Meet the WriteMentor team: Florianne Humphrey, Marketing Manager

Meet the WriteMentor team: Florianne Humphrey, Marketing Manager

What’s your role at WriteMentor?

I’ve got a finger in all the marketing pies. Implementing communications strategies, creating social media posts, developing the website, writing blog pieces, establishing new external partnerships…anything and everything that expands WriteMentor and helps us reach and support more writers.

What do you love most about working at WriteMentor?

The WriteMentor team! We’re a small but dedicated group of authors, and our diverse experiences of writing and publishing means we’re so well placed to help other writers and share advice. We’re either going through what you’re going through, or we’ve made it out the other end. Behind-the-scenes, we’re also great pals who support each other through writing highs and lows.

What’s your favourite thing that WriteMentor offers writers?

WOWCON, our annual writing conference. WOWCON showcases the very best of WriteMentor, and is the highlight of our yearly calendar. I love how it brings together our writing community from around the world in an accessible and welcoming environment. It might all happen online, but the atmosphere is electric. Coincidentally – tickets are on sale now!

What are you reading right now?

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. I never thought a book would teach me so much about video games, while being an emotional roller coaster.

What are you writing right now?

A Young Adult book. It’s dark, twisty, and angsty, with a little spice of romance – everything I like reading.

What do you love doing when you’re not writing?

I love travelling and writing about it – particularly if it involves campervans, scuba diving, boats, or mountains. I live on the coast, so I also love walking my Golden Retriever on the beach and swimming in the sea. If I’m not outside, then I’m indulging in my guilty pleasure TV show – Below Deck.

What’s your one piece of writing advice?

Book ideas can be found in the most unexpected places and at surprising moments. Take inspiration from the everyday and mundane as much as the epic and magical. And remember that, in the same way that characters are at the heart of books, people – from family and friends to strangers – and our interactions with them are often the best source of these ideas.

Follow Florianne: @flohumphrey3