Creative Rituals - Featuring Micki Berthelot Morency

Happy Saturday! Welcome to my weekly Substack feature on creatives and their rituals. This is an opportunity for creatives to talk about how they start their creative day, as well as give you more insight into their work. It’s a perfect opportunity to demystify the creative experience, and maybe even inspire!

Micki Berthelot Morency - Author

Today’s guest creative is author Micki Berthelot Morency!

What Do You Do to Start Your Creative Day?

My day usually begins with a walk that starts my creative juice going for everything I have on my agenda that day.

Creator Bio

Micki Berthelot Morency is Haitian-American. She is a graduate of Northeastern University and The Institute for Writers. Her debut novel THE ISLAND SISTERS launched in June 2023, by BHC Press. Her stories have appeared in Writer’s Digest Magazine, The Tampa Bay Times, The Weekly Challenger, Print magazines and E-Zines. She lives in Florida with her husband.

You can find her at her website: www.mickimorency.com

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More from Micki Berthelot Morency

Four women from Haiti, St. Thomas, and Guam meet at a college counseling session for first-year students and learn they have a shared history of abuse. Dubbing themselves the “island sisters,” their unyielding friendship is their touchstone across oceans, through labyrinths of forced marriages and violent men, motherhood, and their dreams of freedom.

Strong-willed and hot-headed Monique, quiet and romantic Cecilia, devout Lanei, and determined Ella are four friends who seem to make up for what the other lacks. But no matter what is happening in their lives or the struggles they face, they share an unbreakable bond of friendship that serves as their anchor, helping and supporting each other through and through.

To succeed, each woman must make choices that will challenge her long-held cultural beliefs, choices that will come with consequences, in the pursuit of her own individual freedom.

An empowering narrative told from alternating perspectives of each friend, Micki Berthelot Morency has crafted four remarkable and hard-to-forget women whose fates are bound together by culture, by history, and most importantly, by a deep, irrevocable friendship. Heartfelt and deeply moving, THE ISLAND SISTERS is an important story about hope and determination.

Thank you, Micki, for being a guest!

Write on!
Jendia