Michele Taylor was born and raised in Rochester, Michigan She graduated high school with honors, and from Oakland University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism. She has worked as a receptionist at a real estate agency, salesperson at a card and gift store, and a bagel maker. She wrote her first novel at 12. "The Sight of Blood" is her first (self-published) novel. Many incidents in the novel reflect much of her life growing up in a small Michigan town in the 1970s. She is also a playwright, having written several plays, including "223 Brush Street" and "Hillbilly in a Fur Coat Picking Blueberries" And she is a screenwriter, most currently of "Submission Hold" her class project for the college screenwriting course taken last fall, it received a 3.6 grade out of 4.0. She loves cats, reading, writing,baking, being with family and friends, laughing, autumn, winter, quiet time, and since the age of 14, a fan of singer Tom Jones and his singing. Currently, she is working at the Rochester Hills Public Library,and has been there 24 years.So she knows books!! She has read dozens and dozens of them, fiction and non-fiction and biographies, since she has been working at the library plus the thousands she's read during her lifetime love of reading since she first learned to read. Her novels reflect those facts. 52 years of reading can't make them wrong.