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At 17, Ray won first place in the National Pen Women sponsored competition for his fictional short story, Distinction, as well as winning second place in the New York Best of City - The Written Word. While attending college, Ray's course on existential literature opened a whole new world, and in a review Melnik was once described as a positive existentialist.
He pursued a musical career as a singer and lyricist, after leaving college. In the early 1980s he was the lead singer for One Hand Clap and then Fine Malibus, with Steve Stevens, current guitarist and song writer for Billy Idol. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Ray was engineer and co-owner of MANNIK Productions, a recording studio in the Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York. In addition to lyrics, Ray, wrote a monthly column about pro audio for a music trade magazine, American Liverpool.
Later moving into the field of technology as a network engineer and then architect, he wrote for the technology panel of a regional newspaper, Times Herald Record, and was the primary writer of articles based on home technology for the website New Technology Home. Ray currently works as a Senior Network Architect in Manhattan, New York. He currently resides in Grymes Hill, Staten Island, in New York City.
THE ROOM - novel September 2007
TO YOUR OWN SELF BE TRUE - novel March 2009
BURNISHED BRIDGE - novella March 2010
EYES IN THIS WORLD - novel September 2013
GHOST IN THE PARK - novella April 2016
GHOST IN THE PARK - audiobook June 2023
NOT AFRAID - short stories and essays July 2023
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