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.
Posted by Michele Montgomery
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... Continue reading...
Posted by Michele Montgomery
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... Continue reading...
Posted by Michele Montgomery
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... Continue reading...
Posted by Michele Montgomery
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…... Continue reading...
Posted by Michele Montgomery
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... Continue reading...
Posted by Michele Montgomery
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... Continue reading...
Posted by Michele Montgomery
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...
Posted by Michele Montgomery
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... Continue reading...
Posted by Michele Montgomery
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