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Newsletter | Issue 4 | March 30, 2026
Wow—thank you for the positive response!
It has been wonderful sharing conversations, deepening connections, hearing how readers felt about Climbing Through and seeing and being a part of the media. It truly warms my heart hearing and feeling your positive feedback. Your feedback truly makes a difference!!!
How to help:
Start conversations, keep spreading the word and recommend! 📣
Have a book club? Recommend Climbing Through or start a book club!
Review – it really helps! 🤩
Post and tag Climbing Through @melissaistrong on socials.
Really fun conversation with Steven Dimmitt from The Climbing Nugget. Check out this short. think they did a bag-up job tying the conversation in with visuals from hospital pictures on melissaistrong.com (graphic content)
G Rated
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yhcUpH8Zh1M
From Westword
Still on the fence -read an excerpt on Evening Sends 📖
Come Celebrate with Me — Author Talks & Book Signings
• Douglas County Libraries, Highlands Ranch — April 11, 2026 at 6:30 PM
🖊️ Author Conversation + Book Signing
• Old Firehouse Books — April 24, 2026 at 6:00 PM
🖊️ Author Talk + Book Signing
• Estes Valley Library — April 24, 2026 at 6:00 PM
🖊️ Author Talk + Book Signing
• Boulder Bookstore — June 10, 2026 at 6:30 PM
🖊️ Author Conversation + Book Signing
More Podcast Coming soon:
Own Your Choices Own Your Life
📚 Ways to Purchase:
Hudson Booksellers
Talk it up! "Climbing Through is a beautifully written and honest recounting of Melissa Strong's miraculous survival and harrowing journey of recovery after nearly losing her life in a high voltage electrocution accident."
~Lynn Hill, professional climber and author of Climbing Free
Some years ago I decided to chronicle my life as a working athlete.
It is interesting resurrecting these old post and visiting with the youthful and optimistic me.
What message would I tell the younger Melissa--simple "don't play with electricity."
I stopped posting with the accident -- turning my time to recovery and opening Bird & Jim. Pouring my words into Exit Wounds.