Whenever she gets some time, Melanie likes to try out new recipes in her kitchen, do some scrapbooking and make necklaces from paper beads. She has plans of involving with the orphanages for teenage girls in Moldova, Romania and Ukraine.

Apart from writing, Melanie is also planning to continue with her missionary work. Whenever she takes the pen in her hand, she feels the essence of God around her. Melanie has benefitted a lot after becoming a novelist as she believes that she has grown closer to God. Melanie believes that it was God who started the things again for her as she had never thought of picking up writing once again after giving it up. After having babies, she was looking for an occupation and the only thing that came to her mind was writing. She gave it up for a short while during her college days, but later took it up again and continues to write till today from the past 10 years. Melanie wanted to become a writer when she in her high school. Her writings are very much liked by the young adults and adults alike. Most of the novels written by her have a fairy tale retelling and are set in the Medieval Europe. She manages her time between writing novels and taking care of her family very efficiently. As a teacher and missionary, Melanie has taught in a number of places such as Germany, Tennessee, Georgia and the Eastern European country of Ukraine. She has also worked as a missionary and a teacher.Īs of today, Melanie lives in Huntsville, Alabama along with her husband and a couple of children. She studied special education of the hearing impaired. Before becoming an established author, Melanie earned her bachelors degree from The University of Alabama. Her success as an author has allowed her to become the member of prestigious writers’ associations such as the American Christian Fiction Writers and the Romance Writers of America. Melanie is also a two time finalist for the Christy Award for the same novel. The most successful novel written by Melanie is The Healer’s Apprentice, which helped her to win the National Readers Choice Award for being the Best Fiction Book. She has written around seven fairy tale novels and a couple of medieval fairy tale romances. Melanie Dickerson is an award winning novelist from the United States, who likes to write mainly in the Historical Fiction and Young Adult genres.

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