Author Archives: melissastacythoughtcandy

Because I am writing a YA (Young Adult) novel that takes place in the ocean, with merpeople and magic, my wonderful Reading Angel and YA Book Goddess April has been on the lookout for undersea fiction for me. She shared a … Continue reading →

It’s kind of impossible to grow up in America and not know anything about King Arthur. The romantic tales of this king, his knights of the round table, his queen, and his adviser, Merlin, are woven into our pop-culture psyches, … Continue reading →

Anthony Doerr is this amazingly nice guy who won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction this week.                 That photograph is from his author webpage. He lives in Boise, Idaho, and he’ll be attending the … Continue reading →

Last Sunday, April 5, was Easter Sunday, and my husband and I spent the evening with his daughter Missy’s family. Missy lives with her husband and their three children in a really cute house near Bayfield, about 30 minutes away, and her husband’s … Continue reading →

Some really amazing things have happened to me in the past two weeks. Amazing writer things.                 On March 16, I finished revising my “Round Two beta draft” of Mark of the Pterren, and … Continue reading →

Thanks to my favorite book-clubbing partner (who is also my alpha-reader for All The Writing, great and small), I finally read The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern, the powerhouse novel that took bookstores and readers by storm in 2011.       … Continue reading →

Years ago, when I was in college, a fellow biology student told me it was impossible to read in a dream. This student was emphatic that reading is a conscious activity, and cannot take place in the unconscious mind. As soon as I heard this, I … Continue reading →

The much-hyped and much-discussed movie Fifty Shades of Grey came out last Friday. Yeah. In case anyone hasn’t heard of the social media phenomenon that took Twitter by storm. As well as Twitter’s slower, but more popular pal, Facebook. I’m so … Continue reading →

I have an important confession to make. For years, I’ve had a favorite commercial. It was the Dairy Queen “Baby Bjorn” commercial, in which a father takes a hard kick to the stones and a headbutt because he won’t share his cheesecake blizzard with … Continue reading →

A few weeks ago, I had a discussion with my local authors group, Writers and Scribblers, about writing goals. I had come across this great article titled 20 Ways to Become a More Productive Writer by Nina Amir, so I … Continue reading →