C. Michelle

\nC. Michelle McCarty is a native Texan born with a love of writing, but forced to take jobs that actually paid for necessities along the way. Having done everything from owning her own hair salon and employment agency to writing ad copy, and editing for an online newspaper, Michelle retired in 2012 to settle into writing full time.\n\nSocially awkward, Michelle daydreams about imaginary places filled with ordinary and extraordinary characters who offer intimate details of their humorous, eccentric, romantic, dramatic, and sometimes mundane lives. She writes to learn moral lessons by placing characters in a variety of situations, which in turn offers soul searching and sometimes personal resolutions. Michelle believes flawed characters reveal that everyone, no matter how imperfect or seemingly insignificant, offers something special in pretend worlds as well as in real life.\n\nMichelle's first novel, The Jewel Box, was a finalist in Amazon's Breakthrough Novel Awards, 2013, an Amazon Best Seller for twelve weeks straight, and won Gold in Readers; Favorite Novel Awards contest. \nMichelle's second novel, Beyond the Pale was a finalist in The Kindle Book Review Awards, 2016, and.held Amazon's Best Seller spot for five weeks. \nMichelle's third book of six short stories about online dating is scheduled for publication in 2019.