I’m Melissa and I love to read.
Do I actually have time to read? Not really. Do I do it anyhow? Even if you've never met me, I think you already know the answer.
In most instances and circumstances, and during quite a few events I have no choice but to attend, I would just as soon be reading. Please allow me to elaborate:
Standing in line at the grocery store? No chit-chat, stranger; please just let me read.
Spouse’s corporate party? I don’t know any of you; please just let me read.
County Fair? Go ahead and get on that dubiously safe carnival ride, kids; please just let me read.
Thanksgiving? I just spent three days cooking for you all; please just let me read.
I am a mother, spouse, proud Gen Xer, novelist, insatiable reader, enthusiastic patron of online grocery shopping, pioneering recycler, unashamed possessor of sprawling cross stitch supplies, lover of radio.
I'm the author of the novels The Mosquito Hours and Talking Underwater. I have several other novels in progress, but I also have 3 teenagers. (If you know, you know.) I work in the Guidance Office of the local high school. I really love my job and the pension and medical plans are much better for “Admin Support” than for “Writer.”
I unfailingly drink iced matcha green tea lattés daily. I love them so completely that I plan my time around consuming them, which is ideally at 3:30 or 4:00—the latest—in the afternoon. Sometimes, for scheduling obligations beyond my control, I have to alter the consumption time, which is not my preference, but I will if I absolutely must. Do I have a small, blue, perfectly-sized cooler that I utilize on days when I need to be away from my blender and matcha green tea latté supplies? Yes. Do I buckle it in with a seat belt and threaten anyone who may be in danger of tipping it over?
I have a singular response: wouldn’t you?
I obviously never go anywhere without at least one book on my person. I am probably even more awkward than you think. My hair has never looked the same twice.
Want to say hello? Do you have an idea for a book review or are you an author looking for a book review? Are you selling some off-brand pharmaceuticals or want to improve my SEO? Then please email me at melissa.corliss.delorenzo@gmail.com