Melanie Votaw is publisher of Luxury Web Magazine. She has visited more than 50 countries on six continents, and her travel articles have appeared in a number of publications, including Executive Travel, Travel Mindset, South China Morning Post, Just Luxe, and Business Insider. Her photos have appeared in numerous publications and books, including "The Ultimate Bird Lover," and her image of the Amazon River was used as a mural backdrop at the Texas State Aquarium. Melanie is also the author of 11 nonfiction books, and she has ghostwritten an additional 32 books for publishers such as Hay House, New World Library, Harmony, Little Brown, and others. She has developmentally edited an additional 75+ books, which have won more than 50 awards. Four of those titles have been on The New York Times Best Seller List. Literary agents and publishers regularly recommend her to authors as a ghostwriter or editor.  Additionally, she is a fiction writer and poet, as well as a professional singer and former professional dancer and actor.

Poetry and photography awards. 50+ book awards for books that Melanie developmentally edited, including the Best Beach Books Festival Grand Prize.