Blog Tour: Melody Carlson

This week I'm participating in a Blog Book Tour for Melody Carlson's two new releases this month: Mexico (in the Notes from a Spinning Planet series) and Playing With Fire (in The Secret Life of Samantha McGregor series).

First, a little about the author:
Melody Carlson is the winner of the RITA Award and the Gold Medallion and has published over ninety books for adults, children, and teens, including Finding Alice, Crystal Lies, and the Diary of a Teenage Girl series. Carlson is the mother of two grown sons and lives in a "cabin in the words" near the Cascade Mountains in central Oregon with her husband and a chocolate lab retriever. A full-time writer and part-time gardener, biker, skier, and hiker, Carlson can be found on the Internet at www.melodycarlson.com.

I'll be posting a review of each of the new books (and probably touch on the series to date as I also read the first two in each series) this week.