About Michele
How to contact me
If you have questions about book coaching or about working with me that aren’t answered on my website, please contact me at bookcoach@micheleregenold.com.
My book coaching credentials
I earned my Author Accelerator certificate in fiction in 2021. As an Author Accelerator certified book coach, I am qualified to coach writers using Author Accelerator's strategy, methods, and materials, but I operate independently of Author Accelerator and am not affiliated with them.
I earned my MFA in writing for children and young adults from the Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2008, where my advisers included Rita Williams-Garcia, Uma Krishnaswami, Margaret Bechard, and Ellen Howard—all fabulous writers, teachers, and role models.
I have 20 years of experience working with writers both as a college English teacher and as an editor. My feedback is kind, honest, and helpful.
My particular strengths and interests
Plot and story structure are pieces I’m especially good at helping writers with. So if structure or plot are things you struggle with, we may be a good fit.
Whether you’re writing contemporary, historical, fantasy, science fiction, or mystery, if it’s for middle grade readers, I’d love to help.
If young adult fiction is your focus, I can help best with suspense/thriller/mystery, low fantasy, and historical novels.
My history with mysteries
When I was 9, an aunt gave me several of her Nancy Drew mysteries, the original ones, which were first published in the 1930s. I became hooked on mysteries and have read nearly every kind.
I’ve also studied them. For my MA in English literature at Iowa State University, I did my thesis on female detective fiction, focusing on work by Sara Paretsky, Linda Barnes, and Sue Grafton. Paretsky’s V.I. Warshawski character was my favorite.
Years later, for my MFA critical thesis, I wrote about children’s detective fiction, again focusing on female characters. I called it “Under the Magnifying Glass: The Making of Literary, Girl-Detective Fiction.”
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