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Favorite Books from my Youth
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,...
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melindabrasher
Jan 14, 20211 min read
"To My Students"--my poem in Short Circuit
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...
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melindabrasher
Dec 27, 20201 min read
1000 Books you Might Have Read
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...
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melindabrasher
Sep 25, 20201 min read
Favorites from my Childhood: Historical Fiction
I love historical fiction, and to me it shares a lot of similarities to fantasy and science fiction in that the characters inhabit a...
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melindabrasher
Sep 22, 20201 min read
Favorites from my Childhood: Fantasy and Science Fiction
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...
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melindabrasher
Aug 31, 20201 min read
Fantasy inspiration from planet Earth
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...
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melindabrasher
Aug 25, 20201 min read
The Importance of Correct Punctuation--August 2020
As a writer, I guess I'm more of a language nerd than some, and I love these sorts of things:
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melindabrasher
Aug 17, 20201 min read
Frostblood, by Elly Blake
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....
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melindabrasher
Jul 25, 20201 min read
My Lady Jane, by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows.
I enjoyed this. It's a strange style, with lots of "dear reader"-type sections where the narrators address the reader directly. It quite...
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melindabrasher
Jul 18, 20201 min read
Interesting Fantasy Cover Comparison
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...
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melindabrasher
Jul 3, 20202 min read
Highlights of my 2019 Reading List
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...
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melindabrasher
Jul 1, 20201 min read
"Foreign Bodies" reviewed in Focus Magazine
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,...
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melindabrasher
Jun 24, 20201 min read
My Writing Published in 2019
Here's a roundup of my fiction and non-fiction published last year: "Salvage Operations" in Leading Edge Issue 13 The leader of an...
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melindabrasher
Jun 22, 20201 min read
Opposite of Always by Justin A Reynolds
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...
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melindabrasher
Jun 18, 20201 min read
Hiraeth Publishing and my Short Story
Hiraeth Books is going to publish my short story, "Stashed Away," in their September 2020 sci-fi anthology. The working title is "Martian...
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melindabrasher
Jun 16, 20201 min read
My Haiku to be Published in 50 Haikus
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...
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melindabrasher
Jun 14, 20202 min read
Long May She Reign by Rhiannon Thomas
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...
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melindabrasher
Jun 12, 20201 min read
Welcome
Thanks for visiting my writer's blog. Here you'll find insights into my writing process, announcements of my new stories to be...
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