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  • Melvin Burgess

  • 55 / Male
  • Hebden Bridge, Northwest, UK
  • Last Login: 7/6/2009

Interests

  • General

    Check out the blog - I'm writing about the launch of Nicholas Dane. And other stuff. I love reading, obviously, and all forms of stories - story telling, films, TV, you name it. I love wildlife - I feed the birds in my garden and get woodpecIers, nuthatches and all sorts - that makes me very happy. i love walking - usualy around Chorlten water park and other sites around the river Mersy, but somtimes futher afield, in the Peaks or round about Manchester. And cooking - you have to eat, so you might as well make a meal of it. I spend ages shopping for stuff and preparing food.

  • Music

    Not a lot just now, I'm bored with all my music. Anyone got any suggestions?

  • Movies

    Let the right One In - great.

  • Television

    Tv's a bit of a disapointment at the moment. I liked Dexter. Where's he gone?

  • Books

    At the mo, Patrick gale. I'm gtting a bit fed though - he's so arch all the time.

  • Heroes

    Muhammad Ali, Nelson Mandala, Gandhi

Details

  • Status: In a Relationship
  • Here for: Friends
  • Zodiac Sign: Taurus
  • Children: Proud parent
  • Occupation: Writer

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  • Melvin Burgess Rippnig the garden to pieces - it's looking good. I have a log cabin coming on Monday.
    at 3:34 PM Jul 4
  • Melvin Burgess feeling perky, my dears.
    at 10:32 AM Jun 11
  • Melvin Burgess waking up and getting nervous before an eent in Leeds ...
    Mood: dorky dorky
    at 6:25 AM Jun 10
  • Melvin Burgess Just remembering where I am in this book. What's it to you?
    Mood: anxious anxious
    at 8:01 AM Jun 8
  • Melvin Burgess frying my cat
    Mood: vibrant vibrant
    at 4:32 PM Jun 5

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About me:

Apologies apologies to everyone who wrote over the past year or so ... I was absant without leave from MySpace. Truth is, I got a bit over whealmed with stuff on Beebo, facebook, my website adn all that - so I stopped nearly all of it. But here I am again - prompted I must admit by me new book out. I promise to stay here this time. Got me noo book out June 4th - Nickolas Dane. Big book, big scale, big characters. It's all about a boy, his mum dies and finds himself without a carer. Social serices put him into a children's home. This is in the mid eighties, and we all know the dreadful things that happened in children's homes during that period. The book is based on interviews with people who were actually in those places at that time, and the thing that impresed me was that tehy weren't people with wrecked lives - they were in there trying to escape adn grab what they could of life. The book is harrowing, obhviously, but it tries to get that spirit across. Nickolas Dane, published by Andersen Press, ISBN 978-1-84270-181-2 ..

Who I'd like to meet:

Anyone with something to say

Comments

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  • Beatrice

    Jun 19 2009 7:23 AM

    Really enjoyed JUNK.  Best book I have read for a long time:)
  • Alec

    Jun 10 2009 6:42 PM

    I truly loved the book Doing It.
  • Cylindric_ChasmDanielle Johnson

    Jun 5 2009 5:54 PM

    In my opinion, "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" is the best album..
  • Cylindric_ChasmDanielle Johnson

    Jun 5 2009 8:28 AM


    Music Recomendations

    You may like it, you may not, but my two all-time favorite bands are Smashing Pumpkins and Deftones, in fact, i read "Smack "(U.S ...yeah) in english class where we had to create a music compilation that shared a theme with the novel, i used nothing but Smashing Pumpkins and among my favs is "Stumbleine." The song lyrics are really beautiful if you think about the novel while reading it, great poetry in my opinion and for me that's what music is all about

    "Stumbleine" - Smashing Pumpkins

    Boredoms in the bathroom shaking out the loose teeth
    Sally's in the stirrups claiming her destiny
    And nobody nowhere understands anything
    About me and all my dreams
    Lost at sea
    Jack it up judy set your heart alight
    Mayfair mistress of the satellites
    Misspent youth- faking up a rampage
    To hold off the real slaves
    Paid off and staid
    And what you never knew
    Can never get to you
    So fake it
    I'll be your stumbleine
    I'll be your super queen
    And make you
    Jukebox fuckup hanging round the drugstore
    No matter what you say he'll be back for more
    Mommy's in the manger with the little kids
    She's got her reasons, got my forgets
    Of tears and idle threats
    Misplaced
    And no matter what they do
    They can't get to you
    So fake it I'll be your stumbleine
    I'll be your super queen
    And make you me
    Come around ruby
    I could never sleep alone    HTML scrollbox"Thirty-Thre
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  • Cylindric_ChasmDanielle Johnson

    May 28 2009 9:37 AM

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    THANX 4 THE ADD!!!



