Pump Up Your Book Presents Cracked: A Magic iPhone Story Virtual Book Publicity Tour

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Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Janine A. Southard’s CRACKED: A MAGIC IPHONE STORY virtual book tour February 2 – 27!

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PUYB Inside the Book

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Cracked 3 Title: Cracked! A Magic iPhone Story
Author: Janine A. Southard
Publisher: Cantina Publishing
Pages: 265
Genre: Contemporary Lit/Humor
Format: Paperback/Kindle

What can your phone do for you?

This is the story of a girl and her iPhone. No, that’s not quite right. This is the story of a middle-aged statistician and her best friend. Though she didn’t consider herself middle-aged. And the best friend was more of a roommate-with-whom-she’d-developed-a-friendship. And this description completely ignores the 6,000-year-old elf with whom the woman and her best friend enjoyed story gaming.

So let’s try this again.

This is the story of a woman who wished to find love, but who would rather play story games than actively look for it. Especially in the wake of a horrid break-up six months before from a man who had never sent her a single gift.

Until this Valentine’s Day, when she received a brand new iPhone in a box with his name on it.

Between story gaming and succumbing to the phone’s insidious sleekness, she learns that friendship trumps romance.

In Cracked! A Magic iPhone Story, award-winning author Janine A. Southard (a Seattle denizen) shows you how the geeks of Seattle live, provides a running and often-hilarious social commentary on today’s world, and reminds you that, so long as you have friends, you are never alone.

For More Information

  • Cracked! A Magic iPhone Story is available at Amazon.
  • Pick up your copy at Barnes & Noble.
  • Discuss this book at PUYB Virtual Book Club at Goodreads.

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PUYB Meet the Author

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Janine A. Southard Janine A. Southard is the IPPY award-winning author of the Hive Queen Saga, as well as other science fiction and young adult novels and novellas.

The Hive Queen Saga books blend cultural experimentation with epic as they follow a formalized Hive of teenagers on a voyage to new lands and new cultures where their own ways seem very strange. The first novel in the saga, Queen & Commander, has been described as “like Joss Whedon’s Firefly but for teenagers” by the YA’s Nightstand. The second book, Hive & Heist, is a classic heist tale set on a space station.

Queen & Commander received an IPPY (Independent Book Publishers) Award for science fiction ebooks in 2013. Outside the Hive Queen Saga, the science fiction novella These Convergent Stars was selected as the short ebook recommendation of the week at Tungsten Hippo on 29 January 2014.

All Southard’s books so far have been possible because of crowdsourced funds via Kickstarter. She owes great thanks to her many patrons of the arts who love a good science fiction adventure and believe in her ability to make that happen.

From her home in Seattle, she is currently working on a half-contemporary, half-fantasy novel for adults, Cracked! A Magic iPhone Story, which releases in early 2015.

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PUYB Tour Schedule A

Divider 9 Monday, February 2

Book Featured at The Writer’s Life

Tuesday, February 3

Guest Blogging at What Is That Book About

Wednesday, February 4

Guest Blogging at Kristy Centeno

Monday, February 9

Guest Blogging at My Tangled Skeins Book Reviews

Tuesday, February 10

Book Featured at Bound 2 Escape

Wednesday, February 11

Book Review & Guest Blogging at Reviews That Reveal

Monday, February 16

Book Featured at Maureen’s Musings

Tuesday, February 17

Book Featured at Manners & Mayhem

Wednesday, February 18

Book Review at Books Reviews ETC.

Monday, February 23

Interview at Examiner

Tuesday, February 24

Guest Blogging at Lori’s Reading Corner

Book Review at StoreyBook Reviews

Wednesday, February 25

Book Featured at CBY Book Club

Friday, February 27

Book Review at Sit Back and Get Cozy

Book Review at Undercover Book Reviews

 

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