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Melinda Jane Harrison
Interested in Feminism. Folklore. Fairytales. Mischievous faery person. I love birds and bees and flowers.
Once Upon a time, I made a living tutoring at-risk youth, worked as a copyeditor, book doctor, ghost writer, reader, and eventual developmental editor in the NYC publishing industry and published Historical and Regency romance novels for St. Martins, HarperCollins, Kensington, Crown, Dorchester, and others under pen names (many co-authored with friend, writer Virginia Brown).
At present, I am writing on Bee Fly Crow, a project full of folklore, history, and fairy stories. It's really my love letter to Victorian fantasy and magic and portal fantasy and has a very feminist but wounded heroine who finds herself in trouble due to magic, a subject she abhors and doesn't want to believe in, which leads to more trouble. My fiction and art these days are inspired by fairy tales, their tellers, folklore, myth, nature, local and English landscapes, and how people are tied to history and the past. I write full time now.
As an artist, I am fond of narrative art. Lately I paint flowers and lots of insects, things that fly. I keep a garden. Makes sense.
I occasionally take on developmental editing and copyediting projects, but do not actively pursue them at this time. I sometimes teach writing locally. I am not reading manuscripts at this time for anyone. (2024)
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