Kate Thompson – Ghostwriter

I am an award-winning Author, Ghostwriter and Journalist who has spent the past two decades in the UK mass market and book publishing industry.For six years, I worked as Deputy then Acting Editor of IPC’s weekly Pick Me Up magazine, helping to launch it into the market in 2005 with a debut readership of half a million. It was the most successful magazine launch in a decade and secured the BSME launch of the year in the process. I was named as IPC’s ‘True Life Writer of the Year’ the following year.I also have five years’ experience working on national newspapers the Daily Express and Daily Mail. I started my career at Fleet Street News Agency aged 21, covering the Old Bailey and other central criminal courts, and writing and selling to the News of the World, the Sun, and all the major national woman’s magazine titles.Over the past six years, I have concentrated on publishing, writing nine fiction and non-fiction titles. My debut novel, Secrets of the Singer Girls, was bought by Pan Macmillan after a seven-way auction. Senior commissioning editor Caroline Hogg bought UK and Commonwealth rights and described the book as a “truly gripping read”, saying: “Kate Thompson has drawn fantastic characters that go through all the extreme ups and downs of life on the home front: women experiencing their first taste of independence through work, impulsive love affairs blossoming, but also the heartbreak of bombings, deprivation and the spectre of loss at every turn."Secrets of the Singer Girls became a Sunday Times bestseller when it launched in 2015, with first week sales of over 10,000.My fourth title for Pan Macmillan, The Allotment Girls, will be published in the spring of 2018.I am currently working on a non-fiction book uncovering the lives of extraordinary women of wartime East End, whose stories have remained hidden from history.My agent Diane Banks of Diane Banks Literary Associates says: ' Kate has a wonderful nose for a story, is faultlessly efficient and is a very warm person, making her suitable for sensitive subjects.'