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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Brittany A.
Brittany (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based writer and actor. Her award-winning stage plays have been produced and developed at Portland Center Stage, Jungle Theater, Manhattan Theater Club, The Public, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, Primary Stages, Studio Theatre, and KC Rep, among other places, and she currently holds commissions from Playwrights Horizons and Clubbed Thumb. Recognitions include the Daryl Roth Creative Spirit Award, the Dramatists Guild Foundation Comedic Playwriting Prize, and a Van Lier New Voices Playwriting Fellowship. She is a resident playwright at Colt Coeur, and an alumna of EST/Youngblood and EWG at The Public Theater. Her prose writing has been supported by fellowships to MacDowell and Ucross, as well as scholarships to Bread Loaf, and the Sewanee Writers Conference (where she now teaches on faculty). Her Pushcart Prize nominated short fiction has been published in The Kenyon Review, Catapult, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Lampblack, Epiphany, and elsewhere. She is currently at work on a novel.
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Senior
Margaret M.
Margaret holds a bachelor’s degree in writing from Syracuse University and a master’s degree in education from Grand Canyon University. She taught English for seventeen years before starting a eulogy writing business. Her passion for writing was evident in her teaching, and it continues when she has the honor of telling the stories of real people. Listening to family members recall the moments shared with their loved one, hearing how life unfolded, and waiting for those unassuming moments that capture the essence of the person is especially rewarding.
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Judy L
Judy is a freelance writer and editor. She was trained in financial journalism and public relations, and her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes and Fast Company. Having lived and worked in five countries and three continents, Judy understands cultural nuances and knows how to draw out people from different backgrounds. She is fluent in Japanese, Cantonese, and is proficient in Mandarin. A news junkie and a voracious reader, Judy is always devouring the latest news stories and loves to read historical fiction.
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Sherry G
As a ghostwriter of over 200 books, with 5 on Amazon’s bestseller list, Sherry is also a certified Sports Nutritionist and served as the On-Air Nutritionist for QVC in the U.S. and the UK. She has ghostwritten books and memoirs for CEOs, Business Owners, Doctors, Lawyers, Scientists, Clinical Nutritionists, and National Speakers. Her business background includes owning 7 McDonald's restaurants, 14 World Gyms, and Smoothie Kings in five states; Sherry is also a Nationally Certified Yoga/Pilates and Fitness Instructor with over 30 years of experience in the fitness industry.
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Rich H
Rich Handley has written, edited, or contributed to nearly 160 books throughout the course of his 30-year publishing career, covering a wide variety of topics related to film, television, comics, and entertainment. Rich has an English degree from SUNY Oneonta, edited Eaglemoss’s Star Trek Graphic Novel Collection, and currently writes articles and fiction for Paramount/CBS’s official Star Trek Communicator magazine. In addition, Rich has 25 years’ experience as a magazine editor in the B2B publishing world.
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Cynthia R
Cynthia teaches in the Professional Editing Standards Certificate program at Queens University in Toronto. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri. Her professional background is in publishing, journalism, and business. As a copyeditor, she specializes in mysteries and romance. As a writer, she has penned several educational books—from STEM to careers to dinosaurs— for middle -grade students.
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Hudson Perigo
Hudson Perigo has 15 years’ in-house acquisitions and developmental experience in publishing and has ghosted for a cosmetics magnate, an Olympic gymnast, and an eccentric TV exercise celebrity. Publishers she has worked with include Harper Wave, Wiley, Holt, Solution Tree, McGraw-Hill, Plume, Bantam, NAEYC, Scholastic, Harper & Row, Rawson, W.W. Norton, Warner Books, The Experiment, and Ben Bella. She’s collaborated with subject matter experts (primarily physicians, business owners, and educators) to write 40 books while staunchly maintaining individual author voice. A renowned scientist once hesitated about hiring her stating that he didn’t want to sound like a TV exercise celebrity and she respectfully replied, “Then don’t talk like him.” Hudson holds an MFA in Screenwriting from USC and has placed in several international competitions. All of which and three bucks gets her a cup of coffee in Hollywood.
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Jodi L.
Jodi is a compassionate wise soul of diverse interests including being an outdoors enthusiast, avid reader, adventurer, explorer, lover of learning, and skilled listener. Jodi works at Family Violence Appellate Project where she helps survivors of gender-based violence appeal trial court cases. As an advocate, Jodi skillfully interviews people and tells their story to others. Jodi is a published author on topics related to her work. In her spare time, you might see Jodi skipping along a hiking trail, reading a book, being silly, and/or enjoying her surroundings!
