Mel’s Blog
This talk should be really interesting. Oh, if I could just skip my day job to go! 🙂 But, if you don't have a day job, you should totally attend [...]
A few weeks ago, I posted about Ellen Hopkins being uninvited to a book fair in Houston because of the content of her books. In that post I talked about [...]
I'm so excited that I can finally tell you more about the new edition of my favourite book by L.M. Montgomery, Rilla of Ingleside. The image on the right is [...]
A great review about Arthur Slade's new book.a Fair Substitute for Heaven: RIP CHALLENGE: the Dark Deeps by Arthur Slade
I joked on Facebook and Twitter the other day that I was in the middle of two book reviews, Kenneth Oppel’s Half Brother and Suzanne Collins’s Mockingjay, and if I [...]
Feeling a little edgy this evening as I sent out my precious Montgomery paper to the editors who will decide its fate. I've tweaked and twiddled and had others look [...]
When I was a little girl I attended a private Hebrew day school. There were many things about it that were probably really good, but there were a lot of [...]
As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, Laurie Halse Anderson is officiating this write for 15 minutes a day writing course (?) on her blog. I've been pretty good [...]
Laurie Halse Anderson, author of such wonderful YA lit like Speak and Wintergirls, is doing this amazing supportive thing for writers this month. She calls it: Write Fifteen Minutes A [...]
One of the things that I didn't miss in academia was Kate Turabian. I know the lady has been dead a long time, but her work with the Chicago Manual [...]
Fear. Worry. Doubt. Not conducive for creative success. Yet, fodder for creative expression. Joy. Hope. Belief in the possible. Conducive for creative success. Fodder for creative expression. For a second [...]
I’ve been thinking about writing. Well, when am I not thinking about writing? Five days steeped in the work of a woman that I deeply respect and know without a [...]
