In case it isn’t obvious (and you never know with Melenorians), the name of the person pictured above is Holli.

Long ago, before the ubiquity of cellphones and social media, she was born on planet earth, and she grew up there (Actually, she still lives there, contrary to what some might think.) eating all the usual things that people in her country eat (minus cole slaw, sloppy joes, and pickled beets, if she could help it).

As time went on, it became evident that she should write, and so she began buying little blank books, disappearing to bedrooms or maple tree limbs, and putting words in them.

One night after a friend’s birthday party as she ran around with the other children, she overheard a group of men discussing “the world wide web.” It was the first she ever heard of the internet, and little did she know then what role it would come to play in her writing career. (It is now all she has left after losing the Tom Howard/Margaret Reid poetry contest … again).

As many people do, she attended college.

Now, it happened on a certain day that she became acquainted with an Ethan. Now, this was not the first Ethan she had met, and it certainly would not be the last, but I think it was probably the only one of all those Ethans that liked writing and all its subsidiaries as much–if not more–than she did. Whatever the case, it was most definitely the only Ethan Talbert.

They became friends.

Melenoria was founded.

And they wrote.

As to things she particularly likes, they are as follows:

• Old Books
• Wildflowers
• Cello music
• Letters
• Nature
• Writing (surprise, surprise)
• Reading
• Crocheting
• Staying home

(This is not an exhaustive list. We would need a few dozen journals for that.)

As to things she does not like, writing bios may (ironically) be at the top of the list.