Hi friends! Today, our author spotlight is on Michelle Levigne! Everyone, say hello to Michelle! Without further ado, let's get to know Michelle and her Neighborlee fantaay series.
Author Bio:
On the road to publication, Michelle fell into fandom in college and has 40+ stories in various SF and fantasy universes. She has a bunch of useless degrees in theater, English, film/communication, and writing. Even worse, she has over 100 books and novellas with multiple small presses, in science fiction and fantasy, YA, suspense, women's fiction, and sub-genres of romance.
Her official launch into publishing came with winning first place in the Writers of the Future contest in 1990. She was a finalist in the EPIC Awards competition multiple times, winning with Lorien
in 2006 and The Meruk Episodes, I-V, in 2010, and was a finalist in the Realm Award competition, in conjunction with the Realm Makers convention.
Her training includes the Institute for Children’s Literature; proofreading at an advertising agency; and working at a community newspaper. She is a tea snob and freelance edits for a living (MichelleLevigne@gmail.com for info/rates), but only enough to give her time to write. Her newest crime against the literary world is to be co-managing editor at Mt. Zion Ridge Press and launching the publishing co-op, Ye Olde Dragon Books. Be afraid … be very afraid.
Here's Michelle!
Right now, I have a long-term project going. I took back the rights to my Neighborlee fantasy series, and I'm in the process of revising them, adding new subplots, rearranging some details, getting rid of inconsistencies and contradictions, and then filling in the gaps in the timeline. There were originally 8 titles when I took the books back from the wonderful Jude Glad at Uncial Press. When I'm finished, there will be 13 -- so that equals writing 5 new books.
Book 4, LIVING PROOF (that no good deed goes unpunished) a re-release, released November 1.
Book 5, the first completely new title, is NIGHT OF THE LIVING PROOF, and releases January 1.
The timing is perfect, because LIVING PROOF takes readers from the day after Thanksgiving up to Christmas Eve.
NIGHT starts on Christmas Eve and takes our heroine, Lanie Zephyr, and her semi-pseudo-superhero friends through a lot of weird, sometimes frightening events surrounding New Year's Eve, and then some follow-up as they clean up the mess from some nasty interdimensional invaders trying to break through to Earth.
The plan is a new Neighborlee book every other month ... through 2022!
Neighborlee fantasy series Introduction
Welcome to Neighborlee, Ohio.
Where? Somewhere on the North Coast of Ohio, south of Cleveland, right off I-71, north of Medina, in the heart of Cuyahoga County.
What is it? That’s a little harder to explain.
Neighborlee is a place you need to experience.
The most important thing you need to understand: Neighborlee is magic. Some people say the town is alive. It exists to protect the weird and wonderful (and sometimes a little bit scary) from the cold, practical, material world.
More important, Neighborlee protects the outside world from the weird and wonderful that come to visit … and sometimes come to stay.
First stop: Divine’s Emporium, a four-story Victorian house sitting on a hill overlooking the Metroparks. Whatever you really need, you can find at Divine’s. Even if you don’t know what you’re looking for when you walk in the door. The shop is often bigger inside than it is outside. Angela is the proprietor. Please stay on the first floor. You don’t want to find out what is hidden and locked safely away upstairs. Like Aslan, Angela is good, but that doesn’t mean she’s safe. And neither are the secrets and wonders and doorways to other worlds that she protects … and keeps securely locked.
Come in and explore. Meet the people who help Angela guard Neighborlee. Share their adventures of magic and wonder, danger and sacrifice. You never know who or what you’ll run into as you walk the streets and listen to the stories of their lives.
(Title, Original Title, Release Date)
Confessions of a Lost Kid (Growing Up Neighborlee) 05/20
Semi-Pseudo-Superheroes (Dorm Rats) 07/20
Virtually London (London Holiday) 09/20
Living Proof (that no good deed goes unpunished) (Living Proof) 11/20
Night of the Living Proof, 01/21
Quitting the Hero Biz (Hero Blues) 03/21
Bride of the Living Proof, 05/21
Shrunk: The Exile of Maurice (Divine’s Emporium) 07/21
Return of the Living Proof, 09/21
Allergic to Mistletoe (Have Yourself a Faerie Little Christmas) 11/21
Dawn of the Living Proof, 01/22
Angela’s Knight (Divine Knight) 03/22
The Living Proof Gets the Blues, 05/22
Purchase Link and to Connect with Michelle:
Website: www.Mlevigne.com
Blog: www.MichelleLevigne.blogspot.com
Ye Olde Dragon Books Shop: https://yeoldedragonbooks.com/
Mt. Zion Ridge Press: https://www.mtzionridgepress.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MichelleLevigne
Look for Michelle's Goodreads groups:
Guardians of Neighborlee
Voyages of the AFV Defender
Friends, I sure hope you enjoyed getting to know Michelle Levigne!
Thank you so much for joining us, Michelle!
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Thanks so much for sharing today, Michelle!
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