Michael Bailey

I'm the oldest of three, from the Glass Capital of the world, Toledo Ohio. Don’t laugh too hard. I've dreamed of writing since I was eleven years old when I wrote a truly awful Choose-Your-Own-Adventure. It sold exactly zero copies. I think my mother may have a copy lying around somewhere. Mothers keep that kind of thing. Through junior high and high school, I wrote a number of short stories, one actually published in the first (and only) issue of his high school’s literary magazine. Life took control shortly thereafter, as it often does, and the dream of writing was put on hold. Then, in November of 2016, I took a leap of faith, and began writing my first novel as part of the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) competition. The goal of the competition is to write a 50,000-word novel in a thirty-day period. I failed. However, on the advice of a friend, I “pushed through”. And so, in September of 2017, my first novel was published.