About Melanie Jeschke

             Melanie Morey Jeschke (pronounced jes-key), a native of Pittsburgh,
        Pennsylvania, grew up in Richmond, Virginia, and graduated from the
        University of Virginia as a Phi Beta Kappa with an Honors degree in
        English Literature and a minor in European and English History.

            Melanie lived a semester in Paris and has traveled throughout
        Europe and the Middle East. She has made numerous trips to Great Britain
        and organized a group tour to Scotland and England that included a stay
        at J.R.R. Tolkien’s Merton College in Oxford. She has attended three
        conferences on C. S. Lewis at Oxford and Cambridge Universities and
        served as the Oxford information hostess for the C. S. Lewis Foundation.
        Her oldest daughter Katherine attended Oxford University for a term and
        played on the University Women's football (soccer) team.

             Melanie's various trips to the UK inspired her novels The Oxford
       Chronicles: Inklings containing the sequel Intentions, July 2004;
      Expectations, March 2005; and Evasions, a “prequel” set in WWII,
       August 2006. An earlier edition of Inklings (without Intentions) was
       published by Xulon Press in 2002.

             A free-lance travel writer, Melanie contributed the Oxford chapter to
        the Rick Steves’ England 2006 guidebook. She is a member of the
        Capital Christian Writers and Christian Fiction Writers as well as three
        book clubs, and taught high-school English before home-schooling most of
        her nine children. Melanie lectures on Lewis and Tolkien, Oxford, and
        writing, and gives inspirational talks to all manner of groups, including
        university classes, women’s clubs, young professionals, teens, and
        school children.

            A fourth generation pastor’s wife (her father Dr. Earl Morey is a retired
        Presbyterian minister), Melanie resides in the Greater Washington, D.C.
        area with her children and husband Bill Jeschke, a soccer coach and
        the Senior Pastor of The King’s Chapel, an non-denominational Christian
       church in Fairfax, Virginia.

          WORLD Magazine featured an article on Melanie in their July '06 book
          issue and listed her recommendations for children's books in their
          Dec 2 '06 Kids' book issue.