About Michelle Richmond: Michelle Richmond is an American novelist. She wrote The Year of Fog, which was a New York Times bestseller.
But there's no emergency kit for marriage. No neat plan you can turn to when the ground shifts beneath your feet.
I never expected to find myself here, on the edge of the continent--childless, possibly jobless, with broken bones and a broken marriage, citizen of a broken country. But here I am, and I must make something of it. That's really the only choice one h...
...You find a way, somehow to get through the most horrible things, things you think would kill you. You find a way and you move through the days, one by one, in shock, in despair, but you move. The days pass, one after the other, and you go along wi...
It's rather disconcerting to sit around a table in a critique of someone else's work, only to realize that the antagonist in the story is none other than yourself, and no one present thinks you're a very likable character.
To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you.