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
MaryAnn I
MaryAnn Ifeanacho is a Nigerian writer with a deep love for languages, psychology, and film. She is fluent in Spanish and has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Hertfordshire. MaryAnn has been published in the African Writer’s Magazine and the Kalahari Review. She was shortlisted for the 2011 UBA National Essay Writing Competition, the 2017 African Rubiz Prize for Prose, and, most recently, the 2023 Fab Prize for Children’s Fiction. Her novella, An Estate of Ironies, was also a finalist for the 2024 WTAW Alcove Chapbook Competition, while her short story Mykonos in Congealed Blood was published as part of Flame Tree Publishing’s African Ghost Stories Anthology in April 2024. MaryAnn is a long-distance mom to two adorable cats and currently lives in England, where she spends time teaching, traveling, writing, and daydreaming.
United Kingdom
Senior
Denise T
Denise is a journalist specialising in magazine features and feature interviews, with over twenty years experience working in PR. Denise is also an author with two books to her name: ‘Broken Wand’ a novel and, ‘Working Mothers: The Essential Guide’ a nonfiction. Denise studied for a BA (Hons) in English Literature with Media and a Masters in Text and Performance Studies. In her spare time she likes to read widely (fiction and nonfiction), enjoy cultural events, and walks with her dog in the Sussex countryside.
United Kingdom
Senior
Isobel I
Being banned as a pre-teen from the hysteria of a Bay City Rollers concert was pivotal for Isobel’s journalistic career in teen mags, then national women’s titles, before sidestepping into sports writing and an action-packed decade as international rugby media manager. Now extending her editorial reach into travel and the arts – alongside passions for her voluntary communications role with football’s Homeless World Cup and researching her family history – one common thread runs throughout: she just loves listening to people.
United Kingdom
Junior
Martin C
Martin has a degree in Linguistics from Leeds University, so he has a lifelong love of language. He's written one novel and published several short stories, alongside non-fiction content that includes interviews with Booker Prize-nominated authors. He's also spent over a decade honing his editing and proofreading skills while working in TV subtitling, which means he can spot a dodgy apostrophe from a hundred yards away. When not hunched over a computer keyboard he likes to hunch over his road bike, cycling over hills and through lanes across the country.
United Kingdom
Premium
Rod G
Rod is an experienced journalist, ghostwriter and author with two decades of experience. He has written for just about every UK daily or Sunday newspaper, mainly across sport and lifestyle. Rod has written seven books, including several autobiographies, and has been nominated for awards including the prestigious William Hill Sports Book of the Year. Across his career - including several years at the Daily Telegraph and still as a freelancer - he has relished helping people and sportspersons tell their tales with open confidence, trust and avid storytelling. Rod’s passions lie in listening to people’s life stories, music, history, travel, any sport going and simply being by the ocean.
United Kingdom
Senior
Eve G
Eve Goodman 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.
United Kingdom
Senior
Martin G
Martin is an author, editor and journalist with three decade’s worth of experience. Martin has written ten books including the best-selling Hen & the Art of Chicken Maintenance, and Bluffer’s Guides on cars and chicken keeping. He was also commissioning editor for the London Evening Standard’s weekly ESWheels motoring supplement, working with a wide variety of writers. His day job involves writing about cars for titles including the Daily Telegraph and the Spectator. Martin edits a motoring agony column for a car magazine and has been a columnist in Your Chickens, WI Life and Classic Cars magazines.
United Kingdom
Senior
Claire S
A journalist of more than ten years, Claire has interviewed everyone from politicians to celebrities and has written for publications including the Belfast Telegraph, Culture NI, Local Women Magazine and the Coleraine Chronicle. Also a copywriter and published children’s author, short story writer and poet, Claire was one of Lagan Online’s 12NOW (New Original Writers) for 2016/17. In 2017 she received a grant from the Arts Council NI to support her writing. Claire loves books and hosts the new Giant’s Causeway Book Club. She also enjoys baking, walking her dog and playing the violin.
Netherlands
Junior
Julia-Beth H
Born in Cape Town, as the youngest of a lively family, Julia-Beth’s first role was that of observer. Crafting this attentiveness into a lifelong practice of writing and documenting ultimately led to a study in creative writing at the International Writer’s Collective in Amsterdam, where she’s now based. With a background in Graphic and Fashion Design, her words embody a visual, multi-layered quality, which brings the everyday anecdote to life. Julia-Beth works as creative copywriter for art instituions such as Nxt Museum, she also does commissioned poetry for dance and fashion performances. As a seasoned bed and breakfast owner, Julia-Beth’s enthusiasm for stories from varied backgrounds meets her passion for writing in bespoke ghostwriting services.
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
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
Rachel B-D
Rachel grew up in Hong Kong and has experience of transitioning from one culture to another. Rachel predominantly writes narrative non-fiction and has had two pieces published in the anthology Notes from a Barren Rock. She also writes short stories and has been published online through Fairlight Books and Words for the Wild, and also in the print anthololgy In the Kitchen. She has been highly commended in a number of competitions, been published on the Mslexia website, and shortlisted for the Bridport short story prize.
United Kingdom
Senior
John B
Only an avid listener could write a guide to birdsong! John is an established author whose titles range from nature and photography to art and true crime, and he has written about his experiences as a cancer survivor. John’s life in books includes not only writing, but editing, printing, publishing and bookselling. After training at London College of Printing, he honed his skills at the Victoria & Albert Museum. He also happens to be a member of every public library in England! When not walking or running in the Shropshire countryside, John works as a freelance writer and copy editor.
