Michelle Richmond


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Michelle Richmond is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel The Year of Fog, as well as the critically acclaimed novels No One You Know and Dream of the Blue Room and the award-winning story collection The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress. Her stories and essays have appeared in Glimmer Train, Playboy, The Missouri Review, The Kenyon Review, and many other publications.

A native of Alabama, she makes her home in San Francisco.

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Hum    by Michelle Richmond
Price: $1.99 USD. 6500 words. Published by Michelle Richmond  on December 26, 2010. .

A literary spy thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Fog. This short story originally appeared in The Missouri Review. "Richmond has established herself as mistress of the kind of literary mystery that reads like a fine thriller, but with added insight and wisdom." London Daily Mail
Day 49: The Missing Final Chapter of The Year of Fog    by Michelle Richmond
Price: $0.99 USD. 2690 words. Published by Michelle Richmond  on December 26, 2010. .

For fans of the New York Times bestseller THE YEAR OF FOG: the never-before-published original ending, which was left on the editing room floor just weeks before the book went to press.
The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress    by Michelle Richmond
Price: $5.99 USD. 56510 words. Published by Michelle Richmond  on December 22, 2010. .

A series of locations both familiar and exotic make up the 19 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. "Smart and adept." The New Times
An Exciting New Career in Medicine    by Michelle Richmond
Price: $1.99 USD. 4990 words. Published by Michelle Richmond  on May 26, 2010. .

A woman grieving over her sister's death finds her surprising and unconventional calling as a "manual medical caregiver" in this erotic story of love, lust, and medicine. Originally published in Playboy.
The Great Amphibian    by Michelle Richmond
Price: $1.99 USD. 5070 words. Published by Michelle Richmond  on May 25, 2010. .

In this award-winning short story by the New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Fog, a pregnant woman witnesses an unsettling act 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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