Melanie Jeschke was interviewed for BookCast by Fairfax County Public Library Director Sam Clay. BookCast is sponsored by Virginia Commerce Bank through the Fairfax Library Foundation.

• Melanie Jeschke is the author of three historical romances in her Oxford Chronicles series: Inklings (2004); Expectations (2005); and Evasions (2006). The novels are set during the period when both C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien were at Oxford University in Great Britain.



• She is also a freelance travel writer, who has contributed a chapter on Oxford to Rick Steves' England 2006.



• A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Virginia with an honors degree in English literature and minors in European and English history, she is a pastor's wife who found time to write while home-schooling her nine children.