Michele L Montgomery

Just wanted to share with all

February 23, 2010

This post came as a surprise to me from Amy J today and I wanted to share this with you. Her words about my book actually brought tears to my eyes. I had no idea she was going to post this. 
 
 

Today I wanted to start a discussion and get some thoughts from other readers.  When you are cruising around your book blogs, are you more likely to buy books from authors you have heard about, or do you like to find books by authors that you have never heard of before? 

For me, I like to find new authors.  They are like finding diamonds in the rough.  It is hard to fathom why so many wonderful authors are still struggling to be picked up by major publishing companies.  Now, I understand those big companies can only sign on so many wonderful authors due to money and demand.  Wouldn't it be great though if they had a program for new authors?  Maybe one new author a month to offer a contract to? …. 
 

Amy goes on to say a lot of interesting things and then mentions River of Tears. To see what she’s said please click here: http://myoverstuffedbookshelf.blogspot.com/2010/02/unknown-authors-vs-big-time-authors.html 

……RIVER OF TEARS by Michele L. Montgomery is still my favorite book of 2009.  I have read that book 3 times and the words still send my emotions into overdrive and tug at my heart.  It is a book that has stayed with me and I still have not found a book that touched me as much as it did since then.  It will probably be my favorite book of 2010 if I keep re reading it over and over again.  This author was one that I had never heard of, the cover was not fancy with half naked men on the front, and I still wanted to read it.  A true diamond in the rough was found. 
 

Her words have touched me very deep.

 

A Great Start to a New Year

February 5, 2010

 

When the “ball” dropped bringing in the New Year I prayed it would be a better year for all of us. I remember where I was when I thought this. I was laying in bed, propped up with three comfy pillows with my covers snuggling around me. I had the T.V. on and my ever loving pen and notebook on my writing tray sitting on top of me. I like to bring the new year in writing. It’s just something I do.  

Well, I was there, it was midnight, and my phone started going off the wall, beeping an...


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Happy New Year!!!

January 4, 2010

We made it to see another decade. 2010.

Friends and Family 

When I was a senior in high school the world was supposed to end or so I was told when I was in 8th grade. Imagine carrying that kind of fear inside you for four long years. I mean I just started discovering boys and I was hearing that I’d only have four years left to really discover them. Well, alright then. Discover them I would! I looked forward to entering high school. Lots and lots of new boys from other neighborhoods...


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INDI AUTHORS and BOOK REVIEWS

November 27, 2009

I wanted to take some time and talk about INDI authors, (Independent) and Book Reviews, and why some people are so afraid to pick a book up that's been self-published. Then question why some book reviewers are so afraid to review self-published books?  

Granted, I've only been in this world a short time, since this past August if you want to get technical and I have seen and read so much on this very topic that I can recite it in my sleep. Before I considered myself a writer, I was a...


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A Life's Journey with River of Tears

November 16, 2009

I truly believe the saying that you are your own worst critic.  

If you've been reading my blogs in order you'll know that the last paragraph I wrote from the prior blog titled: A Life's Journey…River of Tears. You'll know it said:

My story was as good as I could get it. I was ready to share it for real this time. I was proud of it and I wanted people to read this story. I had a smile that warmed my heart. I did the best I could do. It was time to do something about it. 

And I did…...


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My Journey

October 27, 2009

I've gotten behind here, I owe my blog a continuance of “My Journey”, and I've every intention of doing just that. I looked back and realized that I'm a few weeks overdue and I felt as if I not only cheated myself, but my friends (well those who read my blabbering's anyway) and my blog too. I mean, it's an interesting journey, through my eyes anyway, and I want to share that with everyone.

However, many changes found their way into my life and they weren't happy or good c...


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A Life's Journey…River of Tears

September 14, 2009
When I pressed the send button back in January of this year I felt anything but relief. I should have felt it though, I should have been smiling and thinking positive thoughts. I should have been able to say: Wow that is the best I could have done. 

I didn't. It wasn't.  

It felt rushed and I felt as if I had cheated those characters out of their story. They had something important to say and I had the nerve to rush them just to meet a deadline for a contest. It wasn't as if there wer...


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A Life's Journey (continued)

August 28, 2009

My road to having River of Tears Published 

River of Tears, as I have stated, was a long journey in and of itself in its writing stages alone. (Its publishing stage is a whole different story) When I started writing it I was doing it more for myself. I had to get those feelings I had inside of me, out. The only way I knew and still to this day was to write them. Be creative and build my own world, making it what it is now.  

Back in November, while browsing the Internet, I came across...


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A life's journey. (It's not done yet)

August 20, 2009

I can remember being a little girl and holding my books in my arms and I would sit for hours by myself just turning the pages. I'd turn each page one by one, touching the words, loving that those words would take me away some place else. A few times I ran with Bambi, I sat on Dumbo's back and once I even sat on top of that big scary whale.  

My imagination took me places I needed to be and sometimes places I didn't need to be, but none the less I went on journeys that I'll n...


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