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Author · Storyteller
Nicholas Mercer
@nicholasmercer
Writer of young adult with a particular interest in believable people, strong settings and stories that earn their endings.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Nicholas Mercer writes across young adult and fantasy, with a particular interest in character, atmosphere, revision and the details that turn a manuscript into a finished book.
Writing gets interesting when the obvious choice stops working.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Nicholas Mercer
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Currently creating
Later first draft
The Last Lantern in Hollowmere
When a London schoolgirl inherits a dead aunt’s map to the flooded village of Hollowmere, she finds a place where memories can be stored, traded, and stolen by lantern-light. To keep her brother from being erased from everyone’s mind, she has to learn how the village works before its keepers decide she knows too much. The trouble with secret places is that they always have rules, and most of them are cruel.
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