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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Phyllis S
Phyllis has a flair for both storytelling and business. After graduating summa cum laude from Yale University with degrees in American Studies and Economics, she worked in investment banking on Wall Street. To pivot careers, she earned her MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where she finished in the top 10% of her class. From there, she went into the entertainment field. First she worked on the business sidest at Twentieth Century Fox Studios. Then she followed her passion and switched to the creative side, becoming a screenwriter. She was tapped as a writer/producer on the iconic TV series Star Trek Voyager and Star Trek Enterprise and embarked on a 25-year career in TV writing and pitching. For the past eight years, she has taken her talents to the world of professional writing and editing. Phyllis took Harvard Business School Professor Tom Eisenmann’s first book, Why Startups Fail (Currency, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2021) from the initial idea to the published work. She also helped write a business memoir (Mark Holt Books, 2022) for Jeff Smulyan, CEO of Emmis Communications. He is a colorful entrepreneur who owned tv and radio stations, created Sports Radio, and briefly owned the baseball team the Seattle Mariners. She brings a unique skillset to writing and editing, combining irresistible storytelling, the ability to distill complex issues, and a singular focus on bringing a client’s story to life.
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Peggy H
Armed with a degree in language studies and a longing to explore, Peggy moved from her home state of California to Japan to embark on her career in 2009. Though she originally emigrated overseas to teach English, life offered a different path when she landed a job in Osaka as a ghostwriter, editor, and proofreader of educational materials. There, she co-authored over 30 textbooks for use in classrooms at over 5,000 schools nationwide. In 2015, she moved to Thailand, where she began copywriting and blogging for brands in various industries, including luxury real estate, yoga & wellness, sex & relationships, travel, and entertainment. After moving home in 2018, Peggy began ghostwriting for a mainstream hybrid publishing firm. Since then, she has completed six non-fiction books with authors from around the globe, three of which went on to become Amazon bestsellers in multiple categories. Her genres of speciality include spirituality, self-help, business, psychology, memoir, women’s issues, and culture. She has also worked as a book coach, editor, and ghostwriter for authors of erotic fiction. When she’s not glued to her laptop, Peggy is an avid reader, meditator, kickboxer, visual artist, and yoga nerd. She also volunteers for Adult Children of Alcoholics & Dysfunctional families, a 12-step organization supporting people in recovery from traumatic childhoods. With a deep passion for the connective power of language, she has studied Spanish, Italian, French, Japanese, and Thai. Helping people share their wisdom with the world brings her joy and she is thrilled to have the opportunity to work with StoryTerrace.
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Bill D
Bill has been writing professionally since he was hired as a TV news writer out of college, went on to write marketing communications materials for Rockwell International, Century Link, and a start-up called edge2net, where he served as the Director of Public Relations and Marketing. Starting in 1985, in parallel with his corporate activities, Bill wrote and published science fiction and alternate history novels totalling 60 as of this year. Most of those books qualify as military science fiction, a subject which thanks to time spent as a medic in the Navy and with the Marine Corps, Bill knows something about. Although most of Bill’s fiction is original to him, he has over the years been hired to write books for Lucas Films (the Dark Forces trilogy), Sony (Halo: The Flood), and for Orbit publishing (Mass Effect: Deception) which made the New York Times list. Bill was also hired to co-write the Sony game Resistance Burning Skies. Thanks to Bill’s corporate work he’s been required to collaborate with company executives, creative teams, and representatives from three of the big five publishers.
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Katalin I
Katalin was born and raised in Budapest, Hungary. She has three adult daughters, and two Irish Wolfhounds. Before focusing on her writing, she worked as a geriatric case manager where she had the opportunity to listen and learn about the residents’ life experiences and how it shaped them and their families. She has a BA in Social Psychology and an MA is English/Creative Writing. Her short story based on her great-grandmother’s true post-war experience won first place in Sixfold’s writing competition. She has three manuscripts written and she's recently become agented for fiction writing.
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Katherine L
Katherine is a freelance writer, editor and content creator who loves a good creative challenge. Born and raised in New York City, she currently lives and works abroad in the magical city of Prague. Always a creative storyteller, Katherine has worked for women’s and lifestyle publishing, breaking news websites, B2B marketing firms and more. Her background in Anthropology provides a solid foundation for working with interview subjects, whom she handles with care. Her work can be seen on Business Insider, the Huffington Post, Reader’s Digest, Lonely Planet and more.
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Tré M R
A storyteller with two decades of ghostwriting, PR, and branding experience, Tré is a UC Berkeley graduate and the author of “Splitting the Difference: A Heart-Shaped Memoir,” which shares her experience of being suddenly widowed at 34 and reuniting with the teenage daughter she placed for adoption. Her bylined essays have appeared in The New York Times, Marie Claire, Red magazine, ModernLoss.com, and more. Among the topics she explores with zeal are grief, adoption, fashion, neurodiversity, and travel. Tré has visited nearly 30 countries and makes her home in Brooklyn.
