Micki Peluso

Micki Peluso began writing as catharsis for grief after losing her child to a DWI vehicular homicide. Her first short story about the event was published by Victimology: An International Magazine, leading to a 25-year career in journalism freelancing for three major newspapers.

Ms. Peluso writes in all genres including short fiction and nonfiction, and is widely published in print magazines and e-zines. She has also won contests both off- and online.

Her memoir, . . . And the Whippoorwill Sang, is a funny, poignant family story of love, loss, and survival. It was endorsed by MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) and reviewed in their magazine, MADDvocate.
Ms. Peluso has compiled a collection of slice-of-life stories, essays, with pieces of both short fiction and nonfiction in a soon-to-be released book, Heartbeats, Slices of Life.

Ms. Peluso is currently collaborating with a screenwriter to create a proposal for . . . And the Whippoorwill Sang as a film or TV movie.

Book Reviews by Micki Peluso

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In the winter of 1263 a cottage in the woods has survived hundreds of years, but it’s home and needs to be.

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Louder Than Words tells the story of a teenage girl who must uncover her past in order to pursue her future.

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“. . . leaves the reader feeling blissfully satisfied yet wishing this romantically paranormal story would go on indefinitely.”

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“Be Still My Soul is proof that faith can indeed foster love and trust—but in God’s own time.”

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“When Nora Roberts writes a great story with likeable characters so warm and real—nobody does it better.”

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“Bloom: Finding Beauty in the Unexpected should be a handbook for all parents with Down’s syndrome children—and especially for those without them.”

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“[a] fast-paced captivating tale. . . . [an] incredible journey. . . .

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Only exceptionally talented writers can maintain a concept over a span of 30 years with a book series, and make her fans feel at home among old friends reminiscing together. Jean M.

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Susan Conley writes a compelling biological memoir about life changes: geographic, physical, and emotional.

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Bridget Benson, born in 1956 in County Mayo on the west coast of Ireland, has been a clairvoyant medium since the age of three.

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Katia Lief’s debut thriller, You Are Next, opens with Karin
Schaeffer gardening in the small yard of her Brooklyn, New York,

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Katia Lief’s debut thriller, You Are Next, opens with Karin
Schaeffer gardening in the small yard of her Brooklyn, New York,

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Bestselling, award-winning novelist, Debbie Macomber, writes a compassionate, yet quirky story of one man’s journey through grief—sabotaged by his lost love—who decides when his sadness should end.

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Lizzie Tucker, a pastry chef, bakes cupcakes at Dazzle’s Bakery in Salem, Massachusetts, home of the infamous witch trials.

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Diana Gabaldon writes in the beginning of her first graphic novel, The Exile, that her mother taught her to read by the age of three by reading her comic books.

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Italian immigrant Marcella Atkinson, mother to Toni, is happily married to Anthony . . . or so she thinks.

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Fiona Bristow lives on the picturesque Orcas Island in the Pacific Northwest. She is a canine search and rescue volunteer, along with her three trained retrievers, Peck, Newman, and Bogart.

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The Postcard Killers by James Patterson and Liza Marklund is not a typical thriller. The riveting prologue sets the stage for promises the book is quick to deliver.

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Lexie Sinclair’s mundane life during the early 1950s is about to take off like a rocket.

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Marta Scheider’s life story begins in the early 1900s, a period of hard times in Europe and in her Swiss homeland in particular.

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High Noon, written by the New York Times bestselling author, Nora Roberts, offers her wide readership a riveting suspense story about Police Lieutenant Phoebe MacNamara’s dangerou