Melissa R. L. Simonin

…Brad and I got engaged.  I had to use the calculator app on my phone to figure that out, I don’t keep track of how many years it’s been since x,y,z like he does.  I don’t do math in my head, either.  Not successfully, anyway. Twenty-three years ago we met and started going out.  Within […]

Ever tried to sit in a Starbucks in downtown Denver and focus?  If you haven’t, don’t bother! Brad had to be downtown for an indeterminate amount of time and I went with him, so I prepared to wait that long, however long that might be.  With my two 5+ hour laptop batteries and my laptop, […]

Em had her second archery lesson yesterday.  This is something she’s been wanting to do for quite a while, and I’m glad life has settled down to the point she can take a class and have some hope of not missing any.  Her class starts next month, so for now she’s taking private lessons to […]

Halfway through 601 Suspense Street… and suddenly it’s out with the old plot, and in with the new.  No I’m not kidding, we’ve had not a plot twist, but a plot replacement.  The surgery is currently underway.  Do feel free to wish me luck. It’s all for the best though.  I couldn’t get excited about […]

601 Suspense Street is moving steadily along at 131 pages now.  House of Bannerman book 7 is at 90.  I have yet to write 5 and 6, but… I’ll get to that.  The plot for 7 is so solid I don’t have to stop and think about it, I just write.  So I go back […]

Book 2 in the Mystery Lane series is at 104 pages now.  So… unless it’s longer than 715 Mystery Lane, then 601 Suspense Street is 1/3 written.  That’s a good feeling. This is a photo of the irl Fox, and here’s a bit of trivia for you.  If you’ve read 715 Mystery Lane (and warning, […]

…more like the plots increase.  There are a number of little antique shops where we live and yesterday evening as we drove past one, another plot began to develop.  I’m so intrigued by this one, I may write it before I write the book that involves a museum.  Or I may do what I’ve done […]

601 Suspense Street is 68 pages now.  Will’s parents are about to arrive and meet Gemma… I can’t wait to see how that goes.  Her grandmothers are coming over too, so between them and Will, she shouldn’t be too nervous. 601 is going to be longer than 715.  There’s a lot happening and I have […]

And by that, I’m specifically referring to my two unnamed characters.  I spent the first part of this morning writing two pages worth of notes for what may be my October novel.  If the characters have any say in it, it will be.  This is going to be a fun book to write, so I’m […]

After being side-tracked for much of the last couple of weeks by travel and a side-project or two, today after a trip to the corner mini-mart for a bag of Cheetos, I got back to writing “601 Suspense Street.”  I have several new pages to show for it, which makes me very pleased.  Will really […]