Melissa Yuan Innes: 64 books
by Melissa Yuan-Innes
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
A teenager volunteers to donate her embryo to a recipient mother who wants red-haired children. The doctor who pioneered the technology performs the microsurgery exquisitely.
Everyone should live happily ever after.
Everyone.
The Cheap and Lovely Guide to Montreal
Food, Fun, Fashion, and Ze French
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Montreal.
The gourmet capital of North America, where you don’t have to pay big bucks for the best eats.
The city of beautiful women and men, where you can buy eco-conscious fashion by local designers, if not for a song, then sometimes for a shockingly good price.
The endless...
Apples, Broccoli & Rats with Islands
Short thoughts on envy and positivity for writers (and human beings in general)
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Do you seethe with envy? Do you turn such a vibrant shade of green, staring at your friend's award-winning, New York Times bestselling books, that you kind of look like...broccoli?
Yeah. Me too.
Comparing yourself with other writers feels like comparing apples and broccoli.
Guess...
The Unfeeling Thousandaire
How I Made $10,000 Indie Publishing and You Can, Too!
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
In my first few months of indie publishing, I made zero dollars. That's right. The big donut. But by the end of my first year, I'd grossed over $10,000, making me not a millionaire, but a thousandaire. How? Hard work and a bit of good luck. In this essay, I break down the recipe of how I made five...
The Unfeeling Doctor Betwixt Birthing Babies
Poems About Love, Loss, and More Love
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
This is the story about a plucky emergency doctor giving birth to two healthy babies—and all the whacked-out stuff that happens in between.
When I read other 'mumoirs', I laugh at the universal truisms: yep, tired. Ooh, a poopy diaper. But look, baby's smile! So worth it. Whoops, I'm pregnant...
The Knowledgeable Lion
Poems and Prose by the Unfeeling Doctor in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
I have always yearned to visit Africa.
I want to watch lions prowl in their natural habitat. I want to gaze into an elephant’s eyes and witness a wise matriarch who has traversed the continent. I want to sit quietly with the silverback gorillas.
Instead, I finished medical school...
A Pain in the Toenails
Excerpt from The Most Unfeeling Doctor in the World and Other True Tales from the Emergency Room
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Ah, the innocence of medical school. This is a story from my third year of clinical clerkship, when I started rotating through the hospital wards, starting with internal medicine. I was matched to the gastrointestinal team, so I can recite the bacterial causes of bloody diarrhea to this day. One...
The Littlest Caregiver
Excerpt From The Unfeeling Doctor, Unplugged
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
A doctor asked on Twitter, "What's one thing you wished you knew when you had to look after one of your own family members?"
I needed over 1000 words to respond, although my 140 character-answer is this: I wish I'd known better how to just sit still, or at least act normally, with...