Melinda Brasher

Here are some of the books I remember liking most from my high school years. You'll notice a high proportion of fantasy, science fiction,...

Here's a poem of mine, published in Short Circuit Magazine. It's an ode to my past ESL and GED students: https://short-edition.com/en/st...

This is an interesting list of the 1000 books with the most reviews on Goodreads. It's a mix of classics and popular literature, with...

I love historical fiction, and to me it shares a lot of similarities to fantasy and science fiction in that the characters inhabit a...

I was thinking back on some of my favorite fantasy and science fiction novels of my childhood. I haven't re-read these lately (except...

This isn't a fantasy novel. It's non-fiction. But some of the facts are so bizarre and fantastical that I drew inspiration from it. The...

As a writer, I guess I'm more of a language nerd than some, and I love these sorts of things:

I read part of this as an e-book and listened to the rest as an audiobook, and I thought the reader, Jennifer English, was really good....

I enjoyed this. It's a strange style, with lots of "dear reader"-type sections where the narrators address the reader directly. It quite...

I've read both of these books recently, but only after finishing the second did I realize how similar their covers are. And...the plots...

Here are the best books I read in 2019, based purely on my enjoyment 1) The Other Side of Lost, by Jessi Kirby, a YA novel about a girl...

Here's a quick review of my sci-fi story, "Foreign Bodies," published in Deep Magic. The article is by Karen Burnham in Locus Magazine,...

Here's a roundup of my fiction and non-fiction published last year: "Salvage Operations" in Leading Edge Issue 13 The leader of an...

This is a book I found on a "Best of 2019 YA Literature" list.  I really enjoyed it. It has a sort of Groundhog Day premise, with our...

Hiraeth Books is going to publish my short story, "Stashed Away," in their September 2020 sci-fi anthology. The working title is "Martian...

I'm happy to say that my poem will appear in issue #16 of 50 Haikus. There's nothing fantasy in those three little lines, but as I...

Long May She Reign by Rhiannon Thomas is one of the few books I've ever found of this rare and wonderful genre that I don't even have a...

Thanks for visiting my writer's blog. Here you'll find insights into my writing process, announcements of my new stories to be...