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Lisa Czarina Michaud is an American author and co-founder of Barre Chord Press, an indie publisher based just outside Paris. Like raw anthems scratched out on a detuned guitar in a bedroom 4-track, her stories hit hard without corporate gloss, breathing life beyond the mainstream’s approval matrix. Soulful, unpolished tales born in her attic office on a glitchy PC—they’re indie, they’re punk rock. Just as indie bands were once dismissed as “not real” without a major label, indie books face the same outdated elitism, branded “less-than” without a Big Five publisher. We’ve seen this tape played out before in the music industry, but the good news is the tide is turning. A growing hunger for homegrown stories with heart fuels hope for the indie author community still finding its voice—exhilarating, insanely liberating yet daunting, we live to tell our tales.

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Originally from New York, Lisa has called Olympia, WA, Los Angeles, Brooklyn, and now France—her home for the past 16 years—part of her story. Her coming-of-age novels explore the search for home, self, lost loves, and the albums that soundtrack it all. She pens The Vinyl Diaries, a weekly Substack diving into the stories behind her favorite songs, plays a “bad guitar,” and takes life advice from her cat, a certified "life couch", Le Tigre, who’s got it all figured out.

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Slanted and Disenchanted is her debut novel.  Somewhere in Hollywood is the continuation.... ​