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My new novel, THE SECRET OF JOY, is out and about at bookstores! Getting great reviews on Amazon!! Hope you'll check it out: http://lnk.ms/33vVtPosted at 3:12 PM Nov 18 view more

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  • Melissa Senate

  • 44 / Female
  • Maine, US
  • Last Login: 12/8/2009

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Interests

  • General

    I love: spending time with my wonderful little guy, reading, reading and more reading, and of course, writing.

  • Music

    I like everything I hear on the radio, except for depressing 70s songs like Dust In The Wind, which for some reason is always played on Maine radio. Love David Gray, Dido, Ray La Montange, Sarah McLachlan, Rihanna, Mary K. Blige, Bruce, Neil Young.

  • Movies

    My favorite movie of all time is Annie Hall. Close second is Crossing Delancey. The last movie I saw that I loved like mad was The Station Agent.

  • Television

    Okay, I have to watch Glee. I have to turn on the TV, period (I used to watch all the good, fun stuff and now have missed everything everyone's talking about). For some reason, I've totally stopped watching TV, except for the Rachel Maddow show. I bow down to Rachel Maddow.

  • Books

    I love all types of fiction and non-fiction, but especially chick lit and young adult novels (since I write them myself). Some of my favorite books are: Sophie's Choice; A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (the only book that has ever actually made me cry); Anne of Green Gables; Breakfast At Tiffanys; all of Judy Blume's books; Operating Instructions; Bridget Jones's Diary; Tales of the City; The Friends; Bird By Bird; all of Lorrie Moore's short stories; all of Pam Houston's short stories and essays; Slouching Toward Bethlehem; Educating Esme; Pride and Prejudice; Mothers Who Think; Making A Literary Life; Then She Found Me; The Accidental Tourist; Waiting To Exhale; Disappearing Acts; Interpreter of Maladies; everything by Sarah Dessen, but particularly Keeping The Moon and That Summer; The Bitch In The House. Anything by: Anne Tyler, Pam Houston, Jill McCorkle, Elizabeth Berg, Elinor Lipman, Jennifer Weiner, Anne Lamott.

  • Heroes

    If I could have lunch with anyone in the world right now, it would be Anne Lamott. And President Obama.

Details

  • Status: Single
  • Here for: Networking
  • Religion: Jewish
  • Zodiac Sign: Leo
  • Children: Proud parent
  • Education: College graduate
  • Occupation: Writer

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  • Melissa Senate My new novel, THE SECRET OF JOY, is out and about at bookstores! Getting great reviews on Amazon!! Hope you'll check it out: http://lnk.ms/33vVt
    Posted at 3:12 PM Nov 18

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About me:

I'm the author of 8 novels, including my debut, SEE JANE DATE and my shiny new novel, THE SECRET OF JOY (coming November 17, 2009 from Simon & Schuster). THE SECRET OF JOY is about a 28 year old New Yorker named Rebecca who discovers she has a half-sister she never knew existed. Off she goes to a small coastal town in Maine to find her, but she's not exactly warmly welcomed...except by some quirky townspeople and a sexy carpenter... And coming next June (2010) is THE MOSTS, my second novel for teens, about a group of misfits who hire Most Popular to keep them off the Not list. For more info, check out my website: melissasenate.com..

I'm also the author of:

SEE JANE DATE (the very cute TV movie version is available on DVD!): One woman, lots of bad blind dates.

THE SOLOMON SISTERS WISE UP: Three adult sisters sharing one bedroom?

WHOSE WEDDING IS IT ANYWAY?: A bride-to-be plans her free wedding (no such thing!)

THE BREAKUP CLUB: 4 coworkers talk about their love lives instead of work.

THEODORA TWIST, my first novel for teens!: Teen movie queen moves in with ordinary girl... The trade paperback edition will be published in November! Publishers Weekly says: "Senate sets up a tantalizing premise, and the plot is equally entertaining."

LOVE YOU TO DEATH, a fun mystery about a woman whose worst ex-boyfriends are on someone's hit list. Hot Portland (Maine, not Oregon!) police detective thinks that someone is Abby herself). "Readers will cheer Abby every step of the way as she tries to clear her name and find her prince for whom her glass slipper will finally fit." --PUBLISHERS WEEKLY.

QUESTIONS TO ASK BEFORE MARRYING, about twin sisters on a long and bumpy road trip from Maine to Las Vegas, where one may or may not get married (not if the other has anything to say about it, is a 2008 RT Magazine Nominee for Best Chick Lit Novel!

Check out my essays in these two anthologies:

--IT'S A WONDERFUL LIE: 26 Truths About Life In Your Twenties.
--EVERYTHING I NEEDED TO KNOW ABOUT BEING A GIRL I LEARNED FROM JUDY BLUME

I'm a former book editor (romance novels and young adult) turned full-time writer who lives on the southern coast of Maine, and I have an adorable seven-year-old son and two witchy black cats.

Check out my website: ..melissasenate.com..

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