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| Melissa Wray's debut novel was released in 2012. |
Pivotal moments affect the lives of authors and characters, as Melissa Wray discovered.
A father saying ‘yes’ to his daughter proved a pivotal moment in the
life of author Melissa Wray, and the protagonist, Jessica, in Melissa’s debut
young adult novel Destiny Road. Two
years after the book’s launch, the Geelong-based author looks back on her path
to writing the novel, which she describes as “a story if choices, consequences,
heartbreak and acceptance”.
Melissa has written a moving account on her blog about how pivotal
moments, regret and death led to Destiny
Road, saying “It came
about because one night I was lying in bed and couldn’t sleep. There was an
unspoken conversation going on in my mind.”
