Broadcaster Mossman's debut goes to Nine Eight Books

Nine Eight Books has snapped up the debut book from writer and broadcaster Kate Mossman.

Peter Selby, publishing director, acquired world rights from Charlie Viney at The Viney Agency. The currently untitled debut will publish in hardback, audio and e-book in 2024. 

Mossman wrote and presented the 2015 and 2016 BBC 4 documentaries "When Pop Ruled My Life" and "Girl In a Band" and her 2016 series "Don’t You Forget About Me: The Women Who Wrote Rock" was broadcast on BBC Radio 4. 

Currently a senior writer at the New Statesman on some of the biggest names in rock and pop, Mossman started her career at the Word magazine as reviews editor working alongside Mark Ellen and David Hepworth. 

Selby said: “Kate is, very simply, one of this country’s greatest writers on music and the arts. With her observational profiles for the New Stateman, she is operating at such a high creative level it often looks like a magic trick–the results are astonishing, and you’re often left in awe at how she does it. I’ve been a huge admirer of her writing since she first took the Word magazine by storm in 2008, so to welcome her to the Nine Eight family is an absolute honour.”

Mossman added: “I can’t imagine being in better hands for my first book than with Nine Eight. Pete has a crackling enthusiasm for music, and all the ways in which music can be written about. I know that it will be a creative experience from start to finish: what better way than to be working with someone who lives and breathes this stuff, and sitting amid so many good names.”