Mel’s Blog

Lately, the press hasn’t been kind to Stephenie Meyer. Most reviews criticize her writing and ridicule her for making vampire’s sparkle. The franchise of Rpatz and Kristin has not helped [...]

The past month I've been in writing hibernation. It has been awesome. Although, I have had to cancel out of a few friend gatherings and other prior commitments, I knew [...]

A large white envelope appeared on my kitchen table last week. I meant to write about this sooner, but life sometimes makes it hard to return to the land of [...]

I have been sitting on the edge with my feet dangling looking down and wondering if I could make some kind of leap. I have wondered if it is possible, [...]

I have not had a good couple of weeks. I have been seriously considering some major life changes and put the pieces in place to make that happen, but I [...]

I realize that I haven't written since I submitted my application to the VCFA. I gave myself a personal deadline of February 1st, which I met without difficulty. I reviewed [...]

Happy Be-lated New Year. Twenty-four days into the new year and I realized that I totally skipped the whole "let us reflect on 2009 thing." Don't worry, I am not [...]

I was out with a friend the other night and she asked me why I don't have a literary agent yet. I was a little surprised at the questions for [...]

A couple of weeks ago, I printed up all of the pages of the novel that I had written up until that point. I had a couple of reasons for [...]

This is the question that I keep asking myself as I read and watch the various people discuss Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Series this week as New Moon goes Hollywood. Why [...]

On Facebook today, I posted about purchasing two pieces of sheet music and looking forward to playing them. A friend of mine commented that she didn't know that I was [...]

I had the best news last week which got overshadowed by some crazy stupidity at work and I realize that I MUST MUST MUST distance myself from the day to [...]