A few years ago, I began to write an ironic column for Black Forest Academy’s newspaper under the pseudonym of Genevieve. A box at the library’s check-out desk allowed staff and students to suggest topics for my column, the majority of which I ignored in favor of the more titillating ones emanating from the suggestion […]
I clicked on the Google Alert email in my inbox and read the first line. “I.O.U Sex has posted a review for Tangled Ashes by Michèle Phoenix.” Well—that got my attention! I giggled, hesitated, giggled again, then cringed a little and clicked the link to the article, surprised to find a very positive review […]
A time capsule crashed back into my life on Thanksgiving Day. It startled me a little. The meal was long over. The dishes were done. To dispel the fog of our turkey-comas, my two guests and I tore into my Christmas boxes, first setting up my tree, then unwrapping the 100+ ornaments given to me […]
There were ghouls, witches and zombies wandering around my neighborhood in October. Some wore pink sneakers under their torn bed sheets. Others had lollipop smudges on their chins. All held bags and baskets at arms’ length, hoping their harmless evilness would score them extra loot. But there is nothing harmless about true evil. Neither in […]
There are Internet “plagues” that put Egypt’s seven afflictions to shame. Just a couple years ago, Facebook’s “Twenty-Five Random Facts About Me” became the cloud of locusts swooping into our cyberlives with equal parts intimate revelation and weird self-flagellation. The point was simple: list twenty-five unrelated facts about yourself, post them, then ask your friends […]
Somebody pinch me! As of October 1, Tangled Ashes is available in bookstores, from online retailers and directly from this website. Buy it here! (Scroll down to a enter a contest and win 2 free books…) I hope this 90-second book-trailer will answer some of your questions about the contemporary, WWII-based mystery and entice you […]
[Here’s a story ripped from my wogging files! The scene is Kandern, Germany, and its Black Forest walking trails. The time is four years ago. The story? Well, it’s epic…and entirely true.] Picture this: a quadragenarian woman, all decked out in slimming (ha) black sweats and three gallons of sun block, heads off into the […]
Gaston, South Carolina. Train tracks. A grocery store. A Wendy’s. And a re-entry camp for worldwide MKs on the shores of a small, tree-surrounded lake. I wasn’t sure I’d survive the heat. I wasn’t sure I’d be welcomed, arriving a couple days after the opening festivities. And I wasn’t sure the “rustic” surroundings would meet […]
Twelve years ago. In my other home town of Riedlingen, Germany. I have a confession to make: After years and years of loudly and stubbornly proclaiming that jogging is unquestionably of the devil, and after many a lame excuse uttered to sports teachers in order to wiggle out of participation in any strenuous physical […]