Posted on December 28, 2011, 11:42 am, by admin.
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 [...]
Posted on December 13, 2011, 1:17 am, by admin.
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 [...]
Posted on December 2, 2011, 10:22 am, by admin.
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 [...]
Posted on November 1, 2011, 10:01 am, by admin.
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 [...]
Posted on September 14, 2011, 6:43 am, by admin.
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 [...]
Posted on September 12, 2011, 8:48 am, by admin.
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 [...]
Posted on August 18, 2011, 1:56 am, by admin.
Stephanie Stiles is author of the new book Take It Like a Mom, of which Publishers Weekly says “Stiles captures the petty and hilarious dramas that overlay stressed-out suburban lives in her debut, an ode to stay-at-home momdom.” Today I’m featuring a bit of mother-daughter “unadvice” that Stiles has to offer. I’m also offering one [...]
Posted on October 1, 2010, 12:02 pm, by admin.
October is National Reading Group month, and it’s also the one-year anniversary of the release of Book by Book: The Complete Guide to Creating Mother-Daughter Book Clubs. As you may know, I love helping new mother-daughter book clubs get started, and to celebrate my book’s birthday, I’m giving away one copy of Book by Book [...]