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Elizabeth P
Elizabeth has been writing all her life. She completed her MFA at Vermont College of Fine Arts in July 1997. Her work has appeared in several small literary journals. She was the winner of the 1987 Phi Theta Kappa National Competition in Creative Writing and has been a finalist for a number of other literary prizes. She currently lives in Boston, MA and teaches at Emerson College and Wentworth Institute of Technology. A former runner and triathlete, Elizabeth now spends her free time hanging out with her Golden Retriever, Journey.
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Katherine Pritchett
With over 35 years in government writing reports, news releases and articles and grant proposals as well as 50 years writing as a hobby and passion, I have three novels and one non-fiction book published, along with regular columns and special articles for various publications. I love to dig deep into the complex events that shape people. I write two blogs. "Through My Window" expresses living with an attitude of gratitude. "Diary of a Wimpy Dog" chronicles my life with a manipulative Labrador retriever, and our other animal friends.
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Charles Harned
Charles got his start contributing articles to Vex Mosaic magazine and college sports websites. Before joining StoryTerrace, he worked as a book coach and ghostwriter for Scribe Media. He has written eight of his own books with one, A Day in Fall, available worldwide. In 2016, he was awarded a scholarship by the Southeastern Writers Association at their summer conference. An avid sports fan, he loves college football and basketball and is training for his first half-marathon.
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Trevor C.
Trevor Clawson is an award-winning author, journalist and editor with a particular interest in writing about entrepreneurship, innovation and the personal stories that underpin business success. As an author, Trevor has published a number of books under his own name, including business-focused biographies of Jamie Oliver and Simon Cowell. His ghostwriting projects include a guide to the psychology of starting and running a business and a soon-to-published title on effective money management. Trevor writes regularly for Forbes.com - interviewing entrepreneurs and telling their stories - his work has also appeared in the Guardian, Times, Sunday Times and Mail on Sunday. When not writing, he can be found playing the guitar and working in his home studio, soaking up cinema or taking Suzie the dog on long, country walks
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John D
John is one of the UK’s leading journalists. He has had thousands of published stories in The Times, Mail on Sunday, Daily Record and many of the country’s leading newspapers and loves hearing people's stories. He has travelled the world interviewing some of the world’s top celebrities including Sir Paul McCartney in Mexico, Annie Lennox in Malawi, Lindsay Lohan in Singapore and Billy Bob Thornton in Texas. An award-winning screenwriter, his debut film, the drama I Saw You, premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and earned him a Royal Television Society award. The film also collected two BAFTA wins. He is also the author of bestselling music biographies such as Emeli Sande: Read All About It, published by Omnibus, and has ghostwritten biographies for people from many different walks of life. John has a Masters Degree (MLitt with distinction) in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow. Later this year, he will feature in a BBC documentary covering the search for his biological father. A music lover, John spends his free time collecting and listening to vintage records, enjoying good food and wine, travel and quality time with friends and family.
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Victoria S
Upon completing her Master’s degree in English Studies in 2015, Victoria went on to write a YA fantasy novel entitled Your World Shall Be Mine, which is forthcoming with LR Price Publications in late 2023. Realising she was a natural at telling stories, Victoria desired to continue to write fictional tales but wanted to capture the lives of others, too, seeing the beauty in each person’s history and how they became who they are today. It is her dream one day to write her own autobiography, but until then, Victoria would like to help put the words of others onto paper to create something beautiful for them to leave behind.
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Bruce B
I speak three languages: English, technology, and business. I was initially a high school English teacher and a graduate faculty Counseling professor. In 1983, smitten by the empowerment potential of personal computers, I shifted professions. I’m a technology journalist with thousands of magazine and website bylines, a blogger, and an award-winning personal and business book author and coach. In addition, I have a BA in English from the University of Connecticut, an MS in Psychology from Central Connecticut University, and an advanced degree in Counseling from Saint Joseph University.
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Ileana B
Ileana is a bilingual/bicultural writer who also happens to be her own family's unofficial historian. She grew up in the Yucatán Peninsula in México, where she constantly listened to her maternal grandparents reminiscing about both calamities and/or blessings that had occurred to family members, she wouldn't have otherwise known about. Her curiosity about her family history fostered her interest in Literature, which led her to complete a doctorate in Spanish and Cultural Studies. Ileana currently works at Arizona State University, where she teaches the Spanish language, as well as Latin American/US Latino Literature and Film, the core subject of her published scholarly work.
