{"id":517644,"date":"2022-07-12T15:56:01","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T14:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/?page_id=517644"},"modified":"2026-04-08T16:20:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:20:45","slug":"helen-francis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/creative-writing-courses\/novel-writing-mentors\/helen-francis\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen Francis: Writing Mentor"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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<\/i>New & experienced writers<\/div>
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Your writing mentor, Helen Francis<\/h1> <\/div>\r\n
Specialises in: Contemporary, literary, crime\/thriller\/action, women\u2019s fiction, comic\/satire, historical fiction, short stories\/novellas and some non-fiction (including memoirs, autobiographies and subject-led non-fiction).<\/div>
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About Helen<\/h2>

Helen Francis has worked in publishing for twenty years. She was a fiction editor at Faber and Faber for eight years, where she was also in charge of the audio book list; she was a fiction editor at Head of Zeus for two. She also ran the classics list at Vintage, Penguin Random House, and was a freelance commissioning editor for Arcadia Books.<\/p>\n

She has worked at literary agencies Abner Stein and MMB Creative, and has also worked as an international book scout advising foreign publishers on which English-language books they should translate and publish in their own territories; this was based in both Barcelona and the UK.<\/p>\n

She has taught creative writing and editing to undergraduates at Bath Spa University, and currently combines her role as a tutor with freelance editing and author mentoring.<\/p>\n

Authors she\u2019s edited and published include Victor Lodato, Joe Thomas, Sophie Hardach, Helen FitzGerald and Michelle Paver.<\/p>\n<\/div> <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n\r\n