Melissa Mead has one novel out (Between Worlds, from Dragon Tooth Fantasy e-Books), and 2 or 3 other major projects in the works.
Between Worlds
I also have a Web page now, courtesy of my writing group, Carpe Libris:
Missy's Page
Now featuring "The Dragon Is In."
| It’s after midnight, and I’m not very coherent, but MAN that was fun! Mike, my dad and I just got back from Camelot at Proctors. Awesome production. I’m still partial to Richard Harris as Arthur-this actor didn’t have the right innocence and vulnerability. He had enthusiasm and energy, though.
Guinevere was more worldly than I’m used to-but what a magnificent voice that woman had! Speaking of magnificent voices, Lancelot was the actor who played Rochester in Jayne Eyre. Those 2 could’ve just sung duets all night and I would’ve enjoyed it. Merlin looked like a sort of Rastafarian Druid-and the look worked. The Nimue scene was enchanting. At least 3 musical numbers got cut, and the finale got shortened, which de-fanged Mordred a bit and robbed the ending of much of its power. I’m baffled about that. (OTOH, they also cut the line about “Never be too disturbed when a woman is thinking. They don’t do it very often.” Hooray!) I cried at the end despite the cuts. It was fun. |
| Aw, thanks! I was actually looking to see where it was on sales, but then I saw that and thought "Since I know it's way down the list now, I think I'll stop looking and just enjoy this." ;)
I wonder if they like demons... ;> |
| Hey, congrats on the Between Worlds Ranking. You are an inspiration!
Clyde. |
| Thanks! It's not even definite I'll have it yet, let alone when, but if it must be done I'd rather get it over with. |
| Whoops, yes, I meant 2007. Last year I got so used to thinking of World Fantasy in Saratoga Springs as "next year" that I guess I never quite got out of the habit.
I know what you mean -- I'm planning to be there, but sometimes you wonder what good or bad things may impact your plans.... In any case, I hope the surgery goes as smoothly as possible! |
| Thanks! |
| Congrats on the sale to Grendelsong!
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| Thanks, everybody!
You did mean 2007, I assume, Amy? I hope so-it would be great to meet in person! I'm really looking forward to WFC. I have my membership and reservations taken care of, but I just found out I may need surgery. I hope that won't mess it up. I should be recovered long before then, but it will probably use up most of my sick/vacation time. And I had to use a day today for snow...oh well! David: That's what snow days are for! ;) I figure it'll be around 80,000 when it's done. |
| Heya - just saying hi!
>.> Just 70,000 words? ('ﾟДﾟ) >.> ^.^ |
| Good going there... |
| Onya, Melissa. Way to go on the Grendalsong sale.
Whoot! Clyde. |
| Woohoo, Melissa, on the sale to Grendelsong!
I'm hoping to meet you in person at World Fantasy 2008 in Saratoga Springs! I'm so looking forward to getting back to the area for the first time since we moved to TX at the end of 2003. (Funniest thing happened where I work, in an academic library in Houston -- one of the students I was helping at the Ref Desk had taken a few library science classes at SUNY Albany -- at the same time I was there!) |
| At last, I'm getting writing stuff done! I haven't felt so hot this week, but now I've written and subbed a Drabble, subbed 2 full-length stories, posted another to the Baen's Universe slush, and started some improvements on the novel.
It's good to feel like a writer again. ;) |
| "The Demonspawn Chronicles" have reached 70,000 words, and Gehenna has frozen over.
By golly, it's starting to look like a book! |
| I’ve just posted “The Other Side of the Fence” in the Baen’s Universe slush. Comments would be most welcome. |
| I think the naming problem is working out, although the POV issues are still messy.
67,500 words. This may become a book yet! |
| This is a challenge. I gave two characters the same name, on purpose. I figured it would work because they never meet-but now they ARE appearing in alternating scenes. |
| He has been desperate enough to eat cooked meat, and even eggs. |
| Unless he were desperate.
Raw beef then with a little wasabi and soy sauce. |
| Except that he wouldn't roast it. |
| Nah, you're not evil.
I bet Malak wouldn't mind sittin' down for some spit-roasted Texan beef before you 86 him, though:) |
| I'm just naturally evil. Muahaha... ;>
I'm so mean to the poor guy... |
| LOL! |
| Nah, just demonic. ;> |
| It's Elven for "you're wicked;)"
:) |
| ? |
| Arianai! |
| My co-worker's exasperated with me. I told her Malak is "not surrently among the living." Which is true...;> |
| Er, um, well... |
| ...and you musn't kill Malak:) |
| I love this-my world is spawning its own mythology. And the myth is enriching the plot-this just might be a book yet! |
| "And a co-worker has told me that if I kill off Malak, she’ll be upset. ;>"
I, er, um. kinda sorta... |
| I think the rest is fun and funny. Now, I just have to finish up the last two chapters before the end of the month. If I don't pay attention another year will whiz by.
