Dark Chocolate Blog Tour Invitation

WOW! Women On Writing announces Mari McCarthy's blog tour!

Blog Tour dates:
December 5, 2011 - January 6, 2012
 
Come and join the fun! Meet these Mari and visit her fabulous blog hostesses.

Dear ,

Have a bit of dark chocolate for the holidays!

Dark Chocolate: A smooth, creamy, semi-sweet treat that pairs well with coffee or wine. It is known to have surprising health benefits. A delicious indulgence to savor alone or share.

This holiday season WOW! is pleased to bring Dark Chocolate for the Journaler's Soul by Mari L. McCarthy. Journaling, like chocolate, is more fun when shared. Dark Chocolate for the Journaler's Soul is a gathering of 17 journalers all sharing their joys, tips, and journeys with you!

And we've put together a fun tour...a confectioner's dream of delicious prizes and soul-stirring ideas; this tour will sweeten your holiday and boost you into the New Year! If you're ready for a sweet little boost (and a chance at winning a prize for your stocking) join us for an author interview and a giveaway...Dark Chocolate Giveaway

Stop by The Muffin today for a wonderful interview and leave a comment or ask a  question for a chance to win a copy of Dark Chocolate for the Journaler's Soul AND a Journaler's Jumpstarter Kit. The kit consists of Create Write Now's Signature Journal (spiral bound), Mari's Most Musefull Journaling Tips (spiral bound), and an intoxicating Lavender Scented Pen (the actual pen is scented, not the ink). For an extra entry, link to the post on Twitter with the hashtag #DKChoc-Mari. The giveaway contest closes this Thursday, December 8th at 11:59 PM, PST. We will announce the winner in the comments section the following day, Friday December 9th.

Bloggers: If you'd like to host Mari on your blog, please e-mail us with your request, or simply reply to this e-mail. Also, be sure to check out our upcoming tours in the sections below.

Write on!

~ Robyn & Jodi ~ (Your Hostesses)

** Feel free to copy any part of this e-mail and share it on your own blog or in your newsletter.

 

  Meet Mari McCarthy
 

About the Author:

 

Mari L. McCarthy is The Journaling Therapy Specialist, founder of Create Write Now and Journaling for the Health of It™. Mari offers guidance, counseling and encouragement to writers through her many journaling eBooks and in private Journaling Jumpstart consultations. Mari's hosting the next Peace of Mind and Body: 27 Days of Journaling Challenge starting January 2, 2012. Please join her!


 About Dark Chocolate   

     

Dark Chocolate for the Journaler's Soul Dark Chocolate for the Journaler's Soul: 17 Personal Journaling Stories for Healing & Growth 

 

by Mari L. McCarthy  

 

The fifty-one page Dark Chocolate for the Journaler's Soul e-book compiles the journaling journeys of seventeen journalers who have shared their stories on Create Write Now's Journal Writing Transforms You blog. Reading these stories is both comforting and enlightening, sort of like dark chocolate, a food that is good for your health despite being sinfully delicious!

In this eBook, travel with journaling experts as they reveal:

  • What you should do when you find yourself cheating on your journal
  • How you can make the Blank Page work for you
  • What it's like to reconnect with your Inner Kid
  • How journal writing hastens healing
  • What the best time of day to journal is 
  ...and many more journal writing tips and tricks, ideas and inspiration that will help you jumpstart your personal journal practice for the first time or the four-hundredth time.  

 

Dark Chocolate is a community of journalers sharing what they love, and since the holidays are all about community, friendship, and a bit of self indulgence there is no better time to share Dark Chocolate.

 

Special Tour Price! Dark Chocolate for the Journaler's Soul eBook will be available through January 6th at the Special Tour Price of $7.97 when you order direct from Mari at Create Write Now. Available as a pdf and eBook for iPhone, Nook, and Kindle.  

 

 Let's Kick Off the Blog Tour!

Monday, November 21 @ The Muffin! - Today! 

