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Cold Case Files
The book was discussed when the guest described how she documented the kidnapping and her subsequent healing, noting she compiled hundreds of pages of notes and secured a publishing deal with Penguin by researching agents in acknowledgment sections. She also mentioned that the experience led her to launch a media company. The conversation highlighted the personal journey behind the writing rather than offering a formal recommendation.
Episode: I SURVIVED: It Looks Like Dynamite
Michelle wrote this book detailing the violence she and her daughter endured and her subsequent healing process, which eventually became her new career. She found agents by looking through the acknowledgment sections of similar books in bookstores and eventually published through Penguin.
I ended up writing this book. So I would go into Barnes and Noble and go through books and find the acknowledgment section and write down agents' names in books that were similar to what I was going to do and writing and emailing them. Ended up getting a yes, published the book through Penguin.
Episode: I Survived: It Looks Like Dynamite
Michelle wrote this book, compiling 380 pages of notes about the violence and her healing process, and published it through Penguin, later launching her own media company.
I wrote all that stuff down on paper about the violence coming in through the door that night and me needing to heal my past and my life and moving forward and just everything everything crazy not realizing that it was ever going to turn into anything and I have these 380 pages underneath my bed so I ended up writing this book