Author ‘Blessed’ by Oprah

CNN has This One on Jacquelyn Mitchard who just finished a 23-city tour to promote her latest book, “Twelve Times Blessed.” She attributes much of her success to Oprah Winfrey, whom she calls her “fairy godmother.”

Mitchard was a columnist for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, struggling to raise three young children and a high schooler on her own after her first husband died from cancer, when Winfrey selected the writer’s first novel, “The Deep End of the Ocean,” for her book club, in 1996.