Melissa Welliver

Jan 9, 2025 | fivebooks.com | Blessing Musariri |Djamila Morani |Sawad Hussain |Melissa Welliver

When It's Your Turn for Midnight This is a beautifully written novel that explores the complexities of family bonds, both biological and found. After an explosive quarrel involving her parents and sisters, 15 year old Chianti runs away to stay with her feisty grandmother in the Zimbabwean border town of Mutare.

Aug 16, 2024 | culturefly.co.uk | Melissa Welliver

How do you research something that hasn’t happened yet? This is the question dystopian authors are constantly asking themselves. What we write isn’t quite fantasy and isn’t quite sci-fi – it’s a guess at a near future, an exploration of what might happen and why it’s important to stop that future from coming into being. So, how did this mindset fold into the research of The Undying Tower, my new alternative future, totalitarian-set Britain?

Apr 16, 2024 | culturefly.co.uk | Melissa Welliver

When people ask me what gave me the idea for writing Soulmates and Other Ways to Die, I tell them it was a video game, which is true. In the game, you are split into pairs or sometimes larger teams and when your teammate takes damage, you do too, so it’s important to protect and look after each other during play. I wanted to capture the essence of that dystopian idea, that we are never completely responsible for our own safety, and make it work in a book.

Mar 7, 2024 | waterstones.com | Melissa Welliver

A high-concept enemies-to-lovers romance – sureto be a BookTok hit!Good news: We all have a soulmate. Thanks toa gene mutation, out theresomewhere is our perfect match. Bad news: Your soul bond means you feel theirpain before you’ve even met. And if your soulmate dies . . . you die too. Control freak Zoe is determined to stay alive – and single. She carries a survival kit for every eventuality, but even shecan’t prepare for a match with Milo Spencer, a boy who livesfor recreational danger.