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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Charles M
Charles is a professional freelance writer with more than ten years experience. He’s written for The Atlantic, Washington Post, Slate, The Bitter Southerner, Slate, MOJO, The Week, and other publications. When he’s not writing about comic books, television, music, and movies, he’s writing web copy, blog posts, and press releases for clients. A self-proclaimed Beatles enthusiast, Charles loves the art of the interview, helping people tell stories that may not otherwise be told.
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Celeste C
Celeste is a New York-based writer and artist. Her most recent publication is YA thriller, Unlovely, published by Merit Press. Other credits include YA novel, The Melting Season, and middle-grade novel, The Goodbye Time, both published by Random House. She is also the author of When You Open Your Eyes, released by Simon & Schuster, and the author-illustrator of the children’s picture book, Where Is Papa Now? Celeste holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University.
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Carolyn R
Carolyn has ten years of experience helping smart, accomplished people take book projects from fond desire to published reality. She finished her PhD at 29 and headed straight into the Ivory Tower. Five years later, she sneaked out the back gate and never looked back. She loved teaching analysis, theory, and composition, but if she never attends another committee meeting it will be too soon. Carolyn has ghosted fourteen book titles and edited twenty more. She also has a mild obsession with puppets.
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Caroline B
Originally from Manchester, England, Caroline craved adventure and found her way to Washington, D.C. early in her career where she worked for the World Bank for fourteen years and gained an MBA from Johns Hopkins University. In addition to helping authors bring their personal stories to life, she has collaborated with numerous business entrepreneurs, thought leaders, financial experts, and even horse trainers to help them create books that convey their unique ideas and philosophies in a compelling way. Many of these books are published and available on Amazon. Caroline’s business, finance, and investing articles have appeared in Time, Huffington Post, SoFi, Investopedia, The Motley Fool, and many other media outlets. She writes unremittingly from her home in central Pennsylvania and loves to explore trails with her dog, Addy.
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Carmella G
Carmella is a Pushcart-nominated writer, educator, and polyglot. A graduate of Amherst College and the MFA program at the University of South Florida, she is the recipient of a Fulbright fellowship in Colombia, as well as Crab Orchard Review’s Charles Johnson Award for fiction. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Orion magazine, The Los Angeles Review, Lenny Letter, The Rumpus and elsewhere. She has been awarded residencies by Vermont Studio Center, O Miami, and The Art Farm Nebraska.
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Carey G
Carey has always enjoyed interviewing people and telling their stories. She earned a master’s degree in journalism from UC Berkeley, then worked as an award winning reporter, editor and feature writer at newspapers in California, Texas and Washington. After recently retiring from a 40-year career, she’s tracing immigrant forebears who fled poverty in China and anti-Semitic pogroms in Eastern Europe and her husband’s roots in Africa and the American South.
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Brian B
Brian has written for major magazines for more than a decade, including Sports Illustrated, BusinessWeek and U.S. News & World Report. His narrative journalism has garnered national accolades, and he specializes in immersive pieces that seek to derive deeper meaning from each person’s story. Detail, empathy, and emotion define his work and he is accustomed to interviewing people hailing from an array of backgrounds — from famous athletes and executives to those out of the spotlight who have quietly led remarkable lives.
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Brad S
Brad Schreiber has written ten books, journalism, and for TV, film, and theatre. Becoming Jimi Hendrix (Da Capo) was chosen for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Library. His history of the Symbionese Liberation Army, Revolution’s End, was honored by the International Book Awards and Independent Publisher Book Awards. He created the TV series, North Mission Road, based on his book on the history of the Los Angeles coroner’s office, Death in Paradise. He’s received fellowships from the National Press Club and Edward Albee Foundation.
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Bill S
Bill started his writing career on his high school newspaper. Subsequently he became the editor of two of the U.S. Army’s largest weeklies. He has also worked as a writer or editor on several city dailies and as a public relations representative for major companies like Prudential and Lockheed. He has produced executive speeches and ghostwritten for the Wall Street Journal. He enjoys interviewing people and helping them rediscover interesting incidents in their lives. Bill dabbles in photography, takes long walks and occasionally bursts into song, which sometimes confounds people he passes.
