Michelle McCraw Blog

Writing progress, December 14, 2025

Thanks to Becca Syme and a new focus on my writing, I've made strong progress on next spring's release, Marriage and Trouble, a marriage-of-convenience romcom featuring rescued animals (mostly dogs). I'm well into Act 3, just a couple of chapters from the end, which is GREAT because to stay on schedule, I need to finish drafting this month! Writing isn't the only thing I've worked on for the past couple of months. I released translations of my Synergy workplace romance series in Dutch, French,...

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Writing progress, Oct 28, 2025

It always feels GREAT to post about a book that's finished, especially as I slog through the muddy middle of the next book. I'm making good but slow progress on next spring's release, a marriage-of-convenience romcom. Thank you to everyone who downloaded Advances and Retreats - I hope you love it. And HUGE thanks to everyone who's preordered Marriage and Trouble. (I guess I actually have to finish it now!) Also, don't forget to grab your ebook copy of Frenemies and Lovers, which is currently...

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Writing progress, September 21, 2025

This may not look like a lot of progress because, frankly, it's not. And that was my intention for September. I took almost three weeks away from writing to take the vacation of a lifetime, visiting the UK, Ireland, and Iceland with my daughter. We had a fantastic time in Iceland - a bucket-list country for me - and all the other places we visited. Look to my Instagram soon for pics! I received Advances and Retreats back from my copyeditor, and on a few quiet days on my trip, I was able to do...

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