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Hello everyone! As you've probably noticed I am not currently posting or updating my fanfictions. I have no idea when/if this will resume but it is very likely not going to be for quite some time. I have started to publish my original works. My first novel, Reboot, is out now! It's a sci-fi post-apocalyptic/dystopian Last Man on Earth meets Groundhog Day/Edge of Tomorrow.

My second book, the first of a high fantasy saga, will be out soon!

Also, look for some OCs of mine that have appeared here to appear in some of my original fiction!

You'll notice the Human Heart is no longer on this site. I am expanding and rewriting it into an original piece, with my alien species the rakir taking the place of the fanfic's big baddies. Don't worry: Parry and Ray will still be there :D

Also, at least one particular character (I won't say which!) will be one of the main characters in my cyberpunk novel VirtuoCity: a tale of a grim and gritty future where Earth has become an acid-soaked climate disaster, forcing human cities under domes or underground, and into the arms of both chemical and cybernetic escape. Another familiar OC might just show up, too!

*IMPORTANT NOTES: Please read before you DM me!*

I am not at this time looking for cover artists or illustrators! I *am* an artist as well, and have other artists already that I am working with. If you want to do some artwork or illustrations of any of my fanfiction or original works because you enjoy them or love the characters, have at! I encourage it! However I am not at this time commissioning or interested in commissioning any artwork.

I know the first chapter of the first DE story says that it was posted on a mirror site with some deleted scenes and harder language. That mirror site no longer exists and hasn't for years. I will go in sometime when I have a chance and change that author's note, but the mirror version of DE no longer exists.

For those concerned that these stories would disappear off of this website and be lost, rest assured: I have back up copies upon back up copies. I have entertained the notion of going back in and giving all of them a heavy edit (especially the first one, which needs to be almost entirely rewritten), but if that happens it won't be any time soon. But I have no plans as of right now to remove the DE series, DA series, or Destiny series from this site.

Also, unless we're good friends, please do not send me materials to read or edit. Please do not send me a premise for a story and ask me to write it for you. It's not that I'm not willing to do these things or trying to be a jerk, it's that my time is finite. I can either spend it writing my own work or I can spend it beta reading and editing other people's work. If I do that, I'm no longer a writer, I'm an editor.

If you have a fabulous idea for a story...by all means, write it! No one can write your story but you.

While I write it, I actually avoid reading fanfic completely since my novel came out. So please, I mean no offense if you want me to read a fanfic - I'm sure its fabulous! However for my own sanity and to avoid any possible unconscious thievery (on my part), I stay firmly out of the reader space when it comes to fanfic.

About me and my writing:

I am working steadily on my original fic, and there is a lot of it! This is not to say I will never write fanfic again/won't ever finish the ones I have in process, but I can promise nothing at this time, and nothing coming anytime soon as far as fanfic. Please be patient with me.

I have been writing stories since I was five years old. I am a writer, it’s what I am, what I do, and what I can’t live without.

My genres are speculative fiction: horror, fantasy, sci-fi, and magical realism. I rarely have more than a basic premise in mind when I write and I tend to let the characters and tale tell me where it wants to go. I’m a huge believer in the fact that stories already exist, it’s simply up to the writer to bring them to life. You will find that I write a lot of (hopefully) strong female characters. Most, if not all of my stories will have LGBT representation of some kind, and I strive to be diverse in my writing and my characters when it comes to race, ethnicity, background, mental, and physical health/ability.

I have written in partnership with the very talented Carissa Starr (check out her book, When Comes the Firetide: Inundation, if you're a fan of dark, heavy fantasy with conlags) and have written in partnership with others.

I’m not out to make money at this (though it would be nice if I could make a living). I write because I must, and writing is never complete unless there is a reader to take the story in.

I have decided to write my original fiction under the same nom de plume I use here, Melara Dark, for various and complicated reasons. My debut, Reboot, is out now! You can get it on ebook pretty much everywhere. Print in both hard and soft cover are available on the 'Zon (for now).

My second novel, Vhantalya, a clockpunk high fantasy is just about to go to ARCs and will be released within the next couple of months, so stay tuned for that!

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