BLOGWORDS – Thursday 25 September 2025 – CHAT THURSDAY – MICHELLE GRIEP
BLOGWORDS – Thursday 25 September 2025 – CHAT THURSDAY – MICHELLE GRIEP
CHAT THURSDAY – MICHELLE GRIEP
Please give a warm feathered welcome to author and friend, Michelle Griep.
rem: Hullo Michelle, and welcome. Tell us three random things about yourself.
MICHELLE: Armadillos are my nemesis. Heights freak me out. Mango kombucha is my favorite.
rem: Armadillos, hmmm… I’m sure there’s a story there. What is your favorite quotation and why?
MICHELLE: “Bidden or unbidden, God is always present.”
I love this quote because it shows your belief or lack thereof does not hinder God.
rem: Yes, He absolutely is! When reading, what makes or breaks a story for you? Your fiction pet peeve?
MICHELLE: Backstory overload in one big dump is a buzz killer for me. An overload of adjectives is my pet peeve.
rem: An overload of anything is too much; sprinkle it in sparingly. What are you reading right now?
MICHELLE: Currently reading So True a Love by Joanna Barker (a Regency proper romance)
rem: A Regency. Imagine that. #heehee Tell us a little about your writing journey.
MICHELLE: I started writing when I discovered blank wall space and Crayolas, and have been hard at it ever since. Professionally, though, about twenty years ago. I ran away from home one night a week when my kids were little and started penning stories.
rem: Escaping into fiction—literally. What genre(s) do you write and why?
MICHELLE: Right now I’m camping out in the Regency and Victorian eras because I’m an Anglophile at heart. Every chance I get I skip across the pond and hang out in England.
rem: Also an Anglophile. #raiseshand Tell us a little about your latest book? What is your current project?
MICHELLE: My recent release is Of Silver and Shadows. It’s an intriguing Victorian romance set around Cambridge with a roguish professor of Roman history and a spinster trying to hold her family estate together while keeping her blind 12-year-old sister in line.
rem: I’ve read it and I gotta say, it’s a great story. What is YOUR favorite part about the book or why do you love this book? Why should we read it?
MICHELLE: Personally, I love the snarky dialogue. Sarcasm is my love language—just ask my husband. But that’s just me. You should read the story for the flavor of Roman history in England via an archeological dig and also the swoony love story between the main characters.
rem: Dialogue is a make it or break it for me in any story. Throw in some snark and I’m hooked. What is one take-away from your book(s) that you hope readers identify with?
MICHELLE: No matter how awful things seem, hope is always a choice.
rem: Always and evermore. Oh, wait, that’s another (rather creepy) author. One more and then we’ll close. Do you have a life Scripture?
MICHELLE: You bet! “The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble, and He knows those who trust in Him.” Nahum 1:7
rem: Oh, He absolutely is! Anything you’d like to add?
MICHELLE: Readers are rockstars. Truly. Writers would not be able to do what they do without a faithful following of readers.
rem: So very true! Readers are the best! Thank you so much for chatting with us on my blog today!
MICHELLE: Thank you for hosting me!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
I hear voices. Loud. Incessant. And very real. Which basically gives me two options: choke back massive amounts of Prozac or write fiction. I've been writing since I discovered blank wall space and Crayolas. I seek to glorify God in all that I write--except for that graffiti phase I went through as teenager.
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