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The Meld: Magic, Please
by Kelley Kay Bowles
GENRE: Young Adult Paranormal
PUBLICATION DATE: 07/03/2022
DESCRIPTION:
The Meld, an otherworldly group of six, has gathered in the past millennium to bestow gifts on the most interesting of all populations: adolescents. The Meld members comprise a yin/yang of deadly behaviors which qualified their membership: half took lives for noble reasons, half for selfish ones. They completed their circle with Delilah Mackley in 1962 and have since been operating at full strength to give a supernatural gift to their chosen charges. This time, they choose Colorado sophomore Millie Mahoney.
The murder of Millie’s mother and the resultant self-destruction of her father have rendered her life chaotic, which Millie fights by immersing herself in her great passion: words and their power. The Meld gives her the ability for her words to become real:
Everything she writes comes true.
While she’s too smart to bring her mother back to life, Millie does look for a way to heal her family … and maybe catch the loving attention of Derek Samson while she’s at it.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Kelley (Kelley Kaye, Kelley Kay Bowles, Kelley Gusich) taught High School English and Drama for twenty years in Colorado and California, but a 1994 diagnosis of multiple sclerosis has brought her (circuitously and finally) to the life of writer and mother, both of which she adores.
Her love for storytelling dates back to creating captions for her high school yearbook. Maybe back to the tales she created around her Barbie and Ken. Whatever the origins, she is compelled. Twitterpated. Obsessed.
Kelley has two amazing sons and an incredible husband who cooks for her. She lives in Southern California.
REVIEWS:
"This was a book about life and loss, order and chaos, and especially moving from the past to the future, and I definitely walked away with a great swell of feelings. If you love YA fantasy packed with great lore and emotion, definitely come rewrite reality with The Meld!" -Joshua Grant, author of The Fifth Ascendant and Pandora.
COMPARATIVE FILM/BOOK:
Any of the 'Guardians of the Galaxy' movies have the combination of Anytown, U.S.A. and outer space-ish locations
CASTING:
Jensen Ackles as Lincoln Mahoney AND William of The Meld. Chloe Grace Moretz as Tory Parker. Will Estes as Mr. Anderson AND Hans. Aubrey Anderson-Emmons as Millie Mahoney
PRIMARY VENUES/LOCATIONS WITHIN THE BOOK:
Meld members live in the 'Otherworld', Millie lives in a fictional town in the Mountain West called Pinewood, Colorado (based on a combination South Lake Tahoe and Grand Junction, Colorado
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