Welcome to Méli-Mélo!

Hello friends! I’m delighted you found your way here!

This is where you will find twice-monthly life recommendations that will perk up your week. Things like —

My favorite dog leash!
A rewatch of The Three Amigos!
The value of being rejected (over and over and over)!
This Parisian playlist!

You’ll also get

round up of articles, TikToks, Youtube videos
behind the scenes peeks at what I’m up to as a traditionally published novelist.

The newsletter is called Méli-Mélo in honour of the Québec name for Bits ‘n Bites that salty, crunchy snack mix you eat at parties.

Bag of Bits N Bites party mix — Delicious, despite the pretzels

Serialized Fiction

I also experimenting with serializing fiction. I wrote a special Christmas bonus — SNOWDROP KISSES — a fun, swoony, sexy (but not too spicy) holiday romance that I sent to subscribers every day in instalments from December 1st to December 25th.

I plan on doing more of that in the future - so stay tuned!

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What’s your deal, actually?

I’m a Canadian archivist and author.

HONEYBEE EMERALDS is a fun, light-hearted story of four women in Paris who discover a stunning diamond and emeralds necklace and set about tracking down its former owners — including a courtesan, a spy and a dancer. It was a finalist in the Indy Book Awards “Best First Novel” prize.

Woman sitting behind a desk, copies of The Honeybee Emeralds and The Foulest Things on display — Me at Toronto’s Motive Crime Festival in 2022. That was my favourite water bottle and I lost it on that trip. So glad its commemorated here.

I’m also the author of the Dominion Archives Mystery Series — a mystery trilogy set in and around Canada’s fictional national archives. THE FOULEST THINGS was called “A literary joy ride” by none other than Louise Penny and was a finalist in the Canadian Crime Writers’ Association’s “Best Novel Set in Canada” prize.

I’m also the proud owner of nine-year old cockapoo Daffodil.

Here she is amongst the daffodils — check out her big smile!

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Amy Tector

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Ordinary things are great. Writer of Méli-Mélo, a newsletter recommending a second-look at the things we take for granted.