Happy Birthday to my first short story collection Hard Skin! She’s two!! I can’t believe that I have had a book out for two years already. It’s crazy. I want to thank everyone who has bought and read it! You all are the best! I can’t take my girl anywhere special like I did last year (for conveyor belt sushi) but I know she knows I love her!

I also had two pubs last week/weekend so I’m going to celebrate them again here: “Da Slippah” in National Flash Fiction Day’s Flash Flood and “Looking Out” in Vestal Review.

Finally, I would love more people to join my Tea & Words on June 29th! It’s 9am BST, 5pm JST - so anyone in the UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand want to come hang out with a bunch of cool writers and just talk about writing, write, bitch… this is a great chance for it. And even though I am asking for donations, you are under no obligations to do so. I just want to spend time with you!! Email me (melissallanesbrownlee at gmail dot com) and I will send you the Zoom link!!

I’m making this short and sweet! Sending love, light and creativity your way! Mwah!