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Michele Tracy Berger

Michele Tracy Berger

Coach + Author

Hi, I’m Michele Tracy Berger, and through my courses, blog and community, I share my insights on how find more ease, enjoyment and success on the creative path.

I’m an award-winning writer. I saved my own life through creativity and I can teach anyone to harness their creativity ‘smackdab’ in the middle of their busy life.

The Creative Tickle® utilizes my fun and accessible approach to creativity. My specialty is helping creatives, especially writers, that struggle with perfectionism, procrastination and loud inner critics.

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You’ll receive my guide ‘Ten Ways to Keep Connected to Your Writing Self’ AND you’ll also receive TWO mp3 audio recordings of writer visualization exercises.

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The Savvy Submission Blueprint

Submission is a critical step toward publication. It is second only to writing, but writers are often unequipped for the submission process.

This submission blueprint will help you get more of your work into the world with ease. It provides cutting-edge strategies that give you a better chance of having your work accepted for publication. In it you’ll find:

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Doll Seed book cover: a doll is breaking off into pieces while two other dolls stab her, a tea set is flying around; the colors are pastel blues, purples and light greens

Fifteen stories invite you to get comfortable in the dark, to consider freedom and sacrifice, trust and betrayal, otherness, and safety.

Doll Seed

If you’re a fan of Octavia Butler, Dean Koontz or Kelly Link you’ll enjoy this debut short story collection by Michele Tracy Berger. Playful and provocative, these speculative stories cover a wide territory including sci-fi, contemporary fantasy, paranormal, horror and magical realism.

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Advance Praise for Doll Seed

“…Off-key music boxes, a masterclass of atmospheric wonder and dread.”

Jen Julian
Author of Red Rabbit Ghost
   

“This is Black Mirror with the emphasis on Black.”

Vincent Tirado
Author of We Came to Welcome You: A Novel of Suburban Horror

“Michele Tracy Berger has a voice like no one else.”

Julia Rios
Hugo Award Winning Editor
   

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