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.
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
Colette D
Colette has worked in magazine publishing for over 20 years – a career that’s given her the opportunity to meet scores of fascinating people. She’s equally at home chatting to famous faces such as Fleet Street editor turned TV presenter Janet Street-Porter and Dragons’ Den doyenne Deborah Meaden, as she is finding out about the life stories of chefs, artisans or cruise ship captains. When not working, Colette loves travelling; she never tires of the thrill of going to a new destination, exploring the local sights and sounds and enjoying authentic foodie experiences.
United Kingdom
Premium
Jean E
Jean has been writing stories since she was a child. In 2017, she published Goodbye Burma, a fictionalised account of her family’s evacuation from wartime Burma. Starting out as a historian, she spent two years in India searching for private papers and interviewing politicians active in the independence movement. Since then, Jean has travelled widely in Africa and South Asia and has two published books on communities in the north of England. Jean has been working as a freelance writer and editor for eight years, and enjoys bringing family histories and stories to life.
United Kingdom
Junior
Oliver M
After graduating from Oxford with a degree in French and Russian, Ollie has been learning more languages in the few years since. He has lived and worked abroad in several different countries, and has been writing pretty much constantly. He has produced short stories and a novel, as well as some travel writing. He is also a published translator of Georgian short fiction. Ollie runs the ‘Ollie and Sebastian’ YouTube channel with his friend Sebastian, which has taken them to a war zone and a country that doesn’t officially exist.
United Kingdom
Senior
Sam E
Sam is a screenwriter, award winning filmmaker, and (almost) award winning stand-up comedian. He lived in Paris for many years, producing theatre and running comedy shows. However he returned to London because he missed the food and good weather. He studied film production at university and has an MA Screenwriting from the National Film and Television School. He’s taught English, worked in advertising and now freelances as a writer and video editor. Basically, Sam speaks in visuals but he has also been known to speak in broken French.
United Kingdom
Premium
Matthew P
Matthew is a freelance writer and editor specialising in culture and storytelling. He has created guides to far-flung destinations and reviewed events and restaurants just a couple of minutes’ walk from his East London home. As a researcher in the television industry, he helped develop a wide range of TV programmes, from gritty prison documentaries to light-hearted comedy panel shows. Matthew writes with a creative and humorous edge. He knows a lot about music, less than he’d like about food and more than he should about football. His degree in politics has left him with a current affairs addiction. In his spare time, he’s written a novel, a number of short stories and a script which is under consideration at the BBC.
United Kingdom
Senior
Jenny M B
Jenny began her career writing about music as a student at the University of Leeds. After moving south to complete a postgraduate qualification in journalism, she started work at county magazine Sussex Life. Highlights from her nine years in the editor’s chair include interviewing local heroes such as Hugh Bonneville; signing crime writer Peter James as a columnist; presenting an award to Dame Vera Lynn; and flying with spitfires. Jenny loves stories in all forms. Her interests include yoga, learning languages and exploring children's literature with her young sons.
United Kingdom
Junior
Vikki C
Vikki’s mantra in life is to create a meaningful connection for and with others, whether that is through reading personal anecdotes or encouraging honest discussion. She has learned, through years of yoga practice, that it is via vulnerability and authenticity our experiences resonate with those we wish to share ourselves with. Vikki’s journalism and history degree from Queen Mary, UoL, ignited her curiosity, exploration and love for storytelling. Her writing work, and work with parents and their babies, aims to help others discover and take pride in their own voice.
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.
United Kingdom
Senior
Beverley D
Beverley is an eclectic sort with many different interests. Having worked as a teacher, teaching English and English as an Additional Language (EAL), she has met people from many different backgrounds. Interested in anthropology and other cultures, she has kept journals of her travels in Africa, as well as during her time as a prison tutor. Beverley is currently teaching online and volunteering as a telephone befriender for Age UK. She is convinced that everyone has a story to tell and would love to help you tell yours.
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
Premium
Sara W
Sara’s career as a journalist has taken her from the Insight investigative team on The Sunday Times to 5 years living in Miami and Washington DC researching and writing investigative non-fiction books to a continuing career as a contract writer for publications that included The Sunday Times Magazine and Conde Nast Traveller. Her research allowed her to travel the world while based in a medieval hilltop village in Provence, an experience she describes as a “privilege”. Back in London, she continues to find stories that excite and inspire her.
