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Karen

Karen 5 star rating

Edinburgh, UK

If your strength isn't writing - let's collaborate. With your subject expertise, I can help you fulfil your dream of becoming an author.

Genres: Business & Management, Non-Fiction, Health & Wellbeing, Philosophy, Humanities & Social Sciences, Self-Help & Self-Improvement, and Political Science & Current Affairs.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed
Seán

Seán 5 star rating

Edinburgh, UK

I've been working as an author, ghostwriter, editor, proofreader, and copywriter since 1999. I hold an MA in Creative Writing.

Genres: History, Humanities & Social Sciences, Non-Fiction, Historical Mysteries, Mystery & Crime, Fiction, Education & Reference, Music, True Crime, Religion & Spirituality, Art, and Plays & Screenplays.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed
Douglas

Douglas 5 star rating

Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Sunday Times best-selling ghostwriter, capturing male and female voices across inspirational real life, true crime and celebrity.

Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Political Science & Current Affairs, Humanities & Social Sciences, Music, Entertainment, and True Crime.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed
  • News of the World
  • News of the World/New York Post
Katy

Katy 5 star rating

Rye, United Kingdom

As a bestselling ghostwriter, I craft beautiful and memorable memoirs for private clients as well as large publishers like HarperCollins.

Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, True Crime, and Sex & Relationships.

Martin

Martin 5 star rating

London, United Kingdom

I am an award-winning ghostwriter with four 'Sunday Times' and multiple Amazon bestsellers to my name.

Genres: Humor & Comedy, Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Business & Management, Health & Wellbeing, Travel, Entertainment, Education & Reference, and Sports & Outdoors.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed
  • HarperCollins
  • Penguin Books
Philip

Philip 5 star rating

Ampthill, United Kingdom

Experienced ghostwriter, author. Ghosting/editorial consulting projects include major books on eurozone and an industrial illness scandal.

Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, and Business & Management.

Work experience:

  • N/A
  • Personnel Today
  • Community Care
Simon

Simon 5 star rating

Bristol, United Kingdom

Award-winning ghostwriter, author and editor. Works with private clients, businesses, celebrities and publishers in a wide range of genres.

Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Business & Management, Cooking, Food, Wine, & Spirits, Inspirational, Entertainment, Education & Reference, Sports & Outdoors, Thriller & Suspense, and Fiction.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed

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Spencer

Spencer 5 star rating

London, United Kingdom

I am a published author, ghostwriter and screenwriter with over ten years' experience of collaborating with clients

Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Health & Wellbeing, Music, Humanities & Social Sciences, Entertainment, Self-Help & Self-Improvement, Sports & Outdoors, and True Crime.

Work experience:

  • Durrants Press Cuttings
Johnny

Johnny 5 star rating

London, United Kingdom

Experienced ghostwriter, author and copy-editor. Personable and very versatile. I specialise in biography, sport, food and popular history.

Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Cooking, Food, Wine, & Spirits, History, Humanities & Social Sciences, Travel, and Sports & Outdoors.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed
  • Soup Works Plc
  • Littlemore Hospital, Oxford
  • Camden Central Cars
  • Various
Joe

Joe 5 star rating

Manchester, UK

Big 5 published, award-winning author, and travel writer for The Telegraph. I mentor, and specialise in memoirs, often seasoned with humour.

Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Travel, Humor & Comedy, Fiction, Plays & Screenplays, and Business & Management.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed
  • Living Tenerife Magazine
Conor

Conor 5 star rating

London, UK

Experienced ghostwriter and editor of non-fiction, biography and fiction. I have written International, Sunday Times, Amazon best sellers.

Genres: Action & Adventure, Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Legal Thriller, Thriller & Suspense, and True Crime.

Work experience:

  • Freelance
Amber

Amber 5 star rating

Oxford, UK

I have six books in 17 languages. I love ghostwriting with authentic voices and powerful tales, especially in middle grade and parenting

Genres: Middle Grade, Children's, Fiction, Parenting & Families, Non-Fiction, Self-Help & Self-Improvement, and Middle Grade Fantasy.

Work experience:

  • Amber Hatch
  • Penguin Random House; Little, Brown; Watkins Publishing
  • Oxfordshire Mind, the Mental Health charity
  • Oxford University
Tim

Tim 5 star rating

London, UK

I'm an expert nonfiction ghostwriter who has helped 35 authors write impactful, high-value books on business, medicine, law, and finance.

Genres: Business & Management, Non-Fiction, and Biographies & Memoirs.

Work experience:

  • Time Life
  • Marshall Cavendish
  • Brown Reference Group/Windmill Books
  • Self-employed
Hannah

Hannah 5 star rating

London, UK

Cross-disciplined ghostwriter and published author (Hodder, Penguin) across fiction and non-fiction. Screen and audio writer for BBC & ITV.

Genres: Historical Fiction, Fiction, Young Adult Fantasy, Young Adult, History, Humanities & Social Sciences, Non-Fiction, Philosophy, and Health & Wellbeing.

Work experience:

  • The Drive Project
  • Hodder & Hodder
  • Melvyn Bragg
  • BBC
  • Atria
  • Deloitte
  • ITV
Jane

Jane 5 star rating

London, UK

I'm a children's book specialist with nearly 30 years' experience of writing and editing everything from Winnie-the-Pooh to Minecraft.

Genres: Children’s Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction, Picture Books, Children's, Fiction, and Middle Grade.

Work experience:

  • Ladybird, Penguin Random House
  • Self-employed
  • Egmont, now Farshore, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
  • Penguin Random House
Tom

Tom 5 star rating

London, UK

Leading ghostwriter with over a decade's experience. I have worked on over 20 titles, including prizewinners and international bestsellers.

Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Business & Management, Entertainment, Economics, Humanities & Social Sciences, Political Science & Current Affairs, Sports & Outdoors, Travel, and Writing & Publishing.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed
  • Publisher
  • Little, Brown
Andrew

Andrew 5 star rating

Cheshire, Chester, UK

I'm an award-winning fiction author who loves to support other writers. I don't do jargon, egos or condescension - just great stories.

Genres: Humor & Comedy, Fiction, Horror, Thriller & Suspense, Business & Management, Non-Fiction, Dystopian, Science Fiction, and Post-Apocalyptic.

Work experience:

  • Self-employed
  • Various

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