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Continue reading →: 20,000 Steps to Writing a Novel
The day by day by day by day tasks that lead to a first draft. I wrote a book. It is a very bad book, with plot holes and typos and major issues with the P.O.V., but I wrote a book. I typed the last line on Monday, just after…
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Continue reading →: Angry Woman, Where Aren’t Thou?
My mother is a midwestern woman. A landlocked, rural woman from birth to what should have been death, except that at 34, her husband, in following whatever voice most sounded like God’s, took her East. In the East there were fewer silos reaching up than there were shores pulling out,…
poet – writer – bookseller
sarina r michel
Sarina writes about isolation, control, and religious manipulation –irreverently & somehow, delightfully. She promises she doesn’t mean to be so bleak. She daylights as a critic pursuing ruthless-positivity. By nightfall she’s asleep; what does anyone do past 9 p.m. anyway?
Sarina is the owner of a small, independent bookstore in her town. She is a book advocate– she believes reading in community is world-changing.
Sarina was born in Minnesota, raised in New England, and now resides in Florida, where seasonal depression happens in the summer because it’s too hot for anyone to go outside. As a pastor’s kid, Sarina spent more time in church than some Bibles have. She spent much of her young life praying to be like Paul so that she could talk some mad shit about congregations in her area with a self-righteous flair. While she still holds her faith in high esteem, she’s learned to channel that rage into her fiction.
Now, Sarina is learning to love process over product, to be present in her life, and to really listen before she speaks.
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