I sent my work off to TLC and awaited a response. Within a few days I had a response from TLC with the name of the person who was to be my mentor.
I read about the writer to be my mentor and after much heartsearching and deliberation I decided to contact TLC about the choice. In my head I’ve got a clear idea of what I want to get out of the mentoring scheme - someone to help develop me as a writer not only in the specific aspects of the novel I’m working on, but wider - lessons that would stay with me for the next book and the next and the next. For this I felt I needed a slightly different mentor to the one TLC had initially suggested.
This afternoon I heard back from TLC and they have suggested a different mentor; Miranda Miller, author of Loving Mephistopheles. I’m delighted to be working with Miranda and I can’t wait to get started.
It’s most likely that the first steps will be to come to an understanding on what the mentoring process is… I know the “standards” in terms of 6 pieces of work submitted over 12 months, totalling no more than 60,000 words, one of the areas I’m interested in is how to ensure the mentoring programme is not just a longitudinal critque scheme. Hopefully the next stage will begin to answer those questions.
