New Book for Review: Alternate Historical Fiction ‘Coma Story’ by Stephen Manoj Thompson

Stephen Manoj Thompson will be touring April 2 – 20 with his alternate historical fiction novel, Coma Story. Coma Story resembles a fresh David vs. Goliath. In order to get back the Oil Islands, a de facto U.S. territory located roughly in the center of the Indian Ocean, the narrator, a coma survivor,...

January 27th, 2012 | Featured, books for review | Read More

New Book for Review: Paranormal Romance ‘The Genie Ignites’ by Kellyann Zuzolo

BOOK COVER COMING SOON! Kellyann Zuzolo is touring March 5 – 23 with her paranormal romance book, The Genie Ignites (Book One of the Zubis Chronicles). Bethany O’Brien is a 21st-century woman with a career, ambition and bills. She has no recollection of how she once felt about a nearly 4,000-year-old...

January 27th, 2012 | Featured, books for review | Read More

Daddy’s Home Virtual Book Publicity Tour March/April/May 2012

Join A.K. Alexander, author of the thriller novel, Daddy’s Home (D’Vine Press), as she virtually tours the blogosphere March 19 – May 11 2012 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About A.K. Alexander I started writing when I was nine-years-old. I used to write...

January 26th, 2012 | Authors on Tour, Featured | Read More

New Book for Review: Blood: The New Red by David Grant

David Grant is touring in March with his literary fiction novel, Blood: The New Red. Blood: The New Red begins at an after party where Mickey, and ex-adult movie star turned supermodel, is aligning himself with one of the top Designers of Seventh Avenue. While trying to land a job on the runway Mickey...

January 25th, 2012 | Featured, books for review | Read More

Twitterview: Literary Fiction Author Karen Glick Cyber-Chats with Pump Up Your Book

Pump Up Your Book is now offering Twitterviews! What is a Twitterview? A Twitterview is simply an interview we conduct with our clients via Twitter, one of the world’s most popular social networks. Our Twitterviews are held days before the author’s tour starts, then we transfer the tweets...

January 23rd, 2012 | Featured, Twitterviews | Read More

New Book for Review: Dog Memoir ‘Charlie: A Love Story’ by Barbara Lampert

Barbara Lampert will be touring March 5 – April 20 with her dog memoir, Charlie: A Love Story. Charlie: A Love Story tells of the beautiful love between Charlie, a Golden Retriever, and his best friend Barbara. When Charlie turned eleven and started having some health problems, a gardening...

January 21st, 2012 | Featured, books for review | Read More

New Book for Review: Historical Coming of Age ‘The Promised Land’ by Valerie Stocking

Valerie Stocking will be touring March 5 – April 20 with her historical coming of age novel, The Promised Land. It’s 1966, just two years after President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law, and twelve-year-old Joy Bradford’s life is changing dramatically. Born and raised...

January 21st, 2012 | Featured, books for review | Read More

New Book for Review: Contemporary Romance ‘The Right Track’ by Jill Limber

Jill Limber will be touring March 6 – 29 with her contemporary romance, The Right Track. Jefferson Kennedy runs his life and his business in an orderly, practical and scheduled way. When he decides it is time for him to marry, he does his research and picks the most likely candidates for the position...

January 21st, 2012 | Featured, books for review | Read More

New Book for Review: Historical Romance ‘A Heart That Dares’ by Jill Limber

Jill Limber will be touring March 5 – 23 2012 with her historical romance novel, A Heart That Dares. Amanda Giles, an unconventional and free-spirited young artist, has to fulfill a deathbed promise to her brother before she can take up her life as a Bohemian in New York. She finds herself swept...

January 21st, 2012 | Featured, books for review | Read More

New Book for Review: Historical Romance ‘Montana Morning’ by Jill Limber

Jill Limber will be touring March 5 – 23 with her historical romance novel, Montana Morning. In the Montana Territory town of Dennison, the law allows a woman to save a man from hanging if she agrees to marry him. Battered and nearly unconscious with a noose around his neck, Katherine Holman...

