Rebecca Mascull is a historical novelist, who also writes saga fiction as Mollie Walton and romcoms as Harper Ford. She has worked with a range of publishers, including HarperCollins, Hodder & Stoughton, Headline Books, Bonnier Zaffre and SpellBound Books.

Rebecca has been listed in a variety of awards, such as nominated for the Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book Award, to twice being a finalist in the Romantic Novelists’ Association Saga of the Year Award, as well as being awarded a Develop Your Creative Practice grant by Arts Council England to work on graphic novels and winning the University of Lincoln Students’ Union Awards: Support Service of the Year 2024 as Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund academic writing support.

She has appeared at a range of author events, including the Keynote Speaker at 2025 Writing East Midlands: The Writers’ Conference. She writes short fiction for magazines including My Weekly and the Sunday Express magazine, as well as blog posts for The History Quill, Writers & Artists, The Royal Literary Fund and many other websites.

Rebecca has a Masters in Writing, a PGCE in English, and is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, as well as having decades of experience as an author, teacher and examiner. She lives by the sea in the east of England with her family.

If Rebecca were stranded on a desert island, the first historical novel she’d want to have with her is The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, as its complexity taught her all about audacious storytelling of narratives within narratives, and she’d love to try to figure it out. Secondly, she’d take David Guterson’s Snow Falling on Cedars, due to the sheer beauty of its prose, which she could linger over as the waves crashed on the shore.