Melissa Maygrove

  This is my   Insecure Writers Support Group   post for August 2026. Alex's awesome co-hosts this month  are: Shannon Lawrence, Diedre Knight,   Liza, & Pat Garcia! Please stop by their blogs and say thank you .  💻💻💻💻💻 Before I get to this month's question, I have something to share. I had the pleasure of being interviewed by VoyageRaleigh as part of their Hidden Gems series. The article includes what inspired me to become an author and the not-so-easy road that brought me where I am today. Oh, and apologies for the big head. No, really. My headshot's so huge it borders on scary. LOL VoyageRaleigh Interview with Melissa Maygrove ~~~ August question: As a writer/author what is something you regret? Or something that you wish you'd done differently in your writing process? I honestly don't regret anything about my writing process itself.  Like any new complex learning curve,  it had to evolve over time. I suppose I could have accepted cert...

  This is my   Insecure Writers Support Group   post for February 2025. Alex's awesome co-hosts this month  are:  Joylene Nowell Butler, Louise Barbour, & Tyrean Martinson! Please stop by their blogs and say thank you .  💻💻💻💻💻 February 5 question - Is there a story or book you've written you wish you could go back and change? The short answer is no. Nothing significant about them, anyway. The first two novels I ever wrote got put aside for years. I debuted with #3 and published #4 as my second. By the time I went back to publish the first two (under a different pen name), they had gone through countless edits, and I hadn't seen them in years. I had become a better writer by then, and thanks to them being shelved for so long, I was able to be much more objective and polish them up quite a bit.  They don't get rave reviews like my westerns, but they are wayyy better than their original versions.  I'm lucky I had the self-awareness - and th...