Melanie Dobson is the award-winning author of almost thirty historical, time-slip, and romantic suspense novels. Five of her novels have won Carol Awards; Catching the Wind and Memories of Glass were nominated for a Christy Award in the historical fiction category; and Catching the Wind won an Audie Award in the inspirational fiction category. The Black Cloister, her novel about a religious cult, won the Foreword Religious Fiction Book of the Year.
Melanie is the previous publicity manager at Focus on the Family and owner of the publicity firm Dobson Media Group. When she isn't working on her next novel, Melanie enjoys hosting a monthly writer's group and teaching as an adjunct professor at Corban University.
After moving numerous times, Melanie and her husband, Jon, have settled near Portland, Oregon, and they love to explore the mountains and waterways of the Pacific Northwest.
Now that her two daughters have launched into adulthood, Melanie enjoys kayaking on the weekends, playing with her little grand guy in Virginia, and visiting locations around the world to research her next novel.
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