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Carmen Otto Reviews Michael R. French's "The Beginner's Guide to Winning an Election"

Thank you WOW! Women on Writing for the opportunity to participate in the book blog tour for this fast paced novel by Michael R. French!  The Beginner’s Guide to Winning an Election The year is 2025. The United States is afflicted with global cyber attacks, economic crashes, foreign wars, and lots of anxiety. State budgets for public schools are hit hard. In a student body president race in a small city Indiana high school, popular, charismatic Matthew has his own consultants, bloggers, oppo researchers, and funds from an unidentified source that have helped him win every election since ninth grade. Over-achieving, introverted Britain is a novice to elections, but as a history wonk, politics fascinate her. She also has a crush on Matthew. After she joins his SBP team, someone hacks Matthew’s website, leaking stories that the candidate is far from the Eagle Scout he pretends to be. Matthew and his team of 15 call the stories “spineless lies.” Britain is stunne...

New Book Blog Tour - "Crossing the Line" by Ellen Valladares

The lovely Ellen Valladares is publishing a fun new mystery with WiDo Press. The book Crossing the Line is set to release March 6th so we've scheduled a WOW! Women on Writing book blog tour beginning April 16th running for approximately a month. Here's how Ellen described the book: It's a light read, a little more ghost story/mystery/New Agey.  Similar maybe to the Lovely Bones, to give you an idea. I'd like to schedule a fair amount of reviews to help lay the groundwork for a successful book launch and book tour. Can I count on your participation? Please email crystal@wow-womenonwriting.com or crystaljotto@gmail.com and let me know the following: 1) what date works best for you (dates between 4/17-5/17)? 2) what email address can I send your e-copy to? 3) what is the URL for the blog you'll be posting your review on? Read on to find out more about this delightful mystery! Laura, who died thirty years ago, enlists the help of a tenacious ...

Elizabeth Maria Naranjo Schedules Her WOW! Women on Writing Blog Tour for The Fourth Wall – a Light Fantasy with a Paranormal Edge

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...