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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Blessed: The Prodigal Daughter Virtual Book Publicity Tour @ALBryantHSW #Supernatural #Christian #Thriller #Horror #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you A.L. Bryant’s BLESSED: THE PRODIGAL DAUGHTER Virtual Book Tour January 7 – March 29! Inside the Book Title: BLESSED: THE PRODIGAL DAUGHTER Author: A.L. Bryant Publisher: HSW Publications LLC Pages: 279 Genre: Supernatural Christian Thriller/Horror BOOK BLURB: On New Year’s Eve 2021 the staff at St. Ann’s Hospital witness a medical miracle when a semi-conscious woman walks into the emergency room. The Jane Doe has been stabbed multiple times and as the staff struggle to keep the woman alive in the end all they can do is stand back and watch as their mysterious patient revives herself. Glory wakes up
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Spiked: A Resort to Murder Mystery III Virtual Book Publicity Tour @My_AveryDaniels #Mystery #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Avery Daniels’ SPIKED: A RESORT TO MURDER MYSTERY III Virtual Book Tour January 2 – 31! Inside the Book Title: SPIKED: A RESORT TO MURDER MYSTERY III Author: Avery Daniels Publisher: Blazing Sword Publishing, LTD. Pages: 230 Genre: Cozy Mystery   BOOK BLURB: Julienne, a poisoned Private Investigator with her business card on his body, an MI5 agent taking a liking to her, and her heart on the line. Julienne needs only three things: successfully pull of a last minute wedding relocated to her resort, work out things with her stubborn ex- boyfriend, and solve the murder of a private
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Iquitos: The Past Will Kill Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Mystery #Thriller #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you John R. Beyer’s IQUITOS: THE PAST WILL KILL Virtual Book Tour January 2 – 31! Inside the Book Title: IQUITOS: THE PAST WILL KILL Author: John R. Beyer Publisher: Black Opal Books Pages: 353 Genre: Mystery/Thriller BOOK BLURB: Jonas Peters and Frank Sanders team up to solve a string of murders, starting with the intentional and fatal bombing of a local coffee shop in downtown Riverside—a usually calm city in Southern California. Dozens are dead after an explosion rips apart the Coffee Grind, leaving dozens of others gravely wounded. Frank soon finds himself up to his elbows assisting the bombing
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Kinfolk: Cult of Sex and Cheese Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Satirical #Fantasy #VBT

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Josh Hickman’s THE KINFOLK: CULT OF SEX AND CHEESE Virtual Book Tour January 2 – 31! Inside the Book Title: THE KINFOLK: CULT OF SEX AND CHEESE Author: Josh Hickman Publisher: Polyester Press Pages: 299 Genre: Satirical Fantasy BOOK BLURB: Hollywood Author Josh Hickman will release his latest brand of satirical, humorous books in mid-November. In the author’s new book, THE KINFOLK: CULT OF SEX AND CHEESE  he explores the maddening world of cults.  Mr. Hickman’s new novel follows his last satirical fantasy book, FIVE SLICES OF FEAR, that has received much critical praise from book reviewers. Hollywood writer
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Slay Bells Virtual Book Publicity Tour #CozyMystery #VBT @MousetrapBooks

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you T.C. Wescott’s SLAY BELLS (A Christmas Village Mystery) Virtual Book Tour December 3 – 28! Inside the Book Title: SLAY BELLS (A CHRISTMAS VILLAGE MYSTERY) Author: T.C. Wescott Publisher: Better Mousetrap Books Pages: 230 Genre: Cozy Mystery BOOK BLURB: ‘Twas the week before Christmas and all through the village, the night settled in over swirling-smoke chimneys; the air was alive with pine and holly, with sugar and cinnamon and cider, by golly! Along snowy lanes and through shadows it crept, past windows behind which each villager slept, where sleeping dogs lie and cats rest a’purring- Tonight, in Christmas Village, a
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents You Can’t Force Love Book Excerpt Tour #Fiction #VBT @MarieDrake72

