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 Qcne  (talk)  20:48, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Melissa Bunin Rooney (Melissa Rooney Writing)


A tag has been placed on Draft:Melissa Bunin Rooney (Melissa Rooney Writing), requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, group, product, service, person, or point of view and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic. Please read the guidelines on spam and FAQ/Organizations for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the.  Qcne  (talk)  20:51, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

Please see new text for the article below (I didn't intend to be self-promoting)
Melissa Bunin Rooney was born Melissa Anne Bunin in 1970 in Richmond, Virginia, to dermatology residents Judith Szulecki Bunin and John Bunin, who grew up in separate New Jersey neighborhoods to Polish and Lithuanian immigrant parents, respectively. Judith and John established a dermatology practice in Martinsville, VA, where Melissa grew up with her younger brother John Christopher. Melissa attended Martinsville public schools (Druid Hills Elementary School, Albert Harris Middle School, Martinsville Junior High School) and graduated from Martinsville High School in 1988, after which she attended the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA, graduating summa cum laude with majors in English Literature and Chemistry in 1993. That same year, she began Chemistry graduate school at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, where she conducted bio-analytical electrochemistry research under the direction of R. Mark Wightman for five years. With the members of Wightman's lab, Melissa published numerous papers regarding the detection of dopamine, serotonin, and other electroactive neurotransmitters, including a paper in the journal Nature entitled "Dissociation of dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens from intracranial self-stimulation" (1999).

Melissa graduated from UNC with her Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1998, then married a fellow UNC graduate student and moved to Melbourne, Australia, where the two began postdoctoral research positions with Monash University. During her first year as a post-doctoral, Melissa received an Australian Research Council Fellowship that paid for her position for three years, during which she and her husband applied for and received Australian residency and citizenship. In 2002, six months after their first child was born, they returned to the United States, settled in Durham, North Carolina, had two more children, and live there still.

Melissa became a homemaker and caregiver, a nanny to other neighborhood children, tutored high-school chemistry, served on her suburban South Durham neighborhood's (Fairfield) board of directors, became involved in Durham's Interneighborhood Council (a coalition of Durham's neighborhood and homeowner's associations), and began writing "My View" columns for the Durham News, and by extension, the Raleigh News and Observer and the Chapel Hill News.

Primarily as a home project with her youngest son, in 2013 Melissa self-published I Chalk (a photographic picture book about how a family solved a traffic problem with public visual art) with CreateSpace (which became Kindle); and the book remains available for purchase today). Around this time, Melissa also self-published a picture book entitled Eddie the Electron and created a hands-on educational elementary- and middle-school workshop about atoms and electrons around it, which she still conducts via the Durham Arts Council's Culture and Arts in the Public Schools (CAPS)program. Melissa's earliest children’s stories, Beyond the Dark, Milk Drinkers turning to Powder, and Counting on Mewon first place in the 2009 and 2016 Burlington Writers’ Stories for Children and Children's Poetry categories, and her sonnet Hope won first place in the 2009 Poetry Council of North Carolina’s Traditional Poetry category.

In 2010, Melissa became a scientific editor for American Journal Experts (now Research Square), a company founded by Duke University Alumnus Shashi Mudunuri in 2004, which translates and edits academic journal articles, grant applications, response letters, etc. for researchers around the world who do not speak English as a first language.

In 2015, Melissa retired her homemade version of Eddie the Electron and published the book with Independent Publisher Amberjack Publishing, with illustrations by Harry Pulver (whose clients include Crain's New York Business, The Wall Street Journal, Cargill Inc., Coca Cola, Microsoft, 3M, Sony/Epic Music Group, Scholastic Inc., National Geographic World and The Children's Television Workshop). Two years later, Amberjack published a sequel entitled Eddie the Electron Moves Out. Shortly after Eddie Moves Out was released, Amberjack was bought by Chicago Review Press, which carries but does not publish picture books. A third book in the series has yet to be published. Around this time, Melissa started her writing and editing company, @melissarooneywriting.

Melissa published The Fate of The Frog with Mascot Books in 2018, and it won Beverly Hills Children’s Fiction Award that same year. Like Eddie the Electron, The Fate of the Frog forms the basis of a separate workshop that Melissa offers through the Durham Arts Council's Culture and Arts in the Public Schools (CAPS) program, through which she teaches elementary- and middle- school students about their local water resources, sustainability and writing (and thinking) in rhyme.

In 2019, Melissa became a contract scientific writing instructor and editor for biological and biomedical sciences graduate students and labs at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, and began providing these services freelance to researchers, college and graduate students, and literary authors in the United States.

Melissa was an Associate Supervisor on the board of Durham's Soil and Water Conservation District from 2013 to 2022, during which she helped write and edit grants supporting practical education and public outreach related to best stormwater management practices.

Since 2009, Melissa has also written grants for Public Schools, Parent Teacher Associations, and, most recently, Urban Sustainability Solutions - a nonprofit that pays public high-school teachers and their students to become trained in raingarden design and best stormwater management practices and then pays them to design and implement these on private and public lands utilizing federal, state and local funding earmarked for this purpose.

In 2021, Melissa began reviewing performing arts in the Triangle (Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, NC) for Triangle Theater Review and Triangle Arts and Entertainment, which she still does.

In 2022, Melissa became the Writer in Residence for Summit School in Winston Salem, NC, conducting one-hour writing workshops, one day per week for 6 weeks in Spring with third-grade students, including those with special needs, and publishing an anthology of the students’ short stories (beginning-middle-end curriculum) with Froward Press. Their first anthology produced in this way, Super Summit Stories, remains available for purchase via Amazon and other online retailers. Melissa will be conducting these writing workshop for Summit School in the same fashion this year and moving forward.

Melissa began working with independent publisher Froward Press (note spelling) in 2022. In addition to publishing Super Summer Stories, Froward Press hired Melissa as the judge for their 2023 “Holiday Cocktail Stories” anthology and signed with her to release her next two picture books: Summer Dreaming (a STEM picture book about the lifecycle of the cankerworm (“inchworm”), in whose species only the male grows wings) and One Proud Black Cat (a based-on-real-life picture book series that demonstrates the human-like qualities of an adopted black cat named Kale, demonstrating precisely why these animals have been associated with special abilities, including witchcraft, for millennia), both to be released in 2024.

In another 2023-24 project, Melissa is the author of a nonfiction picture book entitled Larry the Logperch, with Roanoke Artist in Residence Jane Gabrielle, commissioned by the Kiwanis Club of Roanoke, Virginia, in honor of the Nature Park they are building and maintaining in an underserved neighborhood. The land they are conserving and vegetating (community gardens, rain gardens, etc.) helps to preserve the Roanoke River Waterway where endangered and adorable, rock-turning fish called Roanoke Logperch live. Larry the Logperch is being designed and published by Froward Press, with a planned release date in Spring, 2024. Mrooney70 (talk) 20:56, 18 September 2023 (UTC)


 * @Mrooney70. Still completely inappropriate for Wikipedia; I ask you to very carefully read WP:YFA, then WP:VERIFY, and finally WP:NAUTHOR.  Qcne  (talk)  20:58, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

Managing a conflict of interest
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Also, editing for the purpose of advertising, publicising, or promoting anyone or anything is not permitted. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 01:39, 19 September 2023 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of User:Mrooney70


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