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Henry Melton

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December 25, 1949

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Henry Melton is often on the road with his wife Mary Ann, a nature photographer and frequently captivated by the places he visits. This has inspired his latest series of novels; Small Towns, Big Ideas. Formerly a programmer specializing in database work and web design, he pioneered Internet use for a Fortune 500 company until the tech bubble collapse. In the early days of home computers, he created one of the earliest commercial word processing programs, and built his own computers back when that meant wiring the chips together by hand to his own schematics.
Henry's short fiction has been published in many magazines and anthologies, most frequently in ANALOG. Catacomb, published in DRAGON magazine, is considered a classic, and by the continu...more

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The Topology of the Project Saga

I had always supposed that when I wrote a series of books, that they would be a series, that is, one book after the other in chronological order. It hasn’t worked out that way for me. In fact, it never has.

My most populated series, Small Towns, Big Ideas, is more a collection than a series. Each book is independent and stand-alone. STBI is more a marketing label than the name of a broader story... read more »

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Books by Henry Melton

Average rating: 3.80 · 56 ratings · 12 reviews · 15 distinct works

	Golden Girl 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Pixie Dust 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Follow That Mouse 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Emperor Dad 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Falling Bakward 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Roswell or Bust 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Extreme Makeover 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2008 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Henry's Stories: Volume 1 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	The Copper Room 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Bearing Northeast 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:

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Henry Melton wrote a new blog post: Ebook Marketplaces from an Indie Publisher’s View Ebook Marketplaces from an Indie Publisher’s View With the DOJ’s efforts to remake the ebook marketplace, I thought it would be a good idea for me to take a good look at the marketplaces I do busin... read more »
Apr 25, 2012 05:33pm · like
Henry Melton gave to: The Nighttime Is the Right Tim by Bill Crider (Goodreads Author) read in November, 2010	My rating:
I've been wishing for all of Bill Crider's works to show up on e-books, so when this short story collection appeared, I had to plop down my $2.99 and download the epub version. It's available from Crossroad Press and you can choose epub/PDF/mobi/kind...more
Nov 21, 2010 03:26pm · see review
Henry Melton said "yes" to attending the event: Book Signing date: December 04, 2010 04:00PM location: The Book Box, 15803 Windermere Dr., Pflugerville, TX, The United States description: I'll be there with all my books and looking forward to meeting everyone.
Nov 18, 2010 04:11pm
Henry Melton added: Time Quadrants by Henry Melton (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
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Henry Melton added: Follow That Mouse by Henry Melton (Goodreads Author) read in August, 2010	My rating:
I wrote the book, of course I love it.
Aug 30, 2010 11:18am · see review
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