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Michelle Franklin

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New books, AI, and moving to other platforms

I haven't posted to the website in some time, but since we've come to the end of the year and there is much news, I figured an update here was in order:

1) I have turned my focus toward other platforms for several reasons, the first being that I have begun doing daily language videos, and the second being that Blogger has permitted extrapolation AIs to use their platform for scraping. Because of th

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The Commander And The Den A...

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Khantara: Vol 1

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The Orc Who Saved Christmas by Michelle Franklin
"An e-copy of this book was sent to me in return for an honest review~

This is an illustrated short story reminiscent of The Grinch. We follow a half-orc half-human who is ostracised and othered. After a while, he meets some people and his life changes" Read more of this review »
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Book Reviews | Bluesky | Twitter | Threads ☆" Read more of this review »
Gryphons Don't Celebrate Shavuot by Michelle Franklin
" Glad the students enjoyed it! We're working on Centaurs Don't Celebrate Sukkot. We tried to get it out this year, but ran out of time. Centaurs, like ...more "
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“All the friends in the world are in the fountain of a pen.”
Michelle Franklin

“There is a very great difference between older and old, the former being desirable and the latter being inevitable.”
Michelle Franklin

“I am sure I have summer depression; the heat makes me instantly regret being alive.”
Michelle Franklin, I Hate Summer: My tribulations with seasonal depression, anxiety, plumbers, spiders, neighbours, and the world.

“From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced.”
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“She wanted to be alone. Her mind was in a state of flutter and wonder, which made it impossible for her to be collected. She was in dancing, singing, exclaiming spirits; and till she had moved about, and talked to herself, and laughed and reflected, she could be fit for nothing rational.”
Jane Austen

“I am excessively fond of a cottage; there is always so much comfort, so much elegance about them. And I protest, if I had any money to spare, I should buy a little land and build one myself, within a short distance of London, where I might drive myself down at any time, and collect a few friends about me and be happy. I advise everybody who is going to build, to build a cottage.”
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“and if a rainy morning deprived them of other enjoyments, they were still resolute in meeting in defiance of wet and dirt, and shut themselves up, to read novels together. Yes, novels; for I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel–writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding — joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid pages with disgust. Alas! If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard? I cannot approve of it. Let us leave it to the reviewers to abuse such effusions of fancy at their leisure, and over every new novel to talk in threadbare strains of the trash with which the press now groans. Let us not desert one another; we are an injured body. Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world, no species of composition has been so much decried. From pride, ignorance, or fashion, our foes are almost as many as our readers. And while the abilities of the nine–hundredth abridger of the History of England, or of the man who collects and publishes in a volume some dozen lines of Milton, Pope, and Prior, with a paper from the Spectator, and a chapter from Sterne, are eulogized by a thousand pens — there seems almost a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them. “I am no novel–reader — I seldom look into novels — Do not imagine that I often read novels — It is really very well for a novel.” Such is the common cant. “And what are you reading, Miss — ?” “Oh! It is only a novel!” replies the young lady, while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame. “It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda”; or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best–chosen language. Now, had the same young lady been engaged with a volume of the Spectator, instead of such a work, how proudly would she have produced the book, and told its name; though the chances must be against her being occupied by any part of that voluminous publication, of which either the matter or manner would not disgust a young person of taste: the substance of its papers so often consisting in the statement of improbable circumstances, unnatural characters, and topics of conversation which no longer concern anyone living; and their language, too, frequently so coarse as to give no very favourable idea of the age that could endure it.”
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“....how good Mrs. West could have written such books and collected so many hard works, with all her family cares, is still more a matter of astonishment! Composition seems to me impossible with a head full of joints of mutton and doses of rhubarb.”
Jane Austen, Letters of Jane Austen; Selected from the Compilation of Her Great Nephew, Edward, Lord Brabourne

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36508 40k Book Club — 659 members — last activity Feb 23, 2021 09:27AM
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40151 Our Novel Escape — 1307 members — last activity Dec 09, 2021 06:51AM
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message 11: by Sophia

Sophia Hey Michelle!

Congrats on The House Guest! It was adorable.


message 10: by Douglas

Douglas Wickard Michelle, thanks for your friendship on Goodreads!
Douglas


Savannah Michelle, thank you for the friendship..


Christine Hatfield i'm glad that we're friends on this website


Celine Hey Michelle,
Thanks for accepting my friend request. :)


Michelle Sophia wrote: "Hi Michelle,

I was wondering if you could do me a favor. Long story- sort of, but the short version is that I was checking something out on Deviant Art and discovered Twisk's work. I started doi..."

AHaha no worries. You can leave ooohs and aaaahs on her official art page and you will not be considered spam "D


Sophia Hi Michelle,

I was wondering if you could do me a favor. Long story- sort of, but the short version is that I was checking something out on Deviant Art and discovered Twisk's work. I started doing my usual 'oohing' and 'ahing' comments. Half way through, my comments were being rejected as spam. Please let Twisk know that I saw her replies and wanted to leave more appreciative comments and responses, but was unable to respond due to a cruel fate of being deemed a spammer.
Thanks!


Natalie Thanks for the add!!


Cassandra Florence Thanks for the add :) I absolutely ADORED Book 1 of your Commander and Rautu series. Instant love. I can't wait for the next addition!


Harlequin Books Hi Michelle, thanks for being a friend. I’m looking forward to getting to know you. I want you to know that if you ever have any questions about the books on my shelves or about eHarlequin.com, I would be delighted to answer them. Also, I list as much eHarlequin news and author news as I can so be sure to watch for my updates.

Happy reading,
Kim S., Harlequin Books ambassador


Christy (TheReaderBee) Hey, thanks for the add!!


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