Hello friends and fans! It's been a while since I've talked about this book, but I'm happy to finally announce that the expanded edition has finally made it to audiobook! It has a brand new narrator, features brand new material and takes a brand new approach to a story that was loved from the very beginning. This new edition is already getting glowing 5-star reviews too!

As usual, this audiobook is available exclusively from iTunes, Audible (free with membership credits) and Amazon. If you're an Audible member who purchased the previous edition with your membership credits, you can swap it for this new edition for free. Just return the old audiobook, and buy this one using the credits that will have been refunded to you.

For those of you who loved the first edition of this audiobook or who would rather purchase the original edition, don't worry, it's still available and will always be! Heck, you can listen to both of them and decide which version you like the best!

I wish to express my greatest gratitude to Melody Craven, my narrator for this audiobook, for lending her amazing voice to this project and making the characters come to life in a way that I never thought possible. If you don't already have your copy, you're missing out on something legendary!

After Anderson has officially landed! It did ten days ago, but my distributor had a hiccup with Amazon so it showed that the Kindle edition of book was still on pre-order even though it shouldn't have been, however, that's all been fixed now and Kindle users should be able to buy it with one click again.

Paperbacks have not been affected, and the audiobook is still being recorded so stay tuned for a future announcement regarding its release. I am excited to say that the expanded edition of Don't Let Me Go will be released on audio next month! Stay tuned for that announcement as well!

Right now I really need to update this website because some parts of it are badly out of date. I've been struggling with my chronic health issues again on top of making the final preparations for my exams coming up very soon. Wish me luck but until next time, happy reading!

I'm very happy to announce that my editorial review from Readers' Favorite for "After Anderson" just came back and I am very happy to share it with all of you! This fabulous 4-star review was written by Cheryl E. Rodriguez and can be read on the Readers' Favorite website, or just keep reading below.

Jamila Mikhail pens a story of tragedy in After Anderson. Two years have passed since Aly Feldman's best friend, Anderson Massey, entered their high school and began shooting. “Twenty people paid with their lives for everyone’s collective failure.” Aly remains tormented by the massacre. She feels great remorse for all those who lost their lives, especially Anderson. Although she survived, Aly lost her life that day as well. Two years of therapy hadn’t really helped and, consumed with memories, her recovery is unrealized. The pain comes and goes, but never leaves; it has become part of her. Yet, it is time to somehow move forward, time to return to Belden High School, the place where her life changed forever. On her return to school, Aly discovers friendship and moral support from the Petrov twins. Her new found friends become instrumental in bridging the gap between Aly’s old life and a new one. Is it really possible to have a life “After Anderson?”

“After you survive Anderson Massey your life doesn’t just pick up where it left off.” After Anderson by Jamila Mikhail wrenches your heart, challenges your soul, tests your personal morality and beliefs. I totally agree with the author’s statement in her commentary, if it “doesn’t bother you there’s something wrong.” We all need to learn to listen to the spoken and unspoken, and really pay attention to those around us. There were many aspects I admired, even more that I appreciated, and a few I could have done without. The story is multi-cultural, a bit political (honestly, my patriotism was battered a bit), yet very insightful. There is no denying, “The universe, with all of its flaws and disasters, was so beautifully and intricately crafted.” This line continues to echo in my mind. In saying that, how does one enjoy a book about a mass shooting? You don’t, but you do hope to gain an understanding of the cause of such a tragedy. Jamila Mikhail reveals the trauma that lingers long after such a violent act. After Anderson is the story of a survivor.

Written in the first person, the heroine’s thoughts and emotions are explicitly described, thus felt. Page by page, her character grows and evolves beyond the tragedy. She befriends an unlikely duo, the twins who open her eyes, change her perspective and encourage her to move forward. One of the key elements within the narrative are the letters between Aly and Anderson; they create raw realness and depth of soul. The words exchanged in those passages are my favorite part of the story. As the story concludes, the denouement reveals that life truly goes on. There is life “After Anderson.”

