My friend and fellow young adult author Kay Cassidy has written a lovely debut novel The Cinderella Society with a heartening message for teenagers about empowerment and being your best. I was fortunate enough to receive and read an ARC of the book before its April 13 debut and am now hosting a blog tour of this book with seven other book bloggers. Then we’ll all run a series of contests related to the book in the month surrounding its release.

The contest is designed to celebrate the the theme of the book so we’ll be inviting blog readers (and anyone!) to share a story/line/quote/thought about what it means to be empowered as a teenage girl. Each blogger will pick a winner for her blog and when the book releases I’ll send a copy of the book to each blog’s winner. Then the eight of us will pick a grand prize winner at the end who’ll receive a signed copy from Kay as well as a The Cinderella Society swag bag! And I’ll also make a $100 donation to Girls Inc. in the name of the grand prize winner. (Kay is a big supporter of Girls Inc.)

Stay tuned as the contest will start March 20 and run through April 28 across our blogs. A big thanks to my fellow blog tour members! I’m thrilled to be part of this blog tour with all of you!