Michelle Hazen

Great news! I’m partnering up with Reedsy Live to do an internationally available, FREE webinar teaching my top 5 tips for taking the sex scenes in your romance from “not” to “HOT.” You can save your spot (and get the livestream link) by registering HERE. If you want more than 5 tips, you can also grab my book, Kiss and Tell: How to Write Unforgettable Sex Scenes, which has 30 (!!!) chapters of techniques for writing spicy romance. No, I also cannot believe it’s that long, either. It’s also...

The journey behind how we met and started working together is a very unique one; can you recap it for the readers? AB: It was years in the making, and I truly think it was meant to be! I originally found you through your Outer Banks fanfiction. I read a throuple fic series you wrote, and I fell in love with it, which actually became very relevant to our work together years later. I discovered I had also read and admired your original fiction. In 2020—at the height of lockdown insanity—the...

So, you had a bit of an unconventional journey, where you ended up with multiple offers on more than one book at a time. Can you tell us the backstory behind that? I started querying in February 2025 after spending most of 2024 writing and polishing my second novel. (I felt ready after your edits on the manuscript and query materials!) I sent queries in an initial batch of 10 or so and added a few every week after that, depending on how many rejections came in that week. The first time I...