Melissa Maygrove

  This is my   Insecure Writers Support Group   post for April 2026. Alex's awesome co-hosts this month  are:    Cathrina Constantine,   Kate Larkinsdale,   Rebecca Douglass  & me! Please stop by their blogs and say thank you .  💻💻💻💻💻 I have so much to post about this month, I don't know where to start!  I'll begin by answering this month's question. If you have a playlist (or could put one together) that either gets you in the groove to write or fits with one of your books, what is it? What type of music or what songs? Sometimes I search instrumental music scores that fit the mood of my WIP and listen for a bit, but I write better with brown noise in the background. It keeps my mind from wandering, and using it consistently reduces distractions and increases my word count. If you'd like to try it, here's the YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpARSyDLKes  It's 8 hours long and has very rare ad interruption....

Book one in my new series is up for preorder! When duty called, love paid the price. Former Union Army lieutenant Jackson Maguire returns to his war-torn hometown wounded, weary, and ready to claim the woman he loves, if she’ll have him. But before he can seek permission from her father, a crisis of honor obliterates his plans. Caroline Bennet has loved Jackson Maguire for as long as she can remember. When he shows up with eyes full of longing and devotion, she’s certain he’s about to propose... until he takes her sister as his wife instead. Jackson departs with his bride for a new life in Nebraska, leaving Caroline to soldier on in a suffocating fog of betrayal. Fate eventually reunites them, but will Jackson’s repentance and confession of his motives be enough to heal Caroline’s shattered heart? ### Sagebrush Springs will feature a long series of closed-door, western historical romances that are set post– Civil War.  To preorder In the Wake of Honor , click this  ...

H. R. Sinclair was kind enough to mention my new release on her blog. Please visit and   show her some blog love . :)

I'm just popping onto the blog to announce...  * cue fireworks & streamers *   Battered Pride  is published!   This enemies-to-lovers romance is available on Amazon  in paperback, e-book, and via Kindle Unlimited. Elizabeth Seckman gave my new book a shoutout today.  Please visit and show her some blog love . :)

  This is my   Insecure Writers Support Group   post for October 2024. Alex's awesome co-hosts this month  are:  Nancy Gideon,   Jennifer Lane, Jacqui Murray  & Natalie Aguirre! Please stop by their blogs and say thank you .  💻💻💻💻💻 I've got news! But first, this month's question... Ghost stories fit right in during this month. What's your favorite classic ghostly tale? Tell us about it and why it sends chills up your spine. I don't read or watch much scary stuff, because I don't enjoy being scared. If a movie is dark with things jumping out and startling me, I'll shut it off. In 1979, there was a movie titled When a Stranger Calls that creeped anyone of babysitting age the heck out. This was in the days of landlines, when many phones were still rotary dial. It's not a ghost story, but I'd have to list it as my scariest. In keeping with the Halloween theme... This month is the 7th anniversary of FULL DARK: A Benefit Anthology ! This colle...

Nick Wilford has a new book, and he's visiting today with an excerpt. How cool is that! ### Botilla woke up in the cramped hotel room where he’d been staying with his friends, Solomon and Crangle. He felt in his bones that he’d had enough, and surely the other two would agree. They didn’t have any pads, or anything fancy that the Harmonians had, but they did have a small TV in their room and they’d been watching the attacks on their countrymen with mounting horror. After seeing another three reported last night, by a newscaster who’d been grinning his head off, he’d fallen asleep and dreamed of Loretania, with towering buildings, a new sense of purpose, and people who loved and respected each other. It was definitely time to go home. Their lives were at stake here. Besides, the welcome sum they’d received when landing here – few Loretanians had carried any money with them, and it was still a relatively new concept – had almost dried up. As none of them had succeeded in finding work...

Could a fiercely independent cop’s heart be stolen by the guy who makes her favorite doughnuts? Will a maid who used deceit to snare a mail-order husband get a dose of her own medicine? Can her handsome neighbor rescue a modern-day “princess” from a tenacious ex-boyfriend? Can two strangers in a rideshare be honest enough to fall in love for real? You can get the answers to all those questions today! It's release day for the 7th annual Insecure Writer's Support Group anthology! First Love features the talents of Linda Budzinski, Melissa Maygrove, Michael Di Gesu, Sylvia Ney, Katie Klein, Kim Elliott, Templeton Moss, S.E. White, Denise Covey, and Sammi Spizziri. Hand-picked by a panel of agents and authors, these ten tales will touch your heart and rekindle lost feelings.  Prepare to return to that first love... ### First Love is published by Freedom Fox Press, an imprint of Dancing Lemur Press. Its collection of romance stories is clean and wholesome, and ranges from historic...