Michelle Cameron’s Napoleon’s Mirage, the sequel to Beyond the Ghetto Gates, was published in November 2024 by She Writes Press. A year after Beyond the Ghetto Gates concludes, Daniel and Christophe head to an unknown destination with General Bonaparte’s forces as Mirelle realizes the consequences of being a “ruined woman.” Napoleon and his men must face a harsh and unforgiving landscape, questions of loyalty and faith, and new, implacable foes. New York Times bestseller called Napoleon’s Mirage “an absolute triumph.”
Babylon: a novel of Jewish Exile & Return, was published in September 2023 by Wicked Son Press. This is the multi-generational Biblical saga of Sarah, her children and grandchildren, exiled to Babylon when King Nebuchadnezzar’s army conquers Judea and destroys the Temple. The novel also tells the story of Nebuchadnezzar’s ambitious children: their prescient dreams, interpreted by Daniel the prophet, palace intrigues, betrayal, and even regicide. The novel was won the Gold Medal in the Flaubert Ancient World category in the Historical Fiction Company’s 2024 Book of the Year contest and was a finalist in the 2024 Next Generation Indie Book Awards in the religious fiction category.
Michelle’s third book, Beyond the Ghetto Gates, was published by She Writes Press in April 2020 and awarded a Silver Medal in the Historical Fiction category by the Independent Book Publishers (IPPY), won First Place, Best of Category for the Chanticleer Goethe Awards and was a finalist in the 2020 Foreword Indies. As Napoleon Bonaparte campaigns in Italy in 1796-7, he frees the country’s Jews from their repressive ghetto. This unleashes a clash of cultures between Jews and Catholics, resulting in bloody riots, murder attempts, and even star-crossed love.
Her first historical novel, The Fruit of Her Hands: the Story of Shira of Ashkenaz was published by Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, in September 2009. Based on the life of the author’s thirteenth-century ancestor, Meir ben Baruch of Rothenberg, a renowned Jewish scholar of medieval Europe, this is the richly dramatic fictional story of Rabbi Meir’s wife, Shira, a devout but rebellious woman who preserves her religious traditions as she and her family witness the rise of antisemitism in Europe.
Michelle’s first full-length novel in verse, In the Shadow of the Globe, was published by Lit Pot Press, Inc., in late 2003. It was named as the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey’s 2003-4 Winter Book Selection. In addition, it has been a performance piece in various venues, including the Stella Adler Studio of Acting’s Shakespeare Benefit for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids, as part of the Drew University’s colloquium, Shakespeare in Performance II, the 2004 College of Saint Elizabeth’s Alumnae/i Weekend (acted by Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey actors), the Vintage Players, and at the Winter Poetry and Prose Getaway in Cape May in 2005.
Michelle is a director of The Writers Circle, which offers creative writing workshops and events to kids and adults in Summit, South Orange, Maplewood, Verona, and Morristown, NJ, as well as online. She teaches novel classes to adults and creative writing classes to children and teens in Summit, NJ, and virtually.
Michelle lives in New Jersey with her husband. She has two grown sons of whom she is inordinately proud.
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