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Nov.16.2012
I woke up yesterday and started my morning ritual of networking for my “Dizzy Sushi” Kickstarter campaign and was flooded with news about the IDF attacks, unemployment rates, further suffering on the East coast, and I thought, How can I ask for pledges for one small book to be published? There are...
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Nov.15.2012
Maybe you've been there: Your Kickstarter campaign to launch your first book is in its final days, and you are hovering around 40% funded. You have a handful of people who have promised to kick in at the end, but it IS the end, and where are they? Pouting over an election outcome? Without...
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Oct.31.2009
A severed finger bleeding on a bed of ice in a waxed paper cup. The image came to mind as I lay on my bed, fully clothed, waiting for the kids to brush their teeth. I wasn't asleep, just exhausted and catching a quick rest before bedtime stories.
The finger image held the full gamut of backstory:...
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Aug.13.2009
Here in Santa Fe, you have to have a second (or third) job that supports your art and does good in the world. My daughter calls these "Superhero Jobs." Sometimes the name fits because your first job is working at a newspaper, like Peter Parker and Clark Kent.
At my last web-design job,...
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About Melissa J
Melissa J White is an award-winning writer and designer living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her narrative non-fiction essays, interviews, poetry and short fiction have been published in Whole Earth Review, THE Magazine, Indian Artist Magazine, the Santa Fe...