Official Author Website of Melissa McPhail

Heidi here, for Melissa. It’s well past time for an update, I know, and I finally have one for you. Disclaimer: I am not a writer, not like Melissa was. But I am a lifelong passionate appreciat...

https://www.melissamcphail.com/next-steps/

How to write on behalf of an extraordinary and beloved writer? I am not Melissa, but I am sharing Melissa’s news. Please bear with me. My heart is broken with her passing, a pain I know many of...

https://www.melissamcphail.com/the-update-melissa-could-not-write/

I never like posting to my blog when I haven’t really got much news, but since so many of you are asking for an update, I guess it’s time to provide some sort of reassurance about book six i...

https://www.melissamcphail.com/how-book-six-is-going/

I know how tracking so many of you are with the series, so I wanted to bring you up to speed on where book six stands now. I’ll go on the record here and say definitively that two books are nee...

https://www.melissamcphail.com/how-book-six-is-changing/

I know you’re all saying, “Melissa, it’s been a year already since The Sixth Strand released. Where the heck is book six?” The answer is that I’m about 500 pages into the manuscript and...

https://www.melissamcphail.com/book-six-and-story-threads/

I began my publishing journey in 2010 when Cephrael’s Hand first found its way into print with a hand-drawn map and a cover I created in photoshop. The world of independent publishing back then...

https://www.melissamcphail.com/gratitude-for-a-decade-of-publishing/

*******THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR ANYONE WHO HAS NOT FINISHED PATHS OF ALIR****** My first blog post (in 2014) on the topic of Isabel and Pelas in Paths of Alir generally concerned a miscomm...

https://www.melissamcphail.com/regarding-isabel-and-pelas-in-paths-of-alir-2019/

I’ve finally gotten confirmation that The Sixth Strand, A Pattern of Shadow & Light Book Five will release on Audible on December 30th, 2019. Nick completed recording of the book in early Septe...

https://www.melissamcphail.com/book-five-audible-release-date/

It’s September so that means it’s probably time for an update. Make sure you’re signed up for my mailing list if you want to be notified of future releases. Okay, on to business. I’ve bee...

https://www.melissamcphail.com/will-there-be-a-book-six-in-a-pattern-of-shadow-light/

While I know many of you are enjoying my series on Audible (which is read by the extremely talented Nick Podehl, who does an incredible job of pronouncing the many incomprehensible names I’ve c...

https://www.melissamcphail.com/dhabubalajisrid_-wtf/