I’m happy to announce my second collection of poetry, Moonpies & Naugahyde: A Childhood Survived, is now available!!
Fabulous watercolor paintings by Georgiann Carlson accompany my poems throughout, creating a book I am extremely proud of!
Since October is National Domestic Violence Awareness month, I can think of no better time to release it.
3 options available now on Amazon:
Note the 3 “versions” are not all linking up on Amazon correctly so I am providing the individual links below each option 🙂
1-Full Color Edition: Watercolor Illustrations presented in Full Color
This is the way this collection is meant to be experienced!
Get it here!
2-Black & White Edition: Watercolor Illustrations presented in Greyscale
(Producing the book in full color made it a little pricey so offering this B&W option)
3-Ebook for your Kindle, iPad, etc.
Wordifull 
beautiful – congrats!
Thank you 😀
I love the woman’s face on the cover… Perfect… I’m sure the artist is also a wonderful cat caretaker!
LOL…hmm I think you may be right 🙂
Reblogged this on Rethinking Life and commented:
Melanie’s new book is about surviving childhood sexual abuse. Her words are raw, honest and powerful. It is a book that gives a voice to those who were never heard. It is a book that everyone should read.
OH yay! Bling told me about this so I had to come see for myself! I love your first book and I know I’ll love this one as well! I’m excited to see Gigi’s watercolors and all your wonderful poems. Oh I can share that I have your silence poem hanging in my office! It’s right where I read proofs and many times I stop and read it! I love it! It’s so wonderful to read about the silence and all the things you said! I love your poem Roygbig! It’s so catching and the layout is wonderful! I just wanted to let you know how much I love it! I’m going to get this one now! Love this and good luck with your book! Yay!
OKay I got it too! Wow Wow Wow I love it! I love how it flows and the poems and paintings are so beautiful! 😀 I had to tell you before I went to sleep! 😀
YAY! Thank you! Gigi was just texting me that you loved it and she told you to stop reading and go to bed! 🙂
Love both of you Blingtastic women!
Also just wanted to say that as cool as it is on the kindle it is still different than the print version…I couldn’t get all of the formatting and colors and stuff to work on kindle that I wanted.
Thank you so much! I’m so happy you liked Spectrum 🙂 t is so cool to know you have my poem hanging at your work…really that means so much to me. Thank you 😀 I’m glad it helps you. Thanks for getting book 2! I hope you enjoy it. Gigi’s artwork definitely adds to it 🙂
That’s amazing, congrats!!!
Thank you! I’m very excited about it 🙂
Congrats, Melanie! Putting it on my Amazon wish list. 🙂
Yay! Thank you 🙂
Look forward to this. Gigi has done a gorgeous job with the cover.
Thank you , Holly! Her art is so amazing 🙂 ‘m so grateful she allowed me to use her work not just on the cover but throughout the book. Her paintings add a whole other depth to my words.
I know her work is so expressive. Just looking at the faces can make me smile or weep. Congrats on the book Melanie