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Judy L B
Judy Lane-Boyer is a dedicated writer with a lifelong passion for storytelling. Since childhood, she honed her craft through thousands of words for clients, including over a decade of language translation and PR for non-profits. A passionate teacher/tutor, Judy helps mental wellness professionals, non-native English speakers, and aspiring memoirists articulate their stories. When not writing, she enjoys reading, traveling, and exploring ethnic cuisines. A lover of coffee and dreamer of hobbit houses, Judy considers central Mexico her second home and York, England, the most magical place in the world.
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Anya B
Anya is a Russian-American writer and producer with over 30 film and TV projects to her name. Her debut feature, Snowbound, was screened at the Cannes Film Market in 2017 and sold internationally. Her short film, I Am Normal, has been showcased at more than 25 festivals, including Academy Award-qualifying Cinequest and LA Shorts. Anya’s versatility spans various genres and formats, but her true strength lies in her deep understanding of human nature, compassion for others, and her sharp sense of humor.
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Thomas L
Thomas has ghostwritten projects for a Senate Chief of Staff, a Philadelphia Narcotics cop, and an insurance company, to name a few. He taught at Harvard under famed Professor Robert Coles, worked at DoubleTake and The American Prospect magazines, and then as an Investigator at the Innocence Project New Orleans. He has published a novel, The Ghost Detective, and a work of Non-fiction, The Trials of Walter Ogrod, which helped free an innocent man from death row in Pennsylvania, and is working on another True Crime story.
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Tony R
Veteran journalist Tony Russo’s interests revolve around how small events affect the larger culture. Through this perspective, he’s developed a knack for helping people connect to personal stories. In the acclaimed podcast, “This Is War” Tony recounted combat veteran stories about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. His latest book, “Dragged into the Light: Truthers, Reptilians, Super Soldiers and Death Inside an Online Cult” took silver for True Crime in the Independent Publisher Book Awards. Both projects succeeded on the strength of Tony’s ability to contextualize actions and events that are foreign to most readers. As the editor of a weekly newsletter and podcast about the funeral industry, Tony continues finding ways to bring sense and context to esoteric topics. Tony lives on Maryland's Eastern Shore with his wife and the only of his four daughters who has yet to move out. Together they keep their dog and cats comfortable.
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Brooke W
Brooke Williams is an experienced writer and journalist who has been working in the industry for close to a decade. What sets her apart from other writers is that she’s a true storyteller at heart. Her background in both theatre and journalism helps her to understand, appreciate, and empathize with others so that she is able to convey their personal message with truth and authenticity.
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Elise N
Elise Nelson is an author, editor, and mental health advocate with over a decade of experience in the publishing field. She has been the managing editor for various websites and publications and has also published multiple works of fiction and poetry. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Boise State University and is currently getting her certification in facilitating biblio/poetry therapy. When she isn’t writing, you can find Elise reading a variety of genres, from romance to literary fiction, and watching Korean dramas with her husband.
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Laura W
For 25 years, Laura has written about extraordinary lives. As a case study writer for Harvard, she's interviewed captains of industry and politics, from Valerie Jarrett (senior advisor to President Obama) to Peter Neffenger (head of the TSA). But her first love is sharing poignant stories of people like Bernadette Black, whose experience as a pregnant teen drove her to upend Australia’s welfare system. Or Nadine Vogel, an advocate for special needs children—including her own. In her spare time, Laura cares for an elderly Yorkie and tools around in her red Kia Soul.
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Elizabeth G
Elizabeth is a self-published memoir author, certified editor (University of Washington, Seattle) and mixed media artist. To maintain flow in the creative process, she paints when the words won’t come and utilizes various forms of media and writing styles, like visual poetry, to express story and capture a memory. Elizabeth teaches Memoir & Artistry workshops, coaches writers one-on-one and offers editorial services. She has culled more than 20 years of her own writing for her next memoir (expected in 2026) and she artfully expresses her inner world with unique formatting; she isn’t afraid of white space, indenting, writing in the margins or writing in code to infuse mystery and delight the reader. Elizabeth’s work is deeply personal and relatable, expressing the pain and subsequent joy found in healing trauma using art and story. When she isn’t writing, editing or painting, Elizabeth hosts Song & Story Open Mic events and escapes to nature for inspiration. She is also proud to be in, and partner with, the LGBTQIA+ community.
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Isabella W
Isabella is a word-weaver who is here to bring better stories to life! She is a writer of stories, blogs and poems, and runs her own business as a book editor and coach. Along with an MFA in creative writing, she is a published poet and enjoys blogging on Medium. She is also the daughter of immigrant parents from China and Taiwan. In her spare time, she enjoys reading books on her Christian faith and exploring new places to eat.
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Sebastian C
Sebastian has always been a storyteller; ever since he was child he has been intrigued by the power good stories hold. Creativity through writing, illustration, and other tools, is his chosen path of exploration and self-expansion. He studied Fine Arts, a Specialization in Journalism, and a Master’s in Hispanic Philology. Several of his works, articles, novels, and poems have been published in different mediums. As a Certified English-Spanish translator, he has worked on all kinds of writing projects ranging from literature to legal, from fictional to factual to biographical.
