Author2Author with Melinda Rucker Haynes

Bill welcomes award-winning novelist Melinda Rucker Haynes to the show. Award-winning author Melinda Rucker Haynes has published six novels in the romance sub-genres of paranormal, young adult and contemporary. Melinda’s other published work includes three nonfiction books, numerous articles and columns on a variety of subjects, including education research, instructional processes and assessment. She is a former education research projects director, and her interest in curriculum development and teaching led her to create Story Compass©, a creative writing development process and tool that her students enjoy in her international writing workshops, creative personal development seminars and presentations. Melinda’s postgraduate work includes advanced study of language, artistic expression, neurolinguistic programming, hypnosis, and metaphysics. Melinda applies her continuing study of human behavior, positive change creation and motivational techniques in her creative coaching practice that emphasizes block removal and flow generated production for writers and other creatives.