Chick Lit Plus by Samantha March

Latest Youtube Videos

CLP Blog Tours Book Review: Mounting the Whale by Colleen McCarty
Chick Lit Review

CLP Blog Tours Book Review: Mounting the Whale by Colleen …

Colleen McCarty is now on tour with CLP Blog Tours and Mounting the Whale
Summary:
“Cartel got me, tell mom”

The siblings, drowning in their own problems, are forced to focus on the task at hand: a half-cocked rescue mission that involves a borrowed yacht, a favor from a notorious drug kingpin, and a shocking reunion none of them expected.

When the family decides to sneak into Mexico, mother Cybil is forced to deal with a rival CEO whom she’s developed feelings for in secret. Her only son, Tom, is willing to risk bodily harm to save Janine while his other sisters, Carlyle and Valerie, suspect that the kidnapping is less than legitimate.

The long sea voyage tests the limits of the family’s already frail bonds. Dark secrets of infertility, drugs, gambling and extreme taxidermy begin to float to the surface. But nothing compares to what they begin to learn about their missing sister.

If they’re going to make it out alive, they have to recognize they’re fighting the same battles and facing life’s greatest challenges: love, loneliness, and the struggle to find a place in the world.

Amidst all the chaos, the Pierce family is brought face-to-face with the ugliness of Janine’s addictions, the truth about their mother’s fortune and the most terrifying question of all: Can you really save someone who doesn’t want to be saved?
Review:
When I first read the synopsis, I’ll be honest – I was a little hesitant about this one. It seemed pretty far-fetched, and I was worried I wouldn’t be able to connect to the story at all. Well those fears were put to rest pretty quickly after reading just the first few chapters. The writing is terrific and the storyline just sucks you in. What I ended up liking most about this book is actually what I feared I would dislike – the crazy plot. Whenever I was reading I was completely absorbed in the book because it took me out of whatever it was I was doing and made me fall into the world of these characters. I saw another review saying this book read like a movie in your mind, and I absolutely agree with that. Terrific fiction read!
4.5 stars

January 29, 2014
Leave a comment
Blog Tour Sign Up: Becoming Mrs. Walsh by Jessica Gordon
CLP Blog Tours

Blog Tour Sign Up: Becoming Mrs. Walsh by Jessica Gordon

Shoshana Thompson is 26 years old, miles from home, and engaged to Andrew Walsh, the last single Walsh brother of one of Washington, D.C.’s wealthiest families. Throughout her engagement she becomes enamored with the Walsh lifestyle.

Life in the fast lane comes to a screeching halt when Shoshana develops feelings for another man. When she discovers the feelings may not be one-sided, things are about to get a lot more complicated. This man is not only part of her fancy new world, he is also completely off-limits.

January 28, 2014
Leave a comment
Guest Blog: How to Plan Your Writing by Alicia de los Reyes
For Writers

Guest Blog: How to Plan Your Writing by Alicia de …

Thanks to The Chick Lit Cookbook author Alicia de los Reyes for guest blogging today on planning your writing. You can also read my 4 star review…

January 28, 2014
Leave a comment
Book Review: The Chick Lit Cookbook by Alicia de los Reyes
Chick Lit Review

Book Review: The Chick Lit Cookbook by Alicia de los …

I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Summary:
You’ve said it a dozen times before: If only you had the chance, you would write a chick lit novel. But between job, boyfriend, kids, school — life — you just can’t find the time.

The Chick Lit Cookbook: A Guide to Writing Your Novel in 30 Minutes a Day is the solution. This fun, cupcake-themed guide will take you from start to finish of your first draft. In 13 chapters, each with a short exercise that will get you writing now, you will learn how to create the perfect main character, her ideal love interest, a world for her to live in and an adventure that will draw in readers. You will outline your entire first draft — and then you will write it.

The Chick Lit Cookbook is a beginner’s guide to writing funny, snappy, sucks-you-into-the-story prose about modern women, life and love. It is full of tips and techniques, prompts and pep talks that will spark your imagination and inspire you to put pen to paper. The exercises can be done while sitting on the bus, waiting at the doctor’s office, or talking on the phone with your mother-in-law. This book will show you that you can and will write a chick lit novel.