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Marie Drake’s YOU CAN’T FORCE LOVE Book Excerpt Tour November 16 – December 14! Inside the Book Title: YOU CAN’T FORCE LOVE Author: Marie Drake Publisher: RedBird Books Pages: 286 Genre: Realistic Fiction BOOK BLURB: “A battered butterfly, he’d build Kimberly up, nurture her strength and watch her return to flight. He repressed the visions dancing in the back of his mind; her naked body brandished red flags and spurred him to stampede. Bulls and butterflies did not mix.” Jordan Fry’s obsession is born in “You Can’t Force Love” by Marie Drake, Book I in the Locked Hearts Series. From
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents A Broken Reality Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Thriller #Suspense #VBT @RobKaufmanCT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Rob Kaufman’s A BROKEN REALITY Virtual Book Tour December 3 – January 31! Inside the Book Title: A BROKEN REALITY Author: Rob Kaufman Publisher: Independent Pages: 320 Genre: Thriller/Suspense/Psychological Thriller BOOK BLURB: On a fateful night in the dead of winter, an unimaginable tragedy changes the lives of two families forever. How will they manage to deal with reality while stopping the sociopath who is pushing them toward the edge of sanity? Ten-year-old, Danny Madsen, has been missing for four days when Jesse Carlton begins his own search for his godson on a frigid, snowy night. Driving along a deserted
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Atlantis Deception Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Adventure #Thriller #VBT @MarkJackson873

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mark H. Jackson’s THE ATLANTIS DECEPTION Virtual Book Tour December 3 – January 31! Inside the Book Title: THE ATLANTIS DECEPTION Author: Mark H. Jackson Publisher: Unbound Digital Pages: 288 Genre: Adventure/Thriller   BOOK BLURB: A German property developer, Hans Hoffmann, revels in the belief he has discovered the key to unleashing the weapon responsible for sinking Atlantis. Hoffmann requests the help of Cambridge archaeologist, Dr John Hunter to validate his mysterious find. Hunter’s acceptance leads the maverick academic on a journey from the headquarters of a clandestine organisation in England, to a lost city in the heart of
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Twelve Days Virtual Book Publicity Tour #romance #VBT @HopeWatersBooks

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Hope Waters’ TWELVE DAYS Virtual Book Tour December 3 – 28! Inside the Book Title: TWELVE DAYS Author: Hope Waters Publisher: Independent Pages: 212 Genre: Romance BOOK BLURB: Zoey Blake is having a perfect holiday season. Finals are over and it’s time to head home for Christmas, but when she wins the Hartbreakers True Love contest to join them on their tour, she has a chance to follow her favorite band for twelve days — and twelve steamy nights. Mackenzie has been a player since and joining Hartbreakers has only edged up his game, that is until he meets Zoey.
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Magical Christmas Do Over Book Blast @morningmayan #holiday #Christmas #VBT #BookBlast

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Linda West’s THE MAGICAL CHRISTMAS DO OVER Book Blast November 19 – December 28! Inside the Book Title: THE MAGICAL CHRISTMAS DO OVER Author: Linda West Publisher: Morningmayan Publishing Pages: 320 Genre: Holiday BOOK BLURB: Three women, thrown together by fate, get a second chance to go back in time and change their lives forever. ORDER YOUR COPY: Amazon ______________________ Meet the Author Linda West is an Amazon best seller and author of the best selling series ‘Christmas Kisses and Cookies.’ She writes books that feature food and fun and includes her own recipes from her quaint beach café in
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents I Am Number 13 Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Paranormal #Historical #Fantasy #Thriller #VBT @AndraWatkins

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Andra Watkins’ I AM NUMBER 13 Virtual Book Tour November 12 – December 21! Inside the Book Title: I AM NUMBER 13 Author: Andra Watkins Publisher: Word Hermit Press Pages: 275 Genre: Paranormal Historical Fantasy Thriller Speculative Fiction   BOOK BLURB: When Emmaline Cagney’s father dies on her graduation day, she foregoes college and heads to Honduras to volunteer with Nicaraguan refugees. It’s 1986. The Sandinista-Contra war rages in the jungles all around her. But when General James Wilkinson reenters her life during a hurricane, can she trust him? Or should she flee? Because of his unsolved death, Wilkinson is
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Sheltering Palms Virtual Book Publicity Tour #historical #fiction #satire #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Preston Howard’s THE SHELTERING PALMS Virtual Book Tour November 5 – December 28! Inside the Book Title: THE SHELTERING PALMS Author: Preston Howard Publisher: Preston Howard Press Pages: 519 Genre: Fictional Autobiography/Historical Fiction/Satire   BOOK BLURB: Renowned police labor lawyer, Preston Howard, reached a watershed in his life—a forced retirement from the firm he built from the ground up and a cancer diagnosis. These two events made him take a step back and reflect over a life that had at times been hilarious, irreverent, self-mocking, eerie and even a bit, make that, quite lewd. A family of unique characters guided
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Die Back Virtual Book Publicity Tour #fantasy #thriller #VBT @Richard_Hacker