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Jennifer P
In high school, Jennifer passed up a writing scholarship to major in psychology. She still has a love for both fields, but achieving a doctorate in the latter has allowed her to work with veterans, inmates, police officers, and executives to write research and blog articles, and many clinical reports. Jennifer is comfortable writing about a diverse range of subjects from open relationships, to fitness, to substance abuse. Jennifer also enjoys Brazilian jiu-jitsu and Dutch kickboxing, can speak some Italian and some German, and play a little piano, too. Since age seven the horse has been her favorite animal, and when independently wealthy, Jennifer plans to spend all day riding.
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Tabitha K
Tabitha has been writing professionally for 25 years, most recently while an English professor. Growing up as a Navy brat gave her a taste for travel – she’s lived in eight American states, Spain, Guam, London, Dubai, and Dublin. When she completed her PhD, her dad gave her a laptop and her mom bought her acrobat classes at a circus school. She’s published numerous articles and a book on women’s history, and she spent twelve years teaching college students to develop ideas, create outlines, and eat their broccoli.
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Angel O
Angel is a multimedia writer who has written for the stage and screen. In 2012, she self-published her first book, Diary of a Misfit, and in 2014, she published her second book, Homebound. She believes that writing is acting, but with words instead of movements. She is dedicated to embodying her subject in tone, voice and essence. When she’s not watching character analyses on YouTube, she’s plotting a short film or editing a manuscript. She has written for numerous online publications, including Blavity, My Black Matters, Radr Africa.
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Kat S
Kat has spent her life collecting and sharing stories, and her writing has led her everywhere from star-studded film festivals to backyard chicken coops. She is the author of two middle-grade book series: Gemini Mysteries, published by Little Bee, and Babysitting Nightmares with Macmillan. A former classroom teacher, Kat also spent various points in her life working as a deli waitress, a Hollywood script reader, and a dog trainer for film and TV. She lives in Minnesota in a cozy stone cottage full of pets and houseplants.
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Lola P
Lola is a skilled professional creative writer with 8+ years of experience writing for a number of niches, including entertainment, fashion, music, art, pets, and other sectors. She has produced exceptional creative content for agencies and production companies, including scripts, synopses, treatments, articles, digital media, and marketing campaigns. She is a dedicated team player who enjoys working with others to develop their ideas. Her goal is to go above and beyond what is expected by clients. In addition to writing, she is passionate about theatre, music (accordion), nature, diving, and the ocean world.
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Susan K
Susan started as a journalist and is the author of the cult satirical fiction novel 'Who Town'. She has written for myriad publications including Elle, Harper’s Bazaar; The London Times, New York Magazine, The New York Observer, The New York Times, and Whitewall Magazine as a founding editor. While New York - the city itself - often serves as a character in her fictional work, Susan's non fiction beats have run the gamut from fashion to art and investigative profiles. Susan has lived around the globe, including stints in Rome, Paris, Brussels (as a researcher for the European Parliament), and a graduate summer course at Hebrew University, in Jerusalem. In her youth, she attended performing arts schools, including the Balanchine based training school of the Philadelphia Ballet, in her native city, Philly. She speaks and writes fluent Italian and French. She can hail a cab and haggle in Hebrew and knows where to find the best cheesesteak.
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Marilyn B
Marilyn has had a lifelong fascination with Diane Sawyer, writers, and big stories. She did her first interview at age eight, after hearing a neighbor was Rachel Carson’s mentor. Since then, she’s enjoyed a 25-year career in broadcast journalism, writing and producing for PBS, CBS, ABC, 20th Century Fox, Discovery, and National Geographic. She has a BA in Speech Communications from the University of Virginia. She spends her free time cycling, writing plays with the help of her cats, and watching superb drama. Marilyn would like to share your unique story and shape it into a wonderful book, where treasured memories speak.
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Jackie PC
Where do I begin? I am eclectic. I've performed onstage, I once was a bereavement counselor, and I've taught college classes in writing and fine art. I have a Bachelors in Human Relations, and my Masters in English is from the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College in Vermont and Lincoln College in Oxford, England. I have been helping people write their life stories since 2002. My articles have appeared in national magazines, and I've published my own book, Spirit of the Village: A Maui Memoir. I now reside in Northern Nevada, having previously lived since birth on the island of Maui, Hawai`i.
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