Why's your co-worker going to be upset? |
| My co-worker's going to be upset. Sort of. ;> |
| And are the rest fun? ;) Then you've got it made! |
| I agree. Parts of my story are...:) |
| Well, as long as it's comprehensible... |
| Crazy is good. |
| Thanks! I haven't wanted to go dumping it on anyone, but feedback is always appreciated.
Mind you, it's got a ways to go yet... I just did another POV switch. I hope this isn't just too crazy... |
| Congrats! I'm looking forward to reading the rest. |
| Yay! “Demonspawn Chronicles” is over 60,000 words again. And a co-worker has told me that if I kill off Malak, she’ll be upset. ;> |
| Thanks! Happy New Year, everyone! |
| Happy New Year, Melissa! |
| Oh an interview. How interesting.
Happy New Year and all that, Melissa. Me, I'm 60K into my next novel. One I can hopefully sell! LOL *dreams* It's a fantasy BTW. Clyde. |
| Thanks, ET! You too. We didn't get snow on Christmas either. We've barely gotten a dusting at all.
Ruth: It was "Clifton Park's paper" when I was growing up. |
| Happy new year.
We had some snow this week in Jerusalem, which was pretty cool (cold, even). Didn't fall on Christmas, but considering we're not celebrating Christmas that's okay. :) |
| Duh. I've read the Legislative Gazette because I went to school on State Street and probably accumulated a car full of parking tickets.
I think I've read the Schenectady one, back when I worked at Union College as a photographic technician. Here it is now: http://www.dailygazette.com/ And this is what I was thinking of: http://www.legislativegazette.com/ |
| Nope. Used to be the Schenectady Gazette. |
| I can't remember if that's the legislative paper. The Gazette? Hope he posts a link.
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| That's what I'm afraid of. ;) (says another stateworker,) but we'll see!
The odd thing is, he wasn't with my local paper, but my mom's keeping an eye out for it. |
| Cool, Melissa! And despair not: You NEVER know what a reporter's going to include in a story that you're in. Usually that's a bad thing (says the state govt employee) but who knows - maybe he's going online and looking you up!
Let us know when it appears, and if we can see it online somewhere! Terry |
| Thanks! We went book shopping. That's fun, especially at Flights of Fantasy-except that there was a reporter for the Gazette doing an interview on FoF. He was surprised to see a woman in there among the gamers, zeroed in on me and well, I'm going to be in the paper. Photo, even :ugh: I told him I was an author, but he didn't take the hint and ask for titles. ;) |
| Have fun! |
| I think I'm over the bug, and so's Mike. :fingers crossed: We may get out of the house for this vacation after all... |
| LOL! |
| It's preservering, all right!
Nope, it's some random GI bug that's going around my family. I think I'm getting done with it-I just ate a scrambled egg and nothing nasty happened. When I said I wanted to take a week off at Christmas and get more sleep, this wasn't what I had in mind! ;) |
| I wonder if that dyslexic spelling of preserves was a Freudian slip for persevere:) |
| If it was an undercooked Turkey try a teaspoon of blueberry preseveres. Hope you feel better before the New Year. |
| Got a bottle of Pepto-Bismol in with those birds? Christmas was great, but for the last 2 days a nasty bug has been sweeping through my family. Bleah. |
| Happy third day of Christmas, ET!
Three french hens, two turtle-doves, and a partidge in a pear tree! |
| Sorry I'm late to the party. Happy new year, all! |
| Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! |
| Merry Christmas to you to, Melissa1 |
| Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year, everyone! Thanks for all the encouragement, information, and friendship. I hope everyone has a great 2007! |
| Queue up drum roll and scary music...;)
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| When I came home today, he was out there with a giant sack of seed, filling away... |
| Gives new meaning to the term, "Lord of the Flies," don't it? *shudder* Your hubby better keep filling that feeder, Melissa! |
| Chalk one up for the birds versus rodents.
The telepathic birds' revenge on what they did to my babies. An eye for an eye and all that. Still, it's pretty brutal. both sides. |
| My husband, Mike, has been feeding the birds at our feeder for so long that they know him. The chickadees will twitter and land in the seed scoop when he comes out, and if the feeder’s empty they’ll scold him. They also seem to realize that he chases the squirrels away from the feeder.
