Aside from hitting the USA Today Bestselling List 5 times, sweet romance author Melissa Storm runs several successful publishing-related businesses. Her debut cozy mystery series under her pen name Molly Fitz also recently hit the list. Today, she will talk about how she gets all of it done, her advice […]
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Allison Hong Merrill is an award-winning author in both Chinese and English. Her essays won Grand Prize in the 2019 MAST People of Earth writing contest, first place in the 2019 Segullah Journal writing contest, third place in the 2015 Storymakers Conference First Chapter Contest, Honorable Mention in the 79th […]
Q&A: Writing the Truth with Allison Hong Merrill Recently updated !
I wanted to write this post last night, but it was already late, and post-midnight musings can sometimes spell trouble. I’d been thinking about running for re-election for several months now, clear back in December. I was looking ahead in my publishing schedule but wasn’t entirely sure yet if I […]
City Council or Writing?
My family and I traveled through Korea for two weeks, and it was amazing. Koreans are wonderful and hospitable people, but the food there was a challenge for me. Our hosts fed us full meals almost every day. Even eating out was not a simple affair, meat and rice heavy. […]
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I don’t know all the details of his story but his gaunt cheekbones and subdued manner spoke volumes. I could only imagine what he’d had to endure fleeing North Korea after he was exposed helping others defect, hiding out in the mountains, and then leaving behind his wife and children […]
Korean Day 13
We are in Seoul, where we’ll spend two days before heading home. My husband Drew is back after 30 years, when he once served for two years as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Many of the buildings he used to pass are no longer […]
Korea Day 12
Set off early into yet another great-weather day on Jeju Island. The plan was for us to go to the Hello Kitty Museum (more about this and my HK obsession in a bit), but we had a few stops first. We were passing through an area on Jeju Island when […]
Korea Day 11
Our first order of the day was to go to this fun indoor maze, where we teamed up to complete an obstacle course and did a ten-minute one individually. What a hoot…and a workout! The girls and Drew placed in the top 10 in their age groups. Aftwerwards, we hiked […]
Korea Day 10
Traveling often delivers surprises. Take for instance our arriving back to our Airbnb yesterday to discover that we were sharing a three-bedroom unit with a family of small children and a group of young men. Our hostess asked us about having one of the young men into our bedroom of […]
Korea Day 9
What a beautiful Sunday. With a slightly overcast sky, the new day dawned. We attended a ward in Gwangju. I was invited to bear my testimony and instead ended up teaching a Sunday School Gospel Essentials class with some members who are from the Philippines as well as a ward […]
