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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: 3.81 · 69 ratings · 41 reviews · 1 distinct work · Similar authors
Eromenos
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions

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Melanie McDonald said "maybe" to attending Season of the Witch
date: October 01, 2012 12:01AM
location: Castle Macabre blog, The United States
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My first annual month long October event, Season of the Witch! I hope you will join me for some scary fun this Halloween season.

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Of course, we all know that the focus of Castle Macabre is always the scary (and the speculative), but in October, I'm hoping to have some scary almost every day. For instance, during Banned Books Week, I will be reading and reviewing American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis. I'm also seeking guest posts from authors and bloggers alike....more

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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 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.

Here are the guidelines:
-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

Melanie said: Very cool - thanks, Michelle!
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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... " Read more of this review »
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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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