Today, though, was creepy. I didn’t see it for myself-and I’m glad! Mike went outside, and there was a squirrel on the feeder. Mike tossed a few sticks (trying to chase it away, not hit it.) The squirrel scrambled toward the top of the birch tree. And the chickadees began to chant. Mike says that’s the only way to describe it-a flock of chickadees in UNISON, crying “Chirp, chirp, chirp!” the way a crowd of frat boys would chant “Chug, chug, chug!” The squirrel reached the top of the tree, inched onto the far twigs, and readied itself to jump. The chickadees kept chanting-except for the ones who started dive-bombing the squirrel. The squirrel made a frantic leap, missed, and plummeted. The birds kept chanting until the squirrel hit the ground and snapped its neck. Then they scattered back to the feeder, twittering at random as though nothing had happened. Darned creepy. Hitchcock had nothing on THESE birds! |
| Aw, thanks. :blush: Most of 'em were Drabbles. |
| Impressive, though. Blew MY big goose egg out of the water. You're an inspiration! |
| Ok, I got curious about how many of those subs were things I actually wrote in 2006. Better than I thought: 3 poems, 10 shorts and a good chunk of a novel. A lot of it was really short stuff, though. |
| Well, a lot of it was stories coming back and going out again. They weren't all new.
Thanks! |
| Whoa, Melissa, thou DOST rock!! Way to go! |
| My New Year’s resolution for 2006 was to submit a minimum of 3 stories per month. I just submitted #s 2 and 3 for December. As of now, the average # of subs per month is 6.75.
Most popular "victims": LSS and Shimmer. |
| Thanks! |
| Ladies, the dragon post is up.... |
| Thanks! Yep, it was great! |
| Belated Birthday wishes! Sounds like you had fun. |
| Thanks! (Actually, my birthday was a few weeks ago, but this was my main present.)
Just to top off the evening, on impulse I wrote to one of the actors that I thought did a particularly great job, and he wrote back! (They all did a great job, but the 3 main cast members probably get told that more often.) |
| Happy birthday! |
| Just got back from seeing Aida. My birthday present, my precious. and we likes it, we does! What singing! |
| That's amazing. I know just enough to have some idea how incredibly labor-intensive it is. |
| Yes, we did make chainmail. Got kinda busy so we aren't currently producing anything, but that could always change. |
| We may compromise and go to the local drug store for stocking stuffers. Neither of us like crowds, though, and sleeping in is a treat, so we'd rather do that. |
| Might have done so had I really lived in the US. But as a shopping deprived person, I'd really like to experience that once. The US is a lot more of a shopping land than any others I know (not that I have such extensive knowledge of the subject). Lots of deals, rebates, ... |
| My husband and I have a cherished Black Friday tradition. We sleep in and avoid all stores. ;) |
| Happy Thanksgiving.
Happy shopping. :) I envy you US people for Black Friday. I'm sure I would have queued at 4AM at the door to Best Buy to buy a laptop at $250. |
| Happy Thanksgiving!
The aardvark dances the special Thanksgiving jig! |
| Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! |
| Of course we are! That's half the fun!
You really make chain mail? |
| You're All crazy...
You knew what i meant. Goobers. I'mma gonna go play Supreme Commander now and make a real army. |
| She hasn't hit the horse stage yet. She's into the whole princess thing, though.
The trick is forwarding it to your friends until you have an army. |
| Chain mail is illegal, though.
Mary Smith of Pensecola, FL, used it and conquered the kingdom. Shawn Brown of Fresno, CA, didn't use it and lost everything. |
| Ahh, i was just thinking that maybe i'd be able to sell that chain mail that me and my friends make. |
| LOL! That's very funny.
Still, all that means is that you have some more work trying to convince her to be a knight when she grows up. Does she like horses? |
| cute:) |
| I recently got a copy of my niece's Christmas list. I read the first item and grinned like the Cheshire Cat.
Armour. Spelled British style, even. My Fantasy author’s soul rejoiced. My niece, only 4, wants to be a knight in shining armor! (Excuse me, armour.) Elated, I began a mental listing of SCA-type friends. I thought of passing on my own toy sword, with all due ceremony. And I e-mailed my sister with the all-important question: Plate or Chain? Darn spell-check! She e-mailed me back, somewhat puzzled. It was supposed to say Armoire. :Sigh: Well, at least it’s a Wardrobe… |
| Still have a few others sittin'. |
| good girl!
Then no wrath today. |