Grandma, I love you forever...

This wonderful woman I am hugging went home to Jesus this week. It has been an emotional last few days. When someone leaves an imprint on your life, like my grandma did mine, grieving heaven's gain is inevitable. She blessed so many people, touched so many lives. I am fortunate mine was one of them.

Her latest emails always ended with this: "I will see you soon."

Thank you, God, because I know eventually I will.

Janet's Back!

I feel really blessed, because I've been able to work with such great editors. One of my favorite editors purchased another Janet and Christy short story. Janet is loosely based on a mentally challenged neighbor who used to live next door to me. She'd knock on my door at least three times a week and want me to help her with small tasks such as help her make her bed, search her apartment for a lost item, or take her shopping for shoestrings. I have fun writing these characters, since all I have to do is let my mind wander back to the days when my neighbor would bang on my door and yell loud enough for the whole neighborhood to hear, "Melissa, I know you're in there!"


"Hot Dogs and Hot Heads" will be published in ENCOUNTER—The Magazine in January of '09.

Latest Reads

My two lates reads:

Speak by Lauri Halse Anderson

Novelist's Essential Guide to Creating Plot by J. Madison Davis.