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Bill K
Bill Karnovsky has been a writer for three decades. He does not see the glass as either half empty or half full – he just sees an opportunity for a good story. He has written comedy material for national magazines, children’s books, radio shows, and TV networks including Nickelodeon, New York Magazine, and his own YouTube comedy channel “A Good Laugh Comedy Sketches”. Bill also has a serious side, writing TV specials for the Bravo Network, research reports for McGraw-Hill, and interviews with educational technology leaders for national magazines and advertorial inserts.
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Becky R
Becky is a freelance journalist with fifteen years of writing experience. She is a regular contributor to publications such as People Magazine, The Miami Herald, Mommy Nearest, and more. Becky is also a digital content creator; she has produced social media campaigns and website copy for clients such as Oliphant Design, NetJets and Norwegian Cruise Line. She has a husband, two sons, and a dog; and spends much of her time at the local baseball field cheering on back-to-back Little League games.
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Belinda B
Belinda likes to spend time in her impractically large vegetable garden in the Sierra foothills, ski at Lake Tahoe, and go wherever frequent flyer miles will take her. She has worked in editorial departments at various San Francisco publishing houses for over ten years and writes for the local newspaper. She loves being a freelancer. Her motto is: “Have laptop, will travel.” She has a BA in English with a minor in Creative Writing and earned a certificate in Publishing from UC Berkeley.
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Anya L
A graduate of Yale University and Georgia State University, Anya makes her way as a writer and experimental performance artist. For her efforts, she has received grant and residency support from The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Atlantic Center for the Arts, The New Museum, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, and Flux Projects. Her work has been published and written about in The New York Times Magazine, BOMB, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue Italia, New York Magazine, Gothamist, Jezebel, and many others.
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Annette M
Annette is a mid-Atlantic based journalist, digital content writer, and children’s author. Her writing credits include health and wellness websites, periodicals, and Christian publications for children. She’s also a two-time Chicken Soup for the Soul contributor. After investigating her family’s WWII history and volunteering with a veteran POW group, Annette made it her mission to help veterans compose their memoirs. She is currently working as a writer on the History Channel for A&E Networks. When she’s not writing, you’ll probably find her outside playing in the dirt or binge-watching Star Trek.
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Anne M
Anne and storytelling love each other. They have been found together sitting in trees, W-R-I-T-I-N-G. The former editor of Santa Fean magazine and a writer at several newspapers, Anne is an award-winning journalist, an experienced interviewer, the author of seventeen preschool-through-college-level books and several short stories, and is an actual, brand-new screenwriter. She also recently completed her first novel, done on a dare. She was raised in both the Canadian and U.S. school systems, so she can tell when to have a sense of humor.
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Ana M
Ana is a bilingual/Latino writer who enjoys landscape photography and reading nonfiction books and novels. Originally from Venezuela, she got a degree in Journalism from the University of Zulia and became a crime reporter. Afterward, she specialized as a multimedia journalist and wrote about smuggling along the border of Venezuela, along with community issues and education. Her articles gave her local recognition, and she won a regional journalists award in 2014. In 2017, she moved to Texas and is currently incorporating into the freelance world. Ana es una redactora latina y bilingüe que disfruta de la fotografía de paisajes, de la lectura de libros de no-ficción y novelas. Originaria de Venezuela, obtuvo su título en Periodismo, en la Universidad del Zulia, y se convirtió en reportera de sucesos. Luego se especializó como periodista multimedia y escribió sobre contrabando en la frontera de Venezuela. También redactó sobre problemas comunitarios y educación. Sus artículos le dieron reconocimientos regionales y, en 2014, obtuvo un premio regional de periodistas. En 2017, se mudó a Texas y actualmente se está incorporando al mundo freelance donde aspira a escribir en su lengua materna.
