{"id":342,"date":"2015-10-13T09:48:08","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T09:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/?p=342"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:19:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:19:41","slug":"melissa-novel-by-jonathan-taylor-now-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/2015\/10\/13\/melissa-novel-by-jonathan-taylor-now-published\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa: Novel by Jonathan Taylor Now Published"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Very happy to announce that my second novel, <em>Melissa<\/em>, has now been published by Salt Publishing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/files\/2015\/03\/melissa-cover-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-316\" src=\"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/files\/2015\/03\/melissa-cover-1-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"melissa cover 1\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/files\/2015\/03\/melissa-cover-1-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/files\/2015\/03\/melissa-cover-1.jpg 422w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The novel is inspired by true events. Immediately following the tragic death of a young girl on a small street in Stoke-on-Trent, all her neighbours experience the same musical hallucination. This is the story of that strange hallucination, and its aftermath as a family slowly disintegrates in the wake of a terrible loss. Like a suburban Picnic At Hanging Rock, the novel weaves together fiction and non-fiction, newspaper reports and witness statements, fantasy and science.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more details on the publisher&#8217;s website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saltpublishing.com\/products\/melissa-9781784630355\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0and on my own website <a href=\"http:\/\/jonathanptaylor.co.uk\/melissa\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a book launch at the University of Leicester&#8217;s Bookshop on Friday 4 December 2015, between 5.30-7.30pm. The event is free, and open to all. You can see further details <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.le.ac.uk\/offices\/bookshop_new\/events\/evelyn-waugh-and-his-circle-24-26-april-2015\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you read it, do let me know what you think of it!<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks, Jonathan (Lecturer in Creative Writing).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very happy to announce that my second novel, Melissa, has now been published by Salt Publishing. The novel is inspired by true events. Immediately following the tragic death of a young girl on a small street in Stoke-on-Trent, all her neighbours experience the same musical hallucination. This is the story of that strange hallucination, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}