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February 14, 2013
Teenage Awkwardness — An Excerpt
As it’s Valentine’s Day I thought it fitting to share a short excerpt of the awkward friendship/teenage romance of two characters in The Unicorn Girl. It’s a short conversation between Leah and Ian after Leah has a frightful encounter with a malevolent raven the night before. This is over their early morning breakfast:
“There was a raven in your room?” Ian asked stunned.
“Yes. You can’t call that normal.”
“No. I suppose not.” He frowned at his fork. “Gettin’ a bit more dar’n, isn’t it?”
“So, now you believe me?” I said waspishly.
He smiled weakly and looked down at his ham.
“Do you think it was Mora’s?” he asked.
“I think so. I think she’s having it follow me.” And I told him how I suspected the raven had been following me ever since I recovered from the sleeping sickness. He didn’t argue with me.
“So, do you think I’m right?” I pressed.
He didn’t reply immediately. “Yeah. I think the raven’s following you.”
We sat in silence before he suddenly said without looking at me, “You could have come to me, you know.”
“I didn’t want to bother you,” I replied, slightly taken aback, but pleased all the same. “Anyway, the raven flew off … I would have felt … silly …” I was suddenly aware that my cheeks were turning red and, horrified, I quickly looked down, busying myself with buttering a biscuit.
Chapter 27, The Brendor Mountains
Pages 302-303
February 9, 2013
Mally Biddle — For Sale on iBooks, iTunes, Nook, and Diesel
I wanted to give a shout out that my second novel, “The Tale of Mally Biddle” is now up and running on more retailers! You can find the full list by clicking on the link. If you spot the book in any other location, let me know!
Mally Biddle — For Sale on iBooks!
I wanted to give a shout out that my second novel, “The Tale of Mally Biddle” is up for sale on Apple’s ebook bookstore! $5.99, plus you can preview it for free!
February 6, 2013
The New Version of Leah — Framed
I recently had my custom artwork for The Unicorn Girl and The Tale of Mally Biddle framed at a local (athens) shop. As I knew nada about framing, they took charge and did a fabulous job. Here is Leah all dressed up, hanging in my house.
January 19, 2013
Mally Biddle — Now on Smashwords
You can now purchase The Tale of Mally Biddle on Smashwords for $5 in the following formats:
Online Reading (HTML, good for sampling in web browser)
Kindle (.mobi for Kindle devices and Kindle apps)
Epub (Apple iPad/iBooks, Nook, Sony Reader, Kobo, and most e-reading apps including Stanza, Aldiko, Adobe Digital Editions, others)
PDF (good for reading on PC, or for home printing)
RTF (readable on most word processors)
LRF (Use only for older model Sony Readers that don’t support .epub)
Palm Doc (PDB) (for Palm reading devices)
Plain Text (download) (flexible, but lacks much formatting)
Plain Text (view) (viewable as web page)
Coming Soon to these retailers:
Sony
Barnes & Noble
Kobo
Apple
Diesel
Page Foundry
Baker-Taylor’s Blio
Baker-Taylor’s Axis360
Currently available at:
Amazon
Smashwords
Library Direct (via Smashwords)
Book Description:
When Mally Biddle agreed to spy upon the King of Lenzar and his overbearing knights she knew she was heading into danger.
Posing as a servant in Bosc Castle, Mally serves tea and restocks the fires for the most dangerous men in the kingdom. Her goal is to learn the truth of what happened sixteen years ago, when the infant princess met her death … a death that has more questions than answers.
Along her search for the truth, Mally meets the energized Lita Stump, the strict and matriarchal Meriyal Boyd, and the opinionated Archibald Diggleby. Then of course there are the knights: Sir Leon Gibbs who is slicker than a greased hog, Adrian Bayard, hot tempered and violent, and the worst of the lot: Sir Illius Molick, Captain of the Knights. And then there is Maud, a mysterious woman who just might know everything…
January 17, 2013
Mally Biddle Fanart
I love this version of Mally Biddle. The artist (thangada) calls it ‘diamonds’ — a name that fits Mally quite beautifully.
January 15, 2013
An Artist’s Rendition
Rawnak Lerman of France drew this version of Ileana Hunter’s cover of my book The Unicorn Girl. I think it’s beautiful.
December 31, 2012
Sorcery & Cecelia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot by Patricia C. Wrede & Caroline Stevermer
This book began as a simple bout of fun. Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer corresponded to each other through letters for 6 months in what they called ‘the Letter Game.’ Wrede wrote as ‘Cecelia’ and Stevermer created ‘Kate’. They did not discuss plot at any point, but merely let their creativity run amok with lots of old-fashioned British gossip.
Set in England in the year 1817, Sorcery and Cecelia is all about what is proper for young ladies, and the woes of finding a suitable husband, but for the thrill, magic is tossed in. Yes, in this England, magic is real. There is even a College of Wizards, and the wizards themselves stroll about in society like any other well-educated Englishman.
Overall, Sorcery was entertaining. It was light and engaging with quick humor. However, my overall sense after closing the book was lacking. I never cared for the characters, though I admit I liked Cecelia and Kate. The plot was rather limp, but as I learned, the plot was never the point. The evil characters were downright shallow with the go to ‘steal each other’s magic’ plot. And whenever anyone tried to explain a wizard’s magic I was often confused. None of it ever made any sense and I found it very annoying how a person could simply be protected by magic by wearing an enchanted ring or necklace that the evil wizard could just as easily remove and do wrong doing.
It isn’t a bad book, but it isn’t great either.
December 30, 2012
Goodreads Giveaway Complete!
Thank you so much to EVERYONE who entered in this giveaway! I am always amazed at the number of people who put down their 
name, hoping to get a copy of my book in the mailbox. The five lucky individuals have been chosen and I will shortly (probably some time in January/early February) send out the books.
For those who did not ( 
) win, The Tale of Mally Biddle is available on Kindle and Amazon.com.
Happy Reading and Happy New Year!
Melissa
December 29, 2012
Introducing Banjo and Fiddle
I’ve started (yet another — i can’t help myself) blog. This one focuses solely on music that I love. If you’re an indie-folk-pop-rock-oldie individual, think about checking it out. If you’re like me and always on the look-out for new music, then I do hope you find some to add to your collection. And better yet, maybe I’ll find some from you!
