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Thank you WOW! Women on Writing for this opportunity to read and review The Beginner's Guide to Winning an Election - by Michael R. French. Michael R. French’s WOW! WOMEN ON WRITING TOUR OF The Beginner’s Guide to Winning an Election • Paperback: 272 pages • Publisher: 2018907650 (November 25, 2018) • Language: English • ISBN-10: 1732511705 • ISBN-13: 978-1732511705 Amazon Link: click here 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. S...

It may be 50 below with the wind chill, but I have an exciting book blog tour to keep me warm! WOW! Women on Writing is helping promote another wonderful book for returning author Michael R. French. Please contact me today to reserve your copy and participate in this tour. If you've never participated in a tour, feel free to inquire and I'll be happy to explain how it works - you don't even have to have your own blog! Send an email today to participate - email address: crystal@wow-womenonwriting.com or crystaljotto@gmail.com Be sure to include the following: * The email address you'd like your ebook(s) sent to - or mailing address, but we have a limited number of physical copies. *The name and url for your blog, or a note letting me know you do not have a blog *A date you would prefer as your first choice, as well as a 2nd choice - this will be the date your review will be posted to your blog/this blog and social media. (the tour runs 2/25-3/25) Includ...

Not So Long Ago, Not So Far Away by Trisha Slay Review by Crystal J. Casavant-Otto I don’t remember watching Star Wars and I was born two months after it was released in theaters, but novelist Trisha Slay made me feel as if I had been there in the theater taking in each frame of the film. Slay’s novel , Not So Long Ago, Not So FarAway was so well written that I imagined myself a troubled teenager, coming of age and being transformed during the summer months of 1977. Erika (the lead character) is the reason I loved this book, because she is every teenager girl; awkward in her own skin and unsure of herself. Not only does she struggle for acceptance, but struggles will self-doubt. Erika doesn’t see what the rest of the town sees which makes her character so real. Erika had been the chunky side-kick to her teen beauty queen best friend, Cassie. When Cassandra disappeared, all the attention moved to Erika who had been plotting Cassie’s escape. Each question made Erika qu...