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Richard Hacker’s DIE BACK Virtual Book Tour December 3 – January 31! Inside the Book Title: DIE BACK (Book One of the Alchimeia) Author: Richard Hacker Publisher: Del Sol Press Pages: 332 Genre: Fantasy/Thriller BOOK BLURB: In 272 AD Egypt, an enemy thwarts an attempt by League Inkers, Thomas Shaw and Nikki Babineaux, to obtain the Alchįmeia, a document holding alchemical secrets. Sensing his impending death, Thomas secures Nikki’s promise to keep his son, Addison, from the League, an organization defending the time continuum. After his father’s death, Addison inherits a mysterious pen, accidentally inking himself into the consciousness of
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Song of the Boricua Book Excerpt Publicity Tour #Fiction #BookExcerpt #VBT @OliviaCAuthor

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Olivia Castillo’s SONG OF THE BORICUA Virtual Book Excerpt Tour December 3 – 28! Inside the Book Title: SONG OF THE BORICUA Author: Olivia Castillo Publisher: Independent Pages: 335 Genre: Fiction BOOK BLURB: Puerto Rico an island of contradiction, serves as an enchanting backdrop following three generations of women. Elena:  Resilient and ambitious, but trapped by duty to her children. Maria:  Passionate and headstrong, but married to a man she does not love. Josephina: Optimistic and romantic, but in love with an alcoholic. Isabella: Clairvoyant and spiritual, but denies her heritage and roots. Like the land these women are held
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Shelter Island Virtual Book Publicity Tour #middlegrade #fantasy #adventure #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you John Paul Tucker’s SHELTER ISLAND Virtual Book Tour November 5 – December 28! Inside the Book Title: SHELTER ISLAND Author: John Paul Tucker Publisher: Brownridge Publishing Pages: 224 Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy Adventure BOOK BLURB: Thirteen-year-old Cary and his sister Clarisse must return home every day after school to mind their eight year old brother, Gregory. “It’s a non-negotiable,” insist their work-obsessed parents. There is another problem. Clarisse and Gregory don’t like Cary much, and Cary doesn’t much like anything, especially being tagged with his gummy-fingered little brother. But their troubles are about to grow talons. While bickering over the
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Where Wishes Grow… Virtual Book Publicity Tour @Chris_Sarracini #children #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Chris Sarracini’s WHERE WISHES GROW… Virtual Book Tour November 5 – December 28! Inside the Book Title: WHERE WISHES GROW Author: Chris Sarracini Publisher: Brownridge Publishing Pages: 56 Genre: Children’s Picture Book BOOK BLURB: Where Wishes Grow… is the story of eight-year-old Maggie, a pensive and courageous dreamer, whose big heart starts to break when her grandmother becomes bedridden and sick with no recovery in sight. Fortunately Maggie has some wishes in mind to breathe life into Nana and is about to learn the secret for making them come true. Watching Nana’s health fail has been difficult for Maggie and so now
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Wild Heart, Peaceful Soul Virtual Book Publicity Tour @LoveAutherine #Poetry #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you J. Autherine’s WILD HEART, PEACEFUL SOUL: POEMS AND INSPIRATION TO LIVE AND LOVE HARMONIOUSLY Virtual Book Tour November 5 – 30! Inside the Book Title: WILD HEART, PEACEFUL SOUL: POEMS AND INSPIRATION TO LIVE AND LOVE HARMONIOUSLY Author: J. Autherine Publisher: Autherine Publishing Pages: 158 Genre: Poetry BOOK BLURB: Wild Heart, Peaceful Soul, is a beautiful collection of poems that provide inspiration to strong, vulnerable, badass women who love deeply, sometimes fall hard but always lead with their hearts. It is a deep and gritty, fresh and robust look at the thrill of loving unconditionally, as well as the mental
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Bargaining With The Billionaire Bodyguard Virtual Book Publicity Tour @Dreamweavings #RomanticSuspense #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lisa Weaver’s BARGAINING WITH THE BILLIONAIRE BODYGUARD Virtual Book Tour December 3 – 31! Inside the Book Title: BARGAINING WITH THE MILLIONAIRE BODYGUARD Author: Lisa Weaver Publisher: Independent Pages: 244 Genre: Romantic Suspense BOOK BLURB: Having miraculously survived the bombing that blasted his private jet out of the sky, billionaire Donovan White has dedicated his life to the pursuit of justice. Now a covert operative for the Sentinels Agency, he is closing in on the man responsible for the crash. When his mission is nearly botched by a spunky reporter with a score of her own to settle, he reluctantly
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents You Can’t Force Love Pre-Order Blitz @MarieDrake72 #Fiction #Blitz

