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Melissa Slager

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An award-winning journalist, I now turn my love of research and writing to works of fiction. My debut work, Contests of Strength, is a historical novel about the PNW tsunami of 1700, set in traditional Makah lands. linktr.ee/writerslager ...more

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Local Authors I've Read

Last updated: August 14, 2026

We know Buy Local. How about Read Local? I'm a locavore. Early on in Book Club, it was almost certain that, when my turn came around, it'd be a local author or a local setting. (My own writing is unsurprisingly in the same direction: PNW coast, pseudo-Mariners baseball, native PNW slugs, local history volumes.)

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Contests of Strength

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The Dilemmas of a Dead Man's Daughter (Revenant, #2)

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