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Melanie Steele

Goodreads Author

Website

http://www.13yearsinamerica.com

Genre

Biographies & Memoirs, Self Help, Nonfiction

Member Since

April 2012

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/MelSteele

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Melanie Steele's Blog: Independent Writes

I love seeing download numbers. It’s great to read reviews. But my favorite thing by far is hearing that someone told others about my book. Word-of-mouth is the truest and most down-to-earth way that 13 YEARS IN AMERICA is reaching people. It’s a grassroots, genuine sharing that’s happening because people want others to read my book. I love it!

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Melanie Steele’s books

Average rating: 4.04 · 184 ratings · 42 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	13 Years in America 4.01 avg rating — 173 ratings — published 2012 — 3 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
	Choice: Uncover and Claim Your Happiness 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2013	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
	Dogs: The Family We Choose by Melanie Steele (Goodreads Author), Holli Murphy (Photographer), Dana Perino (Forward) (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	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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Melanie’s Quotes

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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“The earth has its music for those who will listen”
― Reginald Vincent Holmes, Fireside Fancies

tags: misattributed-george-santayana

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“Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: writing

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“Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.”
― William Faulkner

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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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