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M V Melcer @mvmelcer.com · 20/09/2025

Latest purchase. I regret nothing.

Two feet in black and white socks pretending to be cat paws

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M V Melcer @mvmelcer.com · 17/09/2025

Welcome to Poland. The Sun’s being dramatic.

A dramatic dark cloud with silver rays of the sun behind it.

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M V Melcer @mvmelcer.com · 15/01/2025

I've got a new story, a short prequel to the events of my first novel, REFRACTIONS. It's going free to my newsletter subscribers -- if you want it, sign up here mvmelcer.com/newsletter/

Book cover featuring a shuttle over an icy moon. Jupiter looms in the background. The Europa Run by M V Melcer

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M V Melcer @mvmelcer.com · 07/12/2024

Earl Grey being unusually considerate and deciding not to knock down the mug of tea left precariously on his perch.

A chunky silver tabby cat half hanging out of his tree while laving half of the space to a mug of tea.

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M V Melcer @mvmelcer.com · 24/11/2024

Hello friends old and new! Today only, Amazon is running a $0.99 promotion of my sci-fi debut, REFRACTIONS (US and Canada only, alas). Snap a bargain and help a girl out to spread the world. I hate to say it, but the world has just made this book even more prescient. geni.us/281-ap-web-ch

$A promo image showing a space-suited woman leaning against a wall, exhausted. Five star comments saying: page turning space opera, starts fast and never let's go, gripping space-based thriller. A book cover of Refractions by M V Melcer, featuring a space-craft over an alien planet.$

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M V Melcer @mvmelcer.com · 15/11/2024

I'm also a perpetual student (mostly astronomy and cosmology), a fountain pen aficionado, and the mother of the sweetest though not the smartest of cats, Earl Grey.

A silver grey tabby cat in repose on a grey ledge, looking pensive. Green foliage in the background.

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M V Melcer @mvmelcer.com · 15/11/2024

Hello new followers! I'm a sci-fi writer of two connected but independent novels REFRACTIONS & INVERSIONS, both about the consequences of the rich screwing everyone over. geni.us/281-ap-web-ch (Ironically, they are distributed through Amazon. I have opinions but not enough energy to voice them.)

$Cover of Refractions showing a spaceship over an alien planet$ Cover of Inversions showing a space station above Earth

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M V Melcer @mvmelcer.com · 14/11/2024

The Bookseller announce that Orbital won the Booker prize. The first sci-fi nov-- oh, wait, no. It's an "astronomical novel." Right. Because Booker can't be seen going to a sci-fi novel. 🫤

Headline saying "Samantha Harvey's
'miraculous' novel
Orbital wins 2024
Booker Prize
Samantha Harvey has "unanimously" won the Booker Prize for her
bestselling astronomical novel Orbital (Jonathan Cape) the first space-set novel to take the gong and the shortest-in-length winner in 45 years."

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M V Melcer @mvmelcer.com · 05/11/2024

STOP THIS IS A CUTE ANIMAL PIC CHECKPOINT. PLEASE SHARE A MINIMUM OF ONE (1) CUTE ANIMAL PIC BEFORE PROCEEDING. THIS IS A PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE TO PRESERVE THE MENTAL HEALTH OF THIS SITE. WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION. This is Earl Grey. He has deep thoughts.

A grey tabby cat on a green chair, looking thoughtful. Or possibly clueless.

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M V Melcer @mvmelcer.com · 27/10/2024

Strange creatures spotted on today’s walk. Water ghosts? Or is Area X expanding? Who can tell?

Four white feather-covered cones poking out of dark lake waters. (These are in fact swan butts as they forage on the bottom.)

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M V Melcer @mvmelcer.com · 18/10/2024

Rs with a banger photo of you The thing behind me is no more... 😢 (Arecibo radio telescope)

A woman in sunglasses, behind her is a giant satellite dish surrounded by thick tropical forest.

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M V Melcer @mvmelcer.com · 16/09/2024

Now only wait till we get 233M users and I'll be top 1%! 😂

My lucky number is 233,120 - certified elder and part of the first 10%

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M V Melcer @mvmelcer.com · 15/09/2024

Thanks Tade! Just released the second book in a lose duology. Near-ish future/space opera about a world politically and socially reshaped by climate change, and messy characters struggling to make the best of it. Refractions: geni.us/281-al-aut-am Inversions: geni.us/371-al-aut-am

A book cover showing a spaceship over an alien planet; the title is REFRACTIONS by M V Melcer

A book cover showing a space station over Earth; the title is INVERSIONS by M V Melcer

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M V Melcer @mvmelcer.com · 14/08/2024

It's my book birthday! Inversions is out today. 🥳 geni.us/371-al-aut-am

Book cover showing a space station above Earth with a caption "out now", Inversions by MV Melcer.

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M V Melcer @mvmelcer.com · 24/07/2024

On 2 August I'll join five amazing authors for a reading for Strong Women/Strange Worlds. There will be prizes as well. Do join us! Register here, it's free: tinyurl.com/m5n37k5n @swsworlds.bsky.social, @kelliowen.bsky.social, @lizawemakor.bsky.social, @DiannaLGunn, @hannafordjenny.bsky.social

Event poster with the photos of five authors; Strong Women/Strange Worlds presents First Friday Quick Reads of Sci Fi, Fantasy, and Horror. August 2, 12 noon EDT.

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M V Melcer @mvmelcer.com · 08/07/2024

Yay! New book coming in August! It's a loose sequel to Refractions and works better in read in sequence, but can be read as a standalone. (Reviewers, DM me for a review copy! Much appreciated!)

Book cover with a futuristic space station; Inversions by M V Melcer. Arriving on 14 August 2024.