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  • Catherine

    May 28 2009 8:55 AM

    I'm fine! Thank you for asking and I hope you're fine too.

    I really love the pic of you with your girl on an elephant, I saw it on facebook! Wonderful!
    You went in Nepal to live or just for holiday? It must be an incredible country.

    Thank you not to forget me, I'm glad!

    I will get the new book you wrote, Nicholas Dane, probably not in french I guess. It will help me to get a better english and I fear I need it!

    Kisses from Paris.
  • adrienne*Adrienne Harper

    Apr 26 2009 1:14 AM

    Happy Birthday!
  • Catherine

    Jan 19 2009 9:00 AM

    One year without connection!!

    C'mon!!

    Hope everything's fine.

    Kiss from Paris.
  • tayquaketurboTaylor Howlett

    May 8 2008 8:13 PM

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  • Cornflejks

    Apr 25 2008 8:52 PM

    Happy b-day, Melvin!

    carpe diem ;)
  • Ghosty;

    Apr 25 2008 8:26 PM

    Happy Birthday!
  • Mandy

    Apr 24 2008 6:19 PM

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY MELVIN! HOPE IT'S GREAT.
  • Mrs Von Lee

    Apr 24 2008 11:30 AM



    Happy Birthday For Tomorrow!

    XxGenxX
  • Joanna Kenrick

    Apr 3 2008 9:13 AM

    Hi Melvin, just to let you know I've booked to hear your talk at the Oxford Literary Festival on Sunday - look forward to meeting you! VERY much enjoyed Sara's Face recently, an extraordinary tale and sadly reflective of our image-obsessed society.
    Best wishes, Jo
  • Mandy

    Mar 14 2008 4:08 PM

    Are you like me? Take my "Just for fun!" Quiz to find out!
  • andrew

    Mar 6 2008 1:23 PM

    hey Mel, Reading bloodtide for the second time.....never ever read a book twice before. well done mate....bloodsong will be read again.
    do another....you know you want to
  • tayquaketurboTaylor Howlett

    Jan 19 2008 4:57 PM

    I read Smack last year and absolutely loved it. I went to the library again a few weeks ago because I just HAD to read it again. Then I saw Sara's Face on display. I was like "Ohhh, Melvin Burgess!" so I checked it out and read it in a few days :D
    I'm going to make my mom buy them if I can find them in a bookstore around here (:
  • Kirsty☮Kirsty Marshall

    Jan 19 2008 11:56 AM

    Ahh 'Junk' is my favourite book! I could read it forever, I seriously think they should make it into a film! :)
    what do you think?
  • jason

    Jan 2 2008 2:03 PM

    i hope your writing somthing as good as blood tide or blood song i love your books
  • Vybornova Kristina - wr…Kristina Vybornova

    Jan 2 2008 12:45 AM

  • the bRoWn

    Nov 15 2007 8:22 PM

    hey man how you been? wrote anything new lately? i need to pick up a good book to calm my stress levels.
  • Marj

    Nov 15 2007 3:20 PM

    Hello! Thank you very much for adding me, you're my favourite:) Don't know if I love Junk or Bloodtide more!

    Have you got any new works in the pipeline? I hope so! x
  • LiviLivi Kendall

    Nov 14 2007 4:22 PM

    i read 'smack' (the american version of 'junk') a couple of years ago, and i loved it. you're a truly inspired writer, and inspire me to write too.

    i also noticed on the front of 'feed' by M.T. Anderson that you'd reviewed it, that book made me cry!

    anyhow, thank you for adding me! :)
  • joshuaJosh Barton

    Nov 14 2007 12:06 PM

    Lets begin with the conventional way of doing things on Myspace shall we?

    Thank you so much for adding me :D

    anyway,

    I haven't known of your work for that long to be honest, but what I have read I've been very impressed and it has urged me to pursue a carreer based around literature and creativity

    for that

    Thank you very much and I guess all I can say is i look forward to the next one :D

    josh xxxx