Deputy Books Editor · The Bookseller
Katie Fraser
"Good books aren't lowbrow or highbrow. They're whatever people want to read."
Katie Fraser is a journalist and Deputy Books Editor at The Bookseller. She has interviewed actors and writers including Brandon Sanderson, Sarah J Maas, Rebecca Kuang, Joe Abercrombie and Alan Moore.
She has hosted panels at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, YALC and The Bookseller's Marketing & Publicity Conference, and hosted the launch event for Jay Kristoff's Empire of the Damnedat Conway Hall, London. She chaired an event for the British Library's 'Fantasy: Realms of Imagination' exhibition, has chaired the Pageturner Book of the Year at the British Book Awards twice, chaired the YA Book Prize, and is currently chair of the New Adult Book Prize in association with Cheltenham Literature Festival. Katie is a graduate of Durham University and completed her MA at King's College London. She lives in London.
As interviewed by Katie
In Conversation
Video interviews and panel discussions
Events
London Book Fair with English PEN
Olympia London·March 2026
Hay Festival — in conversation with Saara El-Arifi and Natasha Bardon
Hay-on-Wye·2026
Katie has been quoted in
Selected Work
Get in Touch
Available for freelance features, comment pieces, author interviews, event chairing and panel moderation.
Specialisms: genre fiction, romantasy, SFF, romance and the publishing industry.
Freelance writing & speaking enquiries
katiefraser37@yahoo.comThe Bookseller queries
katie.fraser@thebookseller.com