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Writer of novels, history, plays, ghost stories ~ Interviewer & Performer ~ Founder Director Women’s Prizes ~ Trustee British Library Find me at www.katemosse.co.uk Next one/woman theatre show labyrinthlive2025
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Tiny author, giant books … in the rehearsal room for #labyrinthlive2025.com

#Books @katemossewriter.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social Kate Mosse: The Waterstones Interview 2025 is a big year for Kate Mosse. Celebrating the 20th anniversary of her bestselling novel, Labyrinth, www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMMr...

Publication day for the new 20th anniversary edition of Labyrinth with a fab new introduction from Ian Rankin. Available everywhere you might buy, or borrow, books …

If it’s Saturday morning, it must be #SaturdayLive on #bbcradio4 …. Chatting about my new one-woman theatre show to celebrate 20 years of #labyrinth Join us at 9am!

‘Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.’ Lord Acton to Bishop Creighton in 1887 …

View from my desk … a delight to be at the Galle Literature Festival with so many amazing writers including my own dear @gregmosse.bsky.social Now, if only I could shift this terrible cough before I get back on stage …

This was an earlier publication party, but to celebrate today’s UK paperback publication of Warrior Queens and Quiet Revolutionaries (available in all the usual places), here’s a shout out and thank you to my brilliant publisher - and friend of forty years standing - the one-and-only Maria Rejt.

In other news, delighted that a vote in the House of Lords last night backed all of Baroness Kidron’s amendments to protect our robust, fit-for-purpose, copyright laws and creatives’ IP …

Anyone who knows me will know how this - the bread station at our hotel - brings me great joy each morning …

You can take the girl out of England, but all the same … Have Marmite, will travel!

This …

Apparently it is ‘blue Monday’, the most depressing day of the year … I mean, the jokes just write themselves!

Once more with feeling and a dollop of frustration … Taking our work without permission or payment is theft. thttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/14/british-novelists-criticise-government-over-ai-theft#img-1

British novelists criticise government over AI ‘theft’ Richard Osman and Kate Mosse say plan to mine artistic works for data would destroy creative fields @richardosman.bsky.social @katemossewriter.bsky.social #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #BookchatWeekly ⁦‪

Not so much a bluesky as a pink one - dawn in Sussex this morning

So here it is, the paperback edition of Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World. Out in the wild 30 January, but available for pre order now from all the usual places 😉

So, it’s nearly time … odd experience re-reading a novel I wrote twenty years ago, and trying to remember the moments of decision and inspiration. Come along and we can reminisce together …

Sussex looking wonderful - hello 2025