Michelle Buchanan's Blog

The softcover edition of my collection of short fiction, Rolling Up, is now available at Bolen Books in Victoria, B.C.

Details on how to get a copy of the softcover edition of Rolling Up are posted here:

http://michellebuchanan.ca/

My collection of short fiction is finally in print! Rolling Up can be purchased at The Local General Store in Victoria, B.C. Can't make it to Victoria? Ask your local bookseller to carry it. Contact info is on my website, michellebuchanan.ca.

http://thelocalgeneralstore.ca/

My collection of short fiction, Rolling Up, is free until January 30th on Amazon.com.

They all when touched, contract themselves, rolling themselves up like a ball.
Oliver Goldsmith--A History of the Earth and Animated Nature

Here's your chance! Since the day it was published, you were able to read the first story from Rolling Up on Amazon.com for free. Now all the others together, including the novella from which the title of the collection is taken, will be available for, well, next to free, ninety-nine cents, on Amazon.com from Nov. 26th through to Dec. 3rd. That's a whole lot of something, for, well, nearly, nothing. So, please be sure to show a little love and post a customer review on Amazon when you're done!

Happy winter reading!

~Michelle

http://www.amazon.com/Rolling-Up-Mich...

"I saw you were going to offer it free and then bought it anyway. I’m glad it did. I just read “Going Under” — an amazingly engaging story in the book. Each of your stories brings something inside me to light in a way that seems like you were privy to my private inner dialogues all along the way. Awesome!" A comment by Jim Chapman on Rolling Up left on my Facebook author page.

I just noticed that I received my second Goodreads rating for Rolling Up, 4 stars, from a person I don't know who lives a continent away. Small victories.

Rolling Up, stories by Michelle Buchanan is FREE on Amazon.com from June 20th to 24th, 2013.

Rooted on the west coast of Canada, but reaching as far as London and Baghdad, these stories navigate the internal and external landscape of a diverse group of characters struggling to make sense of a world without boundaries where the sacred is often defiled, where trust is betrayed, and where definitions of self, crumble.

A young woman pares her life down to a backpack and sets out to a whale watching station in "Rolling Up".

A bisexual mother toys with desire on a film shoot in Oregon in "Making Mov(i)es".

An adoptee finds his lost identity impossible to reclaim in "Negative Space".

A single mother befriends a recluse in "The Shaman is Out".

An anti-nuclear activist engages in an unlikely obsession in "Tickling the Sear".

A woman joins the military and finds herself posted at an Iraqi prison in "SMILE".

A mother sends her beloved young daughter to daycare in order to work at an unfulfilling job in "Lunch and a Long Nap".

A girl extracts herself from a childhood friendship, with violent consequences, in "Best Friends".

An anesthesiologist and her husband move to a small island and, with their new set of bohemian friends, navigate conflicting currents of denial, desire, and longing in "Going Under".

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Rolling Up is FREE on Amazon.com from April 24th to 27th, so get your Kindle Reading App (if you don't already have a Kindle) and you can read it on any of your devices.

http://www.amazon.com/Rolling-Up-eboo...

I'm going to be taking my book, Rolling Up, off KDP Select soon, so if you have been thinking about borrowing it for free from the Kindle Owner's Lending Library, now is the time!

http://www.amazon.com/Rolling-Up-eboo...