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Melody Personette

Author of YA Contemporary Fantasy and Science Fiction

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Happy Saturday! ✨ What are some of your favorite retellings? ✨ A new genre for this week’s recs: retellings! I love a good retelling, though if I’m being honest, I’ve gotten a little tired of them lately. I read so many of them for so long that I think I need a bit of a break from the genre haha However, these are some of my favorites: The Lunar Chronicles (specifically Scarlet) by Marissa Meyer. I mean, this series is amazing in every way possible. A cyborg Cinderella? Snow White who lives on the moon? Sci-fi Little Red Riding Hood and Rapunzel stuck in space? Yes, those all are as awesome as they sound! ✨ RoseBlood (a Phantom of the Opera retelling) and the Splintered series (Alice in Wonderland retelling) by A.G. Howard. I love Howard’s retellings! They’re dark and gothic and so different than any retellings I’ve ever read! She has a whole bunch of them, I highly suggest you check them out cuz they are amazing! Technically Fawkes is historical fantasy, but I sort of count it as a retelling since it’s a retelling of the story of Guy Fawkes. I can’t say enough good things about this book. Just go read it. Experience the incredible beauty that is Fawkes for yourself. ✨ #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookishlove #booklover #booklove #bookworm #bookaddict #bookaholic #bookobsessed #bookcommunity #retellings #lunarchronicles #aghoward #roseblood #splinteredseries #fawkes #yaretellings #readergram #readersofinstagram #bookpic #bookphotography #readerlife
Happy Friday! ✨ I haven’t done a #facefriday in a while, so here’s a social distancing selfie haha ✨ How’ve you been spending your self-isolating/social distancing/quarantining? ✨ Just because there’s a world wide pandemic, doesn’t mean college classes stop. I’ve been working on discussion boards and quizzes and papers. Classes have felt a little hectic and busy lately, but I just think that’s cuz we’re nearing the end of the semester. I reached 24,400 words in Emerald Phantom today and I started rereading This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab! Over the past two days my family and I have been enjoying the beautiful weather. It’s been so nice out, so I’ve been soaking up a lot of vitamin D and getting lots of fresh air. Yesterday evening and this evening was really nice. I got to spend time sitting outside and reading... it’s been pretty peaceful to get to do that again after so many cold and rainy days. I hope you had a great Friday and have a nice, peaceful weekend. 💕✨ #writerlife #writergram #writersofinstagram #writerly #writings #amwriting #wip #authorselfie #writerselfie #socialdistancing #stayinghealthy #writerscommunity #indieauthor #selfpublished
Happy Thursday! I forgot that yesterday was the start of #wipjoy ! ✨ #wipjoy Day 1: Share about your creative projects. At the moment I’m working on the sequel to Golden Touch. The title (for the moment) is Emerald Phantom. Golden Touch, and the series itself, is a passion project right now. I don’t have plans to publish it any time soon... though maybe near the end of this year or sometime next year I’ll feel ready to share it with everyone. All I know is I want people to read these books one day... just not today. Golden Touch was full of history, mystery and secret societies. Emerald Phantom is full of Aztec mysteries, answered questions and a search for hope. I’ve loved writing Emerald Phantom as much as I loved writing Golden Touch. I get to introduce one of my favorite characters and delve deeper into Amaya and Darren’s characters. ✨ #bookaesthetic #wipaesthetic #contemporaryfantasy #sequel #history #mysteries #booklove #writergram #writersofinstagram #writerly #amwriting #writings #wip #creativeproject #writingcommunity #authorgram #aprilwip #aesthetic #hopefulstory #bookinprogress
Happy Wednesday! ✨ The last book you DNF? (Did not finish) ✨ I’m not sure if this is the last book I didn’t finish, but it sure is one of them! I bought this cuz I heard such great things about it and the blurb sounded interesting... But when I actually sat down to read it, I wasn’t much of a fan. I can’t remember exactly why. I think the characters and the way the story was set up just wasn’t my thing. ✨ Also! I have a new blog post up today! I’ve been drowning in sequels lately. Editing and publishing one while writing another for a different series. I’ve done a lot of research on sequels, read a lot of sequels and written a few myself and thought I’d share what I’ve learned about how to write them. Click the link in my bio to check it out! :) ✨ #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookishlove #booklover #booklove #bookworm #bookpic #bookphotography #bookaddict #bookaholic #bookobsessed #dnf #keepcalmandreadon #bookmark #newblogpost #sequels #writergram #writersofinstagram #writerly #writings #blogger #downtherabbithole
✨Book Release!!✨ Cursed is officially out in the world today! At the moment it’s only up as an ebook, but the paperback should be up by the end of the week. This book was a tough one to write! It went through a lot of changes and a lot of revisions and taught me a lot of patience, but it was all worth it to see my two books side by side. 😍 Cursed will always be special to me because it’s the second sequel I’ve ever published. Sequels are really hard, so it’s always very satisfying when I finish them and then get to the point of being able to hit publish on them. You can get Cursed as a ebook and on Kindle Unlimited! To celebrate its release, Wayward is also up for sale for 1.99! Link in bio to get them both. Swipe to read the short blurb for Cursed. ✨ #bookstagram #booklove #booklover #bookstagrammer #wayward #cursed #stcroixfalls1 #stcroixfalls2 #bookpic #bookworm #bookphotography #bookseries #sequel #fae #yaparanormalromance #cleanparanormalromance #fantasy #writerlife #writergram #writersofinstagram #authorlife #selfpublish #indieauthor #authorgram #readergram #bookrelease
Happy Monday! ✨ I know I’ve been absent lately... Honestly I’ve been trying to avoid social media as much as I can, and I couldn’t really think of anything to say the past week. It’s hard to keep talking about books and writing and stuff when there’s so much stuff going on in the world. But since Cursed comes out tomorrow 😆 I’m trying to get back into posting regularly on here. I feel like I needed last week to not worry about social media presence and just work on getting ahead in class work and finishing polishing up Cursed. But now that classes have officially started again, Cursed will be out tomorrow and March is almost over, I think it’s a good time to get back to posting and being more present on here. ✨ On a different note, who’s doing camp Nanowrimo?? ✨ I’m not sure I’ll participate. This April is shaping up to be a busy one since this is the homestretch of classes and I have papers due. But the other part of me just wants to dive right in and use camp nano to make progress on Emerald Phantom (the sequel to Golden Touch). Who knows. I’ll see how I feel about it April first.✨ #writergram #writerlife #writersofinstagram #writerly #writings #quarantinethoughts #writingcommunity #journallove #shelfie #bookstagram #booklove #sequel #amwriting #campnanowrimo2020 #cursed #stcroixfalls2 #indieauthor #authorlife #selfpublish #indiebook #ebook #yaparanormalromance #cleanparanormalromance #yacontemporaryfantasy
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