The video trailer for "After Anderson" is officially live on YouTube and on the book page for everyone to see! Check it out below!

Good news friends and fans! My newest novel After Anderson is now available for preorder on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and a handful of other retailers! It will become available in more and more places in the coming weeks, until it's released on April 15th.

The day that Anderson brought a gun to school was the day Aly's life changed forever. Her fellow classmates were murdered right before her eyes as her former best friend embarked on the deadliest high school massacre since Columbine. Now, nearly two years later, Aly sets foot in the halls that nearly cost her her life for the first time since the shooting, ready to face her demons.
Unanswered questions linger, anxiety abounds and flashbacks are frequent as Aly struggles to understand how Anderson could've mercilessly gunned down her friends and classmates and how she's not only going to forgive him, but herself as well, for the role she might have played in influencing his actions.
Was she to blame? Did she have blood on her hands? Could she have done something more? Could anyone have done anything more? Aly sets out to find the elusive answers to just that as she also attepmts to rebuild the life that was shattered by gunfire that otherwise quiet Friday morning nearly two years prior.

 Stay tuned for future updates about this project. The search for a suitable audiobook narrator will begin soon and the book trailer should be online sometime in March. For now though, click on the book cover above to read the first two chapters as a free preview!

If you have a profile on Google+ then you've already received the email saying that the social network will be discontinued. That means that my page will disappear from the web too. The good news is that there was nothing on there that you can't find on my other social networks or this website so nothing has really changed.

I've removed the Google+ button from the social media page and a few other social networks that I've either shut down or no longer use. Anyone who knows me personally knows just how much I hate social media, and that I only use it because I'm a writer and all authors need social media exposure.

If you have any comments or questions don't hesitate to reach out to me by email. Happy reading!

Since my most recent novel came out I've had many audiobook listeners ask me for download codes to listen to it, and I've finally exhausted all of them! These codes are for Audible USA only. I still have Audible UK codes available so if you're in that region and you'd like to have a listen, drop me a line!

In the meantime here are the US codes. Since I have no way of knowing who claimed the code without attempting to claim it myself, I always post them here just in case someone can find an unused one and get a free audiobook for themselves! Good luck and happy listening!

I am two weeks away from my final exams and the end of this little hiatus but Canada Post seems to have other plans for those of you who may want to submit a book for review in the next couple of months. I only have one book left to review (and one to finish writing) as of now and while submissions have still been accepted during my hiatus, y'all are going to have to wait a long time until your books make it here...

That is because Canada Post has been doing rotating strikes in different cities around the country since October 22nd and despite the government forcing them back to work, many have continued to strike. Irrespective of this, parcel backlogs are expected to last up until March of 2019 so I won't be reading and reviewing for a while.

I am still alive and well! I've only had to take a break because of the tornado cleanup and my schoolwork. My exams are coming up in less than three weeks so I've been as busy as I could possibly be but that doesn't mean that I've forgotten that November is National Novel Writing Month, better known as NaNoWriMo!

I've indeed been writing away and I'm almost at the 70 000 word mark of my 100 000 word goal for my newest project, After Anderson that I plan on releasing in April of 2019. And no, I haven't written all of that in the first two weeks of NaNoWriMo! I've been working on this for a long time and it's been on the homepage of this website for a while too, but the project had stalled and NaNoWriMo is just what I needed to revive it.

Until next time, wish me luck with my studies and I look forward to being back in 2019 with a hard-hitting brand new book about... well, you'll have to wait for my next announcement for that!

Hello everyone! Life has returned to normal since the last time I posted on here and it's good to be back! As you know, I've been giving away free Audible.com download codes for my book Innermost for a while now and had a great turnout. In fact, I've given away all the codes but I have no way of knowing who redeemed them and who didn't so I'm posting them here just in case some are still good and you'd like to snatch a free audiobook for yourself.

You'll have to try them one by one and if you find one that's still good, good for you! Enjoy a Halloween treat on me! Please note that these codes only work for the US Audible site and will not work on any international site. Good luck!

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