Michelle Melton Cox Author & Book Coach/Book Coaching Works

26/10/2026

One early reader's whole review, start to finish. Hit pause if you need it.

The Sickness of Secrets is out now. Search The Sickness of Secrets by Michelle Melton on Amazon.

25/10/2026

Filmed on a cobblestone street in Switzerland three weeks before launch, when the book was finished and I was still pinching myself.

The Sickness of Secrets is out now. Paranormal psychological suspense about a woman twenty years sober, a murder outside her Friday-night meeting, and a gift she swore she'd stop using. Search The Sickness of Secrets by Michelle Melton on Amazon.

24/10/2026

Meet Elena Tate. Forty-eight, twenty years sober, runs a small repo company, and has been slipping into her sleeping daughter's memories and telling herself it's love.

Two early readers used the same word for her, unprompted: flawed. I'll take it. She's supposed to be.

Swipe for what readers are saying. The Sickness of Secrets is out now. Search The Sickness of Secrets by Michelle Melton on Amazon.

23/10/2026

Three early reviews say some version of the same thing: I don't usually read paranormal.

If you love psychological suspense and skip anything with a supernatural label, swipe. These readers were you two weeks ago.

The Sickness of Secrets is out now. Search The Sickness of Secrets by Michelle Melton on Amazon.

23/10/2026

22/10/2026

"Is this true? Is it possible?"

An early reader asked that about The Sickness of Secrets, and I love that it's the question she walked away with.

Elena Tate can borrow a bright memory from anyone who offers one and carry its warmth into someone who's sick. The rule is she has to ask first. She has been breaking that rule with her sleeping daughter and calling it love.

Out now. Search The Sickness of Secrets by Michelle Melton on Amazon.

22/10/2026

It's out.

The Sickness of Secrets is live today, on Kindle and in paperback on Amazon. A woman twenty years sober, a gift she is not supposed to use, and a murder at her own home group. I wrote it as Michelle Melton, and now it is yours to read.

Search The Sickness of Secrets by Michelle Melton on Amazon, or use the link in the first comment. If you read it, a review on Amazon, even two honest sentences, means more than you would think. Thank you for getting here with me.

P.S. There is a golden retriever in the book. Her name is Promise, and I imagine she looks a lot like the one in this video.

22/10/2026

Even before it launched, six early readers gave The Sickness of Secrets an average 4.63-star rating. Every one of them took a chance on a debut author. Thank you to those of you who did this.

I hope you'll do the same – take a chance on my debut novel and then, once you've read it, post a review. A review on Amazon or Goodreads helps a new book more than anything else. Two honest sentences is plenty.

Out today. Search The Sickness of Secrets by Michelle Melton on Amazon.

21/10/2026

Tomorrow my first novel comes out, and I have one favor to ask.

If you have been planning to buy The Sickness of Secrets, please wait until tomorrow, October 22. The first days are how a new book gets noticed, and as a debut author I do not have anyone else to do that for me.

Tomorrow: search The Sickness of Secrets by Michelle Melton on Amazon, paperback or Kindle. I will post the link here the minute it is live.

Thank you for being here for this.

26/02/2026

Today, my book-coaching client and friend Kathleen Rawlings released her new book, Mom Fell, Now What? and I’m genuinely proud of her.

I watched Kathy write this book while navigating caregiving in real time—hospital stays, rehab, tough decisions, and the emotional weight nobody prepares you for. She turned all of that into field notes + practical guidance for the rest of us.

She did something brave: she wrote the guide she wishes she’d had. Not a fluffy overview—real field notes from the front line of caregiving, with practical tools and hard-earned wisdom, told with honesty and heart.

If you’re caring for an aging parent (or you love someone who is), you need this book. And if you want to support an indie author, buying on release day makes a real difference—it’s one of the best ways to help a new book get traction on Amazon.

📚 Today is launch day. If this topic touches your life, please consider grabbing a copy of Mom Fell, Now What? and cheering Kathleen on. And please share my post so someone who might need this book can find it.

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