Mary Verney is currently a senior editor in the Children’s Publishing team at Penguin Random House. She works with many authors including Nat Amoore, Adam Cece, Li Chen, Amy Doak, Margot McGovern, Belinda Murrell, Lynette Noni and Stuart Wilson. Her favourite books from childhood are (on this particular day) People Might Hear You by Robin Klein and The Neverending Story by Michael Ende.
Mary is looking for vibrant and exciting stories for young people with great characters and world building. She'd be happy to see junior, middle-grade and YA fiction stories.
She is not looking at picture books, poetry or plays at this time.
Mary Verney - Editor Assessments
Assessment Categories
- Junior fiction
- Middle grade
- YA writing
Last day to book
21 June
Feedback
Mary will be providing verbal feedback with her assessments.
Important
Assessment sessions:
- are only available to conference, bootcamp and Writers at Sea Retreat attendees.
- may be booked before booking for the conference, but you must book for the conference by 15 May, or your session will be cancelled and not refunded.
- have a $25.00 administration charge should you decide to cancel before 15 May.
- are non-refundable if cancelled after 15 May unless we are able to resell the session.
Payment plans
If you want to set up a payment plan, use the code CYA25 at checkout. A 15% non-refundable deposit is required upfront for payment plans, with full payment due before your session.
Please note that payment plans aren’t available for early bird tickets, and each attendee can have one payment plan.