A year ago at this time, my bedroom “furniture” consisted of a queen bed I’d purchased in 2004 for less than $300,
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