Melanie Coles is an author of contemporary and rural/small town romantic fiction and is a member of Romance Writers of Australia and a proud member of the Melbourne Romance Writers Guild.
Her love affair with the written word is long. While other children spent their lunchtimes climbing tyre walls or playing kiss-chasey, Melanie spent hers in the library with either her nose in a book, a pen in her hand or her head in the clouds. Throughout her school years she wrote countless stories, only to lose her writing mojo sometime after high school. Thankfully she rediscovered it in the dead of night some twenty years later and now juggles writing with family life and her work as an Executive Assistant.
Her first book Evan and Darcy: An Aussie Tale of Pride and Prejudice sees Jane Austen’s beloved tale reimagined in a fresh and unique way – with gender reversals for the main characters and the setting transported to modern-day country Victoria. It was published in e-book format in 2016 by Escape Publishing.
A hopeless romantic, Melanie is addicted to chocolate and happily-ever-afters, and may also have an obsession with Jane Austen novels. She resides in the foothills of the Dandenong Ranges in Melbourne, Australia with her musician husband, two sports-crazed sons and a ginger cat named Jack.
You can find Melanie on social media: FB: @melaniecolesauthor, T: melcolesauthor & I:melliec77
You can also buy her debut novel Evan and Darcy through your favourite retailer here: