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SUMMARY:Young Adult chat with author Melinda Salisbury
DESCRIPTION:Join bestselling YA author Melinda Salisbury every month for an hour of conversation about all things YA. From general writing advice\, focus on the latest publishing trends and insider info\, how to choose comp titles\, crafting log lines and synopses\, to how to pitch to agents and connecting with fellow authors – we cover it all! Recording for the first 45 minutes for Hub members to catch up on\, the last 15 minutes of each chat is unrecorded\, offering the chance to talk off the record about your publishing and writing questions. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR \n\n\n\nMelinda Salisbury is the four-time Carnegie nominated and bestselling author of multiple teen and young adult novels\, including the Sin Eater’s Daughter series\, Hold Back the Tide\, and Her Dark Wings\, a Guardian Children’s Book of the Year 2022 and a Reading Agency Book of the Year 2022 pick. Her debut teen novel\, EchoStar\, a tech thriller aimed at 12–14-year-olds\, was published in March 2024 by Barrington Stoke\, with AdelAIDE following in August 2024 and The Foundation publishing in January 2025. \n\n\n\nHer first novel\, The Sin Eater’s Daughter\, was the bestselling UK YA debut novel of 2015\, and collectively her books have been nominated and shortlisted for numerous national and international awards and accolades\, including the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize\, the YA Book Prize\, the Branford Boase\, the Edgar Awards\, the 2016 and 2019\, 2021 and 2023 Carnegie medals\, YALSA Best YA 2022\, Eason’s YA Book of the Month\, and more. Her books have been published in sixteen countries to date. \n\n\n\nWhen not writing\, Melinda works as a writing mentor and development editor\, and volunteers at a local independent cinema on the East Sussex Coast. Her agents are Claire Wilson at Rogers\, Coleridge and White Literary Agency\, London\, and Pete Knapp at Park\, Fine and Brower Literary and Media\, New York.
URL:https://write-mentor.com/event/young-adult-chat-with-author-melinda-salisbury/
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SUMMARY:Writing catch-up with author Melissa Welliver
DESCRIPTION:Catch up with author Melissa Welliver and your writing pals while we celebrate the highs and commiserate the lows of publishing – because writing can be lonely\, but it doesn’t need to be! All done remotely over Zoom so you can join in from the comfort of your sofa. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nMelissa Welliver writes Young Adult Speculative novels. She works at Writementor and runs the Community Writing Hub for Children’s writers. TO THE DEATH\, described as THE HUNGER GAMES meets 28 YEARS LATER\, is coming out with Hachette in March 2026. She also has two dystopian rom-coms\, My Love Life and the Apocalypse and Soulmates and Other Ways to Die\, published with Chicken House Books. The first in her dark dystopian trilogy\, The Undying Tower\, will be published by UCLan Publishing in August 2024. \n\n\n\nMelissa has completed the acclaimed Curtis Brown Creative Novel Writing Course for children under the tutelage of Catherine Johnson. She has been longlisted for the Bath Novel Award\, the #BNAKids award\, and Mslexia’s Children’s Novel Prize\, and she was shortlisted for both the inaugural Hachette Children’s Novel Award in association with New Writing North\, and the Wells Book for Children competition. She lives in the Northwest of England with her Bassetoodle\, Zelda\, and is represented by Lucy Irvine of Darley Anderson. 
URL:https://write-mentor.com/event/writing-catch-up-with-author-melissa-welliver/
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