My sisters and I have this obsession: we have to visit all fifty states before we die. And the Rigneys are pretty particular about what constitutes a “visit.” You have to get out of the airport and buy something. It can be
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.
Of Travel and Being Prepared
Between my day job and speaking at writing conferences, it’s the rare month that I’m not on the road somewhere. This time, it’s Texas, for the day job. Travel doesn’t hold the same wide-eyed appeal for me that it did when I was nineteen and headed for Minneapolis for the first time in my life.… Continue reading Of Travel and Being Prepared
The Weight
I’ve lost close to a hundred pounds twice in my life. Both times, when I was tantalizingly near the goal… five or ten pounds away… I eased up. I quit monitoring my eating habits. And in both cases, the pounds came back on a lot faster than they’d gone off. There can be a temptation… Continue reading The Weight
Small Is Beautiful!
I’ve been asked again to judge a category in the Independent Book Publishers Association‘s Ben Franklin Awards. If you’re not familiar with the IBPA, it’s an organization of smaller publishers… not necessarily self-publishers, though some members are self-publishers, but also of independent publishers with dozens of titles that aren’t part of multinational conglomerates. Judging the… Continue reading Small Is Beautiful!