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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Caged Butterfly Virtual Book Publicity Tour @MarianLThomas #WomensFiction #VBT

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Marian L. Thomas’ THE CAGED BUTTERFLY Virtual Book Tour October 1 – 31 2018! Inside the Book Title: THE CAGED BUTTERFLY Author: Marian L. Thomas Publisher: L.B. Publishing Pages: 307 Genre: Women’s Fiction BOOK BLURB: Who Would Think That One Act of Love Could Affect Four Generations? On December 29, 1930, Mildred “Millie” Mayfield gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, Addie. Millie teaches Addie three things that she feels matters most in life; inner beauty, reading books and giving your “special something’ only to the man you marry. Addie lives up to the first two. On one autumn night
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Interview with Morgan Malone, Author of Taking Control: Rick’s Story @MMaloneAuthor

“Rick eased toward the open doors of his living room, thinking to disappear into the shadows. He just didn’t feel like an early morning encounter with anyone, certainly not the mermaid with those incredible legs who was ambling slowly in his general direction. He stopped suddenly when something caught the corner of his eye. A glint of sunlight on metal. He reached for his pistol, but his waistband was empty. Damn. What is that woman doing with a diving knife strapped to her right bicep? Who the hell is she?” From Taking Control: Rick’s Story by Morgan Malone Morgan Malone is the pen name of a retired lawyer who
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Water is Wide Virtual Book Publicity Tour @LauraVosika #timetravel #historicalfiction #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Laura Vosika’s THE WATER IS WIDE (Book 3 of The Blue Bells Chronicles) Virtual Book Tour October 1 – December 14 2018! Inside the Book Title: THE WATER IS WIDE Author: Laura Vosika Publisher: Gabriel’s Horn Press Pages: 451 Genre: Time Travel/Historical Fiction BOOK BLURB: After his failure to escape back to his own time, Shawn is sent with Niall on the Bruce’s business. They criss-cross Scotland and northern England, working for the Bruce and James Douglas, as they seek ways to get Shawn home to Amy and his own time. Returning from the Bruce’s business, to Glenmirril, Shawn finally
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Our Secret Powers Virtual Book Publicity Tour #spiritual #paranormal #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Terje Gerotti Simonsen’s OUR SECRET POWERS: TELEPATHY, CLAIRVOYANCE AND PRECOGNITION Virtual Book Tour October 1 – 31 2018! Inside the Book   Title: OUR SECRET POWERS: TELEPATHY, CLAIRVOYANCE AND PRECOGNITION Author: Terje Gerotti Simonsen Publisher: Pari Publishing Pages: 528 Genre: Nonfiction/Spiritual/Consciousness/Paranormal BOOK BLURB: Is the paranormal normal? Many readers will be surprised when learning that reputable scientists, among them several Nobel laureates, have claimed that telepathy is a reality. Their curiosity will increase when reading that both Cleopatra’s lost palace and Richard III’s burial place were recovered by means of clairvoyance. And some will think it to be sheer science
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Room for Grace by Daniel & Maureen Kenner @AlwysRoom4Grace #memoir #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Daniel & Maureen Kenner’s ROOM FOR GRACE Virtual Book Tour October 1 – 31 2018! Inside the Book Title: ROOM FOR GRACE Author: Daniel Kenner & Maureen Kenner Publisher: Silver Boot Imprints Pages: 200 Genre: Memoir & Biography BOOK BLURB: Stage 4 cancer for her and a debilitating disease for her husband: life crashed down in an instant. Maureen Kenner found resilience, however, in the lessons she learned from her Special Ed students in Providence, RI. Her students lived with their hearts opened despite struggles of the highest magnitude. Through these students, Maureen gains courage, humor, and the strength of
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Darkest Before the Dawn Pre-Pub Blitz @Mike54Martin #mystery #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mike Martin’s DARKEST BEFORE THE DAWN Pre-Pub Blitz September 3 – 28! Inside the Book Title: DARKEST BEFORE THE DAWN Author: Mike Martin Publisher: Ottawa Press and Publishing Pages: 280 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. But there
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Big Bad Wolf Virtual Book Publicity Tour #midgrade #horror #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Nancy Gray’s SPINE CHILLERS: BIG BAD WOLF Virtual Book Tour September 17 – October 19! Inside the Book Title: BIG BAD WOLF Author: Nancy Gray Publisher: Independent Pages: 112 Genre: Middle Grade Horror BOOK BLURB: Jane is ecstatic when she gets the role of Red Riding Hood in her school play, but she didn’t realize that they’d be using the stuffed wolf prop as the Big Bad Wolf. That tattered old prop has always scared her and, lately, she has been having strange dreams about it that make it seem like it’s something more. Jane will have to get help
