Bring On Lemons

 We are so excited to be part of: Neill McKee’s   WOW! WOMEN ON WRITING BOOK BLOG TOUR   OF   Kid on the Go! Memoir of My Childhood and Youth       Book Summary In this new book, McKee takes readers on a journey through his childhood, adolescence, and teenage years from the mid-40s to the mid-60s, in the small, then industrially-polluted town of Elmira, Ontario, Canada—one of the centers of production for Agent Orange during the Vietnam War.  McKee’s vivid descriptions, dialog, and self-drawn illustrations are a study of how a young boy learned to play and work, fish and hunt, avoid dangers, cope with death, deal with bullies, and to build or restore “escape” vehicles. You may laugh out loud as the author recalls his exploding hormones, attraction to girls, rebellion against authority, and survival of 1960s’ “rock & roll” culture—emerging on the other side as a youth leader.  After leaving Elmira, McKee describes his intensely searching u...

I am happy to participate in another great WOW! Women on Writing Book Blog Tour for a fabulous author! Today's author spotlight and review is for a author and playwright David Kalish. Let's start with a review and go from there! Book Review – The Opposite of Everything by David Kalish Review by Crystal J. Casavant-Otto I remember my topsy-turvy life after my husband broke the news he didn’t love me anymore. I couldn’t remember exactly when things started going wrong and I was plagued with questions and an overwhelming sense of confusion and frustration. I started retracing my steps in hope of finding myself again. I felt like a fragile figurine from the gift shop and I kept thinking “why didn’t you just leave me where you found me since you didn’t want me anyway?” I took myself back to a time and place of safety…I went back to the friends I had ten years prior in hopes of doing it all again and getting it right. Until I read The Opposite of Everything by David...

Elizabeth Maria Naranjo Schedules Her WOW! Women on Writing Blog Tour for The Fourth Wall – a Light Fantasy with a Paranormal Edge **Spots will be filling quickly – her tour begins July 21 st 2014. If you would like to host Elizabeth on your blog between July 21 st and September 1 st , please RSVP by emailing: crystal@wow-womenonwriting.com The Fourth Wall is about a young girl named Marin who loses her mother, and in her grief, she begins to withdraw. She is a lucid dreamer, someone who is aware of when she is dreaming and can use this awareness to create her own dreamworlds. Marin creates a world where her memories can't follow her and she can leave her grief behind. When she begins to heal, she realizes she can no longer control her dream, and it turns to a nightmare. Now Marin has to find out how to escape a dream that doesn't want her to wake up. The book is dark in tone and the lucid dreaming gives it a light fantasy/paranormal edge. Electronic copi...

Check out this GREAT guest post by author and friend Bette Lee Crosby! Once you've read her post, enter to win a copy of Jubilee's Journey . Bette is graciously offering readers: 1 ebook copy and 1 paperback (paperback available to US Residents only). Thank you Bette! Bette Lee Crosby Shares How Jubilee's Journey Came to Be! Writing Jubilee’s Journey was somewhat of a trip down memory lane, not because of my own memories, but the memories of my mother, who so generously passed them down to me. My mom was born in Coal Fork, West Virginia; as was her sister Ruth. They were two in a family of eleven siblings.  Times were hard and the family didn’t always have the luxury of living under the same roof. Once the girls were old enough, they were sent to live with relatives who needed house help; the boys went to work in the mines or became farm hands for neighbors. When my mom was not yet twenty, she married a city boy from Charleston and moved away. Her sister Ruth m...