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I grew up in northeast Baltimore.
I discovered journalism in a college class. The first thing I learned was how not to get sued. Then I learned the good stuff: lede, story, structure.
I spent six years as a reporter for The Virginian-Pilot
in Norfolk and alt-weekly Style in Richmond.
I wrote about senators, centenarians, Confederates,
mutant catfish and the trial of Beltway sniper
Lee Boyd Malvo.
I won 17 awards from the Virginia Press Association.
I spent four years as a copywriter and editor.
I learned how to write lean.
I married an artist.
Then I wrote Pussy.
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Pussy sprang from these two things.
I always thought men and women were essentially the same. Then I found that the world of men is wild and dark; much darker than women are willing to accept.
And I began to seek out those among us who are born not right: those men and women who are dogged lifelong by terrible urges and yet never carry them out. They limp through life unnoticed, struggling to function with broken machinery.
They may, in fact, be saints – not for what they did, but for what they did not do.
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My next novel is called "The End."
Jonah Miller is a meth-addicted messiah who wishes the world would just hurry up and end.
His great-times-six grandfather predicted it would happen in
1840, working his Millerite followers into a frenzy. Each generation since has tried and failed to summon the apocalypse. Now his father's dying, leaving Jonah to lead the last straggling remnants of the family cult to Rapture.
Jonah wants to up and leave it all: the shabby Appalachian
campground, the hapless followers and the empty rituals.
He gets his chance when his first love returns: the daughter of the cult's enforcer, who fled the church when she was 17.
But what if his insomniac visions are true, and he is the appointed prophet after all?
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Melissa Scott Sinclair is one of the short story authors featured in Richmond Macabre, a new collection of horror stories from the River City that hits bookstores in October 2011.
"Fifteen tales of ghosts, vampires, zombies, and unnamable terrors that dare you to peer into the shadows of the River City, but you must first be certain you are prepared to glimpse the horrors that lie within."
See richmondmacabre.com for details on book signings and other events.
UPCOMING APPEARANCES IN RICHMOND, VIRGINIA:
Sunday, October 2, 2011
2-4 p.m.
Launch Party and Reading at the Edgar Allan Poe Museum
1914-16 E. Main Street
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Book Fair to benefit the Edgar Allan Poe Museum
10 a.m.-1 p.m.
Barnes & Noble
Chesterfield Towne Center
Friday, October 28, 2011
12:30-2:30 p.m.
Mid-Day Macabre at the Fountain Bookstore
1312 East Cary Street
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Melissa Scott Sinclair is represented by Penn Whaling at the Ann Rittenberg Literary Agency.
To learn more about the book, contact the author.
Ann Rittenberg Literary Agency, Inc.
15 Maiden Lane, Suite 206
New York, NY 10038
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