Athena Isle Writers Resumes Meeting July 9 with WEbook guest

[Joan "Alas Zerbino" Kremer]

Athena Isle Writers is proud to have as guest at their meeting on Wednesday, July 9, 2008, at 12 p.m. SLT:

MELISSA JONES OF WEBOOK.COM

WEbook.com) is a revolutionary online book publishing company that aims to do for the publishing industry what "American Idol" did for music. WEbook Content Manager Melissa Jones will tell us how this website supports writers, editors, reviewers, illustrators, and others in joining forces to create great works of fiction and non-fiction, thrillers and essays, short stories, children's books and more.

Melissa Jones grew up in the woods in northern California. She wrote her first story at the age of 8, and quickly learned to use writing to escape to a world of fantasy. At 16, she left home to make her fantasies come true, and she has since lived in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Japan, and Cleveland. She attended Columbia University’s MFA program in fiction, and now resides in Brooklyn. Her short stories have been published in "ZZYVA" and "Identity Theory." The two chapters she wrote for PANDORA, WEbook's first published novel, are her first contributions to a published novel. She is the content manager for WEbook.com, and she’s in a committed, long-term relationship with a novel, though she occasionally has affairs with short stories and personal essays. Athena Isle Writers meeting are held at 12 p.m. SLT each Wednesday at Story Mountain Center for Writers on Athena Isle.