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Melanie Moyer

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in Phoenixville, PA, The United States

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Science Fiction, Fiction, Gay and Lesbian

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Stephen King Carmen Maria Machado Shirley Jackson José Saramago ...more

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Melanie is Philadelphia-born though no stranger to Phoenix, Orlando, Pittsburgh, and Toronto. She has a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Pittsburgh and an MLIS from the same. Her short work has been published in Ghost Parachute, Meat for Tea, Prometheus Dreaming, Philadelphia Stories, and others. When not writing she enjoys podcasting about horror, cooking, and going on hikes.

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Publishers Love Teenage Readers and Other Party Lines

My essay "Publishers Love Teenage Readers and Other Party Lines" was published on Prometheus Dreaming this month. It was written from my own POV as a YA author and in response to the overwhelming evidence of the negative effects Thirteen Reasons Why has had on younger readers and viewers of the Netflix series.

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Published on July 09, 2019 08:20 • Tags: netflix, publishing, teen-readers, thirteen-reasons-why, ya, young-adult

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