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The Educator Guide for Every Missing Piece is Here!

2020 has been an interesting year to release a new book, that’s for sure. Sometimes it feels a bit like tossing hardcovers into a black hole, but that’s just because we can’t see each other the way we normally would. No conferences, no festivals, no in-person author visits. It’s hard to connect.

Readers are still […]

Every Missing Piece is here!

Book birthdays can be weird, even when you’re not in the middle of the apocalypse. For an author, a book is mentally “done” a long, long time before it hits the shelves. We have to finish our work early so that copy editors can fact check and make sure we didn’t make too many horrendous […]

All About Every Missing Piece!

Pre-order EVERY MISSING PIECE!

Hey everyone! If you’d like to pre-order a signed copy of EVERY MISSING PIECE, please do so through my local independent bookstore, Words. They are the best and have always supported me. I’m happy to work with them again on this new book. Click on the banner to order, and be sure to include […]

Where in the world is Melanie???

As winter turns the corner into spring, I’m well into my Skype visits for the year. Connecting with classrooms is one of my very favorite things, and I’m grateful to everyone who reaches out. You can check out my recently updated Skype map here. Hopefully I can fill in more of these states and countries […]

New Book News!

I’m thrilled to share that my second middle grade novel will be published by Disney Hyperion! UPDATE: The title, now called Every Missing Piece, will publish with Little, Brown Young Readers! The spines may still say Disney, though. Publishing is wild! 🙂

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Thank You!

Thank you to everyone who supported the book drive for my sister’s school. The drive was a resounding success! The kids are now enjoying hundreds of new books, and their library shelves are a little less empty. Publishing has its challenges, but being a part of this community is priceless!

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Feel Good, Give Books!

This has been quite a year. Speaking personally, I can say that 2017 has challenged me in ways I wasn’t sure that I could overcome, and yet I’m here, and this year is almost over! YAY! We did it! *high five*

I’d like to celebrate in my very favorite way: by giving books to kids.

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How to Get the Most out of an Author Visit

It’s back-to-school season, which means both traditional-calendar educators and authors are getting back to work. It’s an exciting but draining time of year. New kids are awesome but exhausting, and educators are trying to get everything in place for a successful school year, including author visits.

Every time I speak with educators at conferences, the […]

When Back-to-School means Middle School

I grew up in the woods. Our house wasn’t isolated in the middle of the Blue Ridge mountains or anything, but it was at the end of a court on a five acre wooded property. I spent my summers in those woods, hunting crawdads and tadpoles and anything else that moved. My sister and I […]