Thank you to my Sunday accountability group. Is it a writing accountability group, or is it a weekly therapy group? Ha. Lauren Sprang, Rebecca Jennings, Cecilie Schulze, and Michelle Brasseur, you ladies help keep me sane more than you know.
Justin Cohen … you are my favorite! Thank you to the moon and back for being such a thorough proofreader, generous person, and a kind soul.
Thank you to Maggie Hall for another gorgeous cover, Michelle Raymond for the beautiful interior design, and Stephanie Anderson for the snazzy print design. I’m so lucky to have found you all.
Thank you to Victoria Villarreal for voicing so many of my books now! I love working with you and I hope we have many more collaborations in the future. I told you I would come up with more creepy dudes for you, David Clifford Turner! You’re so talented and I’m grateful we get to work together.
And, finally, thank you to Sam for … everything. You’re the best.
About the Author
Melissa has had a love of stories for as long as she can remember, but only started penning her own during her freshman year of college. She majored in Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology at UC Davis. Yet, while she was neck-deep in organic chemistry and physics, she kept finding herself writing stories in the back of the classroom about fairies and trolls and magic. She finished her degree, but it never captured her heart the way writing did.
Now she owns her own dog walking business (that’s sort of wildlife related, right?) by day … and afternoon and night … and writes whenever she gets a spare moment. The Microsoft Word app is a gift from the gods!
She alternates mostly between fantasy and mystery (often with a paranormal twist). All her books have some element of “other” to them … witches, ghosts, UFOs. There’s no better way to escape the real world than getting lost in a fictional one.
She lives in Northern California with her very patient boyfriend and way too many pets.
You can find out more about her upcoming books and join her newsletter at: https://melissajacksonbooks.com
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