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Ari Meghlen

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Ari Meghlen is an English lass now living in beautiful Northern Ireland.

After creating and running the successful #TheMerryWriter hashtag game on Twitter for a few years, it then morphed into #TheMerryWriterPodcast which she runs with her friend and fellow author, Rachel Poli.

When she's not working, Ari can be found in her writing cave working on one of her (many) manuscripts.

Her very first story scribbled at the age of 8, was about a monster under the bed and she hasn't stopped writing since.

She shares writing updates in her newsletter, writing advice on her blog and random photos and memes on her Instagram.

She does occasionally find time to leave her writing cave and indulge in other hobbies such as gardening, blogging, making things, ...more

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Average rating: 4.22 · 68 ratings · 48 reviews · 2 distinct works

	From Ashes to Magic by Mikki Noble (Goodreads Author), Jennifer C. Colvin (Goodreads Author), Adi Denner (Goodreads Author) 4.27 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From Myths to Monsters by Mikki Noble (Goodreads Author), Dawn Christine Jonckowski (Goodreads Author), C.M. Chafin (Goodreads Author) 4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Raven Tower

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The Call of the Sea (The Grail Cycle, #1)

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Firstly, I did enjoy this book and I would rate it between 3 and 3.5. It has great potential and is part one of five (I think). Personally, I'm not sure why it's been broken into 5 small parts (around 188 pages) rather than just a single novel (or ma ...more
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A great companion book to K.M. Allan's Writing and Editing Checklist book. This is for all that stuff outside of writing and editing that authors need to do. There are tons of advice, information and suggestions within this book, and the checklists co ...more
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One thing I love is checklists. Anything you can use that helps focus and define the steps to take etc. So this book was absolutely perfect. I've followed K.M. Allan for a while now, and the details she includes on their website are always super helpf ...more
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Such a cool concept, that souls can be "loaned" to the Devil rather than "sold." This was written in 1st person, single POV. Darcie's character was intriguing, though I would have loved to get to know some of the other characters a bit more. I love th ...more
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I enjoyed this book and the characters. It focuses, at least for most of the book, on just the FMC and MMC within the Gatehouse before they travel to the Unseelie Court. Beauty and the Beast is one of my favourites, so having this be a fae-style Beau ...more
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Apr 08, 2016 09:34AM

Vicki wrote: "Hi Ari! Thanks for the invite! I look forward to sharing books and recommendations with you."

Hi Vicki that would be great, I am on a real book binge this year. So am definitely on the look out for new books :)

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Apr 08, 2016 09:02AM