KATY WEITZ, GHOSTWRITER

Katy Weitz is a story-teller of the highest order. Throughout her career, first as a newspaper journalist and later as the founder of a real life story agency, she has been drawn to incredible true stories and has harnessed all her skills to bring these stories to the widest audience possible. It was this drive to help ordinary people tell their extraordinary stories which led her into the role of ghostwriter. To date, she has published thirteen books for some of the world's biggest publishing houses as well as writing a dozen private memoirs. 

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She is a finalist in the world's first English-language ghostwriting awards - the Andy's - in the category of Memoir and Narrative non-fiction. The awards, to be judged in January 2024, celebrates and highlights outstanding nonfiction book collaborations. In September 2015 Katy's book Sins of the Mother won the coveted No. 1 spot in the Sunday Times Bestseller list. Her books have been sold all over the world and translated into French, German, Czech and Indian. Several have been the subjects of TV documentaries and work is currently underway to turn two of her books into films.

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Katy has a proven track record for producing sensitive, insightful and well-crafted memoirs to deadline and is represented by the Andrew Lownie Literacy Agency for her commercial work. Combining empathy and vision, Katy connects deeply with those she works with, and this is demonstrated by her uncanny ability to 'become' them on the page. It is this authenticity which has propelled Katy to the top of her profession.

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Her ghosted books to date include Daddy’s Little Secret by Tina Stevens [Ebury], Mummy is a Killer by Nikkia Roberson [Ebury], Cellar Girl by Josefina Rivera [Ebury],  Little Drifters: Kathleen’s Story by Kathleen O’Shea [HarperCollins], The Devil On The Doorstep by Annabelle Forest [Simon & Schuster], Tressa: The 12-year-old Mum by Tressa Middleton [Blake], Sins of the Mother by Irene Kelly [Macmillan] , Without a Mother's Love by Amanda Wright [Blake], I Own You by Dawn McConnell [Macmillan], Prey: My Fight to Survive the Halifax Grooming Gang by Cassie Pike [John Blake], Nowhere to Hide by Hannah Norman [HarperElement] , The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth [John Blake] andUndercover Copper by Danni Brooke [Macmillan].

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Thanks to her journalistic talents and contacts, Katy works alongside publishers and authors to gain publicity and maximum exposure.