Today Writer’s Chapter met for our weekly meeting. Writer’s Chapter is just a small group of local writers who get together once a week to talk about writing, the writing business, and to work on our writing in a social environment. It gets us out and helps us to emerge from our dark, lonely writing... Continue Reading →
I’ve been MIA for a while now. Blogging always seems to get pushed aside and pushed to the bottom of my to-do list. Wouldn’t it be nice if things just took care of themselves once in a while? Ya know… like day jobs and bill payments? But more than anything it has been my health... Continue Reading →
Gothic Literature is a sub-genre of romanticism consisting of novels and short stories, which emerged between 1800 and 1850. Gothic Literature focuses on the grotesque, desolate, and mysterious usually including supernatural or horror motifs to show the evil inside of humans. Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Joyce Carol Oates use settings, events, and characters... Continue Reading →
An Excerpt from Chapter Five of "The Possessive Kiss: Victoria's Story (Book Two of The Kiss Series) © Michelle C. Hillstrom True to her word, Polly brought a potion in a glass vial to Victoria that evening when she came in at her usual time to assist her mistress in the bedtime preparations. “You must... Continue Reading →
Excerpt from "The Faithful Kiss( Book One of The Kiss Series)" by: Michelle Hillstrom © I ran through the dark, wet fog. The dampness clung to my silk ball gown and something was following me. Something else was out there in the night with me, and it was evil. I was lost. I had never... Continue Reading →
I’ve been busy the past few weeks working on building a larger following on Facebook and Twitter, promoting my third book “A Kiss of Betrayal: Élisabet’s Story,” and working on one of Holly Lisle’s flash fiction classes. “A Kiss of Betrayal: Élisabet’s Story,” is the third book in “The Kiss Series,” which is a New... Continue Reading →
My writing muse is a diva. She looks like your stereotypical Greek Muse (think the muses from the Disney movie Hercules as pictured above), but she is sassy, snotty, inconsiderate, and diva-licious. I have named her Diana Ross. Let me just go ahead and state that this in no way reflects upon the Great Diana... Continue Reading →
Just discovered through a Google search that my books are being pirated through urbooklibrary.com as well as a few other websites and forums. My ebooks are sold for $0.99 and $1.99 and people are in forums asking how they can download my books for free?Ugh... explicit words explicit words explicit words explicit words...........
Flash Fiction: After the War © Michelle C. Hilstrom 2015 Before I left for The War, my daughter and I used to go to the park together while my wife attended her Bible Studies class at the church. My daughter loved to swing at that park. She’d swing so high she’d ask me if she... Continue Reading →
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