Melanie McFarlane is a passionate writer of other-worldly adventures and is both a little excitable and a little quirky. She has loved science fiction and fantasy stories since she was a young child, when her family would gather around to watch Star Trek after supper. In middle grade school, she fell in love with Narnia, the Tardis, and Middle Earth. Nothing real could compare after that, and in adulthood she began to create worlds of her own. She is the author of There Once Were Stars. She lives in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.