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Publisher's Marketplace Announcement
Editing has started on my upcoming 2016 YA novel, THERE ONCE WERE STARS. To start of this exciting time, here's the announcement that was in Publisher's Marketplace, Summer 2014.
View ArticleDebut Novel - The Descendants and the Missing Guardian - Releasing November 2014
I am getting so excited - I can barely contain it. The Descendants and the Missing Guardian (Book One) is in its second last round of edits. I get it back at the end of September and then complete it's...
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Book Teaser Film Day!
Awesome film day today for the book teaser "The Descendants and the Missing Guardian"!! Thanks to Jared Robinson of Nebulus Entertainment & my awesome volunteers: Jovi, Jacob & Taylor!!
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Writer's Retreat 2014
I'm off to the Sask Writers Guild retreat! 3.5 hrs to Muenster :)
View ArticleAvenue Vignettes Book Review: The Descendants & the Missing Guardian
"The books a child is read when they are young as they ones that stay with them always. I do believe this. Melanie McFarlane’s book The Descendants and the Missing Guardian is one of those books." -...
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Book Review: The Descendants & the Missing Guardian
"Each page keeps you turning to the next and the next until you reach the conclusion and can only wait in anticipation to learn what’s next in the upcoming sequel." -- Lisa Goudy, The Times Herald"All...
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Camp out with a Good Book!
Look where I've been invited as an author! I'll be sharing my children's chapter book "How to Catch an Erdgeist." If you're a Lindale parent find me on the 25th
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Always keep learning...
Getting ready to finish up my Creative Writing certificate through University of Calgary.My course list for the Summer/Fall 2015.Also slipped in some of my English Prose texts through Athabasca...
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Editing begins!!
Round one of edits begins, along with some YA study time. THERE ONCE WERE STARS is really happening next year!!
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Festival of Words 2015
I volunteered at this year's Festival of Words in Moose Jaw, SK. What a wonderful weekend it was. I met a number of amazing authors and bought WAY too many books (come on - is that even such a thing)....
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Publisher's Weekly Spring 2016 Listings!
Check out, THERE ONCE WERE STARS, listed in Publisher's Weekly with other amazing authors!
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If you build it, Kinsella will come ...
The local bookstore, Post Horizon Booksellers, hosted a book signing with W.P. Kinsella himself. I was able to find a number of gems hidden within the bookshelves and also picked up Kinsella's newest...
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Moose Jaw Writes
My greatest joy is connecting with other authors and readers. When the Moose Jaw Public Library agreed to host a local writer event with me, I was ecstatic!!
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My first personal essay makes it to print!
It was a kismet meeting today, when I ran into Ted Dyck, editor at TRANSITION. He had extra copies of the Winter 2015 edition, fresh off the presses, featuring my first traditionally published piece, a...
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Cover Reveal: There Once Were Stars
Today Month9Books and I are revealing the cover and first chapter of my debut YA novel THERE ONCE WERE STARS, which releases April 26, 2016! Check out the gorgeous cover and enter to be one of the...
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School Library Journal review of There Once Were Stars!!
Read all the June 2016 reviews, here.
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