Netherlands
Senior
Peper H
In iedereen schuilt een goed verhaal. Een verhaal dat het verdient om gehoord, gedeeld en doorgegeven te worden. Peper vindt niks leuker dan mensen daarbij helpen. Ze studeerde Engels en Writing for Performance, maar verruilde al snel de fictie voor de werkelijkheid en belandde in de journalistiek. Veertien jaar lang werkte ze als televisiemaker, schrijver en eindredacteur voor RTL Nieuws en Eva Jinek. Sinds begin dit jaar heeft ze een bedrijf in persoonlijke videoportretten, maar het schrijven kan en wil ze niet loslaten.
United Kingdom
Senior
Stella K
Stella has a Master’s degree with distinction in Creative Writing from Birkbeck, University of London. Her fiction, poetry and life writing has been published by The Mechanics Institute Review, Blue Nib, Pyramid Press, Southbank Poetry and theotherstories.org, and she is currently working on a collection of short stories. With a first degree in Linguistics with French, and a background in subtitling, teaching and copy editing, she has worked for many years as a writing coach and dyslexia tutor in higher education. From this mix Stella brings to story writing a special ability to find the most unique and interesting human material and distil it into polished, captivating text. Stella has two grown-up children and lives with her husband in their empty nest in South-East London. She is a keen swimmer, sings in a soul gospel choir, and loves long, fast train journeys.
United Kingdom
Junior
Lorelli M
Lorelli is a professional writer for an international education company. She writes daily news and feature articles about an eclectic range of topics and people, including a 60-year-old scientist turned preschool teacher and an entrepreneurial grandmother. Lorelli, a child of the 80s, was raised in South London, where she gained a degree in Business, qualified as a teacher and juggled teaching and young motherhood with freelance writing for Scholastic. Now, she is juggling writing, writing and more writing with being beside her other long-term love: the seaside city of Brighton.
United Kingdom
Senior
Mark F
Mark has loved creative writing for as long as he can remember, with short stories published in diverse outlets, from Scotland to Canada. He has also ghostwritten many biographies, recently completing a memoir based on his own mental health experiences. Passionate about the crucial role storytelling plays in maintaining wellbeing and preserving memories, he has been invited to promote his work in schools, community groups, prisons, and in radio interviews. Away from his laptop he loves music – his claim to fame was his band once playing a session on BBC Radio 1.
United Kingdom
Premium
Garth C
Garth Cartwright is a New Zealand-born, London-based, award winning journalist and author. Widely travelled and conversant with people from all walks of life, Garth contributes to The Guardian, The Telegraph, The New European and many other publications. His books include <em>Going For a Song: A Chronicle Of The UK Record Shop; Miles Davis: The Complete Photographic History</em> and <em>More Miles Than Money: Journeys Through American Music</em>. Garth loves to work with people to tell their stories, noting that one of his skills is being “a good listener.”
United Kingdom
Senior
Ron S
Ron is loving life in England again after eight years working in the Caribbean – despite London’s notorious chilly and changeable weather. He was a sports editor in the Cayman Islands but the lure of big city life again was irresistible, plus he is building awareness of his fitness workout Maxathon. A best-selling author and novelist, Ron is now a sub-editor on national newspapers, writing assignments and ghostwriting memoirs.
United Kingdom
Senior
Matt D
Matt is a freelance writer and copywriter from Reading. He’s written about music, art, film, comedy and travel for the likes of NME, VICE, Dazed and Confused, The Big Issue and The Guardian. He’s also worked with a number of high-profile B2B businesses on their branding and digital projects. He’s currently working on his second novel – and likes to relax by largely doing all the things he writes about.
United Kingdom
Senior
Gareth S
Gareth is an award-winning British-Canadian poet, novelist, dramatist, and filmmaker. He has a BA in English Literature and MA in Scriptwriting & Playwriting. Commercially, Gareth has licensed a brand of typographic greeting cards to Camden Graphics; won Creative Future's National Poetry Award; and was a finalist in The Literary Consultancy's Pen Factor Award. In 2022, he won a DIT-British Embassy Pitch Fund for his science-fiction animation, miBOTS, subsequently shortlisted in Cannes. In 2023, he was named ‘Producer to Watch’. Gareth’s films and plays have been shown in London, Toronto, Brighton and Cannes. He lives in Brighton with his rescue dog, Pimms.
United Kingdom
Senior
Minreet Kaur
Minreet is a freelance journalist at the BBC and Sky News. She is the daughter of the famous Skipping Sikh and is the person who inspired him to start skipping during the COVID-19 lockdown. Minreet is particularly interested in stories from the BAME communities, stating that we don’t hear from them as much as we should. In her spare time, Minreet is also a freelance henna artist and loves different cultures and community stories. She enjoys travelling and staying active and has a real passion for human stories.
Netherlands
Senior
Neda N
Neda has been telling stories with her work from the very beginning: first in TV, then in print and online. Fascinated with language and the possibilities it creates, it has taken her on many adventures: she has worked as a journalist in London, Sofia, Paris and Istanbul, an academic copywriter for Cambridge University, and is now teaching in Brussels. Her writing is published internationally in the London Review of Books and VICE, among others, and her literary translations can be found in bookshops in the UK and Bulgaria.
United Kingdom
Junior
Masimba M
Masimba Musodza is a screenwriter, novelist, essayist and blogger. He was born in Zimbabwe in 1976, and moved to the UK in 2002, settling in the North East England town of Middlesbrough. He has been published all over the world, mostly in the speculative fiction realm. In the real world, he takes a keen interest in international and local history, culture and society, politics, and, of course, biography. He believes that everyone has a story or a perspective of a bigger story waiting to be told and preserved for future generations, and is always ready to work with people who are ready to tell theirs.
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