Melissa R. Collings spent years in the operating room taking down one side of a spine while the surgeon took down the other — and her favorite part of the job was sewing the tattoos back together, because that part was art. She read the statistics on getting published and had exactly the wrong reaction. On rejection, waiting, and the book she was told to put away that sold in a week.

Melissa R. Collings is an award-winning author and former spine surgery physician associate. She writes humorous, diverse romance and women’s fiction, as well as probing psychological thrillers. When she’s not writing or plotting, you can find her engaging in deep philosophical conversations with her husband and kids in Nashville, studying preventative health, or losing time in a painting. Her imagination never fails to get her into trouble, and she lives by the philosophy: nothing is impossible, and everything is better with glitter — except surgical wounds.

“Some people think I’m just not even gonna try. And other people say, well, someone’s gotta be chosen — why not me? That’s who I am.” — Melissa R. Collings

Links and Calls to Action

• Melissa R. Collings — melissacollings.com
• Melissa’s newsletter (goes out every Monday, and it is where she breaks her news first) — melissacollings.com/newsletter
• Instagram and TikTok @melissarcollings · Facebook /MelissaRCollingsAuthor · Substack @melissacollings · Goodreads: Melissa Collings
• The Love Operation — out this October. Pre-order at melissacollings.com.
• The False Flat — her debut novel with Montlake.
• Melissa’s book answer: the book you need right now is the book you need right now. If pressed, she names Atomic Habits by James Clear.

• Get Honorée’s Nonfiction Author’s Empire Roadmap HERE.