Whether you’ve been wishing for years that you could write chick lit or are a brand-new fan of Bridget Jones and Becky Bloomwood, you owe it to yourself to pick up this guide. The Chick Lit Cookbook will prove to you that writing a novel can be fun and easy — it’s just like baking cupcakes!
Review:
This is a great and quick read for someone wanting to write chick lit books. There are exercises to help you get the most out of your reading, and if you are a first time writer, I really suggest doing these and helping create your story for when you start writing. I thought the format she wrote in – comparing writing to baking cupcakes – was a great spin and made it easy to read, easy to follow, yet also fun. A great guide that I recommend!
4 stars

January 28, 2014
Leave a comment
CLP Blog Tours Book Review: Hard Hats and Doormats by Laura Chapman
Chick Lit Review

CLP Blog Tours Book Review: Hard Hats and Doormats by …

Reviewer: Terry Laura Chapman is now on tour with CLP Blog Tours and Hard Hats and Doormats First I have to admit this book was unique…

January 28, 2014
Leave a comment
Future Tour: Limoncello Yellow by Traci Andrighetti
CLP Blog Tours

Future Tour: Limoncello Yellow by Traci Andrighetti

From debut author, Traci Andrighetti, comes a tale of murder, mayhem, and meddling Sicilian grandmas…

Francesca “Franki” Amato is a tough-talking rookie cop in Austin, Texas—until an unfortunate 911 call involving her boyfriend, Vince, and a German female wrestler convinces her once and for all that she just isn’t cut out for a life on the police force. So Franki makes the snap decision to move to New Orleans to work at her friend Veronica’s detective agency, Private Chicks, Inc. But Franki’s hopes for a more stable life are soon dashed when Private Chicks is hired by the prime suspect in a murder case to find out what really happened to a beautiful young boutique manager who was found strangled to death with a cheap yellow scarf. When she’s not investigating, Franki is hoping to seduce handsome bank executive Bradley Hartmann, but most of her time is spent dodging date offers from a string of “good Italian boys”—make that not-so-good aging Italian men—that her meddlesome Sicilian grandma has recruited as marriage candidates. As Mardi Gras approaches and the mystery of the murdered shop girl gets more complicated, Franki must decipher the odd ramblings of a Voodoo priestess to solve both the murder and the mystery of her own love life.

January 27, 2014
Leave a comment
Book Review: I Don’t Know How She Will Do It by Kobby Tetteh Gyampoh
Chick Lit Review

Book Review: I Don’t Know How She Will Do …

Reviewer: Samantha
I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Summary:
Lily has had it with Aunt Lizzie. She wants her inheritance. She wants to be free. Aunt Lizzie wants Lily to find a husband, though she thinks it’s impossible. To her Lily could kiss freedom goodbye since it might be about the only person who’d allow that.
Aunt Lizzie’s thinking marriage; Lily’s thinking marriage-if-anyone-would-ever-want-me. Aunt Lizzie’s thinking cooking, cleaning and looking after a family; Lily wants a career that isn’t home-running. Aunt Lizzie’s not bent on making Lily have her way. So what would Lily do? She’d plot to gain her inheritance. She’d plot to gain her freedom. Her dad’s will says nothing about Mr. Right, neither does it mention an aspiring actress eager to break into Hollywood.
Join Lily in her quest for freedom as she poses as a couple with Clare behind a camouflage of flashy cars and cupcakes in order to get that inheritance. Follow this hilarious recipe of a low self-esteem girl, a sassy self-employed actress, an Aunt whose quotes would get you raising brows and two grannies who are willing to help low self-esteem girl. But watch out, one has a pistol which she stashes in her underwear.
Summary:
This was a cute and short read, funny in some moments, wacky in others. I thought the story about Lily getting her inheritance was a unique one, and the relationship that forms between her and Clare was definitely interesting to read about. Sometimes the plot points got a little too out there for my particular taste, and the more I read novellas the more I realize I just don’t connect with them as well as full-length novels. I always feel like more character buildup could have been written or more subplots put in, but that’s not the point of a novella – I know! Just a personal preference. But overall I thought this one was well-written and made me laugh.
3.5 stars

January 27, 2014
Leave a comment
Cover Reveal and Giveaway: I Don’t Know How She Will Do It by Kobby Tetteh Gyampoh
Chick Lit Authors

Cover Reveal and Giveaway: I Don’t Know How She …

Book Blurb: Lily has had it with Aunt Lizzie. She wants her inheritance. She wants to be free. Aunt Lizzie wants Lily to find a…

January 27, 2014
2 Comments
CLP Blog Tours Book Review: Vegas to Varanasi by Shelly Hickman
Chick Lit Review

CLP Blog Tours Book Review: Vegas to Varanasi by Shelly …

Reviewer: Samantha Shelly Hickman is on tour now with Vegas to Varanasi and CLP Blog Tours Synopsis: Anna has never been the beautiful one; she’s…

January 27, 2014
2 Comments