Stop by The Muffin for an interview with Mari McCarthy, and enter to win a copy of Dark Chocolate for the Journaler's Soul AND a Journaling Jumpstarter Kit!

http://muffin.wow-womenonwriting.com/ 

  

December 6 @ Journeying Beyond Breast Cancer
Healing is a Journey: Learn how to journal to create a dialogue with healing.
http://journeyingbeyondbreastcancer.com/

December 7 @ Meryl K. Evans Content Maven
A Journal is Good for So Many Things. Learn to journal for documentation, and enter the Winner's Choice Giveaway!
http://www.meryl.net/

December 8 @ The Gift
Learn More about Yourself--Journal a "10 Things I Love" List! Mari and Chynna share their lists. Plus, enter the Winner's Choice Giveaway!
http://www.the-gift-blog.com/

December 9 @ This Mama Cooks
Beat the holiday blues--Mari tells you how!
http://www.thismamacooks.com/

December 10 @ The Gift
Chynna Reviews Dark Chocolate for the Journaler's Soul.
http://www.the-gift-blog.com/

December 12 @ Words from the Heart
Thrive during the holidays with special holiday journal ideas! Linda shares her review of Dark Chocolate for the Journaler's Soul. Winner's Choice Giveaway!
http://contemplativeed.blogspot.com/

December 13 @ Mother Daughter Book Club
Is a journal always purely personal? Mari discusses journal sharing. Cindy shares her review of Dark Chocolate for the Journaler's Soul. Enter to win an eBook!
http://motherdaughterbookclub.com/

December 14 @ Thoughts in Progress
Jumpstart Your Journaling Practice--Mari talks about relaxation techniques and journaling! Winner's Choice Giveaway!
http://www.masoncanyon.blogspot.com/

December 17 @ Writer...Interrupted
Want to be a better writer? Use journaling as practicing scales. Enter to win an eBook!
http://writerinterrupted.com/

December 19 @ Thoughts in Progress
Mason Canyon shares her review of Dark Chocolate for the Journaler's Soul.
http://www.masoncanyon.blogspot.com/

December 20 @ Books, Books, the Magical Fruit
Need a little nudge? Use journaling to get motivated! Sue shares her review of Dark Chocolate for the Journaler's Soul. Enter to win your choice of a either an adorable t-shirt or the spiral bound book of Mari's Most Musefull Journaling Tips!
http://www.booksbooksthemagicalfruit.blogspot.com/

December 21 @ Writer Inspired
Be your own writing muse--journal write to discover what you know! Winner's choice giveaway!
http://writerinspired.wordpress.com/

December 22 @ Misadventures with Andi
Is travel in your future? Mari shares how to make a vision collage! Enter to win an eBook!
http://www.misadventureswithandi.com/

December 28 @ Dream Hour Therapy
It's a New Year--is it time for a New You? Jessica shares her review of Dark Chocolate for the Journaler's Soul. Enter to win a spiral-bound copy of Mari's Most Musefull Journaling Tips!
http://dream-hour.com/

December 29 @ Read These Books and Use Them
Envisioning 2012: What's your plan? What's your dream? Margo shares her review of Dark Chocolate for the Journaler's Soul. Winner's Choice Giveaway!
http://margodill.com/blog/

January 6 @ Empty Nest
The trick to breaking old patterns is to discover what's behind them. If you have ever asked "Why do I always ______?" Mari knows how to find out! Pam shares her review of Dark Chocolate for the Journaler's Soul. Enter to win a spiral bound copy of Mari's Most Musefull Journaling Tips!
http://www.emptynest1.com/

 

We may have more dates to come, so be sure to check out our Events Calendar HERE.  

Want to host one of our touring authors?

WOW! Women On Writing Blog Excellence AwardUpcoming Author Tours: If you have a blog or website and would like to host one of our authors below, we are still accepting a few choice blogs to participate in our Partnership Program.

Come and join the fun! Please email Jodi & Robyn at [email protected] and put "Blog Tour Partnership" in the subject line. Please tell us the author you are interested in and your available dates. We'll get back to you with the details if you are accepted. We look forward to hearing from you!

Content for your blog: All of our touring authors are available for interviews, or they will provide a guest post on a topic related to the writing process or their book.

 

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A Whisper to a Scream  

Tour Dates: December 12, 2011 - January 12, 2012


Title: A Whisper to a Scream (The Bibliophiles - Book One)

Author: Karen Wojcik Berner

Genre: Women's Fiction

  

Synopsis:
Annie Jacobs has dreamed of the day she would become a mother since the first time she held her Baby Tenderlove doll. Unfortunately, biology has not cooperated with her plan, and she finds herself dealing with a diagnosis of unexplained infertility instead of picking out baby names.
 