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Marie Drake’s YOU CAN’T FORCE LOVE Pre-Order Blitz November 5 – 30! Inside the Book   Title: YOU CAN’T FORCE LOVE Author: Marie Drake Publisher: RedBird Books Pages: 286 Genre: Realistic Fiction BOOK BLURB: “A battered butterfly, he’d build Kimberly up, nurture her strength and watch her return to flight. He repressed the visions dancing in the back of his mind; her naked body brandished red flags and spurred him to stampede. Bulls and butterflies did not mix.” Jordan Fry’s obsession is born in “You Can’t Force Love” by Marie Drake, Book I in the Locked Hearts Series. From different
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Fatal Agreements Virtual Book Publicity Tour @AshleyFontainne #mystery #suspense #thriller #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Ashley Fontainne’s FATAL AGREEMENTS Virtual Book Tour November 5 – 30! Inside the Book Title: FATAL AGREEMENTS Author: Ashley Fontainne Publisher: RMSW Press Pages: 449 Genre: Mystery/Suspense/Thriller BOOK BLURB: Whispered rumors tickled the ears of the residents of an entire town for decades about the disturbing secrets of the old Halstead House, dating all the way back to the early 1920s. Most people didn’t believe them. Several people will soon discover they should have listened. Three years after struggling to cope with the death of her beloved father and escaping an abusive relationship, Samantha Chapman decides it’s time to return
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Radio Underground Virtual Book Publicity Tour @AliMcShpiel #historicalfiction #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Alison Littman’s RADIO UNDERGROUND Virtual Book Tour November 26 – December 26 2018! Inside the Book Title: RADIO UNDERGROUND Author: Alison Littman Publisher: Last Syllable Books Pages: 354 Genre: Historical Fiction   BOOK BLURB: After years of suffering under the communist regime in Cold War Hungary, Eszter Turján—fanatical underground journalist—would sacrifice anything, and anyone, to see the government fall. When she manipulates news broadcasts on Radio Free Europe, she ignites a vicious revolution, commits a calamitous murder, and is dragged away screaming to a secret underground prison. Her daughter Dora, then a teenager, cowers in her bedroom as the secret police arrest her mother. Haunted and
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Love, Loss and Lagniappe Virtual Book Publicity Tour @RRobbinsbooks #literaryfiction #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Richard Robbins’ LOVE, LOSS AND LAGNIAPPE Virtual Book Tour October 30 – November 30 2018! Inside the Book Title: LOVE, LOSS AND LAGNIAPPE Author: Richard Robbins Publisher: Evolved Publishing Pages: 186 Genre: Literary Fiction   BOOK BLURB: Life is good for Dr. Drew Coleman, a successful young eye surgeon living in Uptown New Orleans, and he knows it. Having met and married his beautiful medical school classmate, Kate, the two settle happily into the routine of raising their two young daughters. Drew’s charmed life is soon shattered by devastating news, causing him to go on a ten-year transcontinental journey of self-discovery,
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents 50 Ways To Get Your Way Virtual Book Publicity Tour @JulietHuck #nonfiction #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Juliet Huck’s 50 WAYS TO GET YOUR WAY Virtual Book Tour November 5 – 30 2018! Inside the Book Title: 50 WAYS TO GET YOUR WAY Author: Juliet Huck Publisher: The Huck Group Pages: 120 Genre: Motivational/Nonfiction   BOOK BLURB: 50 Ways to Get Your Way by Juliet Huck Promotes the Art of Persuading Others Using the Simple Power of Commonsense Values In 50 WAYS TO GET YOUR WAY, Juliet Huck shares the lessons she learned while growing up on her family’s farm in rural Ohio—values such as being grateful, nurturing relationships, and listening intently, which she used to build
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Code Blue Virtual Book Publicity Tour @aquarianmind1 #poetryprose #literaryfiction #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jamell Crouthers’ CODE BLUE Series Virtual Book Tour October 1 – 31 2018! Inside the Series The Code Blue: An Oath to the Badge and Gun series chronicles a police officer named Gary who has been on the force for a few years. He soon is entrenched in a lot of lies, corruption, racism and agendas being pushed by his superiors. The question throughout this series is whether he as a good cop becomes part of the corruption or does he report it? Part of this series features his son Gary, Jr who is a young teenager wanting to be
