Ella Carmichael

I was born in Ireland many years ago, but only toyed with writing when I was young. I got the idea for M&M back in 2010. There was lottery fever all over Europe that autumn, yet at the same time there were photographs appearing in the papers showing hundreds of individuals standing in line for free lunches at the Bow Street mission house in Dublin. It was hard for me to make sense of it all, yet somehow I knew it was important. I was in a very bad place in my life in 2010, after ending a relationship with a most unsuitable man. Figuring that I had little to lose, I began to write as a form of therapy. I tend to be a dabbler by nature, yet when it came to writing I found I was as focused as one of those drones we hear so much about. It took more than thirty years to do it, but I became a writer in the end. I hope any budding authors who are reading this will draw inspiration from that. It's never to late to give it your best shot. Once the die was cast, characters literally began to materialize in front of me. The strongest back then was Dorothy, although it certainly didn't stop with her. The Maddox character appeared over my bed one morning in a cloud of dry white ice. In the earlier drafts, Jack was very much the iceman, but I decided to soften him up and make him fall madly in love. Just because. It progressed from there. More and more characters began to show up, and soon I had a series on my hands. Publishers and agents aren't interested in a series unless the writer follows a number of very strict criteria. I have broken all the rules. For a start the M&M series of books is best read in order. The story progresses in each one, and spans the two year period between January 2011 and December 2012. I also mix genres. This series is a cocktail of genres that include - but are not limited to - The metaphysical, suspense, crime, romance, lgbt. Once I understood that no publisher would touch me, I decided to go it alone. I am too old to sit around and wait for a letter that will never drop onto the doormat. I signed up with KDP and uploaded every completed manuscript. ellacarmichael88@gmail.com I continue to write.