Blogs of the week

Our recent feature is "Blogs of the Week." Each week, we feature a reader blog (which was sent to us) and an author blog (which could either be sent to us, or we'd pick one at random). Please check out the blogs we are sharing. We're sure the bloggers would love some friendly comments on their posts or a follow. Important: We are no longer taking submissions for blogs, as we are trying to phase out this feature. Thank you for participating and sharing your blogs with us, as well as visiting the blogs that have been shown here.

Important: We are no longer taking submissions for blogs, as we are trying to phase out this feature. Thank you for participating and sharing your blogs with us, as well as visiting the blogs that have been shown here.

Reader:

Melissa's Eclectic Bookshelf

We always love having Melissas at Chick Lit Central and this one is no exception! She's a 30-something Vegetarian, Nature Lover, Animal Lover, Book Lover, Blogger & Reviewer. She lives in central New Jersey with her fiance and two cats. Melissa fell in love with books at an early age and loves to curl up with a cup of tea, her cats and almost anything printed that I can lay her hands upon. She loves almost all genres and will read almost anything that catches her interest. When she's not blogging, she's working her 9 to 5 job or photographing the beautiful things in nature. Her personal blog is called Melissa's Meanderings. You can also find her at Facebook and Twitter.

Author:

Shimmers in the Darkness

Mary Vensel White was born in Los Angeles and raised in Lancaster, California. She graduated from the University of Denver and lived for five years in Chicago, where she completed an MA in English at DePaul University. She lives in southern California with her husband, four children and two badly trained dogs in a chaotic but happy home. Her husband is an attorney and she is the mom with a book or laptop at the little league game, soccer field or dance studio.

"The Qualities of Wood" is her first novel (available at $1.99 for Kindle). Mary is currently at work on a second, set again in the Midwest, a place that lives and flourishes in her imagination despite her current sunny surroundings. She is also working on a collection of interrelated stories, a method of writing which the esteemed women of her book club refuse to acknowledge as a novel. Watch for news about these two projects.

You can find Mary on Facebook and Twitter.