Melody’s Blog

Life Is Beautiful

As a novelist for young adults, I spend a lot of time trying to recapture the emotions I had in high school. For me, there wasn’t much joy in being a teen. I wrote poetry...

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Good Enough

Sometimes it feels like my creativity is drying up—or that I never had much creativity to begin with. Where do story ideas come from? Why aren’t I brimming with new ideas? These are the questions...

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Breast Cancer, Vacation, Revision, Oh My!

I recently finished a complete draft of my latest novel, which, for me, is a big deal, especially because I’ve spent the last four years  tangled up in plot revisions, character revisions, setting revisions—you name...

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Putting A Painful Past to Good Use

I write for teens, so it’s important that I stay in touch with my teenage self. Now that my son is a teenager, I catch myself observing him sometimes as though I’m a behavioral scientist....

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