Melissa DeCarlo, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books http://booksbywomen.org/author/melissadecarldo/ Tue, 15 Dec 2015 13:11:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Five Things Writing Taught Me About Life https://booksbywomen.org/five-things-writing-taught-me-about-life/ https://booksbywomen.org/five-things-writing-taught-me-about-life/#comments Tue, 15 Dec 2015 07:59:41 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=14568 Playing it safe isn’t always safe. Mattie, the narrator of The Art of Crash Landing is a very flawed, not always likeable character. I’ve had people ask me why I took that risk, and while I understand what they mean, I’m not convinced that using a polite, affable main character would necessarily have been safer. […]

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