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Michelle C. Hillstrom

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Michelle C. Hillstrom is the Amazon Best-Selling author of The Kiss Series, Insomnia, Seducing the Marine, Seducing the Pitcher, FRIENDZONE, Seducing the Vampire, Seducing the Prince, PLAYING FOR KEEPS, and BAT BOYS. She also contributed to and compiled #MeToo: A Collection of True Story Crimes Against Women and The Release of Silence.
She specializes in the New Adult genre with subgenres of paranormal, fantasy, and romance. When she isn't writing, Michelle can either be found creating new recipes in the kitchen, working out at the gym, working her way through her never-ending TBR bookstack, or playing with her dog.

Michelle was born and raised in Lubbock and served her country in the United States Marine Corps Reserves. She is an advocate fo ...more

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	FRIENDZONE: a High School, Steamy, Sports, Frenemies to Lovers, Texas Romance: FRIENDZONE BOOK 1 3.96 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	PLAYING FOR KEEPS (FRIENDZONE #2) 3.84 avg rating — 50 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Faithful Kiss (The Kiss #1) 4.33 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2013 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Possessive Kiss: Victora's Story (The Kiss #2) 4.83 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Kiss of Betrayal: Élisabet's Story (The Kiss #3) 4.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Insomnia: A Book of Poetry 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	#MeToo: A Collection of True Story Crimes Against Women 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seducing the Prince: an Erotic Seduction Novella 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Don't keep your Muse locked up in the closet. Set them free to dance across the page and what they create will be a masterpiece.”
― Michelle C. Hillstrom

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“Look for someone who is more than eye candy. Look for someone who is soul food.”
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“Writing is like breathing -- it is necessary for my survival.”
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“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”
― Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales

tags: absurd, beauty, perverse, solitude

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“If a man has to say trust me, Gogu conveyed, it's a sure sign you cannot. Trust him, that is. Trust is a thing you know without words.”
― Juliet Marillier, Wildwood Dancing

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“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Essays, Letters and Miscellanies

tags: advice-for-writers, awareness, life

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“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

tags: humor, inspirational, philosophy, wisdom

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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero