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I recently read an ARC of Kay Cassidy’s “The Cinderella Society” releasing in April and I want to send it on tour! It’s a fun, empowering story about girl power, being your best and thwarting the mean girls! If I had a teenage daughter, I would want her to read this book. Since I have a signed copy to giveaway at the end, maybe other bloggers want to join in with me and we can send this book around and then perhaps have a fun giveaway contest at the end? My goal is for the tour to center around the theme of the book — girl empowerment. I’d love to have contests at each blog for readers to share short empowering stories and then at the end of the tour we can giveaway the book and I’ll make a small donation to a girl-centric charity on behalf of the winner. Email me if you’re interested.

One of the great traditions in book blogging is the weekly “In My Mailbox” post. I learned about this first from the prolific “Story Siren,” who was inspired by “Pop Culture Junkie.” While my “IMM” post will pale in comparison I’ll participate nevertheless!

Here are the books that arrived in my mailbox this week:

“The Cinderella Society” by Kay Cassidy: The book releases next spring and I’m pleased to report the lovely Kay signed my copy and I’ll be hosting a giveaway contest to readers once I read it! So stay tuned because this book is generating some serious girl power buzz.

“Either You’re in or You’re in the Way” by Luke and Noah Miller: This book was sent to me by a Twitter friend and it’s about a pair of brothers and the promise they made to their father to have a movie made and get Ed Harris to star in it. It’s not my usual cup of tea, but I’m eager to check it out since the brothers are local.

“Shark Girl” by Kelly Bingham: My husband picked this up for me at the library and I’m intrigued. It’s very Bethany Hamilton because it’s the story of a teen girl who loses her arm in a shark attack. I skimmed the first page and the writing popped.

“Her Fearful Symmetry” by Audrey Niffenegger: I pre-ordered this on my Kindle and it magically appeared on Tuesday morning. The first few chapters are strange, but I’m really enjoying it now…

“The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks” by E. Lockhart: The book has been on my mind for a few weeks as something I absolutely had to read. I’d seen it in bookstores, visit it on Amazon, look it up online. Finally, I said “Screw the book-buying diet” (because my TBR pile is HUGE!) and I bought it last night. I read the sample on my Kindle and it’s amazing so far. I’m going to read it after I finish “Her Fearful Symmetry.”

So that’s my mailbox. What was in yours? What are you reading?

Just as quick post to let you all know about this wonderful new group blog from authors Alyson Noel, Kay Cassidy, Tera Lynn Childs and Becca Fitzpatrick called “Living Your Five.”  In their own words, the mission of the site is: “making the world a better place, one person at a time. It’s about understanding what you care about most and how you can make a positive difference in your world.” I urge you to check it out because it’s sort of a beacon of goodness and a reminder of the power of positivity, good deeds, charity, kindness. We KNOW these are good things, but we don’t always practice them. And here’s a site run by women authors a lot of us admire who are taking time away from their deadlines and writing to not just promote their own books, but to promote a better world. A happy site! Plus, if you visit this week and post comments, you might win a prize!