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Melissa Bergsma

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in Grand Rapids, The United States

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Poetry, Fiction, Romance

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Melissa resides in a quaint town in southern Michigan with her husband, their two boys, and a spirited Boston terrier. She enjoys exploring many different styles of writing, poetry being where her love for literature began. With her signature passion for rich imagery and unique metaphors, she finds the spark of hope inside even the darkest of corners.

She is currently working on a new endeavor into the fantasy world of LitRPG. The first book of this new series should be releasing near Christmas of 2023.

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Average rating: 4.83 · 23 ratings · 18 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

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Haunted (Blackwood Brothers #1)

by Selena Winters (Goodreads Author)

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Divergence: A Litrpg Apocalypse (Welcome to the Multiverse Book 9)

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First Line of Defence (First Line of Defence #1)

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Melissa Bergsma made a comment on Joanna Kissick’s review of Brave (Wicked Trilogy, #3) " Same!! And there are definitely some things that were eluded to that never had anything come of them... like with Tink! "
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Quotes by Melissa Bergsma (?)

“she does not fear chaos
it’s the wielding of silence
that haunts her”
― Melissa Bergsma, The Cost of Daydreams

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Melissa’s Quotes

“she does not fear chaos
it’s the wielding of silence
that haunts her”
― Melissa Bergsma, The Cost of Daydreams

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“Why only send one? Send them all. Oh! But send only one a day, at the same time every day. Then he’ll be watching his phone like a hawk every night at 10:00 p.m. He’ll be like Pavlov’s dogs, but happier, with both saliva and a boner.”
― Penny Reid, Ten Trends to Seduce Your Bestfriend

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“And you are all my sunrises and sunsets, rain on green leaves, fireworks reflected in a smooth lake, and a wood fire on the coldest winter day. You are sex and sin and a guardian angel. You are every beat of my heart and every moment of peace and every hour of pandemonium. You are the sweetest torture I’ve ever known. And you . . . will never feel one tenth for me what I feel for you. And that, also, is perfect.”
― Penny Reid, Ten Trends to Seduce Your Bestfriend

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“Some girls who excelled at academics all through elementary school will purposefully start doing poorly around the age of twelve—especially with math, science, engineering, and technology since those have traditionally been considered male-dominated subjects—not wanting to be perceived as smart.”
― Penny Reid, Ten Trends to Seduce Your Bestfriend

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“Byron had said teaching was an underpaid and underappreciated profession. He’d said it drained the life out of people. He’d said the system takes advantage of teachers and sets them up to fail, so why would any intelligent, reasonable person with an aptitude for science or mathematics or engineering ever willingly accept a teacher’s salary to do a teacher’s job?”
― Penny Reid, Ten Trends to Seduce Your Bestfriend

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