by Melanie Scheller | Sep 22, 2023 |
I miss getting mail. Real mail. The kind with an envelope and a stamp and a postmark. In the old days, getting mail was sometimes the highlight of my day. I still receive a few birthday cards through the mail, but sending and receiving letters through the postal...
by Melanie Scheller | Sep 10, 2023 |
Stolen words? The 50 bazillion words in the English language are free to anybody who wants to use them, so how is it possible for one person to steal another person’s words? It’s possible if the words being used have already been arranged into specific...
by Melanie Scheller | Aug 25, 2023 |
I’ve always been intrigued by graveyards, especially those with very old tombstones. I can spend hours wandering through a graveyard, reading the inscriptions on tombstones and looking for clues about the people they commemorate. I even held a séance in a...
by Melanie Scheller | Aug 11, 2023 |
The last words of a book usually appear at the end of the last sentence on the last page, but last words appear much earlier in some books. How is that possible? It’s because the last words of a dying person — maybe a secret revealed at least or a confession to...
by Melanie Scheller | Jul 28, 2023 |
A baby’s first words are important, but a book’s first words can be just as important to the book’s success. Not many parents abandon their baby because they don’t like the first words the baby says, but many readers abandon a book if its first...
