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Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Ellen Marie Francisco’s GOOD GIRL’S GUIDE TO COUNTY JAIL Virtual Book Tour January 3 – 31!

Good Girl's Guide to County Jail

Inside the Book

Title: GOOD GIRL’S GUIDE TO COUNTY JAIL
Author: Ellen Marie Francisco
Publisher: Scribbles and Ink Publishing / Friesen Press
Pages: 176
Genre: Nonfiction

BOOK BLURB:

Millions of viewers have made the television series “Orange is the New Black” a pop culture sensation, but Ellen Marie Francisco (http://www.EllenMarieFrancisco.com) has no interest in watching it or reading the memoir, by Piper Kerman, which spawned the hit show.

Francisco has lived her own version of “Orange is the New Black,” an experience she refers to as “innocent in oranges.” “Oranges” is prison jargon for the orange jump suits worn by prisoners who have been charged but who have not yet been to trial, Francisco explains.

Francisco, an author and entrepreneur, describes her experience behind bars in her latest book, GOOD GIRL’S GUIDE TO COUNTY JAIL (FOR THE BAD GIRL IN US ALL). A gripping and candid tale of her journey through three California jails for women, GOOD GIRL’S GUIDE TO COUNTY JAIL (https://books.friesenpress.com/store/title/119734000025993982) also serves as a resource guide for navigating the legal thickets necessary to surviving what Francisco dubs the “Incarcer Nation”.

GOOD GIRL’S GUIDE TO COUNTY JAIL “is a call to action to remedy the lack of support for pre-sentenced women sitting in jails across America who are not educated enough to understand what they’re negotiating in the courtroom,” Francisco explains, “and for the women who don’t realize how close they already are to the courthouse steps.”

Francisco was arrested in 2013 in Lake Arrowhead, California and charged with carjacking, assault with a deadly weapon and robbery after an incident involving her impounded car. The charges were ultimately dropped, but not before Francisco had served nearly two months in three county jails. While locked up, she talked to hundreds of women “each on a different path without a definitive end, each living with the certain fear that they were not in control of their own lives.”

Those conversations became the nucleus of GOOD GIRL’S GUIDE TO COUNTY JAIL.

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Meet the Author

Ellen Marie Francisco

Canadian born Ellen Marie Francisco worked in feature film development and production in Toronto on Canadian Content film projects partially funded through Telefilm Canada in the ‘80s. She was transferred to Los Angeles in the early ‘90s to help expand the production company into Los Angeles. Her work in the entertainment industry continued for decades under a NAFTA Investor Visa in Los Angeles, and environs with her catering company Amazing Graze. Her resort community Real Estate business Cabin Ready operated to the point of her untimely arrest.

Francisco has also worked in the publishing industry. Along the way, she landed a job with writer Sidney Sheldon as a proofreader and fan mail response writer. That experience and her tenure in publishing helped shape her own voice.

Her work as a photographer in Toronto and California in the early ‘90s landed her backstage access to Cirque du Soleil and one of her first print credits. She has sold and/or shown photographic works in galleries on the Big Island of Hawaii, in Los Angeles and Toronto. The book is filled with her raw and captivating vector artwork, a visual storyboard to her harrowing journey through the “Incarcer Nation.”

Francisco is the adoptive mother of two children and a Chihuahua named Piglet. They currently reside in Ottawa, Ontario.

Her latest book is Good Girl’s Guide to County Jail.

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Participants

Tuesday, January 2

Guest Blogging at The Story Behind the Book

Wednesday, January 3

Interview at The Writer’s Life

Thursday, January 4

Book Featured at I’m Shelf-ish

Friday, January 5

Book Review at Books for Books

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Monday, January 8

Book Featured at Write and Take Flight

Tuesday, January 9

Book Featured at Bound 2 Escape

Wednesday, January 10

Interview at T’s Stuff

Thursday, January 11

Book Review at Sefina Hawke’s Books

Friday, January 12

Guest Blogging at Lori’s Reading Corner

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Monday, January 15

Book Featured at Nuttin’ But Books

Tuesday, January 16

Book Teaser at YouTube

Wednesday, January 17

Book Review at Stormy Nights Reviewing and Bloggin’

Thursday, January 18

Guest Blogging at Blogging Authors

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Monday, January 22

Interview at Confessions of an Eccentric Bookaholic

Thursday, January 25

Book Review at Mello & June, It’s a Book Thang!

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Monday, January 29

Interview at My Bookish Pleasures

Tuesday, January 30

Book Review at Cheryl’s Book Nook

Wednesday, January 31

Book Review at Literarily Speaking

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