Saturday, July 30, 2011
Thursday, July 28, 2011
The Latest Cover!
I have been dying to publish this book forever--it's not a romance, but rather a sci-fi/fantasy mix. You'll find it at Amazon Kindle soon. Details soon.
PS--Cover design by Alison Dunaway
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Happy Summer
Yes, it's been a while since I've updated. This past year I took a well deserved sabbatical. After doing 23 books in 10 years, I figured a bit of time off wouldn't hurt. During that time I relocated my mother's household to a senior living facility. My daughter had migraines and we ended up going with Botox to alleviate them. I did a lot of travel. I also finished my eighth year teaching. Now it's back to writing.
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Michele
Friday, June 25, 2010
Inside the World of Vampires
I am delighted to announce that Inside the World of Vampires is available for online purchase.
Edward Cullen. Bill Compton. Stefan Salvatore. These vampires make women weak-kneed. Inside the World of Vampires dissects the vampire world and what makes vampires so popular. Inside you’ll discover what the vampire world entails, from why vampires are so alluring to how vampires live and love, and how vamps have evolved over time. You’ll peer into vampires’ intimate relationships, their homes, and their jobs. You’ll discover how they struggle with religion and you’ll investigate vampire powers and the secrets of vampire slayers. Featuring interviews with top vampire experts and multiple New York Times Best Selling vampire novelists, Inside the World of Vampires will even show you exactly what goes into creating a fictional vampire world of your own. The book features film, TV and book vampires, as well as some historical folktales. This book will appeal not only to fans of Twilight, True Blood, The Vampire Diaries and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but also to those simply fascinated with vampires and those writers and world creators who want to create the ultimate vampire tales themselves.
You can download this book athttp://www.amazon.com/Inside-World-Vampires-ebook/dp/B003TLMX8E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=books&qid=1277472740&sr=1-1 for your kindle or find it on Smashwords in other formats. That's here: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/17304
Saturday, November 28, 2009
New Cover!
Thrilled to present my cover for Baby in the Boardroom, my Feb. 2010 release.
First Comes Baby…
After her latest boyfriend breaks things off, Kristi Jensen can’t help but wonder
what’s wrong with her. As if that isn’t bad enough, her parents are pressuring
her to find a husband. So the unluckyin-love executive does the next best thing:
she asks Mitch Robbins, her tall, dark, traffic-stoppingly gorgeous personal assistant,
for a kiss.
But She Gets More Than She Bargained For.…
Corporate Rule #1: Never date your boss. Too late. Ever since they spent the night together, Mitch is more in love with Kristi than ever. And when she suggests they start dating to
thwart her matchmaking father, he’s only too happy to oblige.
That’s before he learns he’s going to be a father.… With his new family’s future at stake, can he forgive Kristi’s deception?
And will Kristi realize in time that Mitch is the man she’s been waiting for all along?
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
News!
I'm delighted to announce that I've been tagged to write The Complete Idiot's Guide to The World of Vampires. Look for it in July 2010.
Sunday, August 09, 2009
What works for me
What works for me…
Might not work for you. It’s a concept I’ve been mulling lately as I get ready to teach another year of school, where I have to individualize learning to best reach all my students. I was thinking about this concept as I read an article in a writing magazine that said, “write every day, even if it’s for 20 minutes” and also gave other such advice as “keep a journal”.
It’s great advice, sure. But I don’t do either and I’m a published author of 21 novels. I write in big spurts, and then will go weeks and sometimes months without writing a thing. That “20 minutes” the author advises is spent doing all those things I didn’t do during that intense focus on writing.
But that’s me. My big on and off spurts are how I balance and prioritize my time, and that’s what I’ve learned works best for my life. During the school year my priority is on my family and my teaching job. Writing is third. Over the summer, I can easily make writing number two and devote 40+ hours a week to my craft.
