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Melanie J. McDonald

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Melanie McDonald was awarded a 2008 Hawthornden Fellowship for Eromenos.

She has an MFA from the University of Arkansas. Her short stories have appeared in New York Stories, Fugue, Indigenous Fiction, and online. An Arkansas native whose Campbell ancestors were Highland Scots, she now lives in Virginia with her husband, Kevin McDonald, the author of Above the Clouds: Managing Risk in the World of Cloud Computing.


Average rating: 3.94 · 50 ratings · 35 reviews · 1 distinct work
Eromenos
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions
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"Honored & delighted that Eromenos has been selected as a finalist for the Foreword Reviews 2011 Book the the Year Awards, Literary Fiction categor...more "
Melanie McDonald said "yes" to attending the event: A Non-Fiction Adventure
date: March 22, 2012 12:00AM
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Taking the lead from the awesome creators of the "Fill in the Gaps: 100 Project" (http://fillinthegaps100.blogspot.com/) and "The Classics Club" (http://jillianreadsbooks2.wordpress.c...), I have decided to create a similar challenge focusing on non-fiction books.

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-choose 50+ non-fiction books; the number is up to you. Choose 50, 75, 100, 200. It's entirely your choice
-Books must be non-fict...more

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Melanie McDonald said "yes" to attending the event: Spring into Horror Read-a-Thon
date: April 23, 2012 12:00AM
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It's coming...to shake up your peaceful spring. The Spring into Horror Read-a-Thon, 4/23 at 12am CST to 4/29 at 11:59pm CST (adjust times accordingly). Don't let the word 'horror' scare you away from this read-a-thon. You do have to read at least one scary book during the duration of the read-a-thon. That book can be horror, paranormal, thriller, mystery, etc. Then, read whatever you want. More horror/scary stuff or just your regular reading repertoire. As always, this is a week long rea...more

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" Oh my god, I couldn't put it down. It was awesome and I wanna read it again, I was in tears at the end. "
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" I have an Antinous fetish(yes, I shamelessly admit it), so when this came out, I knew I had to read it. So, I finally did. In this nicely written little novel, the author has the tragic poster boy of Antiquity finding a bit of space and hastily wr... "
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Melanie McDonald Honored & delighted that Eromenos has been selected as a finalist for the Foreword Reviews 2011 Book the the Year Awards, Literary Fiction category!
http://www.bookoftheyearawards.com/fi...
Cheers,
Melanie


Melanie McDonald Hi All,

Just want to say thank you to everyone who signed up for the book giveaway for Eromenos--I was thrilled by the response, with 1,019 people signing up--and also, congratulations to the 10 winners selected by Goodreads: Terri Deno, Marion Hardy, Taylor Ward, Heywot Tadesse, Tara Bouch, Chandra Isenberg, Joanne Wong, Kenneth Prochazka, Shanan Bouchard, and Emily Wagner. (I put your signed books into the mail today, so you should receive them soon!)
Thanks also to everyone who's put it on their to-read and other lists--very much appreciated!

Cheers,
Melanie

Melanie McDonald, EROMENOS


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