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Winter at the Beach Virtual Book Publicity Tour @_Sheila_Roberts #womensfiction #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Sheila Roberts’ WINTER AT THE BEACH Virtual Book Tour October 22 – December 21 2018! Inside the Book Title: WINTER AT THE BEACH Author: Sheila Roberts Publisher: Harlequin/Mira Pages: 384 Genre: Women’s Fiction   BOOK BLURB: Jenna Jones, manager of the Driftwood Inn, a vintage motel in the Washington beach town of Moonlight Harbor, is convinced that a winter festival would be a great way to draw visitors (and tourist business) to town during those off-season months. Everyone in the local chamber of commerce is on board with her Seaside with Santa festival idea except one naysayer, local sour lemon,
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Going For Broke: How to Suffer Well Virtual Book Publicity Tour @ShannonMedisky #Christian #Devotional #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Shannon Medisky’s GOING FOR BROKE: HOW TO SUFFER WELL Virtual Book Tour October 1 – November 30 2018! Inside the Book Title: GOING FOR BROKE: HOW TO SUFFER WELL Author: Shannon Medisky Publisher: Independent Pages: 61 Genre: Christian Nonfiction/Devotional BOOK BLURB: Hardship hurts and suffering sucks. But there’s very important work—and rewards—we need to be occupied with in the middle of it all. Suffering has a way of stretching us beyond ourselves. It prompts us to stretch outside of our current comfort zones. But no matter how we feel, we don’t have to be buried by our challenges and circumstances.
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Darkest Before the Dawn Virtual Book Publicity Tour @Mike54Martin #Mystery #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mike Martin’s DARKEST BEFORE THE DAWN Virtual Book Tour October 1 – 31 2018! Inside the Book Title: DARKEST BEFORE THE DAWN Author: Mike Martin Publisher: Ottawa Press and Publishing Pages: TBA Genre: Mystery BOOK BLURB: Darkest Before the Dawn is the latest adventure of Sgt. Winston Windflower, a Mountie who finds himself surrounded by a new family and a new life in tiny Grand Bank, Newfoundland. There are signs of trouble that may disturb his pleasant life, including a series of unsolved break-ins and the lack of supports for young people in the most trying time of their lives.
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Cozy Corgi Mysteries Virtual Book Publicity Tour @MACozyMystery #CozyMystery #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mildred Abbott’s THE COZY CORGI MYSTERIES Virtual Book Tour October 1 – November 30 2018! Inside the Books Title: CRUEL CANDY (Book 1) Author: Mildred Abbott Publisher: Wings of Ink Publications LLC Pages: 282 Genre: Cozy Mystery BLURB: Estes Park, Colorado: picturesque mountains, charming shops, delightful bakeries, a cozy bookstore… and murder. Winifred Page and her corgi, Watson, move to Estes Park to hit the Reset button on life. Fred is about to open her dream bookshop, and the only challenges she anticipates are adjusting to small-town life, tourists, and living close to her loveable mother, Phyllis, and hippy stepfather,
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Aren’t the Emperor’s New Clothes Grand Virtual Book Publicity Tour @Phil_Fishman #political #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Philip M. Fishman’s  AREN’T THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES GRAND Virtual Book Tour October 1 – 31 2018! Inside the Book Title: AREN’T THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES GRAND Author: Philip M. Fishman Publisher: MPS Publishing Pages: 112 Genre: Satirical Critique BOOK BLURB: If you love Trump, sorry, this book is not for you.  If, on the other hand, you are horrified at what this man is doing,  I think you will enjoy it.   I read a very interesting book recently that discussed despots and their common characteristics. What, then, are the characteristics of a despot? They attack free speech and the
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Miss Management Virtual Book Publicity Tour @TraciHighland #RomanticComedy #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Traci Highland’s MISS MANAGEMENT Virtual Book Tour October 1 – November 30 2018! Inside the Book Title: MISS MANAGEMENT Author: Traci Highland Publisher: Cheshire Lane Press Pages: 215 Genre: Romantic Comedy BOOK BLURB: Mags has gotten herself in a ton of trouble: she’s lost her job, any hope for references, and she’s going to run out of money…. fast. Yeah, sure, it may be her fault for punching her boss, but the jerk totally had it coming. Nobody listens to her until she reaches her boiling point, and by then, well, she’ll admit that there’s no stopping Mr. Fist To
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