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M V Melcer @mvmelcer.com · 29/05/2024

It's Book Quote Wednesday! Today the word is 'below' -- and Nathalie finds herself in tricky circumstances. #BookQW

$Cover of novel Refractions by M V Melcer with a quote.$

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M V Melcer @mvmelcer.com · 28/01/2024

So, the Hugo nominations are open so...

$Graphic saying: "for your consideration, MV Melcer. Refractions, novel"$

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M V Melcer @mvmelcer.com · 30/12/2023

Earl Grey suffers from SAD as much as I do...

Tabby cat staring at a very bright SAD lamp

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M V Melcer @mvmelcer.com · 22/12/2023

Well, one's gotta do that eligibility post... Super easy this year: just one novel, Refractions (sci-fi). Do check it out if you haven't yet! geni.us/281-al-aut-ch

$Image of a book cover; text: for your consideration, M V Melcer, Refractions, novel, Nov. 2023, Storm Publishing. Quote: "a page-turning mystery that drills straight down to the human heart of a crisis" Aimee Ogden$

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M V Melcer @mvmelcer.com · 11/12/2023

The ebook of my space mystery, Refractions, is only .99 this week! Great time to get it, if you're so inclined -- and please help spread the word! geni.us/281-pp-fbo-am

Book cover with review snippets: "An outstanding story filled with action, tension, drama and emotion. Highly recommended."

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M V Melcer @mvmelcer.com · 16/11/2023

My book is out today!!!! 🎊 Ebook for only $3.99/£2.99! Get it here: geni.us/281-al-aut-ch

$Refractions book cover next to a reader review: This book has earned a place on my favourites shelf after reading through more than 400 pages in one sitting"$

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M V Melcer @mvmelcer.com · 15/11/2023

Look what just arrived! How can I even it them?

$a box of tiny brownies decorated with a the cover for Refractions novel and the publisher's logo (Storm).$

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M V Melcer @mvmelcer.com · 13/11/2023

Well, I'm excited. It's allowed. 😂 geni.us/281-al-aut-ch

$Refractions book cover with caption "3 days to go"$

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M V Melcer @mvmelcer.com · 01/11/2023

Makes my blood boil. *Increase* the profits. Is there ever enough profit? www.thebookseller.com/news/prh-uk-...?

Bookseller headline saying: Penguin Random House UK (PRH UK) is proposing to remove 38 roles across several divisions and departments as the publisher faces “longer-term challenges" around growing profits “in the face of increasing cost pressures”.

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M V Melcer @mvmelcer.com · 31/10/2023

Put the light on, they said. Make a pumpkin, they said. Then they will come. So here I am, with my last minute cardboard cut out pumpkin and a bag of candy... ... that I will probably have to eat myself...

Small window on a porch, with a paper pumpkin stuck to the glass. In the foreground, an iron cast bell with a figure of a cat perched on top.

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M V Melcer @mvmelcer.com · 26/10/2023

Three weeks to go....... geni.us/281-al-aut-ch

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M V Melcer @mvmelcer.com · 25/10/2023

Bad day, no cookie. But here’s a cat. Some assembly required.

A tabby cat sleeping in a awkward position yet appearing content.

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M V Melcer @mvmelcer.com · 24/10/2023

I got character art! It's amazing! Art by Avery Liell-Kok And the book is up for pre-orders, too... 😀 geni.us/281-al-aut-ch

Character art showing a determined young woman in uniform.

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M V Melcer @mvmelcer.com · 15/10/2023

Trying to work, but a critical reader has appeared…

A tabby cat sitting in front of a computer screen, apparently reading

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M V Melcer @mvmelcer.com · 11/10/2023

Having a really low couple of weeks. Got myself a hoodie. Do you think it will help?

Woman with a coffee mug wearing a hoodie with a white space-suited astronaut on galaxy background.

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M V Melcer @mvmelcer.com · 02/10/2023

Et tu, Brute? My own cat is already posing for Christmas. (No, it wasn't me who left that trinket on the window sill last year. Not me at all.)

Tabby cat sitting on a window sill. On the other side of the window, just above the cat's head) is a piece of decoration that looks like Santa's hat.

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M V Melcer @mvmelcer.com · 22/09/2023

But of course! Here’s Earl Grey, bored with summer #ProofOfCat

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M V Melcer @mvmelcer.com · 20/09/2023

Message from the cat sitter. Apparently, Earl Grey was not amused to see them entering in stead of us.

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M V Melcer @mvmelcer.com · 19/09/2023

Day one in Santiago de Compostela. Very different vibe than a typical tourist destination, with groups of both pilgrims and just hikers celebrating the end of their journey. It gives me a chill to think people have been walking that route for a thousand years each with their single purpose.

A giant cathedral with two baroque towers

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M V Melcer @mvmelcer.com · 13/09/2023

Any book bloggers and reviewers around? Please consider my upcoming novel to fortify your TBR fort.

$image of a novel Refractions; she enlisted to escape her past, now the future is in her hands; request now on NetGalley$

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M V Melcer @mvmelcer.com · 06/09/2023

Ahem, I have a late 2023 release that just opened for pre-orders... 😆

$Book cover with a spaceship above a planet; title: Refractions; caption: she enlisted to escape her past, now the future is in her hands, coming November 16, pre-order now.$

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M V Melcer @mvmelcer.com · 30/08/2023

Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy. Not a selfie.

Pigeon sitting on a clay figure of a cat

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M V Melcer @mvmelcer.com · 30/08/2023

And again, because I'm excited: My debut pre-orders are live! (Ebook for now, print and audio coming at launch date.) geni.us/281-al-aut-ch

$Book cover with a spaceship above a planet; title: Refractions; caption: she enlisted to escape her past, now the future is in her hands, coming November 16, pre-order now.$