by michelle | Aug 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
Thank you to Katy on Journey of Smiley for allowing me to contribute to her collaborative post “What Grievers Really Need: How to Support Others and Yourself through Grief.” I shared my grief story at the beginning of the year in her post called...
by michelle | Aug 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
Memoirs hold a special place in my heart after publishing my own in 2022.I was drawn to read Marinovich: Outside the Lines in Football, Art, and Addiction by Todd Marinovich for a variety of reasons, first of which is that I absolutely love football. I was unfamiliar...
by michelle | Jul 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
I love how memories show up for us on social media. My Facebook reminded me that four years ago today I was on a getaway with my sister during Camp NaNoRiMo working on my memoir, You are Not Alone: My Experience with Postpartum Depression. So if you have ever wondered...
by michelle | Jul 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
Attention independent bookstore shoppers! My book is now available in Libertyville’s newest and cutest shop, About Time Bookstore, in the lovely downtown area. I hope you’ll swing by and say hi to Delanie and her staff, check out the local authors table,...
by michelle | Jul 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
If you’re looking to experience the excess, glamor, and sex-obsessed times of the San Francisco singles scene, told through the eyes of a young woman, then pick up Jessica Anya Blau’s newest novel, Shopgirls. It is definitely rare for me to not have heard of a book...
by michelle | Jul 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
Is it possible for a novel to change the way you view the world around you? Author Mary Alice Monroe has been writing environmentally-focused fiction set in the Lowcountry of South Carolina for decades. Told with much heart and a touch of humor, many of her novels...
by michelle | Jun 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
Who among us hasn’t considered what our lives might have been like if we’d chosen a different path for ourselves? I love a good “what if” story, so when I heard the premise of The Other Side of Now by Paige Harbison, I knew I wanted to read it. This novel takes...
by michelle | Jun 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
Katherine Center is becoming a go-to author for me. Her newest release, The Love Haters, is an excellent example of how to write a clever rom com novel with heart and depth. Katie Vaughn has had a rough year and is on the verge of things getting even worse when she...
by michelle | Jun 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
If you’re familiar with the quote, “We’re on a mission from God,” then you might be a Blues Brothers fan. The iconic movie featuring “Saturday Night Live” stars Dan Akroyd and John Belushi hit the screen in the early 1980s and has become a classic in the decades...
by michelle | Jun 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
Welcome to the lovely fictional town of Mallow Island, South Carolina, and a unique apartment building with eccentric residents, both human and otherwise. In Other Birds, author Sarah Addison Allen tells the story of Zoey, a recent high school graduate hoping to find...
