The Liberation of Max McTrue Contest Brought to you by Figment.com and Kim Culbertson Kim Culbertson is joining Figment for a whirlwind weekend of Flash Fiction to celebrate her new ebook, The Liberation of Max McTrue! (Look for my review tomorrow.) Enter the Max McTrue Flash Fiction Contest! There will be a Total of three [...]

Everybody Wins! in a non-profit dedicated to improving literacy levels by mentoring low-income youth. Their philosophy is one mentor, one child, one book at a time, and since it’s founding in 1991 Everybody Wins! has grown to include programs in 16 states reaching thousands of children. You can help their cause simply by watching the [...]

When A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness came out in hardcover last February it was an immediate hit. Debuting at #2 on the New York Times bestseller list, it’s been getting rave reviews since. Now, publisher Penguin has released the title in paperback, and you can win a copy by commenting here by midnight [...]

When Mari McCarthy was last featured on Mother Daughter Book Club.com, it was to talk about mother-daughter journaling and her eBook, Who Are You? How to Use Journaling to Know and Grow Your Life. As part of her new Wow! (Women on Writing) tour, she’s back with another intriguing guest post about things you should [...]

Author Annette Laing is busy putting the finishing touches on her third book in The Snipesville Chronicle series. The new book will appear in March. In the meantime, she’s lowered the price of the first book in the series, Don’t Know Where, Don’t Know When (see my review) to just 99 cents for Kindle and [...]

Today is National Family Literacy day, the start of a whole month devoted to families reading together. To celebrate, I’ll be giving away one copy each week of my guidebook, Book by Book: The Complete Guide to Creating Mother-Daughter Book Clubs. While Book by Book is geared to book clubs made up of moms and [...]

Today I’m taking part in the WOW! Women on Writing tour for Mari L. McCarthy, the author of a new eBook called, Who Are You? How to Use Journaling to Know and Grow Your Life. A former business consultant, McCarthy now teaches others how to improve their lives through therapeutic journaling and uses journaling herself [...]

In addition to being in a mother-daughter book club, Clare Havens is also contemplating starting a mother-son group with her 7-year-old son. Here she talks about her reasons for wanting to get this club off the ground and the challenges she expects to face doing so. Havens is also the author of A Bella Street [...]