Lorraine Mace

Member of:      The Society of Authors

                            Association of Freelance Writers

 

Lorraine Mace is a freelance writer and columnist. She currently lives in France, but has spent most of her adult life as a perennial nomad, flitting with her husband, Derek, between Africa, Mainland Europe and a tiny Mediterranean island.

 

Winner of the Petra Kenney International Poetry Competition (comic verse category) Lorraine's fiction, features and humour  have appeared in magazines in the USA, the UK, France, Australia and the Republic of Ireland, as well as on numerous websites. She has been placed in, and judged, writing competitions.

 

She is the co-author, with Maureen Vincent-Northam, of The ABC Checklist for New Writers (Orana Publishing).

 

Lorraine is the author of three novels for children, one of which reached the final ten in the Cornerstones International Wow Factor Competition and was also listed for the Arts Council sponsored YouWriteOn.com Book of the Year Award.

 

She is currently working on a crime thriller which attained Commended Category in the Yeovil Literary Prize 2007 and was listed in the adult category of the Arts Council sponsored YouWriteOn.com Book of the Year Award.

“New writers will find the advice helpful even before they get to making a submission.”

Writing Magazine

 

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Simon Whaley