"My fiction advises readers to ‘be prepared for love beyond their wildest dreams’, and I like to think that the services I offer as a writer, editor, mentor and creativity-enhancer can help launch my clients into faith in their own gifts, and successful creative ventures beyond their own initial expectations. I have one foot in the world of Creative Seekers, and my other foot in the world of Commerce, Law and Mediation. I can dance my two feet into your personal arena and thus bring you MY particular gift: a balance of art and practicality. It is a testament to what I can contribute to a venture that my clients always end up being added to my list of friends."

—Michelle Miller Allen, Spring 2004


Services Provided by Award-Winning Author Michelle Miller Allen

Freelance Writer
Articles * Interviews * Promotional * Paralegal
Business (PR, reports, correspondence)
Award-winning novelist and playwright
Regular contributor to New Mexico Woman Magazine, The Jemez Thunder, published in a variety of literary & cultural magazines, U.S. and Canada

For more information, go to Journey from the Keep of Bones and
Hunger in the First Person Singular eggs.

Editing
Memoirs * Fiction * Anthologies * Business * Paralegal
Co-Editor of two anthologies — see testimonials below.

Tutoring/Mentoring
Poetry * Fiction * Nonfiction * Drama * Correspondence
One-on-one, in person or on-line, with adult and teen writers.

"A Bear Named Hope" Creativity Enhancement Workshops
Effective, Enlightening and Fun! Requires 9-12 participants. Methods include various re-wiring and re-routing exercises for your creative circuits. Medicine Wheel techniques to dialogue with Inner Censors such as the Scandalized Neighbor, the Threatened Parent, the Precocious Child and other archetypes.

To find out more about these workshops, go to A Bear Named Hope. For more information on any of these services, to request a calendar of events, or to schedule a Workshop, contact Michelle Miller Allen at spiritbear1@btinternet.com.


New workshops twice a month ~ anyone can take part! Click HERE to enter. If you want to be on the notice list for upcoming cyber workshops, email Michelle at spiritbear1@btinternet.com.

Testimonials
"Michelle Miller Allen took the draft of a novel I’d written and a couple of days later came back with a raft of cogent and incisive suggestions that changed my work into something marvelously more effective."
—Noel Sorrell, 2003, Albuquerque, NM

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"Michelle has worked with me once-a-week for a year, helping me to organize and edit my decades of journals into a publishable memoir. She has helped me gain the confidence to finish this life-long project. In our editing sessions we have had many beneficial conversations about the content, form and intention of my work. I am very satisfied with what we have accomplished."
—Elizabeth McBride, 2003, Jemez Springs, NM

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"Michelle is a mature, highly-skilled professional with a unique talent for legal writing, a self-starter, and a pleasure to work with . . . a good team member who sticks to the business at hand . . . listens well to your input . . . she is also very good at grasping the appropriate tone of each piece of correspondence you need drafted, including the most sensitive of letters to clients and counsel . . ."
—Karen A. Vandiver, Attorney at Law, 2003, Albuquerque, NM

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"In editing a paper on geometry and folding circles, Michelle not only understood what I was presenting, she suggested changes that added greater clarity. She is a very capable and professional editor."
—Bradford Hansen-Smith, 2004, Chicago, IL

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"Michelle Miller Allen became our Editor shortly after the author completed his manuscript in 1999, and immediately proved to be a major part of the project. Her guidance was invaluable to the author, in that she helped him to ‘flesh out’ parts of his story that needed expanding. Although our group has considerable experience in stage production, performance and publishing, her guidance to us in the ways and means of presenting the project to film studios and stage production theatres was unexpectedly helpful. She provided innovation and direction, creating presentation ideas and methods of gaining attention which reflected great wisdom and experience. It is our pleasure to have her aboard what is still a viable production that has been presented to film and stage production studios in Los Angeles, New York and London — not only as an editor, but also as a guide and friend. We will not hesitate to request her involvement in future projects!"
—Laurence Miller, Shadow Publishing, 2000, Dallas

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"It has been a privilege to work with Michelle, a woman of talent, graciousness and dedication."
—Dianne Duff, Co-Editor, THE SPIRIT THAT WANTS ME: A New Mexico Anthology
(Co-edited by Duff, Miller Allen and Jill Kiefer, Published by Duff, Inc. 1991)

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"This important book is the gift of the private face behind the public facade . . . This anthology shows how literature not only supplements science but helps keep it honest, true to experience . . . The editors did far more than ‘collect’, ‘select’ and ‘assemble’ a book. Like thorough anthropologists conducting fieldwork, they found that the contributions fell into recurrent categories or themes. This taxonomy became the organization of the book . . . It is an immensely healing work."
—Howard F. Stein, Psychoanalytic Anthropologist, Dept. Of Family Medicine, Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in re: CHRISTMAS BLUES: Behind the Holiday Mask, an anthology co-edited by Miller Allen, Harry Willson and Zelda Gatuskin, Amador Publishers 1995