Pump Up Your Book Presents Wanna-be’s Virtual Book Publicity Tour

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Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mark Connelly’s WANNA-BE’S virtual book tour October 3- December 16!

Wanna-be's

Inside the Book

Title: WANNA-BE’S
Author: Mark Connelly
Publisher: Mark Connelly Productions
Pages: 188
Genre: Literary Fiction/Humor/Satire

With his new girlfriend – a soccer mom with a taste for bondage – urging him to “go condo,” failed screenwriter Winfield Payton needs cash. Accepting a job offer from a college friend, he becomes the lone white employee of a black S&L. As the firm’s token white, he poses as a Mafioso to intimidate skittish investors and woos a wealthy cougar to keep the firm afloat. Figure-skating between the worlds of white and black, gay and straight, male and female, Jew and Gentile, Yuppie and militant, Payton flies higher and higher until the inevitable crash. . .

Praise for Wanna-be’s:

This book right here! What can I say about Winfield Payton…is he the most unlucky pasty or most unlikely fall guy…what a schmuck…I laughed so hard at this,for this guy….with this guy….every character described in this book will immediately remind you of a real life joker in the in the 24 hour news cycle on all of the Major networks and cable television channels regurgitating skewed facts benefiting them and lining their pockets….it’s hip and fresh writing which could easily become a HBO series….or Starz..maybe..anyway get this book….I laughed so hard…almost popping my recent stitches from surgery…Mr. Connelly…thanks for making my recuperation fun…this book is not for the faint of heart..or PC sensitive readers…

— Lynda Garcia Review

For More Information

  • Wanna-be’s is available at Amazon.
  • Discuss this book at PUYB Virtual Book Club at Goodreads.

Meet the Author

Mark Connelly

Mark Connelly was born in Philadelphia and grew up in New Jersey.  He received a BA in English from Carroll College in Wisconsin and an MA and PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.  His books include The Diminished Self: Orwell and the Loss of Freedom, Orwell and Gissing, Deadly Closets:  The Fiction of Charles Jackson, and The IRA on Film and Television.  His fiction has appeared in The Ledge, Indiana Review, Cream City Review, Milwaukee Magazine, and Home Planet News.  In 2014 he received an Editor’s Choice Award in The Carve’s Raymond Carver Short Story Contest; in 2015 he received Third Place in Red Savina Review’s Albert Camus Prize for Short Fiction. His novella Fifteen Minutes received the Clay Reynolds Novella Prize and was published by Texas Review Press in 2005.

Mark’s latest book is the literary fiction/humor/satire, Wanna-be’s.

Connect with Mark on Facebook and Twitter.

Tour Schedule

Monday, October 3 – First Chapter Reveal & Tour Kick-off at  The Writer’s Life

Tuesday, October 4 – Interview at PUYB Virtual Book Club

Wednesday, October 5 – Book Featured at Mello & June, It’s a Book Thang!

Thursday, October 6 – Book Feature at Hooked From Page One

Friday, October 7 – Book Feature at The Bookworm Lodge

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Monday, October 10 – First Chapter Reveal at I’m Shelf-ish

Tuesday, October 11 – Character interview at Pimp That Character

Wednesday, October 12 – First Chapter Reveal at A Title Wave

Thursday, October 13 – Guest Blogging at Confessions of an Eccentric Bookaholic

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Monday, October 17 – Interview at Literarily Speaking

Tuesday, October 18 – Book Review at Rainy Day Reviews

Wednesday, October 19 – Book Featured at The Literary Nook

Thursday, October 20 – Book Featured at Bound 2 Escape

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Monday, October 24 – Interview at The Book Rack

Tuesday, October 25 – Book Featured at Books, Reviews, ETC

Thursday, October 27 – Book Review at Deal Sharing Aunt

Friday, October 28 – Guest Blogging at Lori’s Reading Corner

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Tuesday, November 1 – Interview at The Writer’s Life

Wednesday, November 2 – Book Featured at CBY Book Club

Thursday, November 3 – Book Featured at Just Us Book Blog

Friday, November 4 – Book Featured at Write and Take Flight

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Monday, November 7 – Interview at Beyond the Books

Tuesday, November 8 – Interview at My Bookish Pleasures

Tuesday, November 8 – Book Featured at Books, Dreams, Life

Wednesday, November 9 – Book Featured at Authors & Readers Book Corner

Thursday, November 10 – Book Review at Laura’s Interests

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Monday, November 14 – Guest Blogging at The Story Behind the Book

Tuesday, November 15 – Interview at The Book Connection

Wednesday, November 16 – Guest Blogging at Dear Reader, Love Author

Thursday, November 17 – First Chapter Reveal at The Review From Here

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Monday, November 21 – Book Featured at Booklover Sue

Tuesday, November 22 – Interview at The Literary Nook

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Monday, November 28 – First Chapter Reveal at As the Pages Turn

Tuesday, November 29 – First Chapter Reveal at Read My First Chapter

Wednesday, November 30 – Book Review at Lynn’s Romance Enthusiast

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Monday, December 5 – Guest Blogging at The Writer’s Life

Tuesday, December 6 – Interview at I’m Shelf-ish

Wednesday, December 7 – First Chapter Reveal at Literal Exposure

Thursday, December 8 – Guest Blogging at Book Cover Junkie

Friday, December 9 – First Chapter Reveal at The Dark Phantom Reviews

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Monday, December 12 – Interview at Confessions of an Eccentric Bookaholic

Tuesday, December 13 – Book Featured at SheWrites

Wednesday, December 14 – Interview at As the Pages Turn

Thursday, December 15 – Book Review at Svetlana’s Reads and Views

Friday, December 16 – Interview at My Bookish Confessions

 


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