Kate Thompson

Kate Thompson

Book credits:

Brenda Ashford / A Spoonful of Sugar (Hodder & Stoughton 2012)

Brenda Ashford / Untitled Memoir 2 (Hodder & Stoughton 2013)

Mollie Moran / Untitled Domestic Servant Memoir (Penguin 2013)

Areas of specialism: real life stories (particularly nostalgia and misery); female celebrity.  Kate has a wonderful nose for a story, is faultlessly efficient and is a very warm person, making her suitable for sensitive subjects.

Kate Thompson is a journalist with over fifteen years experience working in print media. For the past six years she has worked as a Deputy then Acting Editor of IPC's award winning weekly Pick Me Up magazine, helping to launch it into the market in 2005 with a debut readership of half a million, making it the most successful magazine launch in a decade and helping it to secure the BSME launch of the year in the process. Kate went on to secure IPC's 'true life writer of the year' award the following year in 2006.

Prior to that Kate worked as a commissioning editor for two years at national newspapers the Daily Express and Daily Mail, as well as commissioning and writing for for Bauer's glossy magazine Real and a further two years at That's Life magazine. She started her career at Fleet Street News agency aged 21, covering the Old Bailey and other central criminal courts and writing and selling to the News of the World, the Sun, and all the major national women's magazine titles.

Today Kate is a freelance who writes for Femail, the Express, the Sunday People, Sunday Mirror, Marie Claire, Woman and Home, Take A Break, Love It and Pregnancy and Birth amongst others.