Heather Webb is the USA Today and international bestselling author of eleven historical novels, including her upcoming The Hope Keeper and her other recently published Queens of London, The Next Ship Home, and Christmas with the Queen. 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. Three Words for Goodbye was a Prima Magazine’s 2022 Book of the Year. To date, Heather’s books have been translated to twenty languages. She lives in New England with her family and two mischievous cats.
Next up?
Heather’s new solo release is coming May 19, 2026 from Sourcebooks. The Hope Keeper is a novel of the curse of the Hope Diamond, the last woman who owned it, and the beginnings of women working at the Smithsonian where the diamond now resides. She has also joined forces again with her beloved writing partner, Hazel Gaynor, for a fifth collaboration at William Morrow, coming in October 2027.
Speaking Engagements:
Heather 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 speaking requests, please contact her speaker’s bureau representation at Author Unbound HERE, or contact Heather HERE.
Heather presenting at RWA.
Beyond Writing:
Heather is teacher of twenty-five years from high school to the graduate level in a MFA program, a professional freelance editor of fifteen years, and a writing coach at TheNovelry.com. She also shares craft and publishing 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 Trellis Literary Management.
Professional Writing Groups:
Historical Novel Society, Women’s Fiction Writers Association, and NINC.
Heather with co-author Hazel Gaynor at the Historical Novel Society Conference.