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Katie Fforde, née Catherine Rose Gordon-Cumming (born 27 September 1952), is a British romance novelist. Published since 1995, her romance novels are set in modern-day England.

Catherine Rose Gordon-Cumming Fforde
BornCatherine Rose Gordon-Cumming
(1952-09-27) September 27, 1952 (age 69)
Wimbledon, London, England, UK
Pen nameKatie Fforde
OccupationNovelist
NationalityBritish
Period1995-Present
Genreromance
SpouseDesmond Fforde (1972-Present)
Children3
Relatives
  • Jane Gordon-Cumming (sister)
  • Sir William Gordon-Cumming (grandfather)
Website
www.katiefforde.com

She is founder of the Katie Fforde Bursary for writers who have yet to secure a publishing contract. She was for many years a committee member of the Romantic Novelists' Association and was elected its twenty-fifth chairman (2009–2011) and later its fourth president. In June 2010 she was announced as a patron of the UK's first National Short Story Week.[1] In 2016, she launched the Stroud Contemporary Fiction Writing Competition as part of the first Stroud Book Festival.[2]


Biography


Catherine Rose Gordon-Cumming was born on 27 September 1952 in Wimbledon, London, the daughter of Shirley Barbara Laub and Michael Willoughby Gordon-Cumming. Her grandfather was Sir William Gordon-Cumming. Her sister is fellow writer Jane Gordon-Cumming.

In 1972, she married Desmond Fforde, the nephew of banker John Standish Fforde and cousin of fellow writer Jasper Fforde. She has three children: Guy, Francis and Briony, and did not start writing until after the birth of her third child. She writes under her married name.[3]

Fforde has lived near Stroud, Gloucestershire for over twenty years.

Many of Fforde's own experiences end up in her books. Her novel Going Dutch was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller in June 2007. Fforde takes the research for her books seriously, employing a 'method acting'-style approach to the different professions and backgrounds featured in her novels, using experiences such as being a porter in an auction house, making pottery, refurbishing furniture, examining the processes behind a dating website, and going on a Ray Mears survival course.[4]


Bibliography


Fforde is the author of a number of works.[5]


Novels



Anthologies edited



Forewords



Filmography


Fforde's novels[clarify] have been adapted into a series of German TV films. Unlike the novels, the TV films are shot in the Northeastern United States.


References


  1. Katie Fforde: Patron of National Short Story Week, Nationalshortstoryweek.org.uk, archived from the original on 9 March 2012, retrieved 22 February 2010
  2. Katie Fforde: Contemporary Fiction Writing Competition, stroudfestival.org, retrieved 8 March 2017
  3. Lundy, Darryl (12 June 2011), Catherine Rose Gordon-Cumming, Thepeerage.com[unreliable source]
  4. Isis Publishing, isis-publishing.co.uk, retrieved 8 March 2017
  5. Katie Fforde, Fantasticfiction.co.uk, retrieved 20 January 2010




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