Melinda M. Black

Author and Advocate for Killing your Darlings.

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Melinda resides in New York, usually reading spooky books and cuddling her cats.

I tend to mostly live inside my own head.

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NEWLY DROPPED: The Vicious Cycle — the first book in Melinda’s darkly comedic anthology series, where Heaven has rules, God has opinions, and eternity isn’t what anyone was promised.

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When Melinda is not writing she is advocating for the human rights of sex workers. You can do the same at https://swp.urbanjustice.org/