Award-winning author
Michele VanOrt Cozzens

Set aside her journalism career in 1993 and now resides in the Northwoods of Wisconsin. In the Northwoods she and her husband own and operate Sandy Point Resort and Disc Golf Ranch. She is the author of six published books and the blog, "Michelaneous."

NEWS:

Latest release: How to Achieve Your Dream Life: Start-up Advice from a Successful Innkeeper. Available in Paperback and Kindle.

Praise for Irish Twins

From Midwest Book Review: “Irish Twins is a moving read that emphasizes the importance of sisterhood. Very highly recommended.”

From the AZ Daily Star:

“Journalist Cozzens has the subject matter and the skills to write a good generational novel of Catholic family life in the latter half of the 20th century in the United States.”

Irish Twins is now available on Kindle!

McKenna Publishing Group is pleased to announce the publication of Michele’s fifth book and third novel, Irish Twins. It’s a story about life and death, sisterhood and forgiveness. Writing it was an emotional journey, and Michele chose to tell the story of two sets of Irish Twins, Anne and Molly, and Jenny and Caylie, from the perspective of a fictionalized version of her deceased mother. “It was like having my mother with me, guiding me through the process. I heard her voice in my head as I wrote the story,” said Michele. Reviews have been excellent and it is available at Amazon.com. Signed copies may be purchased from the author.

Blog

ACL Diary: Making Choices

“Someone, Please Tell Me What To Do!” One of the complications of living in the United States, and I’ve often made this observation when facing ...
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ACL Diary: The Immediate Aftermath

A Hundred Phone Calls Willow and I sat for about an hour in the Urgent Care waiting room on the Saturday afternoon she went down, ...
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ACL Diary: And So Begins the Rehab

Thursday, April 28, 2011 From the moment my daughter went down on the soccer field, my guts told me what we’d be facing. But there ...
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ACL Diary: Real Soccer Moms

The first entry in a series, ACL Diary, documenting my daughter's ACL injury. Spring, 2011. A woman named Peggy Tanous on the Bravo TV Series, ...
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Top Amazon Reviewer Gives 5-Stars to Irish Twins

Tea Break in Ohr October 28, 2010 This review is from: Irish Twins (Paperback) Between sips of fragrant tea, misty memories drift past Anne, the ...
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Praise the Lord, said the Parrot

Book Review: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout This is one of those books that might not grab you in the first fifty pages. You may ...
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Wings: For Mike. Happy Anniversary

“Wings” Written in 1993. Published in the book, The Things I Wish I’d Said He’s breaking out. Like a butterfly emerging from a thirty-year-old chrysalis, ...
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I had a lovely life . . . and I did my best.

By Linda Bulger It’s not remarkable for a novel to start with the death of an 80-year-old woman. If she dies while water-skiing, as Anne ...
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Unique plot! Heart-warming, believable characters! Enchanted writing! I love, love, love this book!

REVIEW OF IRISH TWINS By: Betty Dravis This is one of the best books I’ve read in ages. I liked everything about it; from the ...
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The Things They Leave Behind

Stray socks. Bathing suit pieces. Cell phone chargers. Dirty Towels. Balled-up T-shirts. Stuffed animals. Pacifiers. iPods. Beach shoes. Sunglasses. If I had to name the ...
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Some Days I Abhor Being a Mother

Today is one of them. The Beav and I covered about four-and-a-half miles this morning in triple digit temperatures and I swear, as much bile ...
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Red Hot Chile Peppers

He used to bring me flowers. Now he brings me chile peppers. Harvest in Hatch, New Mexico coincides with my husband’s annual Northwoods-to-Desert journey, and ...
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