about melanie gold
This isn’t the Pittsburgh doctor known as Melanie Gold, or the fictional Melanie Gold from the Jodi Picoult novel, or the Melanie Gold who wrote a book about artists in British Columbia.
When she was young, this Melanie Gold dreamed of being a music journalist, elbowing her way through rave houses or Royal Albert Hall in London. But she quickly found out that she didn’t have the charisma for the rock-and-roll scene and she didn’t like being given a beer bath by strangers.
So she graduated from New York’s School of Visual Arts—no, it’s not the “Fame” school—with a bachelor of fine arts (BFA) in journalism. After living in the Big Apple for 5 years, she decided returned to her native Pennsylvania, where she still lives with her husband, son, and gaggle of pets.
Melanie’s primary work is as a freelance book copyeditor and proofreader, but she’s also an articles and nonfiction writer, an amateur historian, and an infrequent baker. Her hobbies include reading, woodworking, gardening, crafting and scrapbooking, and renovating her mid-nineteenth-century farmhouse. She would also like to learn how to be a stone mason, pharmacist, or trophy wife, depending on the day.
