Melaina has travelled the world, taught in secondary schools throughout Australia and England, and facilitated teenage personal development groups. Her YA series, The Circle, was published by Random House in 2005. Melaina is currently working on a series of educational texts which will be published by Pearson Education and her first Girlfriend fiction novel, Big Sky, was published by Allen & Unwin. Melaina’s is working on her next Girlfriend fiction title, Thriteen Pearls and Omnibus Books will publish her junior fiction novel, Abacus Aardvark in the Peril of the Arctic Seas in early 2010.