Twitter: @FinlaysonPalmer
Agent: Laura West
Published books: REVISING BEFORE SUBMISSION
Genre: MG and Chapter Books
Bio: I’ve been writing for donkey’s years, with my first item published on CeeFax at the age of 8. Over the years I’ve had poems, flash fiction and short stories published in a variety of magazines, anthologies and online. I mainly write MG Fantasy, but have written YA contemporary, upper MG thriller, and comedy. I am agented by Laura West of the David Higham agency and have a lot of experience editing and mentoring via Wonder Writers. I also had the best part of a year mentoring from Tamsyn Murray. I’m a member of SCBWI and belong to numerous writing groups as I love the company and support network offered by other writers. I’m open to most ideas in a manuscript, though I have a particular fondness for Fantasy, Humour, Horror and Thriller.
Experience: Agented author, I belong to a local SCBWI crit group, one part of Wonder Writers and have been mentored by Tamsyn Murray.
Mentoring style: Regular feedback (to be determined with the author) but can be up to 3-5k per week or fortnightly/monthly. If the mentee would like weekly pep talks and emails of encouragement, I’ll be there to cheer them on 
Mentee style: I would like to work with a mentee who is happy to receive feedback and writing MG or chapter books in most genres, though I’m more experienced with Fantasy, Humour and Thrillers.
What kind of novel would you like to work on? I would really love to see some chapter books or Middle Grade in all sorts of genres, but especially Humour, Fantasy or Thriller. If there’s any that could be compared with any of my favourite books listed below, that’s a bonus! But not essential, I’m open to most ideas
Favourite novels: This is a very shortened list of what I’d like to put, it’s so hard to choose just a few… The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend, Ophelia and he Marvellous Boy by Karen Foxlee, Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, Coraline by Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book also by Neil Gaiman, Skullduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy, any Louise Rennison books, especially the Georgia Nicholson series starting with Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging, Noah Can’t Even by Simon James Green, The Worst Witch series by Jill Murphy.
Mentoring package offered: Full manuscript and redrafts until submission ready (or any of the other packages if that’s what’s preferred.)
Read more about Emma and what she’s looking for here.
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