WriteHive Mentorship Program

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Paulette Kennedy

Mentor Expertise: Traditional Publishing
She/Her

Mentor Bio

Paulette Kennedy is the bestselling author of The Witch of Tin Mountain and Parting the Veil, which received the prestigious HNS Review Editor’s Choice Award. She has had a lifelong obsession with the gothic. As a young girl, she spent her summers among the gravestones in her neighborhood cemetery, imagining all sorts of romantic stories for the people buried there. After her mother introduced her to the Brontës as a teenager, her affinity for fog-covered landscapes and haunted heroines only grew, inspiring her to become a writer. Originally from the Missouri Ozarks, she now lives with her family and a menagerie of rescue pets in sunny Southern California, where sometimes, on the very best days, the mountains are wreathed in fog. Her next novel is The Devil and Mrs. Davenport, which releases on March 5th, 2024.

Mentorship Expectations

A willingness to listen to suggestions and apply changes to their work, when necessary, and to collaborate to help make their manuscript the best it can be.

Manuscript Wishlist

  • Gothic fiction
  • Women’s fiction
  • Historical fiction
  • LGBTQ+ fiction
  • Book club fiction
  • Upmarket fiction

Paulette Kennedy

She/Her

Traditional