I have been talking about my friend Stephan Muldrow a lot since my focus on the writing and music project. I had a chance to interview him late last year right before the release of his solo CD project, The Muldrow. We discussed his musical background, his philosophy of music and a bunch of other [...]

Paulo Coehlo, one of my favorite authors, riffing on writing and publishing with Nick Bilton, of The New York Times. Documented@Davos: Paulo Coehlo, Author from Michelle Laird on Vimeo. Tweet

I have started two novels in my life, three if I count the serial piece for the web. None of them were finished. I would get forty or fifty hand-written pages done and then crash on my lack of knowledge of how-to write a novel. Those novels-in-progress have been on my mind recently. Thoughts of [...]

Galeano’s comments about being fully present in love and life blew me away. I agree, “What future can we have if we do not inhabit the present in a way that embodies a more creative, loving, cooperative tomorrow?” Tweet

Cory Doctorow has a bunch of interesting things to say about e-book readers and content control as well as the opportunities and challenges of the current book publishing environment. Seth Godin and Cory Doctorow are thought provoking thinkers and writers when I’m contemplating writing, storytelling, and getting my work into the world. This video interview [...]

Seth Godin proclaimed the end of his writing career and then started, The Domino Project, with its first project being the publication of one of his books. (The second project was a book by Steven Pressfield, Do the Work.) Seth has moved from writing about the new landscape of book publishing to being knee-deep in [...]