writing full-time. She has completed two novels since, one of which was “highly commended” in Faber & Faber’s Fab prize in 2020. As a plant-based vegan, Tiffany is a huge advocate for sustainability and wellbeing, and now copywrites and creates content for change makers and kind businesses.
United Kingdom
Developmental Editor
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Lauren Howard
Lauren Howard is an editor and writer with several years’ experience working in some of the most competitive and successful editorial teams in the UK publishing industry, including Penguin Random House and Hachette UK. Over the course of her career, she has edited and developed a wide range of bestselling and award-winning books. Some of these include: Rambling Man by Sir Billy Connolly, a major bestselling memoir about the comedian and national treasure’s life on the road; My Beautiful Sisters by co-founder and former captain of the Afghanistan national women’s football team, Khalida Popal, which won multiple awards, along with being shortlisted for more, and was named both a Financial Times and Guardian’s Best Sports Books of the Year; and the critically-acclaimed, investigative memoir I Seek a Kind Person by Pulitzer Prize–winning author and Guardian World Affairs Editor Julian Borger. She has also worked on an extensive list of internationally acclaimed and bestselling books, including: Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman, An Immense World by Ed Yong, 1,000 Years of Joys and Sorrows by Ai Weiwei, Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake, Spider Woman by Lady Hale and How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi. Lauren has worked with leading voices across science, culture and politics, including bestselling author of The Secret Lives of Colour, Kassia St Clair, TV presenter Megan McCubbin and music journalist Miranda Sawyer. She has extensive experience working closely with and nurturing the development of authors at every stage of their careers – from debut writers to established bestsellers – helping to shape ideas into compelling, accessible narratives with strong commercial potential. Alongside her editorial work, Lauren serves as a Trustee on the Board of the Charlotte Aitken Trust (CAT), alongside novelist and bestselling author Sebastian Faulks CBE FRSL, renowned literary agent Clare Alexander and Simon Murray FCA. CAT awards prizes, grants and scholarships to organisations that promote the creative arts; it is the principal sponsor of the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award and supports organisations including the Arvon Foundation, First Story, Young Vic and New Writing North, as well as the Forward Poetry Prize and a range of other projects across the UK. Lauren is also a writer, currently working on her debut book, and is represented by Janklow & Nesbit UK.
United Kingdom
Senior
Roger H
Roger is a writer and journalist, who was Assistant Editor of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme from 1998-2010. He learned his trade on weekly newspapers, before spending three years as reporter and feature writer on the daily Yorkshire Post. He is the author of four non-fiction books, one a sporting biography (Clough and Revie) and the others set in World War 2 and the Cold War. He lives an idyllic life in Suffolk with his partner, together with their pony, two donkeys, three cats, three guinea fowl and six peacocks.
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.
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.
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