I started writing at a time when heroines in YA were just not measuring up. YABC: What gave you the inspiration to write Emerge: The Awakening? In her spare time, if she has any, she enjoys shopping for derelict furniture she refinishes to exercise the interior design part of her brain. She worked as an interior designer for several years, but she’s always thought she might like to be a writer when she grows up. She is an avid student of art and design, and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of West Georgia in 2009.

She does everything backwards because she is weird like that, but then, she is an artist and artists are notoriously “unique” and “quirky.” Melissa decided a long time ago that the “life checklist” everyone else was clutching so tightly in their fists, just wasn’t for her. Today, she is back in Atlanta-for some reason she can’t seem to stay away from the ungodly heat that makes her long for things like “lake effect snow” and wind that will knock you flat. She still thinks of Cleveland as home, so it was only natural for Emerge to take place there. Craven (the “A” stands for Ann-in case you were wondering) was born near Atlanta, Georgia, but moved to Cleveland, Ohio at the age of seventeen. Introducing Melissa Craven, YABC’s Author of the Week!! We will also be hosting a giveaway of the book we are highlighting!! But through it, Breen Siobhan Kelly will take the next step on the journey to becoming all that she was born to be.Welcome to our weekly special feature post, Author Of The Week!!Įach week we will be interviewing a different YA author and highlighting their upcoming release! There will be losses and sorrows, betrayal and bloodshed. Her grandfather, the outcast god Odran, plots to destroy Talamh-and now all must unite to defeat his dark forces. Keegan has trained Breen as a warrior, and his yearning for her has grown along with his admiration of her strength and skills.īut one member of Breen’s bloodline is not there to embrace her. Marco is welcomed kindly by her people-and by Keegan, leader of the Fey. Here she is learning to embrace the powers of her true identity. In Talamh, Breen is not the ordinary young schoolteacher he knew her as. She has just returned to Talamh, with her friend, Marco, who’s dazzled and disoriented by this realm-a place filled with dragons and faeries and mermaids (but no WiFi, to his chagrin). But some can walk between the two-including Breen Siobhan Kelly.

The world of magick and the world of man have long been estranged from one another. A new epic of love and war among gods and humans, from Nora Roberts-the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Awakening.

The Awakening by Melissa A. Craven