by Michelle | Aug 25, 2016 | Achievements, Blog
A while back one of my clients contacted me to say that his second book – Grave Measures – had been nominated for Dragon Con. I congratulated him, of course, lots of ‘well done’ and ‘that’s fab’ and then carried on editing...
by Michelle | Aug 19, 2016 | Blog
A long time ago, (2013/14 to be precise), I was contacted by Hawkins Publishing Group, an independent publisher in America and asked if I would be interested in an intern position. While there, I participated in acquisitions as part of a team, reading submissions and...
by Michelle | Jul 19, 2016 | Blog
This morning I received two separate messages from two individuals I have given advice to over recent weeks. Both contacted me to explain that Guru Purnima is a day when teachers, mentors, and elders are thanked. It is a day celebrated by Hindus and...
by Michelle | Jul 2, 2016 | Blog
I’ve been quiet on the blogging/social network side of things of recent, mostly because I’ve been so busy, but I thought I should take a step back to wave – *waves enthusiastically* – and let you all know I’m still here. This morning, I...
by Michelle | Jun 6, 2016 | Projects (Published)
A lonely man’s affair with an alluring woman threatens to destroy his beloved family. Its 1924, Italian immigrant Luigi Falconi has been away from home for twelve years working as a coal miner in West Virginia to carve out what he hopes will be a better life for...
by Michelle | May 22, 2016 | Projects (Published)
Darkness rules her life. A pitiless man wants her body. A Daemon craves her heart. Raised within a regimented society of mages on the obsidian island of Malvaar, Cytriah, a young soul-catcher, is determined to attain the elite female rank of Exalted, hoping her...
by Michelle | May 6, 2016 | Projects (Published)
Patch of Dirt introduces us to Joe Oliver, a womanizing thirty-year old drifter, who meets Frank Hill, a sixty-five year old, wounded Vietnam Veteran and his twenty-five year old wife Rita. Frank offers Joe a job, which he reluctantly accepts and is duped into...
by Michelle | May 1, 2016 | Projects (Published)
DJ needs beta readers. Christopher needs beta readers. But when DJ offers a trade, she gets more than she bargained. She’s thrust into Christopher’s crazy Figments world gone awry, as a mere piece in a game. Can she figure out the rules in a game where the...
by Michelle | Apr 18, 2016 | Projects (Published), Uncategorised
What do shadows darting across the walls, cryptic writing, black fog, and a little girl who can see ghosts have in common? Paranormal investigator and soul without a body, Vincent Graves, has forty-four hours to find out. To make matters worse, his years of...
by Michelle | Apr 4, 2016 | Projects (Published), Uncategorised
Chris Brown is unemployed and going nowhere in life. Living in a small flat in North London, he is heavily in debt and needs to find the money to repay the loan shark; or else. Answers to his problems come with the unexpected arrival of aliens from 600 light years...