January 21st, 2012 | Featured, books for review | Read More

Confessions of a Color-Blind House Painter Virtual Book Publicity Tour February 2012

Join Selwyn Mills, author of the autobiography, Confessions of a Color-Blind House Painter (CreateSpace), as he virtually tours the blogosphere February 6 – 29 2012 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Selwyn Mills Selwyn Mills served an apprenticeship in decorative painting...

January 21st, 2012 | Authors on Tour, Featured | Read More

Book News: Braxton A. Cosby & “Uncle” Bill Cosby at Hue-Man Bookstore in NY

I would love to give a big shout out to Braxton A. Cosby who toured with us recently. He and his uncle THE BILL COSBY appeared at the Bill Cosby Signs Copies Of “I Didn’t Ask To Be Born (But I’m Glad I Was) Booksigning held at Hue-Man Bookstore & Cafe in New York City in which...

January 21st, 2012 | book news | Read More

Terminal Value Virtual Book Publicity Tour March/April 2012

Join Thomas Waite, author of the thriller novel, Terminal Value (Marlborough Books), as he virtually tours the blogosphere March 5 – April 20 2012 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Thomas Waite Thomas Waite is an author, entrepreneur and consultant whose writings have...

January 20th, 2012 | Authors on Tour | Read More

New e-Book for Review: A Boy Called Duct Tape by Christopher Cloud

Christopher Cloud will be touring March 5 – 23, 2012 with his middle school adventure e-book novel, A Boy Called Duct Tape. A Boy Called Duct Tape Book Tour About A Boy Called Duct Tape Pablo Perez is a 12-year-old poor kid without much going for him. His classmates have dubbed him “Duct Tape”...

January 20th, 2012 | books for review | Read More

New eBook for Review: Contemporary Women’s Fiction ‘Paris Adieu’ by Rozsa Gaston

Rozsa Gaston will be touring March 5 – 23 with her contemporary women’s fiction novel, Paris Adieu. The first time Ava Fodor visits Paris as a nineteen-year old au pair, her French boyfriend introduces her to the concept of being comfortable in her own skin. If only she knew how… One...

January 20th, 2012 | Featured, books for review | Read More

A Book and a Chat Host Barry Eva’s Dos and Don’ts for Getting on Internet Radio Shows

A Book and a Chat Host Barry Eva’s Dos and Don’ts for Getting on Internet Radio Shows By Barry Eva Back in February 2009, after appearing on a few radio shows, and with experience of running a couple of local TV shows narrating stories from my romance book as well as filming local karaoke, I thought…...

January 19th, 2012 | Featured, Guest Bloggers | Read More

Pump Up Your Book Live! January 2012 Authors on Tour Chat/Book Giveaway Party

WE’RE HAVING A PARTY!!!! Strike up the band and join the chorus…Pump Up Your Book will be hosting the January 2012 Authors on Tour at a chat/book giveaway party on Friday, January 27 starting at 8 p.m. eastern (7 p.m. Central, 6 p.m. Mountain and 5 p.m. Pacific) and ending at 9 p.m. (eastern...

January 19th, 2012 | Announcements, Featured, Pump Up Your Book Live! Chats, What's New? | Read More

Defending Jacob Virtual Book Publicity Tour February 2012

Join William Landay, author of the family drama thriller, Defending Jacob (Delacorte Press, Jan 2012) as he virtually tours the blogosphere from February 6 – 29, 2012 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About William Landay William Landay is the author of The Strangler,...

January 19th, 2012 | Authors on Tour, Featured | Read More

Chasing Glenn Beck Virtual Book Publicity Tour February 2012

Join Michael Charney, author of the political nonfiction book, Chasing Glenn Beck: A Personal Experiment in Reclaiming Our Hijacked Political Conversation (Riddle Book Publishing), as he virtually tours the blogosphere February 6 – 29 2012 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About...

January 18th, 2012 | Authors on Tour, Featured | Read More

New Book for Review: Women’s Fiction ‘Dark Is The Sky’ by Jessica Chambers

Jessica Chambers will be touring March 5 – April 20 2012 with her women’s fiction novel, Dark is the Sky. How far would you go to protect those you love? Twelve years earlier, Olivia and Joel Cameron invited the family to spend the weekend at their new country home. Olivia hoped to provide...

