🎙 INTERVIEW: Crafting Bestselling Historical Fiction w/ Author Kate Mosse
​** This is a LIVE interview with author Kate Mosse about the craft of writing and reality of building a writing career. Attendees will be sent a recording after the interview. **
​Kate Mosse is an author known for her richly detailed historical fiction. Her novels, including The Joubert Family Chronicles, have captivated readers worldwide and earned her a place among the best in the genre. Her most recent book, The Ghost Ship, is a story of piracy, romance, and revenge.Â
​In addition to her success as an author, Kate is the Founder and Director of the Women's Prize for Fiction & the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction, the largest annual celebration of women's writing in the world.Â
​Join us for a conversation with Kate as we discuss her techniques for writing historical fiction and her advice for anyone just getting started.Â
​We’ll also explore:
​Techniques for creating vivid, immersive worlds
​The challenges and rewards of blending history with storytelling
​Her journey to becoming a bestselling authorÂ
​Why she set up the Women’s Prize for Fiction and its ongoing workÂ
​About Kate Mosse
​Kate Mosse is the author of eleven novels & short story collections, including the No 1 bestselling The Joubert Family Chronicles – The Burning Chambers, The City of Tears, The Ghost Ship and The Map of Bones – as well as the multimillion selling Languedoc Trilogy - Labyrinth, Sepulchre and Citadel - and No 1 bestselling Gothic fiction including The Winter Ghosts and The Taxidermist's Daughter. Her books have been translated into 38 languages and published in more than 40 countries. She has also written four works of non-fiction – including her memoir about caring An Extra Pair of Hands and Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World. She has also written four plays, contributed essays and introductions to classic novels and collections. Her novel for Quick Reads, The Black Mountain, was published in 2022 and she contributed a story to the international bestselling Miss Marple Collection of Short Stories, Marple.
​A champion of women's creativity, Kate is the Founder Director of the Women's Prize for Fiction & the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction - the largest annual celebration of women's writing in the world - and is the Founder of the global campaign #WomanInHistory launched in January 2021 to honour, celebrate and promote women’s achievements throughout history. She was awarded a CBE in the King’s New Year’s Honours List 2024 for services to literature, women and charity, was named Woman of the Year for her service to the arts in the Everywoman Awards. She is a Trustee of the British Library, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Authors. A regular guest on book & arts shows on radio and television, she also writes and presents documentaries and tours her one-woman shows including Warrior Queens: The Show, Women Who Resisted: Celebrating Women of World War II and, for 2025, to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of her global bestselling novel Labyrinth Live: The Secrets of the Labyrinth.
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​Parul Bavishi and Matt Trinetti are the co-founders of the London Writers' Salon, creators of the webby-nominated Writers' Hour daily writing sessions, and hosts of the London Writers' Salon podcast.
​Parul Bavishi has been an editor for over a decade. In addition to running LWS she helps thriller, YA and non-fiction writers level up their craft and get published. She writes and edits for the Story Grid. She has worked as an editor and literary scout at Random House, Quercus & Eccles Fisher. She analyses TV hit shows (Killing Eve, Ozark, Game of Thrones) on the Story Grid Showrunners Podcast.
​Matt Trinetti is a writer, publisher, TEDx speaker, and facilitator. In addition to running LWS, Matt designs programs to help unfulfilled professionals pursue creative work, start businesses, and reinvent their careers. Matt's work has appeared in Quartz, Observer, Creative Mornings, and on his blog GiveLiveExplore.
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