A year ago at this time, my bedroom “furniture” consisted of a queen bed I’d purchased in 2004 for less than $300,
Author: Melanie
Melanie Rigney is the author of Radical Saints: 21 Women for the 21st Century and other Catholic books. She is a contributor to Living Faith and other Catholic blogs. She lives in Arlington, Virginia. Melanie also owns Editor for You, a publishing consultancy that since 2003 has helped hundreds of writers, publishers, and agents.
In Praise of Friends and Friends of Friends
David Cortner, who earlier this year took some of my scribblings and ideas and turned them into melanierigney.com, just finished some tweaks and updates to my editing business site, editorforyou.com. (Check it
Writing Like the Wind
I’ve got what may be the best first chapter ever written for a coming-of-age novel, based loosely on the summer I turned nine. But that’s all I’ve got; with that particular manuscript, every time
Confessions of a Former Political Animal
I used to be a political animal. It started young; I was volunteering for Gene McCarthy’s 1968 presidential bid before I was twelve. And my first-ever mixed drink came at the Sioux Falls Coliseum in November 1972, while George McGovern was