Amy Jo Clark and Miriam Weaver

On Oct. 30, our first book, “Right For A Reason – Life, Liberty, and a Crapload of Common Sense,” will hit bookshelves across the country. It’s the natural next step for us, after spending more than five years developing and running our chicksontheright.com website, landing our drive-time radio show, and seeing our Facebook following increase from 50,000 in late 2012 to more than 650,000 today.

We wrote “Right For A Reason” because we recognize that conservatism has taken a beating in our liberal-media-dominated world, and if the growth of the Chicks On The Right brand is any indication, we’ve got a talent for communicating conservative ideas in a way that resonates with regular people. Because that’s who we are.

We’ve spent the last five years being told by countless people that we have no business saying what we say or writing what we write. We’ve been told we’re not conservative enough. We’ve been told we’re too conservative. We’ve been told we’re RINOs. We’ve been told we’re right-wing whack jobs. We’ve been called unmentionable things by commenters on IndyStar.com in response to previous columns. No matter what you call us, though, one label that has never fit us is political pundits. We’re just two regular Chicks who will always be wives, moms, friends, sisters, employees and business owners first, and then political junkies.

In our book, we discuss things about which every American should agree – that it’s right to revere the Constitution. It’s right to value personal responsibility, economic liberty and free enterprise. We explain why it’s right to be conservative. But we also respond to our critics on both sides of the aisle – and we deliver those responses in our own style – one that resonates with regular people. It’s what we’ve always done best.

We need only look at our kids (and yours) to remember why we started five years ago – and why we’ve been so determined to make a difference. We’ve got ideas on how to give conservatism the makeover it so desperately needs – ideas that will help realign the establishment with regular people who are fed up with a GOP that often seems to forget about them.

While the GOP continues to host its fancy fundraisers and suit-and-tie affairs, we’ve been talking and listening to the thousands of people out there who are just like us – frustrated conservatives who don’t feel heard. We hear from them every day – women and men who are bucking the conservative stereotype and bewildering liberals everywhere who perpetuate the notion that we all look like John McCain. Many conservatives find themselves at odds with some of the social issues that can haunt our side of the aisle, but they’re still frustrated by the economic policies of the left, and feel like they have no “home.” We hear them. Loud and clear.

Conservatives have had a rough six years, and for those like us who often feel left out of or forgotten by the GOP establishment, it’s been painful to watch the country we love “fundamentally transform” right before our eyes. So we’ve written “Right For A Reason” for fellow conservatives and independents and not-totally-rabid liberals to join us for a Chicks On The Right pep rally in book form.

We’ve fallen into the world of political punditry largely by accident, but directly as a result of being able to build a community filled not with pundits, or politicians or policy-makers, but with regular people who live in the real world, care about our country’s future and want to know they’re not alone.

That’s what our book is all about. It’s about casting the conservative makeover net further and wider, because conservatism makes sense for everyone. We’re “Right For A Reason.”

Amy Jo Clark is known as Daisy, and Miriam Weaver as Mockarena. They write the Chicks on the Right blog (www.chicksontheright.com) and host a show on WIBC-FM (93.1), Indianapolis.