Michelle Karise

I was born in St. Louis Missouri, where I now live and work. I've had my dog, Rooney for almost 11 years. I got him from a dog rescue, but he rescued me.

I joined RWA in August 2019. I'm a member of the national and local chapters. I've made incredible relationships with chapter members.

I was born into a family of readers. My earliest memories are of me sitting at the breakfast table reading the newspaper with my family. They weren't surprised that I wrote a novel, they were more surprised that it "looked like a book." LOL

My favorite genre is romance. So, I write what I know.

I think it is important to have an overall plan for the series and to keep impeccable notes on the books in the series. Plan. Plan. Plan.

After performing extensive research, I was surprised that there were no novels with that name. I knew that I wanted to write a story about a childhood crush.

I wanted to write a workplace romance.

I work in Information Technology. Garrett is an amalgamation of all of the masculine energy that I come in contact with on a daily basis. He is bits and pieces of various people that I've met over the years.

I wish I had thought more about marketing. LOL

There's a local cupcake shop called, "The Cup." My favorites are the Lemon Drop cupcakes.

Man, I learned so many lessons. I'm not afraid to rewrite!

I would. I took a cake decorating course a few years ago. I'm pretty good with piping on frosting and doing roses.

Not good. I purchased containers in April. They were dead by July.

I am currently working on a novel. It will fall under the Kandi's Crush universe.

I joined All Author earlier this year. I love the website. The automated tweets are an excellent way of passively marketing my books.