Michelle Scheunemann

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Michelle Scheunemann grew up in Northern San Diego County and has lived there all of her life. An avid enthusiast for the popular arts, Miss. Scheunemann attends the San Diego Comic-Con every year and enjoys immersing herself in culture. She enjoys escaping from reality via creative writing, video games, role playing and daydreaming. It’s these escapes which help to blossom ideas for everyone to enjoy.

A Shadow in Yucatan

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A mythical jewel of a story… A true story told on a beach in Yucatan, A Shadow tells Stephanie's story but it was also the story of the golden time. Its nostalgia sings like cicadas in the heat.An American ‘Under Milkwood’, this distilled novel of the Sixties evokes the sounds, music and optimism on the free-wheelin streets and parks of Coconut Grove. You can hear Bob Dylan still strumming acoustic; smoke a joint with Fred Neil; and Everybody’s Talkin is carried on the wind.Stephanie, a young hairdresser living in lodgings finds herself pregnant. Refused help from her hard Catholic mother in New York, unable to abort her baby, she accepts the kindness of Miriam, her Jewish landlady, whose own barren life spills into compassionate assistance for the daughter she never had.The poignancy of its ending, its generosity and acceptance, echoes the bitter disappointment of those of us who hoped for so much more, but who remember its joy, and its promise, as though untarnished by time.

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"Cursed and the Damned is one of the finer fantasy novels I've ever read. Michelle Scheunemann is an extraordinary writing talent who has crafted a strikingly beautiful tale. Full of plot twists and turns, the story has wonderful characterization and a narrative structure that draws the reader in and never lets go. She has accomplished nothing less than creating a fully realized secondary world, and if you pass this novel by it's to your literary detriment." --Ralph Macchio Marvel Comics Editor

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