Michelle McCraw Blog

Writing progress, Nov 18, 2022

It's November, and that means NaNoWriMo. I've been plugging along, trying to write a little ahead since I'm traveling at the end of the month. And with the words I wrote in October, I'm over 40k words into my draft. Woot! Natalie and Jamila have been fun to write, and I hope to publish their story in late spring 2023. What about Frenemy, you ask? It's still with my agent - she's a busy lady! Don't expect to hear much about this project until later in 2023. But keep your fingers crossed for me! 

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New collection!

I don’t know about you, but I love one-stop shopping. When Target added a grocery section to my local store? Best. Day. Ever. I could get my Target fix *and* a jug of milk. Genius! I hope I’ve done the same thing by bundling my first three Synergy books together in my first-ever collection. The best part? You can get it for 20% off the retail price of buying all three books. PLUS it includes the bonus epilogues for each book. Already read Work with Me, Friend Me, and Trip Me Up? Share it with...

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And so it begins (again)…

Did you know that November is National Novel Writing Month? Although it’s been a thing since 1999, I didn’t learn about it until 2015. I’d been thinking about writing a book, y’know, how one does, thinking and thinking about it but never *actually* doing it. It was one of those “someday” goals I’d had since I was a kid and by the time I was...well, we'll say, old enough to know that life is short...with a real job and a real family who needed to, y’know, eat and be housed, I’d almost talked...

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