Life being busy by Melanie Hansen

Hi, everyone!   Lately life has really been getting in the way—day job, my kid’s baseball season, editing—so I think I’m going to take a few months off from posting. I’ll definitely be back, especially since my next release through Read more

Showing Some Love for the Cover Artists

I have had the amazing pleasure of working with many cover artists over the years and I wanted to take the time to thank each and every one of them for their talent and expertise in giving each book a Read more

Dealing With Chatty Characters or Dead-Quiet Ones

In my last post, I shared a little about the process of writing, and what a special moment it is when characters show me, the writer, their pain. I wanted to build on that a little, because not all non-writers Read more

Monthly Guest Post—Andrew Q. Gordon—Five Years And Counting

A bit more than three and half years ago, Dani asked me if I wanted to do a monthly guest post on Love Byte (so not quite five and counting for me.) Since then, I’ve watched the site grow as Dani Read more

The Absolute End

When you write a series and from the opening word you know it’s going to be one (believe me, I have been quite surprised in the past when what I thought would be a standalone decided that no, it was Read more

Rainbow Colours and Skin Tones

Back in February I posted a blog on here about Toxic Masculinity. This month’s post picks up on an equally pernicious problem both in the real world and on the written page, that of racism. We’re told that to have Read more