Tag: Writing Life
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Podcast Feature: Sneak Peek into my Writing Journey
A huge thank you to Stacey Horan for featuring me on her podcast! Check out this episode of Bookshop at the End of the Internet for some inside scoop on my writing journey, being a hybrid author, and what’s next on my bookshelf.
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Swing By the Amelia Island Book Festival!
The Amelia Island Book Festival starts at 10am! Swing by Fernandina Middle School to say hello anytime today until 5pm. Hope to see you soon!
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Amelia Island Book Festival is Tomorrow!
Books are packed and ready to roll!! I’m so excited to be selling and signing books tomorrow alongside David Baldacci, Kate Quinn, Scott Turow and Jeannette Walls as well as dozens of other local authors. Your next favorite book is just waiting to be found at the Amelia Island Book Festival! See you there!! (Saturday,…
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Larger than Life Characters – Literally!
My larger than life characters in Sight Beyond the Sun are now literally larger than life LOL!! I never get tired of staring at my gorgeous cover – thank you Trif Book Design!
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Feed Your Spirit: Beach Time
From an early age, I was part fish. The Little Mermaid was my favorite movie, I swam competitively for eighteen years, and I feel a sense of peace at the ocean. The sand, sun, tide, boardwalk, food – everything about the beach brings me joy, probubly because most of my best childhood memories are at…
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Favorite Side Character in Sight Beyond the Sun
Side characters can sometimes compete for center stage in a book, and as an author, it can be a difficult balancing act to keep the limelight on my hero when I’m secretly falling in love with his brother! This was easily the case with Tironan, my favorite side character in Sight Beyond the Sun. Tironan…
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Sight Beyond… First Impressions
Seeing beyond first impressions is an important theme throughout Sight Beyond the Sun and an especially tricky moral for my main characters to live by. Raveno is working undercover against the tyrannical ruler of his planet (his father) and Kinsley is a double agent, pretending to work for Raveno. Both their hearts are in the…
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Writing Tip: Navigating the Middle Slump
😵💫Problem: I’m halfway through my book, and I’ve run out of steam. Where is this book even going? 🥳Recommendation: The beauty of writing is that unlike other arts, we have a delete button! So give yourself permission to be wrong, and write a future scene you want to happen, a possible ending for your story,…
Author Melody Johnson 