Melissa R. L. Simonin

After spending several days reading over “601 Suspense Street” to check for typos, I’m back to “Hiding Treasure.”  At 186 pages it’s coming along strong which is good for many reasons, but particularly since the next book is clamoring for attention.  This untitled book which I’m going to refer to as “Museum” is the one […]

There was an email that needed composing, and I was having the worst time figuring out how to word it.  How can I write a novel, several in fact, and I can’t write an email?  Then a friend suggested having one of my characters write it.  So I thought, hm.  Why not? Miles came off […]

I did not know this, and that’s why I’m writing this particular post.  Someone very dear to me changed a great deal over the last couple of years.  Instead of being bubbly and sweet this person became dark and very angry. Thank goodness–no, thank God–she asked for help last month.  Long story short, she has […]

Halfway through making a latte I discovered the milk was bad.  That was no dream, it was a nightmare! I was relieved when I woke to find that the milk was not bad after all.  Not only that, the Walmart grocery delivery truck came later that morning and brought a fresh gallon.  They also brought […]

Ordinarily one would say “three time’s the charm,” but in this case it’s three books.  “Untitled,” and no that’s not its name it just doesn’t have one yet, is at 52 pages.  “Depart the Darkness,” HOB book 5, is at 28.  HOB book 7 or 8 is 128 pages. It seems like it would be […]

House of Bannerman book 5, “Depart the Darkness” is taking off.  I laughed so hard it hurt while writing the first half of the first chapter!  I laughed even more when attempting to read over it again.  It involves Xander, and John is vindicated.  If you’ve read “The Lodge at Whispering Pines” you may be […]

It feels good to write again!  Especially about my favorite characters.  House of Bannerman book 5 is now underway, and I’m enjoying writing it so much more than the proofreading I was doing all last week. Don’t be surprised if Depart the Darkness is not the next book I release, however.  Before the day is […]

The kid is in middle school now.  How that happened, I don’t know.  A watched pot never boils, or so the saying goes.  I’ve never tested that out myself.  Who doesn’t have better things to do with their life?  I do know that a kid grows up fast no matter how watched he or she […]

601 Suspense Street is now complete.  At 350 pages, it’s my longest novel thus far.  Now the editing stage begins, and once that is done, finally it’ll be in the hands of my proofreaders.  I would say by the end of this week… but that’s what I said last week, and probably the week before.  […]

I’m on chapter 22 of 601 Suspense Street, page 335.  Why did I ever wonder if I’d make it to 300?  But here I am now, well… all of us I suppose.  Will, Gemma, Fox, DC, Gemma’s grandmothers and the rest of the town of Eerie.  Here we are at page 335, the beginning of […]