Michele's Books

Buy your copy direct from Regal House Publishing now!

Save the Village was released in February 2022 and is available widely online and in some local bookstores. But consider buying it directly from the publisher. It's a great way to show support for a small, independent traditional press, and it’s the only way to get the special edition hardcover version.

Life hasn’t turned out quite the way Becca Cammeyer of Greenwich Village – once voted most likely to land on Broadway or in jail for a good cause – had planned. Her only child has moved to another continent, she’s still living in a fifth-floor walkup with her aging dog, still single, still nearly broke, still not on speaking terms with her best friend or mother. But she’s a semi-famous tour guide, and on a perfect October evening, Becca almost believes all is well with her world as she helps a group of South Carolinian tourists fall in love with her beloved Village. The tour concludes, and Becca sends the women on their way, unaware that her world is about to be upended. In the aftermath of a tragedy, Becca embarks on wildly improbable reconciliations and new relationships. At once a love story about Greenwich Village and a reflection on a changing world, Save the Village reveals how when a community comes together, everyone wins.

Buy your copy direct from Finishing Line Press now!

These eight persona story-poems imagine what life might actually have been like for a roster of familiar nursery-rhyme characters, each of them grappling with a timeless, all-too-human predicament: the pluck of the impoverished children of the old woman who lived in a shoe, the real reason Simon was called simple, the fantasy running through Bo Peep’s mind when she lost track of her sheep, the dire afflictions of the Sprats.

Poetry chapbook published by Finishing Line Press (2018).

In these funny, tender, lyrical portraits, we meet girls whose lives have barely begun, women prevailing despite various raw deals they’ve been dealt, and mothers and daughters doing their best to love and understand the people from whom they sprang and the people who sprang from them. With cameo appearances by Thelma Ritter, Betty Boop and other exemplary females.