I loved everything about Moonlit. Debut author Jadie Jones does an excellent job building a loveable and flawed heroine, Tanzy Hightower, while also creating a suspenseful plot, love-to-hate bad guys, and a jaw-dropping ending (as in–I e-mailed her to say: WHEN IS BOOK TWO COMING OUT??). I stayed up late into the night to finish [...]

I’m welcoming Alex Boles, whom I met through my critique group (she’s the sister of one of our members) and who has a very exciting and important website and book! I encourage everyone to check out the website here and then the book through the Amazon link at the bottom of the post. I will [...]

Kaolin, the author of Talking About Race (publisher: Crandall, Dostie & Douglass Books, Inc.), contacted me about her book, and I thought it sounded so interesting that I told her to send it to me. And I’m so glad she did. This post is going to be a little different than my normal posts about [...]

*Young adult, contemporary fantasy *17-year-old boy as the main character *Rating: I love this book–I love Holly Black. (I actually met her a few years ago at Words in the Woods–and she is super nice and smart, too!) I’m sorry that I’m behind the times on reading her books. She put this series out when [...]

I am very excited about the current WOW! blog tour for the memoir, Sonia’s Song by Sonia Korn-Grimani. So excited that I’ll be hosting something to do with her book THREE times this month!(For a complete review and a guest post from Sonia, tune back in the week of October 22nd.) I chose to feature [...]

Today, I welcome my colleague and fellow WOW! team member, Chynna Laird, with her YA paranormal-suspense novel, Dark Water. Chynna has written a creepy, suspenseful book that also touches on some serious issues contemporary children/teens are dealing with such as a parent at war, PTSD, and death of a loved one. Chynna also has a [...]

The Divorce Girl: A Novel of Art and Soul by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg Publisher: Ice Cube Press I’m excited to introduce to you–The Divorce Girl as part of the WOW! Women On Writing blog tour. What a great, great book. I was captivated on page one and couldn’t wait to get to the end of the [...]

Start Journaling and Change Your Life in 7 Days by Mari L. McCarthy Today, I welcome back Mari L. McCarthy, whom I just love. She knows everything about journaling, inspiring writers, and encouraging everyone to do their very best! In the winter, I took her 28-day journaling challenge; and I found that journaling can really [...]

Congratulations to dollsstory for winning The Smiley Book of Colors in last week’s giveaway. I am excited to host another author and book giveaway today–it’s a “basketball” book in honor of March Madness (Anyone still have a good bracket?). The book is called Transcendental Basketball Blues, the author is Mike Pemberton, and it is YA/crossover [...]

I am super excited to host journaling guru Mari L. McCarthy on her current blog tour for the book, Dark Chocolate for the Journaler’s Soul. She is hosting a giveaway contest with this blog tour, and you can win ONE of these three prizes by leaving a comment or question at the end of this [...]