{"id":1,"date":"2010-07-01T19:14:57","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T23:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melissanewman.net\/?p=1"},"modified":"2018-12-28T10:39:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T15:39:40","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissanewman.net\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"Third Novel Captures New Audience with Humor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Melissa’s third novel, Growing Up Wilder, introduces readers to Dancy Wilder and her sister Marla who are\u00a0navigating<\/p>\n

\"HL<\/a>childhood successfully in spite of their father\u2019s crazy romantic encounters ~ a spiritualistic grass-smoking hippie, a double-D cup kleptomaniac known over the CB airwaves as\u00a0Hot Ginger, and an olive-skinned Greek goddess, just to name a few. Dancy and Marla’s father, Everett is raising his two girls alone.<\/p>\n

A perpetual bachelor and successful lady\u2019s man, Everett can have just about any woman he wants. Problem is he wants them all ~ and likes them all a little crazy.<\/p>\n

Follow Dancy and Marla as they grow into strong, capable, common sense women who have taken something of benefit from each of their father\u2019s many love interests, including\u00a0their Momma Lou, a biker chick, who they learn has a secret profession that keeps the Wilder financials in the black.\u00a0Read an interview with Melissa about Growing Up Wilder.<\/a><\/p>\n

Amazon<\/a>\u00a0\u2022 \u00a0Barnes & Noble<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u2022\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Books-A-Million<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u2022\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Kindle<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u2022\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>Nook<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Growing Up Wilder includes a\u00a0character inspired by the winner of the Wilder Woman contest!<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a>Thank you to Susan Weaver, winner of the Wilder Woman Contest, for introducing Isabella Catelyn Bleufield Maymore Jacobson Claxton Perryworth to the Wilders. I don\u2019t know how Everett, Dancy, and Marla ever got along without her. As the winner, Susan will receive ten complimentary copies of Growing Up Wilder and an opportunity to attend book signings and events\u00a0with the author. Susan is also mentioned in the acknowledgments section in the front\u00a0pages of Growing Up Wilder. Melissa gives Susan all the credit for Chapter 12 called\u00a0“The Fairest of them All.”<\/p>\n

Susan’s character, which Melissa\u00a0calls Cee for short, is sassy, shrill, showy and an unapologetic gold-digging debutante who is\u00a0just a little past her prime but always on the prowl.<\/p>\n

Sister Blackberry and House of Cleaving<\/h4>\n

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Melissa’s third novel, Growing Up Wilder, introduces readers to Dancy Wilder and her sister Marla who are\u00a0navigating childhood successfully in spite of their father\u2019s crazy romantic encounters ~ a spiritualistic grass-smoking hippie, a double-D cup kleptomaniac known over the CB airwaves as\u00a0Hot Ginger, and an olive-skinned Greek goddess, just to name a few. Dancy and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissanewman.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissanewman.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissanewman.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissanewman.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissanewman.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissanewman.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1276,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissanewman.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/1276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissanewman.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissanewman.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissanewman.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}