January 18th, 2012 | Featured, books for review | Read More

New Book for Review: Do You Dare To Be Yourself? by Andreas Dudas

Andreas Dudas is touring in March with his self-help/leadership book, Do You Dare To Be Yourself? Best selling author Andreas Dudas has solutions for those facing a career or life change in his new book, Do You Dare To Be Yourself? Developing Power in Life and Leadership Through Authenticity. The book...

January 18th, 2012 | Featured, books for review | Read More

New Book for Review: Special Delivery by Christian Author Kathi Macias

Award-winning Christian author, Kathi Macias will be touring mid-March to mid-April with the second book in her Freedom series, Special Delivery. In book two of the “Freedom” series, readers find Mara fighting against her attraction to Bible college student Jonathan Flannery, even while wrestling...

January 18th, 2012 | Featured, books for review | Read More

Letters on Balboa Island Virtual Book Publicity Tour February 2012

Join Kathy Holmes, author of the women’s fiction novel, Letters on Balboa Island (Createspace), as she virtually tours the blogosphere February 6 – 29 2012 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Kathy Holmes Born in the City of Angels, raised on Walt Disney, and inspired...

January 17th, 2012 | Authors on Tour, Featured | Read More

New Ebook for Review: Paranormal Time Travel ‘Witch Woman’ by Jeanette Baker

Jeanette Baker will be touring February 6-29 with her paranormal time travel novel, Witch Woman. The first time Maggie McBride set foot in contemporary Salem, Massachusetts she was two years old, completely alone and stark naked. Now, thirty years later, a clairvoyant with a gift for profiling kidnappers,...

January 17th, 2012 | Featured, books for review | Read More

Witch Woman Virtual Book Publicity Tour February 2012

Join Jeannette Baker, author of the paranormal time travel novel, Witch Woman (ePublishing Works), as she virtually tours the blogosphere February 6 – 29 2012 on her second virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Jeanette Baker Jeanette Baker is the award-winning author of fifteen novels,...

January 17th, 2012 | Authors on Tour, Featured | Read More

Acts of God While on Vacation Virtual Book Publicity Tour February 2012

Join Richard Tillotson, author of the literary comic fiction novel, Acts of God While on Vacation (Arlington Avenue Books), as he virtually tours the blogosphere February 6 – 29 2012 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Richard Tillotson Richard Tillotson has been a Peace...

January 16th, 2012 | Authors on Tour, Featured | Read More

New eBook for Review: Medical Thriller ‘Equity of Evil’ by Rudy Mazzochi

Rudy Mazzochi will be touring March 5 – April 20 with his medical thriller, Equity of Evil. In hopes of a quick and lucrative return during harsh economic times, a Venture Capital Fund makes a risky investment to start a challenging new business that appears capable of reaching profitability...

January 15th, 2012 | Featured, books for review | Read More

Pump Up Your Book’s 28-point Virtual Book Tour Checklist

Pump Up Your Book’s 28-point Virtual Book Tour Checklist By Dorothy Thompson, CEO/Founder of Pump Up Your Book Going on a virtual book tour? Here are some things you should know. Your book has just been published. Or maybe it’s going to be published in the next month or two. Regardless,...

January 13th, 2012 | Featured, Staff Articles | Read More

New Book for Review: YA Fantasy/Romance ‘Prophecy of the Flame’ by Lynn Hardy

Lynn Hardy will be touring in March 2012 with her YA fantasy/romance novel, Prophecy of the Flame! In a blinding flash of light, five nondescript strangers are yanked from this world and thrust into a land of sorcery as they are granted the looks and abilities of the people they were playing. This band...

January 12th, 2012 | Featured, books for review | Read More

Tumbleweed Heights Virtual Book Publicity Tour February/March 2012

Join Joan Bird, author of the contemporary romance novel, Tumbleweed Heights (Boroughs Publishing Group), as she virtually tours the blogosphere February 6 – March 23 2012 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Joan Bird Joan Bird has been telling stories for years. In her...

January 12th, 2012 | Authors on Tour, Featured | Read More