Strong Enough blog tour with author Ellen Harger. Spotlight & This OR That.

Starting over is hard.
And sometimes, you have to burn a few bridges to do it.

Whitney Brown is average--average intelligence, average height, average weight--but she wants to be someone new. To kick-start her rebirth, she wears formal mourning, a black veil and vintage dress, to a wedding in her hometown, Woods Cross, a community that treasures family values. Is it an attack on marriage or has she just gone bonkers?

Emboldened but lacking a plan, she forces her foot in the door of a radio station in Sundown. A small metropolis of nearly 150,000, Sundown is a notch of urban flair along the Midwest's Bible Belt.

Getting in proves to be the easy part and the anonymity of being a DJ suits her well. But off air (and in person), Whitney must stand up to Sadi, an angry feminist and the bane of her college years while an old friendship with her former roommate, Leah, devolves around a guy.

It's 2002 and the Midwest radio scene is changing. Just as Whitney hits her groove, the radio station undergoes its own identity crisis. But what rocks Whitney to her core is the moment the condom breaks. Her abstinence only background leaves her embarrassed and facing a difficult choice.



Ellen Harger was born at the Air Force Academy in Colorado. As a military brat, she moved often during her childhood--something she never resented and continued as an adult. The constant starting over influenced her first published novel, "Strong Enough."
At 14, her family settled in Missouri as civilians, permitting Ellen to attend one high school. She stayed in the Midwest to attend a small liberal arts college, studying creative writing and art. After 11 years, she moved to Boston. While there, she continued to study creative writing in Cambridge. Ever willing to explore new places, she moved next to the San Francisco Bay area. After 11 years away, and loving the symmetry, she returned to the Midwest to finish "Strong Enough." She has published a poem, "Guidelines," and released her novel as an e-book.
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This OR That with author Ellen Harger

~ Pen OR Pencil Pen

~ Hardback OR ebook ebook

~ Classic Rock OR Indie Rock Indie Rock (but that was tough)

~ Day OR Night Night

~ Coffee OR Tea Tea by default

~ Hotdogs OR Hamburgers Hamburgers

~ The Police OR The Beatles Brits, eh? Hmmmmmmmm, Aerosmith

~ Black OR White White. I love a blank page for drawing or writing something new.

~ The Host OR Twilight Didn’t read The Host so Interview With a Vampire. No sparkles, please.

~ Iron Man OR Captain America ooooooo.... Captain America. His suit is easy to snuggle.

~ Bill OR Eric (Trueblood) ps, your answer could even be, "neither, Alcide!" Dean Winchester

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