melissa embry's blog

 New year, new resolutions -- to get back to blogging! 2025 was a busy, wonderful, terrible, happy, sad year, and I'm ready for a rechar...

For years, I've posted results of one of the most-anticipated events of the annual DFW Writers Conference : the Query Gong Show. And don...

 For some creatures, hibernation is a winter event. For Texans, it occurs during the deadly heat of late summer. But while I've struggle...

I was ready to post about the annual DFW Writers Conference, October 4-5, when a related post hit my inbox: a contest for a scholarship to t...

 Hot or cold, sunny or dry, no matter the seasons, there's aways time for writing that works out our story muscles. Here's a samplin...