A Letter From Michelle
“Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.” Shacquille O’Neal, American professional basketball player, fellow UOP alum
Michelle Malsbury, Author Letter for new web site design 8/23/10
I wrote my first book, Three Years With Adonis, over a decade ago. It was immediately picked up and published by Publish America. At this time I was so naïve about this whole process that I never considered the importance of editing, especially professional editing and Publish America never suggested such. Therefore, this work had little, to no, editing prior to its release. As things turned out, it had a few pretty bad reviews, tempered by some good ones too, but not nearly enough to brand me as an author to be watched or read. However, I’ve learned an awful lot in the wake of that experience.
In the decade since Three Years With Adonis was penned I completed my bachelor’s , which I began twenty years prior to then, and master’s degrees in Business Management and have embarked on my doctorate. I had written and published on the web over four hundred and fifty articles on a variety of topics. I am incredibly adept at research and conversant on many topics where I have managed to amass a large readership following on the blogs and web sites that I contribute to. I have taken, those sometimes scathing comments, and learned from them. I have studied up, worked on and honed the craft of writing to where I believe, and most concur, that I am pretty darn good now!
The Swindler, my newest novel was released on April 16th of 2010 by All Things That Matter Press. It can be purchased directly from my publisher at their web site www.allthingsthatmatterpress.com or from www.amazon.com, or www.amazon.ca.uk (for those of you who reside in Europe or the UK). The ISBN is 978-0-9844219-4-7. If you prefer the brick and mortar store my books can be ordered directly from the listings at the Books A Million and Barnes & Noble stores across America.
The Swindler is actually based on a place where I was employed for nearly five years. While it is entirely fictionalized it does have some lingering remnants of that time. The places written about are real places that some of you may have already visited or hope to one day.
I was pleased to team up with a wonderful editor by the name of Marvin Wilson who polished my work on The Swindler until it shined. I am extremely proud of this book and believe sales are steady and growing. The reviews for this book have come from a variety of industries and from some incredibly well credentialed persons that know the pulse of books and book sales across a variety of genres. These reviews have been wonderfully helpful to my potential readers and have helped me to generate a good following for this book and the next books that are certain to follow. Please peruse them at your leisure in the reviews section of this web site. For those of you who would like to have your review of my books placed on my web site please use the contact information on the bottom of the home page to locate my email address. Thank you!
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