Welcome to Michelle Holman's Site

Michelle Holman is an author living in Cambridge, New Zealand who writes Romantic Comedies with a distinctly New Zealand flavour. To date, she’s published three books with HarperCollins, Bonkers (2007), Divine (2008), and Knotted ( for release 1/10/2009). Bonkers and Divine were both bestsellers. The movie rights for Bonkers have been optioned and German publishers Droemer have purchased the German publishing rights and will be releasing it in Germany, Austria and Switzerland in November, 2009 as Einfach Himmlisch (Simply Heavenly).

Michelle writes what she likes to read:- romances with strong men and women that are guaranteed to put a smile on her reader’s faces and always have a happy ending. She thinks we’re bombarded with enough of the sad stuff in the paper and on the news and doesn’t see why she should add to it. That doesn’t mean everything is plain sailing for her heros and heroines or that they don’t hit tricky situations, they do, and watching them dig themselves out of the mess they’ve unwittingly landed in is when the fun starts. According to Michelle’s husband, it isn’t so surprising that her characters frequently descend into mayhem because Michelle frequently does the same thing on the way between one of her “light bulb” moments -“I’ve just thought of a great idea for a story!” – to actually finishing the book. She’s researched Dairy Farming (how are cows artificially inseminated – turkey baster?) and the telephone sex industry (dominatrix sex – is it possible over the phone?), as well as serious issues like dyslexia and breast cancer.

One of her proudest moments happened in the frozen food section of a supermarket when a man asked her if she was that writer, Michelle Holman and when she said yes, complained that his wife hadn’t cooked dinner all weekend because she’d been reading one of Michelle’s books. The memory still brings a tear to Michelle’s eye and she hopes to be responsible for the rumbling of men’s stomachs for many years to come.