In 2011, Michele founded Bookchic LLC, where she has worked as a ghostwriter and book collaborator. Michele’s books have been published by Hachette Book Group, Penguin, Hay House, Harper One, Harper Business, HarperCollins, St. Martin’s Press, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, BenBella Books, Matt Holt Books, Skyhorse, Ragalo Press, and Rowman & Littlefield, to name a few. Michele has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, and Publishers Weekly.
An author in her own right, Michele co-authored the self-help book WHOLE: How I Learned to Fill the Fragments of My Life with Forgiveness, Hope, Strength, and Creativity, which was published by Rodale in 2016 and received a starred Booklist review. In December 2024, Michele published the high-profile memoir My Time to Stand, written for Gypsy-Rose Blanchard, victim of Munchausen syndrome by proxy and star of the Lifetime series Life After Lockup. Michele is also the co-author of the upcoming book, Killer in the Family, to be published by Berkley Books/Penguin in 2026.
Michele earned her MFA in Creative Writing & Literature from Stony Brook University, where she studied under the great Roger Rosenblatt, Pulitzer Prize–winner Paul Harding, bestselling novelist Ursula Hegi, short story writer and essayist Amy Hempel, and memoirist Lou Ann Walker.
Michele added business books to her repertoire when she was courted to join McGraw Hill Professional as a senior acquisitions editor, where she acquired and edited books in the categories of leadership, business inspiration, franchising, entrepreneurship, personal finance, sales, VC, marketing/branding, customer service, human resources, and business communications before returning to grow her own business.
Her essay “The Case for the Second Mom” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize Award in 2022 and was published in The Southampton Review.
