My Fiction Obsession
Fiction etc. from Michelle Richmond, NYT bestselling author of psychological suspense, literary mysteries, and short stories
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A Sunday Mystery (opens the original)
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5 Habits I Brought Home with Me from Paris (opens the original)
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I hesitated to write this post on my author newsletter. But then I thought about some of my favorite author newsletters, and the way they offer glimpses into the writers’ lives that often have little to do with the authors’ books. In Wordy Bird, writes about fashion “because it’s something I love thinking and talking about and don’t get to do it as much as I’d like.” writes (and speaks) beautifully about people he has known and loved and places he has traveled in the <a href="https://armisteadma
Book Giveaway: A New Espionage Thriller Set in Paris (opens the original)
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Hi there. I hope your September is off to a great start. In Paris, it’s la rentrée, the time of year when Parisians come home from the summer holidays, don their scarves (even if it’s eighty degrees out), roll up their sleeves, and get back to school and work.Here in Northern California, I’m also in sleeve-rolling-up mode. My new novel, Animals of the French Species, inspired by years as a trailing spouse with the U.S. Embassy in Paris, is done and dusted and soon to be off to the printers. It h
Wandering the Silent Streets of Paris - from the notebooks (opens the original)
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Goodbye, Go Home, You Never Belonged Here (opens the original)
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This summer, I arrived in Paris during a brief period of cold and rain sandwiched between two canicules (the fetching French word for a blistering heat wave). This story, however, is from another summer in Paris, another canicule, when our life in Paris was just beginning.and a note on my next book: My espionage novel set in modern-day Paris is available for pre-order from Grove Atlantic.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image
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