United Kingdom
Senior
Liam T
Liam has been writing professionally for the last five years and as an amateur for as long as he can remember. His work has appeared in publications including the Guardian, Rolling Stone, the Independent, Vice, Huffington Post and The Lancet. As a journalist he has interviewed everyone from former prime ministers to Russian dissidents. He is currently working on his first novel, and is also a keen guitarist, playing in a folk band while finding the time to raise his young family.
United Kingdom
Senior
Mary G
After training as a journalist on local newspapers in Birmingham, Mary moved to London where she spent five years at the Daily Telegraph and 17 years at The Times as a writer and editor. She gave up her career in the capital in 2007 to raise her daughter, adopted from an orphanage in Russia. Mary still writes extensively for newspapers and magazines about family dilemmas, women’s issues, adoption and human interest stories. She has written several life stories for friends and family, often to commemorate milestone birthdays and wedding anniversaries.
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
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
Premium
Angela H
Angela developed a listening ear as a teacher and as a hospital volunteer. She enjoys hearing people’s life experiences, believing we should all cherish what makes us unique. Her short stories have been published in Prima, Fiction Feast, Kookie, Yours and in anthologies plus articles published in The Times Educational Supplement, Stella (the Sunday Telegraph) Woman Alive, The People’s Friend, The Dalesman, Writing Magazine and newspapers. Endeavour Press published two novels. Angela leads writing classes, enjoys travel, dog walks, swimming, reading and being a member of the WI.
United Kingdom
Premium
Barbara F
Barbara seems to spend most of her time in the past these days. She studied modern languages for her degree then worked in publishing and journalism for several years before having two sons. Since reading the letters her mother sent home from America in the 1950s – which became the book Bedpans & Bobby Socks – a few years ago, she has made a career for herself as a writer and ghostwriter of memoirs. When she’s not putting herself in someone else’s shoes she likes music, walking and spending time in the garden.
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
Neil R
Neil was born in London in 1971. He has published five true crime non-fiction books with publishers including Random House, and writes for several national newspapers and websites. Neil is a member of the National Union of Journalists as well as the Crime Writers’ Association. He has also worked as a freelance English teacher for some years, and has worked abroad in several countries. He lives in London, spending time with his girlfriend Tracy and her daughter Shana. He enjoys meeting people from all backgrounds, reading, watching films and swimming (but doesn’t do that enough).
United Kingdom
Premium
Theodore B
Theo has been writing full-time for three years, working on short stories, travel articles, screenplays, historical pieces and a historical fiction series. Prior to that he was a lawyer in London, Moscow, Paris and Hong Kong. In 2010, he left the law, jumped on a bicycle and rode 10,000 miles across Asia and Europe to his home in Norfolk. Theo loves Scandinavia, Central Asia, 19th century history, armchair archaeology, opera, flying and all kinds of storytelling. He has a degree in archaeology and a master’s in modern history – both from Cambridge University.
United Kingdom
Premium
Rick B
Rick is an award-winning author and journalist for The Times. He has interviewed celebrities ranging from Usain Bolt to Sir Bobby Charlton, and has also developed a literacy scheme to get young people reading and writing. Rick has written nine books of his own, including ghosted autobiographies of Olympian Jessica Ennis-Hill, and Jeremy Keeling, a maverick who built an ape sanctuary. He was short-listed three times for the prestigious William Hill Prize and won the British Sports Book Awards. He is nice, friendly (so he says) and a good listener.
United Kingdom
Developmental Editor
Marcella Edwards
Marcella Edwards (UK) began her publishing career at Vintage Random House, where she worked on the paperback list. She moved to HarperCollins and then to Penguin, where she worked on the Classics list. She then moved to the PFD literary agency, where she represented a wide range of authors. Marcella has worked with many brilliant writers, including William Trevor, Desmond Morris, Jeanette Winterson, Simon King and Sinead O’Connor.
United Kingdom
Senior
Christopher L
Christopher has spent many years as an agency and freelance ghostwriter, helping people find their voice and tell their story. He established the editorial department at a publishing house for empowering, survival-against-the-odds stories – not misery memoirs as some people call them! He’s worked with a few people you may have heard of – including ex-Blue Peter and Sky Sports presenter, Simon Thomas on the Daily Mail’s ‘most moving book’ of 2019. After three decades writing, Christopher remains just as thrilled to be telling so many unique, powerful, and moving stories.
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