Archive for October 15th, 2011:

Winds of Change Virtual Book Publicity Tour Dec 2011/January 2012

Join Carole Eglash-Kosoff, author of the historic fiction novel, Winds of Change (Valley Village Publishing), as she virtually tours the blogosphere December 5 – 16 and January 3 – 27 on her third virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Carole Eglash-Kosoff Carole Eglash-Kosoff lives and writes in Valley Village, California.   She graduated from UCLA and spent her career in business, teaching, and traveling.  She has visited more than seventy countries.   An avid student of history, she researched the decades preceding and following the Civil War for nearly three years, including time in Louisiana, the setting for Winds of Change and her earlier novel, When Stars Align. 
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Pump Up Chats with Crystal Connor, author of “The Darkness”

I grew up telling spooky little campfire style stories at slumber parties. We’d make a tent in the bedroom, and the only source of light would be from a flashlight that was about to die. I’d tell my tale of doom and then while everyone was jumping at the tree branch scraping against the window and I’d be sound asleep! I served my country in the United States Navy working as a boiler technician on board the USS McKee AS-41 assigned to the 7th fleet. While deployed at various ports-of-call throughout Africa, Asia and the Middle East I began to learn about other cultures’ monsters and nightmares and I
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Dancing on the Inside Virtual Book Publicity Tour November/December 2011

Join Glen C. Strathy, author of the middle grade novel, Dancing on the Inside (iUniverse), as he virtually tours the blogosphere November 1 – December 16 2011 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Glen C. Strathy Glen C. Strathy started writing stories when he was 11 years old and too shy to have a life.  He eventually found a life when he started acting in community theatre and met other writers, actors, dancers, and artists.  He discovered that the best thing about performing arts (and other arts too) is that they give people more freedom to be who they want to be.  After
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New Book for Review: Women’s Fiction ‘In Leah’s Wake’ by Terri Giuliano Long

Terri Giuliano Long will be touring November 14 – December 16, and then again January 3 – 27 with her women’s fiction novel, In Leah’s Wake. The Tyler family had the perfect life until sixteen-year-old Leah decided she didn’t want to be perfect anymore. As Leah’s rebellion escalates, her parents, Zoe and Will, wage a desperate battle to save their daughter from destroying her brilliant future. Meanwhile, her younger sister, Justine, must bear the burden of coping with the destruction her out-of-control sibling leaves in her wake. In Cortland, Massachusetts, where money and image reign supreme, the Tylers, once town royalty, soon find themselves isolated, the subject of vicious
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