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Amy B
Amy is a New York City native who recently relocated to Athens, GA, to pursue a PhD in English and Creative Writing at the University of Georgia. She has published short stories and essays, and is currently completing her first novel – but she’s also an occasional musician, specializing in vocal music from Eastern Europe. She loves to ride her bike, travel and study languages, and has spent long periods of time in Japan, Brazil, Thailand and Burma. She edits online magazine, 7×7.la, that publishes collaborations between writers and visual artists.
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Alan G
Alan has written about everything from pigs (swine vaccines) to pigskins (college and professional football) in nearly two decades as a full-time freelance writer. A magazine story about Hall of Fame groundskeeper, George Toma, led to his first ghostwritten biography, Nitty Gritty Dirt Man. He also has written biographies of a longtime college baseball coach and All-Pro running back, Christian Okoye. He currently is collaborating on a motivational book with Nick “The Kick” Lowery, who ended his career as the most accurate field-goal kicker in history.
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Adrian B
Since 2001, Adrian has reported and written hundreds of freelance newspaper, magazine and website articles—from pitch to print—for publications such as the New Yorker, The Guardian, The Nation, the Boston Globe Magazine, and other national publications on a variety of topics, including world affairs and culture, social justice, and human rights. Adrian has also worked as a press officer and associate editor at the United Nations Division of Global Communications. She holds a BS in Journalism from Northwestern University and an MS in Journalism from Columbia University.
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Tyler B
Tyler used to run around the backyard as a kid, recording his dog, cat, whatever, with his Fisher-Price tape recorder. He became an avid and detailed journal writer before becoming a professional writer—as a newspaper reporter, trade magazine editor, and most recently technical writer. He came to rely on a digital recorder to accurately capture interviews for articles he wrote, as well as in lieu of a personal journal. Now he’s combining his love of writing and recording to help people capture their life stories.
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Ellen G H
Ellen grew up around the Southern NJ and Philadelphia areas and now lives near Ottawa, Canada. She has written 12 books (four of which are award-winners), contributed to 15 others, and has written hundreds of articles for print magazines and websites. She served as president of the Catholic Writers Guild from 2012-2015 and composed articles and press releases for a small non-profit from 2015-2018. When she’s not writing, Ellen enjoys spending time with her husband of 40 years, her extended family (especially her two-year-old grandson) and researching her family tree.
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Cara W G
Cara is an author, storyteller, motivational speaker, and TEDx speaker promoting hope over adversity. She is the author of <i>Tree of Hope--Anne Frank's Father Shares His Wisdom with an American Teen and the World</i> and <i>Strength from Nature--Simple Lessons of Life Taught By the Most Unlikely Masters: The Nature Teachers</i>. She is a board member of homeless charity Uplift Us and ImpactAVillage, a non-profit committed to improving healthcare and education in villages around the world. She lives in Colorado with her husband, Peter and Maine Coon cat, Boo.
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Katia J P
If wealth were measured by obsessions, Katia would have one hefty pot of gold, filled to the brim. This freelance writer has reported on everything from culinary diplomacy to wearable art, and the artists and creatives behind such trends for print and digital publications alike. Her curiosities extend to travel, sated in recent years with cultural jaunts through London, Dublin, and Lyon, among other locales. In her spare time, she writes short stories, poems, and essays, all the while perfecting her plank and dreaming up her next solo sojourn.
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Melissa R
After graduating from Columbia's journalism school, Melissa launched a 20-year writing career and produced two books, including a collection of physician memoirs published by Penguin Books. She has written for Reuters, CBS HealthWatch, Chicago Tribune, Women's Wear Daily and the former Rocky Mountain News. She taught memoir classes in Denver. Melissa also has seven years of experience as a nurse. She has a compassionate, journalistic approach. She helps clients add sensory details that bring stories to life. She and her rescue dog, Franklin, love to escape to the Colorado mountains.
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