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Connor D
Connor listens for unconventional explanations and enjoys telling inconvenient truths. He looks at happenings from the unpopular perspective because that is so often where the rubber meets the road. He reads Velikovsky with an open mind, knows the proper use of the phrase “begging the question,” and hopes to one day understand what they mean when they say things are often the opposite of what they are held to be. He is an only child, a husband, a father. He has been a radio DJ, a short order cook, a clown college dropout, a bartender, a college teacher, a musician, but nowadays he is a just a writer who writes in his spare time.
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Melissa S
Melissa is an accomplished Writer and Fortune 50 Business Executive developing new business lines at Meta, The Walt Disney Company, and NBCUniversal. She served as a VIP ghostwriter for Mrs. Michelle Obama and was previously an Opinions Columnist and Feature Writer for the State Press under the former Managing Editor of the Onion. Her Pilot script, "From the Heart," was selected as a Semi-Finalist (Top 1% of Submissions) in the American Zoetrope Screenplay Contest by Judge Francis Coppola and the Zoetrope staff. She currently writes a weekly culture and media blog, "The Devil You Know." Her hobbies include equestrian sports, writing, and floristry.
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Tracy O
Tracy is a former high school English teacher and newspaper editor. Her articles and photos have been published in four newspapers/magazines, covering everything from local politics to restaurant reviews to homicide investigations. She’s the recipient of a Colorado Press Association Award for best reporting. She also recently wrote a children’s book slated for publication in the summer of 2024. In her free time, she volunteers at the St. Joseph NICU in Denver, CO, holding under-snuggled preemie babies and supporting NICU parents. Her twin daughters spent three months in the same NICU after arriving almost three months early. Tracy enjoys gardening, taking her elderly Labradoodle, Woolly Bugger, on long walks, and playing pickleball, albeit poorly. She lives in Denver, CO with her husband James, and their three young children, Mack, Bonnie, & Pippa.
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Sumeer M
Sumeer is a freelance writer and an aspiring filmmaker. With a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Cinema & Digital Media, learning about people and crafting a narrative based on personal experiences has become a significant part of his life. He is currently pursuing MFA at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, where he hopes to turn stories into feature films. Sumeer writes across all genres, ensuring that there’s a personal touch to all of them. He lives to tell stories and can’t imagine his life without it.
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Simone L
Simone is a Los-Angeles based writer, actress, equestrian, photographer, and bookworm. She received her BFA in Creative Producing from Chapman University. She’s worked in film development at Walt Disney Studios, and as a documentary film festival programmer at Points North Institute. Her obsession has always been storytelling, whether she is the one writing or helping to guide the works of others. She also co-created, produced, and wrote for Urban Exodus, a podcast that tells the stories of rural change-makers around the world.
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Alice H
Alice, born in Czechoslovakia, moved to New York City after the Velvet Revolution in 1989. She began writing early, becoming a self-taught journalist and covering news in Lebanon. Alice joined the Arab Spring protests in 2012 and traveled to Iraq during the war, later entering the tech world as a grad student at Carnegie Mellon and cofounding a startup. Her self-help book, You Screwed Up!, addresses business mistakes for entrepreneurs, while her journal, Fly My Lady, offers encouragement for women in tech through guided journaling . Alice’s fiction, based on real events, explores women’s challenges, as seen in Pretty Girl Complex, which focuses on surrogacy and modern relationships. She is part of a book club and literary open mic in Valencia, Spain. Her work has appeared in Club Hemingway VLC Anthology, The Elpis Letters, New Scientist, and Christian Science Monitor. When she is not writing her novels, she ghostwrites memoirs for StoryTerrace. Alice divides her time between Europe and the U.S
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Sadie K
A young writer from the Midwest, Sadie’s interest in storytelling began after receiving detention for her second-grade book report on The Amityville Horror. Since then, she has been obsessed with hearing and telling stories deemed “unfit for polite conversation.” She studied English and Creative Writing at Wittenberg University. Her undergraduate honors thesis is a true-crime book she wrote from interviews with an Ohio family on their time as a daily newspaper dynasty. After receiving her BA in English, Sadie worked for an international student program in Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany, as a middle school paraprofessional in Michigan, and is a current MFA candidate in New York University’s Fiction Program. Her work has been published in The Chamber and The Furious Gazelle magazine under the name Sadie Kraus, and she enjoys reading, writing, and eavesdropping on fellow passengers during her train commute to class in NYC.
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Natalie R
Natalie Rose writes about the intersection of memory, food, and identity. Her work appears in The Rumpus, the Journal of Popular Culture, Gothamist, the Acentos Review, Freerange Nonfiction, Word Riot, and others. She is completing work on her first book Seabird, a series of CNF essays about siblings and addiction, and working on a novel about charras (Latina trick rodeo riders) in 1930s Arizona. Everyone has a story — what's yours?
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