Heather
Historical Fiction Novelist
USA Today Bestselling Author
Travels from: Mansfield Center, CT

“Author Webb grabs hold of the reader and does not let go. Told in intimate first-person chapters from both Ava’s and Frank’s viewpoints, their many spats, breakups, and reunions feel honest yet not overdone… Altogether, a rousing and well-done, probably mostly true, romantic novel.” — Historical Novels Review

Heather Webb is the USA Today bestselling and award-winning author of eight 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.

Heather’s novel, Strangers in the Night, is a novel of the tumultuous and tragic love story of Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner, (March 2023) by HarperCollins. Her novel Queens of London (2024), is about an all-female gang in 1925 London, led by the notorious Diamond Annie and the Forty Elephants. Heather has also joined forces again with her beloved writing partner, Hazel Gaynor, for a fourth collaboration at William Morrow entitled Christmas with the Queen (Fall 2024). Her newest novel is The Hope Keeper (May 2026).

Heather lives in New England with her family, a mischievous kitten, and one feisty rabbit.

Heather's Featured Titles

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The Writer’s Life

  • The Writer’s Journey: Lamentations, Inspirations, and Living the Dream
  • The Heart of a Writer: Why we must write
  • Mom, Manager, Rock Star: The life of a master juggler and finding meaning in it all
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Writer’s Life Workshop-Style Sessions

  • Writing Desire: Sex and the Historical Female
  • The Art of Pacing: How to keep a reader on the edge of their seat
  • You Had Me at Hello: Writing Effective and Gripping Openings
  • Level Up: An Editor’s Guide to Revising
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Historical Topics

  • History is Always Relevant: Writing Historical Fiction for a Modern Audience
  • Illuminating a Feminist Past: untold stories of women in history who paved the way for women today
  • The life of the Female Artist in Belle Epoque era Paris
  • Old Hollywood and the A-List: Studio culture of the 1940s and 50s, Bad Behavior, and the Spotlight
  • Immigration (through Ellis Island), Progress, and Turn-of-the-Century New York City
  • Gangland, the Forty Elephants, and Policewomen: the first female inspectors at Scotland Yard and the all-female crime syndicate in the UK
  • Love, Journalism, and the Great War: From the Front to the home fires in London, a look at book related topics
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Heather’s News & Events

Reading Guides For Book Clubs

Heather’s Posts on WriterUnboxed.com

Honors, Awards & Recognition

USA Today Bestseller
Goodread’s Top Pick
Women’s Fiction Writers Association STAR Award Winner
2020 Goldsboro RNA Award Finalist
2019 Digital Book World’s Fiction Prize

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