Butler County native publishes novels

Melanie Lageschulte, formerly of rural Clarksville, recently published two novels, Growing Season and its sequel, Harvest Season, inspired by life in northern Iowa.
The novels center around Melinda Foster, who is laid off from an advertising job, returns to rural Iowa to help with her family’s hardware store, rents a farmhouse and cares for animals at her acreage.
Lageschulte was raised on an acreage and road the school bus every day to Plainfield High School, where she graduated in 1992. In high school, she worked on the school paper. She earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism with a minor in American history from the University of Iowa, and worked as a copywriter for the Waterloo Courier.
In 2000, Lageschulte moved to Des Moines, where she worked as a reporter and editor at the Des Moines Register. She currently works as a copywriter for Meredith Corporation.

Read more in the July 20 Star and Tribune.