Michelle Richmond | Author

Michelle Richmond
author of THE YEAR OF FOG and NO ONE YOU KNOW

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Oct.30.2011

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PUBLISHED: Oct.18.2011

Story Starters: A Workbook for Writers

Arranged in a daily progression to help you get the most out of your writing practice, the 50 exercises in this workbook are the result of more than a decade of teaching. Craft-based exercises, free-flow exercises, and ten-minute prompts lead up to a series of imaginative flash fiction assignments. A Halfway There Self-Assessment helps your recognize your strengths and...

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PUBLISHED: Jun.24.2008

No One You Know

"Heartbreaking and compelling…Richmond gracefully weaves in fascinating background material on the coffee culture and the field of mathematics as she thoughtfully explores family dynamics, the ripple effects of tragedy, and the importance of the stories we tell. Combine all that with perfect pacing and depth of insight, and you have a thoroughly riveting literary thriller.”...

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PUBLISHED: Dec.19.2007

Dream of the Blue Room

Jenny and Amanda Ruth were best friends in a small Alabama town until eighteen-years-old Amanda Ruth was murdered. Now, fourteen years later, Jenny has traveled with her husband to China to scatter Amanda Ruth’s ashes and finally fulfill her friend’s dream of visiting her Chinese father’s homeland. It’s also, Jenny hopes, an opportunity to repair her own troubled marriage. But as...

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PUBLISHED: Mar.27.2007

The Year of Fog

A Kirkus Reviews Top Pick for Reading Groups A New York Times and interantional bestseller. Visit the author's website Life changes in an instant. On a foggy beach. In the seconds when Abby Mason—photographer, fiancée soon-to-be-stepmother—looks into her camera and commits her greatest error. Six-year-old Emma vanished into the thick San Francisco fog. Or into the heaving Pacific...

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The Great Amphibian

In this award-winning short story, a pregnant woman witnesses an unsettling moment of violence at a model yacht race in Golden Gate Park. Inspired by the story of her famous great-grandfather, a man of strange aquatic gifts who disappeared on Lake Michigan many decades before, she decides to commit her own act of heroism.

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PUBLISHED: Dec.23.2007

The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress

A series of locations both familiar and exotic make up the seventeen linked stories in this award-winning debut collection by the New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Fog. Whether leaving, returning, or staying put, the women who narrate these stories are bound to Alabama by history and habit, their voices informed by the landscape and lore of the deep South. In "...

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Michelle's Latest Blogs

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Oct.30.2011 - 12:52 pm

Just in Time for Nanowrimo

Make the most of National Novel Writing Month (Nanowrimo)! Story Starters, A Workbook for Writers will banish writer’s block, spark your imagination, and provide endless...

Nov.11.2010 - 3:59 pm

The Girl on the Beach

Visit the Year of Fog website. Emma Balfour walked into my life in the summer of 2003. Our paths collided on Ocean Beach, the 3-mile stretch of gray sand and graffiti-spattered...

Aug.23.2010 - 9:04 am

Help Me Map the Fog

Some time ago, I began building an interactive map of THE YEAR OF FOG, so that readers can follow Abby through the streets of San Francisco as she searches for Emma. The map...

Jul.12.2010 - 4:14 pm

Ode to Petit Bois Island

It's called "Petit Bois," which means "little woods," and it's located off the coast of Southeastern Mississippi. As a child in Alabama, I knew it as "...

Comments from Michelle

Jan.02.2010 - 12:07 pm

In response to: Getting to Happy

Thank you for sharing this,

Thank you for sharing this, Liz. Beautifully written and profound. I consider myself fortunate to know you.

Mar.31.2009 - 11:07 am

In response to: Thank you!

Congratulations to you,

Congratulations to you, Kirsten! I look forward to meeting you on the 19th at the library! Best, Michelle

Mar.24.2009 - 11:34 am

In response to: 29th Annual Northern California Book Awards

Thank you, Jennifer!

Feb.03.2009 - 1:08 pm

In response to: Yes, Christine, You Can Begin Writing at 60

Yay for your (then) new

Yay for your (then) new husband! And yay for the stellar review of Vienna Triangle in the Chron, if I hadn't mentioned...

Feb.03.2009 - 1:07 pm

In response to: Yes, Christine, You Can Begin Writing at 60

Yes, I always think perhaps

Yes, I always think perhaps I ought to move to Italy when I turn 40.

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Short Story: The Great Amphibian

Article: The Stories We Tell

Short Story: Hum

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Apr.01.2010

The Year of Fog

Published by Closer Magazine

Heartbreaking and riveting, this novel is beautifully written.

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Audio: Backstage with Ben Fong-Torres, Part 4

Audio: Backstage with Ben Fong-Torres, Part 3

Audio: Backstage with Ben Fong-Torres, Part 2

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Michelle Richmond has established herself as mistress of the kind of literary mystery that packs the punch of a fine thriller, but with added insight and wisdom. ”

—London Daily Mail

About Michelle

Michelle Richmond is the author of the New York Times and international bestseller The Year of Fog, No One You Know, Dream of the Blue Room, and the award-winning story collection The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress. Her stories and essays have appeared...

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