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Melissa Embry

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in Morgan City, Louisiana, The United States
March 07

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Melissa Embry is a former award-winning newspaper reporter and city editor for The Longview News-Journal, whose short fiction has appeared in numerous ezines and anthologies.

When not writing, she volunteers at a nonprofit stable providing therapy through horsemanship to children and adults with disabilities.

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Melissa Embry So far I haven't had any serious cases of writer's block. If I get stuck at a particular point, though, it's helpful to turn to a different project to clear my mind.
Melissa Embry I'm currently writing a thriller with the working title, The Ugly Man, about a soldier who learns he's not just ugly, but Neanderthal ugly. Can a 21st…moreI'm currently writing a thriller with the working title, The Ugly Man, about a soldier who learns he's not just ugly, but Neanderthal ugly. Can a 21st century human possibly be a member of a species that went extinct tens of thousands of years ago? He enlists the help of an anthropologist with some ancient hominin issues of her own to search for his roots. But will either of them survive the search? The germ of this book was my daughter's fascination with ancient human species. It grew into a short story, and from there to a novel in progress that recently won a "best manuscript" citation from the Writers League of Texas.(less)
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Texas writer smackdown: two takes on heroic fantasy

 It's another of those classic matchups -- established Texas writer Robert E. Howard versus (relative) newbie Rick Riordan duking it out for the king of heroic fantasy. But wait, you say? Riordan as a Texas writer? Wonder no more, dear friends. Back before writing his way into the land of myth, Riordan, born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, took honors for his mystery series starring Jackson "Tre

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“Más vale la gracia de la imperfección que la perfección sin gracia.

Alex Von Wuthenau”
Melissa Embry

“She had discovered with surprise and pleasure that as she turned each page, the book was written, as if for the first time, all over again.”
Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Queen of the South

“Never trust a man who reads only one book.”
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“he looked around at the books on the walls, at their dark, worn spines, and he seemed to hear a strange, distant murmur coming from them. each of the closed books was a door, and behind it stirred shadows, voices, sounds, heading toward him from a deep, dark place.”
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