Novelist, Knitter, Canadian in Wales The Aerialists - Waterstones Welsh Book of the Month The Heart Beats in Secret - USA Today Bestseller Hay Writer@Work 2024
From Ottawa, now in Cardiff
Joined June 2012
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The Honourable Murray Sinclair was a powerful force behind the reconciliation movement.
Our hearts go out to his family, community, and to all those who have considered him a beacon of light over the last 73 years.
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Q: What’s the favourite reaction you’ve had to your book?
A: I was once offered a pair of bloomers at a reading...
New author interview now up on Big Bearded Bookseller
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Katie Munnik retweeted
Signing books @GoldsboroBooks, followed by publication coffee with the lovely @Gabriellamay24. Happy days 😍. #HearHimCalling, a ghost story, is out today!
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Here's a bit of good news I've been looking forward to sharing. I've signed with Evan Brown at Transatlantic Agency. Here's to good things ahead! transatlanticagency.com/2024…
Katie Munnik retweeted
If you’re reading this, you lived through Boris Johnson. You do not have to read so much as a single sentence of his book. You’ve earned that right. Many other works of historical fiction are being published today.
Katie Munnik retweeted
sharing a favourite poem by Jo Clement @_dodo today with much love and appreciation as she will be reading my poem at the Forwards tonight, since. Thank you Jo 🤩! I'll be thinking of you and sending good thoughts.
Here's a bit of good news I've been looking forward to sharing. I've signed with Evan Brown at Transatlantic Agency. Here's to good things ahead! transatlanticagency.com/2024…
I want to say a big thank you to @books2cover for #HistoryWritersDay24 It was so great to be able to take part in such a positive event. It felt like twitter used to feel. Thank you!!
Katie Munnik retweeted
Man sits by me on train.
MAN: Loads of psychopaths around here
ME: Really?
MAN: Loads mate
ME: How'd you know?
MAN: There's signs aren't there?
ME: I guess?
MAN: I love them
(47 minutes of awkward silence.)
Man leaves train, he has a bike. I realise he was saying 'cycle paths'.
Katie Munnik retweeted
Did you know in the 16th and early #17thCentury England had a Fighter's Guild?
Yup!
Just like almost every fantasy novel you ever read.
Well, maybe not exactly like that but... I explain it here:
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#HistoryWritersDay24
Another storytime for #HistoryWritersDay24, this time from #TheHeartBeatsInSecret, my debut & USA Today Bestseller
A braided narrative brings together 1960s Quebec, present-day re-immigration, and - as in this scene- 1941's difficult days.
#historicalfiction @BoroughPress
Katie Munnik retweeted
*EXCLUSIVE COVER REVEAL* #HistoryWritersDay24 My latest book completed, out next summer for the 80th anniversary. The best draft I have written since I started as a published historian/ author IMHO. @TheRestHistory @LittleBrownUK @WeHaveWaysPod
Katie Munnik retweeted
Happy #HistoryWritersDay24 everyone. 😊
My debut novel is set during the Ugandan Asian expulsion and my new novel coming out next year is set during the Blitz against the backdrop of Indian Independence.
Storytime for #HistoryWritersDay24
Let's head to London, 1896 and Laura is at the balloon factory, trying to keep a level head...
#TheAerialists @BoroughPress
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Katie Munnik retweeted
Stories behind the facades from #Warsaw, #Frankfurt, #Vilnius, #Rothenburg ob der Tauber, #Lublin, #Wrocław, #Prague and more ... at 30% off for #HistoryWritersDay24 in UK from @YaleBooks with code HWD24 yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300…
Katie Munnik retweeted
Happy #HistoryWritersDay24! 📚
Many history writers, of fiction and non-fiction, are members of the #HWA, the Historical Writers' Association.
HWA members have had at least 200 books published this year.
Find out more about the HWA at historicalwriters.org/ Maybe join us!
