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What I’ve Been Working On…

So drumroll… this is my secret, most beloved baby of all, the novel I’ve been working on since this summer. It’s a strange duck, for sure: a romance novel about female sexual dysfunction. But it has all my favorite elements: musicians, college students, craft microbrew, screaming sexual tension, and a gorgeously muscled, soulful man with a secret. I call it A Cruel Kind of Beautiful. Here’s a little peek at an early version of my book description for this one: A Cruel Kind of Beautiful Jera McKnight loves music, loves beautiful men, and hates sex. Her perfect storm arrives in the form of ex-baseball star and nude model, Jacob Tate, who has a heart as big as his record collection. But she knows there’s no hope of a healthy long-term relationship that never gets physical, so she keeps Jacob firmly...
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Interview with Kindle Worlds Blog

Recently, I was pleased to be interviewed for the Kindle Worlds Blog. It was a great experience and they had some really intriguing interview questions. Author and Vampire Diaries fan Michelle Hazen has discovered breakout success publishing her Vampire Diaries fan fiction in Kindle Worlds. We had the opportunity to ask Michelle a few questions about her experience writing in Kindle Worlds, the craft of storytelling, and what’s next for her. Also, make sure to check out her latest The Vampire Diaries In Time We Trust trilogy: Trust in Darkness, Trust in Fire, and Trust in Betrayal. What inspired you to write for The Vampire Diaries world? I love the world, because vampires give us room for so much brutal suspense and exciting fight scenes, but they also give us a sense of history and time. Their immortal existence is...
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“Forsworn” a Quarter-Finalist in the 2014 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest!

Crazy great news! My post-apocalyptic novel, Forsworn, made it into the quarter-finals of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest, which is wildly competitive and one of the most high profile fiction contests out there. It is now in the top 500 of 10,000 amazing new stories, and if I can make it to the top 5, I win a publishing contract! Even better news…You can read it! The general public is allowed to review the excerpts of each contest entry and your reviews count toward my final score. So go enjoy the first chapter, and leave a review to let me know how you liked the start, and to help bump me just a little closer to the top for the next elimination round! Forsworn is set in a post-apocalyptic version of the American west, with a badass female assassin as...
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