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
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.
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
Getting to 50
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
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