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Katherine Clements is the author of three historical novels: The Crimson Ribbon, published in 2014, The Silvered Heart in 2015, and The Coffin Path which became an Amazon bestseller and was nominated for the HWA Gold Crown Award and The Guardian's Not the Booker Prize in 2018. She is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow, having held fellowships at both Sheffield and Manchester Universities, and a Fulbright Scholar. She is currently completing her forth novel which was birthed during a Fulbright funded year living in New Orleans. Katherine was editor of Historia, the online magazine of the Historical Writers' Association and, for three years was commissioning editor at the Royal Literary Fund magazine Collected where she worked with many prize-winning and bestselling writers. She is based in West Yorkshire where she runs her own business as a writing coach and mentor. She's a qualified coach, has led workshops for hundreds of writers, both in person and online, and was lead tutor at the Historical Novel Society Academy where she designed and lead the first online historical fiction masterclass programme. She recently launched The Inkwell, a newsletter and growing community for writers on Substack.