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About Me

I'm pleased to announce that my photography book, The Everything Guide to Photography is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com!It's a long URL, so I recommend copying and pasting it.http://www.amazon.com/Everything-Photography-Book-techniq ues-sensational/dp/1598695754/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books &qid=1224723749&sr=1-3
I am a published author with two books coming out next year. In 2009, "The Everything Guide to Photography", 2nd. edition and The Everything Guide to Ghost Hunting will be published by Adams Media.
Although I'm interested in almost everything, writing, art, photography and the paranormal are at the top of the list.
I co-wrote "The Everything Guide to Writing Graphic Novels" with my husband Mark (James Axler) Ellis. It came out in spring this year.

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My Interests

Paranormal, art, photography, writing, sci-fi, history, hiking, painting.

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I'd like to meet:

Gandhi, John Lennon, George Harrison. Oops, they are all dead. See Heroes section.I'd like to meet some fellow artists and writers who are serious about their commitment to their craft.I'd also like to meet some folks who can think outside the box, I'm not much interested much in mundania.

Music:

The Classics-i.e. Beatles, Stones, Buffalo Springfield, Moody Blues.Also New Age- Clannad, Enya, Loreena Mckennit.

Movies:

Lord of the Rings, The Exorcist, To Kill a Mockingbird,A Clockwork Orange, Star Trek, Star Wars (the early ones)The Matrix, My Fair Lady,The Shawshank Redemption, The Searchers, The Remains of the Day.

Television:

Lost,Heroes,Ghost Hunters International,Star Trek (original series)Destination Truth, House, Firefly, Pushing Daisies, Arrested Development, Stargate, X-Files, Seinfeld.

Books:

Catch-22, Brave New World,Dune, Slaughterhouse-Five,The Stand,To Kill a Mockingbird,A Clockwork Orange,Anything Colin Wilson has written, At the Mountains of Madness,The Mothman Prophecies, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie,Zelazney's Amber Chronicles, The Door Into Summer, the Magus,Speaker for the Dead.

Heroes:

Gandhi, George Harrison, Paramahamsa Yogananda, Mother Teresa.

My Blog

HP Lovecraft

For those many, many Chthulhu Mythos and Lovecraft fans out there, some very cool stuff is now available at the Cafepress website, www.cafepress.com/MISKATONICPROJ The book itself will be out by late ...
Posted by Melissa on Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:27:00 PST

Sarah Palin - Energizing or Divisive?

I keep hearing about Sarah Palin, she's apparently breathing new life into the Republican base, John McCain and whatever company maunfactures her rimless fashion eyewear. From what I saw and heard las...
Posted by Melissa on Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:23:00 PST

Bigfoot Hunters Turn Out to Be Big Morons!

Why? I just can't stop asking myself how anyone could be quite this stupid--what a bunch of lying little liars!Well, folks, there's good news and there's bad news on the Bigfoot story.The bad news is ...
Posted by Melissa on Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:16:00 PST

H.P. Lovecrafts Whisperer in Darkness

Now available for preorder on Amazon.com--a new graphic novel based on the Cthulhu Mythos--I am very proud to have worked on this project. Please check it out The Miskatonic Project .I am thrill...
Posted by Melissa on Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:25:00 PST

Bigfoot, Is That You?

I am wondering where this whole Bigfoot thing will go. Is it actually possible that there is a North American primate out there that has managed t go undiscovered all these years? I am going to say y...
Posted by Melissa on Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:33:00 PST

In the Mouth of Madness

Just watched the John Carpenter film In the Mouth of Madness starring Sam Neill. I had forgotten how good it is. Someone dubbed it the best Lovecraft movie never made.It makes no reference whatsoever ...
Posted by Melissa on Sat, 07 Jun 2008 07:41:00 PST

Florida Trip

Back from Florida for two days now, it is all beginning to seem like a very bad dream.It is nice to be back home, but I miss Deirdre.
Posted by Melissa on Fri, 30 May 2008 09:09:00 PST

The Ghost Book is Done!

Coming in at over 83,000 words, the Everything Guide to Ghosts is finished and off to the publisher. I only crossed the finish line a few days late, which in the publishing world in not really such a ...
Posted by Melissa on Fri, 09 May 2008 06:38:00 PST

The Miskatonic Project - Cthulhu

I've been working on a new project, based on the Cthulhu mythos, called the Miskatonic Project, H.P. Lovecraft's Whisperer in Darkness today.It will be a graphic novel and we hope to have it printed i...
Posted by Melissa on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:46:00 PST

RIP Jim Mooney

A very dear friend passed away on Sunday, the brilliant and prolific artist, Jim Mooney.I had been privileged to know and love Jim for over 25 years.Best known for his work on Supergirl and Batman com...
Posted by Melissa on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:38:00 PST