Michelle R. Bernard

Well where do I start? I guess with my childhood which was pretty cool. I was born and raised in the Pocono Mountains. Growing up here was fabulous! As a kid, I would ride my bike to the community pool with my friends in the summer. My school friends and I would faithfully flock to Buck Hill Roller Rink evry weekend. That small local rink was our hotspot. things were so simple then.

BB gun fights with my brother were always a joy as we would climb all over the house trying to shoot each other. We even made it up on the roof several times in which my mom would yell at us saying we would get hurt. I don't think she realized that we were invincible! LOL We also like to play th "Human Cannonball". That was when I would squat down on my brothers hands while on the couch. After counting to three, he would launch me high into the air off the couch and I would land on a pile of pillows set on the floor. We thought it was fun. Mom didn't.

My dad is a contractor and could build anything from the ground up. He also liked to hunt and helped me shoot my first rifle when I was six years old. A 22 with a scope. Of course he helped and made sure that the gun didn't kick me in the face when I squeezed the trigger. Man that was cool! I guess you could say that I was a tomboy. I hated it when my mom would make me wear a dress. To this day I have little patience for dresses.

My mother was a stay at home mom. She always went all out on holidays as far as decorating and baking. Eventually she started her own catoring business and was phenominal at wedding cakes. She was also an incredible seamstress. Again, making me wear things I didn't want to. I wish she would have made me jeans an a t-shirt! LOL

As I grew into my teenage years, I learned to ski but my passion had always been the water. My dad and brother taught me how to ski. We had our first school ski instruction in 5th grade. By this time, we lived ontop of Alpine Mountain. That's where the lessons were. Our first lesson started and ended on the bunny slope. After we were free to go home, my brother showed up. He took me to the top of the mountain and said, "Okay, now go down and don't fall". Being me I was like "okay"! I went strait down the black diamond without turning only to have my teacher yell at me and my brother. LOL that was too funny! I didn't fall and I knew my brother wouldn't have put me on that slope if he didn't think I could handle it.

We had an Alaskan Malimute huskey named Chubby. Perfect dog for livivng ontop a ski mountain. He would break free from his chain and come down the ski slopes. My friends and I would chase him eventually finding him in the bar where the customers who thought he was so cool were feeding him hamburgers. After we would catch him, I was allowed to take him on the chairlift up to the top of the mountain to walk him home.

During my high school years, I developed a passion for my Language arts class. My teacher would complain that my assignments that I turned in were too long. I couldn't help myself. I just loved to write. I had notebooks filled with short stories and song lyrics. If I wasn't writing, I was reading anything that caught my interest. In eight grade, my teacher Mr. Green, asked me why I was the only one in his reading class that got an A. The work was simple. Pick a book to read and fill out a packet. No lectures or anything. I was one of few who turned my packet in that was always completed. Maybe it was because I loved writing. That was one of the classes that you don't pay attention to. I did because it was my favorite thing to do.

In the past year and a half, I have written Bloodline and had it published. Although there are some puntuation errors in the book, I was told by many people that it was easy to overlook because the story was so good. As I am currently writing the second installment of the series, I have noticed what mistakes I have made and how much more I am learning. I love every minute of it. I'm never afraid to learn something new. A lot of my fans have been emailing me through my website asking when the next book will be out. I'm working on it, but it will be a while. I will say though that writing this next book is really exciting! I know that it will be so much better than the first. Most of it, I think, already is.

If you want to peak at my website, please feel free. www.michellerbernard.com Please forgive me as parts of it are under construction but will be done soon. Another learning experience, but so much fun. Thank you to all who have read my book and liked it and thank you ta all who didn't. Ya can't please everyone!