Melody Meiners Author

04/10/2020

How has COVID-19 impacted your business's marketing messaging? I've worked with several clients to help adjust strategy, messaging, and public responses to the pandemic - crafting blog posts, newsletter items, and creating resident banner messaging. It's been a rewarding challenge so far.

12/19/2018

After close to ten years making the soup on my own, I accepted an offer to start writing for MarketPlace, the Food Marketing Agency beginning January 8th.

I've loved working for myself, and it afforded me the opportunity to be with my kids while they were in my house All. The. Time. But when both kids started school full-time, I wondered what I wanted to do now that I was grown up.

When MarketPlace approached me, I thought it would be fun to meet them and see what other writers were doing. When I got there, I was wowed. I knew I wasn't going to start looking for any job, I wanted that job.

I will still be a writer. I will get to meet with food scientists and go full nerd; I will work with a team whose work has already blown me away; I will get to bury myself in research and turn it into stories. This is my wheelhouse, Y'all.

They even appreciated when I geeked out during the meeting over Neil Gaiman describing someone's writing as having "potato-chippy words."

I think I found a place.

10/25/2018

College application deadlines are looming. If you or someone you know has a high school senior who needs help with a personal statement/essay, I'm your girl!

02/23/2018

I think Gail Simone would approve.

And it looks like Warner Bros. is interested

02/23/2018

Speaking of adaptations...What was your favorite book as a kid and how would you cast (or recast) the adaptation?

02/22/2018

What is the best "based on a book" adaptation you've discovered in 2018?

Mine? American Gods on STARZ. Holy ____.

02/20/2018

Join me Tuesday, March 6 @ 6pm - St. Louis Community College–Meramec -

The Princess & The Crone...
Fairy Tales are the first contact we have with social boundaries and expectations. They are the first memes and scholars say they have more power than even codified law. Through lecture, discussion, and readings we will deconstruct the structure, themes, symbols and social messages in our most beloved fairy tales both yesterday and today.

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02/16/2018

Just stumbled across a great book event going on this weekend in St Louis and wanted to share with all the Bookish out there.

SLCL presents an evening with the Booker Prize winning author of "Lincoln in the Bardo"

02/06/2018

Well hello there, friend. I am playing around with this website stuff and just launched a mailing list. I'm going to start sharing stuff that excites me, news about things I'm publishing and events I'm speaking at, the whole drill... Would you like to join this little list of mine??

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08/03/2016

When I'm not ghostwriting, I occasionally have the opportunity to write for publications. Here's a recent profile I wrote about the youngest member of the Daniel Webster Society at Webster University for the "Glimpse" alumni magazine.

http://www.websterglimpse.com/summer-2016/paying-it-forward-paying-it-back?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork

03/15/2016

Looking for a way to shake some rust off, or want to talk shop? I am teaching these classes for St. Louis Community College Meramec CE program this summer. Call for registration information, or message me if you have a question.