To me, writing is like dieting. For some, Jenny Craig works. For others, it’s South Beach. For someone else it’s Weight Watchers. Others are naturally skinny and don’t need to do a darn thing. The same holds true for writing. There are plotsters, pantsters, and there are those who create scrapbooks, those who make scrapbooks, those who interview their characters, those who enter contests, those who sell the first time…the list goes on. Everyone is different, which is logical. As each writer should have a unique, individual voice, each writer will have his or her own individual writing style and system, that, through trial and error works for him or her.
This system, or process, is personal. I see too many writers get bogged down in the “how” they should be writing and trying to follow some system or formula and thus they lose the actual writing. If something isn’t working after a few tries, perhaps it isn’t for you. Just because it works for NYT best selling author or your critique partner doesn’t mean that the approach is perfect for everyone. I know writers who get up at 4 AM to create before their family wakes. I’d die if I had to get up at 4 AM. When my alarm goes off at 5:25 for work, it’s too soon. I know writers who run every chapter by a critique partner, and there are many writers like me who do that only on rare occasions.
Don’t be afraid to do some personal assessing and figure out what works best for you. Try new things and techniques, but don’t lose faith in your abilities or talent if they fail to work. Remember, what works for one person doesn’t mean it will work for everyone. So reassess and find something new. Writing should be a happy time—a creative and pleasurable escape into your mind. So just like trusting your own inner voice with your story, don’t be afraid to take advice, but don’t be afraid to trust your gut if it tells you that advice isn’t for you. After all, just as it’s your story, it’s your process. There is no one writing process answer for everyone except for passion, persistence and putting your fingers to the keys.
Might not work for you. It’s a concept I’ve been mulling lately as I get ready to teach another year of school, where I have to individualize learning to best reach all my students. I was thinking about this concept as I read an article in a writing magazine that said, “write every day, even if it’s for 20 minutes” and also gave other such advice as “keep a journal”.
It’s great advice, sure. But I don’t do either and I’m a published author of 21 novels. I write in big spurts, and then will go weeks and sometimes months without writing a thing. That “20 minutes” the author advises is spent doing all those things I didn’t do during that intense focus on writing.
But that’s me. My big on and off spurts are how I balance and prioritize my time, and that’s what I’ve learned works best for my life. During the school year my priority is on my family and my teaching job. Writing is third. Over the summer, I can easily make writing number two and devote 40+ hours a week to my craft.
To me, writing is like dieting. For some, Jenny Craig works. For others, it’s South Beach. For someone else it’s Weight Watchers. Others are naturally skinny and don’t need to do a darn thing. The same holds true for writing. There are plotsters, pantsters, and there are those who create scrapbooks, those who make scrapbooks, those who interview their characters, those who enter contests, those who sell the first time…the list goes on. Everyone is different, which is logical. As each writer should have a unique, individual voice, each writer will have his or her own individual writing style and system, that, through trial and error works for him or her.
This system, or process, is personal. I see too many writers get bogged down in the “how” they should be writing and trying to follow some system or formula and thus they lose the actual writing. If something isn’t working after a few tries, perhaps it isn’t for you. Just because it works for NYT best selling author or your critique partner doesn’t mean that the approach is perfect for everyone. I know writers who get up at 4 AM to create before their family wakes. I’d die if I had to get up at 4 AM. When my alarm goes off at 5:25 for work, it’s too soon. I know writers who run every chapter by a critique partner, and there are many writers like me who do that only on rare occasions.
Don’t be afraid to do some personal assessing and figure out what works best for you. Try new things and techniques, but don’t lose faith in your abilities or talent if they fail to work. Remember, what works for one person doesn’t mean it will work for everyone. So reassess and find something new. Writing should be a happy time—a creative and pleasurable escape into your mind. So just like trusting your own inner voice with your story, don’t be afraid to take advice, but don’t be afraid to trust your gut if it tells you that advice isn’t for you. After all, just as it’s your story, it’s your process. There is no one writing process answer for everyone except for passion, persistence and putting your fingers to the keys.
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