Heather Webb is the USA Today bestselling and award-winning author of seven historical novels. In 2015, Rodin’s Lover was a Goodread’s Top Pick, and in 2018, Last Christmas in Paris won the Women’s Fiction Writers Association STAR Award. Meet Me in Monaco, was selected as a finalist for the 2020 Goldsboro RNA award in the UK, as well as the 2019 Digital Book World’s Fiction prize. To date, Heather’s books have been translated to over a dozen languages. She lives in New England with her family and one feisty rabbit.
Next up?
Heather’s next solo novel, The Next Ship Home, is inspired by true events and reveals the dark secrets of Ellis Island as two unlikely friends challenge a corrupt system, altering their fate and the lives of the immigrants that come after them. It will release in February 2022, from Sourcebooks.
Heather has also joined forces again with her writing partner, Hazel Gaynor, for a third collaboration, Three Words for Goodbye, in which two feuding sisters travel to Europe at their grandmother’s last request, only to be faced with one of the most devastating disasters of the 20th century. Coming July 15, 2021 from HarperCollins.
Other publications:
Heather’s short story “Hour of the Bells” appears in the anthology Fall of Poppies: Stories of Love and the Great War, published by HarperCollins.
She enjoyed co-writing a challenging and collaborative novel set during the French Revolution called Ribbons of Scarlet with five other bestselling authors of historical fiction, published by William Morrow. Her character. Louise Reine Audu, led the first women’s march in history when the women took Versailles and led King Louis XVI and the royal family back to Paris in 1789.
Look for her short essay called “Leveling Up: How to Harness Revision to Make the Good Even Better“ published by Writer’s Digest as part of a collection of craft articles in Author in Progress. The book features various chapters by the wonderful gang at WriterUnboxed.com.
Speaking Engagements:
She has had the privilege to speak and/or teach at writer conferences, schools, universities, museums, retirement communities and book clubs, as well as writing retreats in the U.S. and internationally. For requests, please use the contact form.
Beyond Writing:
Heather is a professional freelance editor and shares advice at one of her favorite places on the internet, award-winning writing site WriterUnboxed.com. When not writing, she feeds her cookbook addiction and looks for excuses to head to the other side of the world.
“Life is a daring adventure or nothing.”–Helen Keller
Representation:
Literary agent Michelle Brower of Aevitas Creative Management.
Professional Writing Groups:
Historical Novel Society, Women’s Fiction Writers Association, and NINC.