Across town, stay-at-home mom Sarah Anderson is just trying to make it through the grocery store without her toddler hurling a box of rice at a fellow shopper. She is exhausted from managing the house, a first grader and a toddler, all without any help from her work-obsessed, absentee husband. 
 
A Whisper to a Scream is the story of two women on opposite ends of the child-bearing spectrum who come to realize the grass is not necessarily greener on the other side of the fence. A vivid portrayal of contemporary marriage and is problems, the novel speaks to a longing in all of us, a yearning that might start as a vague notion, but eventually grows into an unbearable, vociferous cry.

Participate!  Please  email us with "Blog Tour Partnership" in the subject line and your available dates. We schedule 2-3 stops per week from December 12 - January 12. You will receive a copy of A Whisper to a Scream by Karen Berner. We look forward to hearing from you!

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About the Author:   

Karen Wojcik Berner lives a provincial life tucked away with her family in the Chicago suburbs. If it was good enough for Jane Austen, right? However, dear Miss Austen had the good fortune of being born amid the glorious English countryside, something Karen unabashedly covets, so much so that she majored in English and communications at Dominican University. Like the magnificent Miss Austen, Karen could not help but write about the society that surrounds her.

A booklover since she could hold one in her chubby little toddler hands, Karen wanted to announce to the world just how much she loves the written word. She considered getting a bibliophile tattoo but instead decided to write about the lives of the members of a suburban Classics Book Club. The series is called, of course, The Bibliophiles.

When she's not reading, writing, or spending her time wishing she was Jane Austen, Karen can be found sipping tea or wine, whichever is more appropriate that day, and watching Tim Burton movies or "Chopped," her favorite foodie TV show.  
 

Author's Website:   

http://karenberner.com 

 

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A Cluttered Life  

Tour Dates: January 16, 2012 - February 10, 2012


Title:
A Cluttered Life: Searching for God, Serenity, and My Missing Keys

Author:
Pesi Dinnerstein

Genre: Memoir, Self-Help, Spirituality 

  

Synopsis:
A Cluttered Life: Searching for God, Serenity, and My Missing Keys (Seal Press / Sept 2011) tells the story of Pesi Dinnerstein's touching, quirky, and often comic search for order and simplicity amid an onslaught of relentless interruptions. When a chance encounter with an old acquaintance opens her eyes to the extent of the disorder that has crept into every corner of her existence, she begins a quest to free herself of the excess baggage she carries with her and finds--to her great surprise--that the answers she has spent a lifetime searching for lie within her own piles of clutter.

Dinnerstein's battle with chaos takes her on an odyssey of self-discovery that leads from the growing mess spilling out of her closets and the backseat of her car to the more subtle forms of disorder in her daily life and, finally, to the most hidden expressions deep within herself. In the end--with the help of devoted friends, a twelve-step recovery program, and a bit of Kabbalistic wisdom--her struggle with the things of this world is transformed from a distraction along the way into its own journey of healing and personal growth. At turns insightful, unsettling, and wildly funny, A Cluttered Life describes how one woman found her true self--and spiritual clarity--while trying to make sense of her muddled world.

Participate!  Please  email us with "Blog Tour Partnership" in the subject line and your available dates. We schedule 2-3 stops per week from January 16 - February 10. You will receive a copy of A Cluttered Life by Pesi Dinnerstein. We look forward to hearing from you!

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About the Author:   

Pesi Dinnerstein (a.k.a. Paulette Plonchak) has written selections for the best-selling series Small Miracles, by Yitta Halberstam and Judith Leventhal, and has contributed to several textbooks and an anthology of short stories.

Dinnerstein recently retired as a full-time faculty member of the City University of New York, where she taught language skills for close to thirty years. She has been an aspiring author and self-acknowledged clutterer for many years, and has spent the better part of her life trying to get organized and out from under. Despite heroic efforts, she has not yet succeeded; but she continues to push onward, and hopes that her journey will inspire others to keep trying as well. 

Author's Website:   

http://www.aclutteredlife.com

 

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We hope you'll join us on this surprisingly decadent blog tour for the Mari McCarthy's eBook, Dark Chocolate for the Journaler's Soul.

Stop by The Muffin today and comment for a chance to win a copy of Dark Chocolate for the Journaler's Soul AND the Journaling Jumpstarter Kit!

 

Write on!  

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