Books

Having lived and worked in East Anglia all her life, Kate is living proof that life exists out on the far side of the slush pile.

Since beginning her professional writing career in 1994 Kate, has had novels bought and published by Headline, Virgin, Chimera, and Harper Collins, with titles selling widely in the UK, Australia and New Zealand and in translation in Germany, Greece, Russia, Estonia, Bulgaria and Norway not to mention selling a string of articles and short stories, working with the BBC lecturing at the UEA and teaching for various Adult Education organisations.

Since her second book 'Just Desserts' made the Times Best Seller list in Jan 1999, Kate has put in regular chart appearances as Sue Welfare and as Gemma Fox.

Stage/TV


Kate's sitcom was one of nine winning entries performed at the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, in 1999 as part of Channel 4's annual sit com festival. She is currently working with a production company on a TV adaptation of her first novel, A Few Little Lies

Kate has run various workshops including 'Making Trax', an initiative with a local theatre and sound technician aimed at teaching radio drama skills to school children and interested groups.

In April 2005 Sue was appointed BBC Radio's first ever Story Laureate for the BBC Radio Norfolk project 'This Norfolk Life' and has gone on to work with them on numerous projects including Making History and more recently creating and writing Little Bexham, a 16 episode soap opera for regional radio.

Awards

Her novel Cinderella Moment was short listed for the Melissa Nathan Comedy Romance Award in 2007.