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Author · Storyteller
Jasmine Mercer
@jasminemercer
Writer interested in literary fiction, storytelling and all the strange practical decisions involved in turning drafts into books.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Jasmine Mercer writes literary fiction and contemporary. Their interests range from character and story structure to editing, formatting and the practical realities of independent publishing.
The best ideas rarely arrive in their final form.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Jasmine Mercer
On the writing desk
Currently creating
Later first draft
The Quiet Inventory
After her mother dies, a freelance copyeditor in Cheltenham finds a box of unfinished letters, half-kept records and a set of instructions for a house she has never seen. Following the paper trail leads her into the practical, awkward business of sorting a life that was edited to look more settled than it was. As she tries to decide what to keep, what to correct and what to leave alone, the family she thought she knew begins to change shape.
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Draft progress
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