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Question of Empathy Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Nonfiction #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Carol Jeffers’ THE QUESTION OF EMPATHY Virtual Book Tour September 17 – October 12! Inside the Book Title: THE QUESTION OF EMPATHY: SEARCHING FOR THE ESSENCE OF HUMANITY Author: Carol Jeffers Publisher: Koehler Books Pages: 280 Genre: Creative Nonfiction/Speculative Nonfiction BOOK BLURB: What if we all had a power to connect with others, to understand what they are feeling, what they are thinking? What if such a power was flighty, unreliable, open to true understanding or total confusion? Would that make us better human beings? In The Question of Empathy, Carol Jeffers explores a power that exists today within each
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Taking Control: Rick’s Story Virtual Book Publicity Tour @MMaloneAuthor #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Morgan Malone’s TAKING CONTROL: RICK’S STORY Virtual Book Tour September 3 – October 31! Inside the Book Title: TAKING CONTROL: RICK’S STORY Author: Morgan Malone Publisher: Independent Pages: 170 Genre: Contemporary Romance BOOK BLURB: Summer on the Jersey Shore and all Rick Sheridan wants is some solitude at his beach house. Then he spots a lean, leggy blonde coming out of the surf and his plans are shot to hell. And the dangerous looking knife strapped to her arm tells him this is no damsel in distress. As a not-so retired Marine, at 51, Rick’s learned that nothing is for
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents A Highland Emerald Virtual Book Publicity Tour @RayburnLady #Scottish #Historical #Romance #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Brenda B. Taylor’s A HIGHLAND EMERALD Virtual Book Tour September 3 – 28! Inside the Book Title: A HIGHLAND EMERALD Author: Brenda Taylor Publisher: Bethabara Press Pages: 268 Genre: Scottish Historical Romance BOOK BLURB: Aine MacLean is forced into an arranged marriage with Sir William, Chief of Clan Munro, yet her heart belongs to a handsome young warrior in her father’s guard. She must leave Durant Castle, the home of her birth on the Isle of Mull, and travel across Scotland in a perilous journey to her husband’s home on Cromarty Firth. William agrees to a year and day of
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Spine Chillers: The Scarecrow Virtual Book Publicity Tour #crime #thriller #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Nancy Gray’s SPINE CHILLERS: THE SCARECROW Virtual Book Tour August 20 – September 20! Inside the Book Title: SPINE CHILLERS: THE SCARECROW Author: Nancy Gray Publisher: Independent Pages: 113 Genre: Mid-Grade Horror BOOK BLURB: Eleven year old, Sophie, arrives at her Aunt and Uncle’s farm to horrible news: her cousin, Hunt, has gone missing.  When Sophie starts searching for clues to where her cousin went, strange things happen.  The scarecrow wanders around the cornfields at night and murders of crows lash out at other animals for no reason at all. An ancient spirit wants revenge. Sophie will have to be
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Azrael Virtual Book Publicity Tour @MTEllisAuthor #crime #thriller #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you M.T. Ellis’ AZRAEL Virtual Book Tour September 3 – 28! Inside the Book Title: AZRAEL Author: M.T. Ellis Publisher: Independent Pages: 340 Genre: Crime Thriller BOOK BLURB: Emily thought her ordeal was over after she escaped a brutal kidnapping. She’s wrong. He’s coming for her again. The body Detective Rose is looking at bears a striking resemblance to Emily, a woman who survived a horrific, sexually motivated abduction five years ago. Her fear is confirmed when Emily goes missing again. When another woman, Grace, is abducted, Detective Rose finds herself doubting the instincts that tell her the disappearance is the
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Mortal Foe Virtual Book Publicity Tour @MartyRoppelt #supernatural #thriller #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Marty Roppelt’s MORTAL FOE Virtual Book Tour September 3 – 28! Inside the Book Title: MORTAL FOE Author: Marty Roppelt Publisher: Dragon Breath Press Pages: 213 Genre: Supernatural Thriller BOOK BLURB: A picture is worth a thousand words… But what if that image can only bee seen through the lens of one camera? What is the snapshot can only be seen by a select few? What if the photo has its origins in the pit of Hell? What is that face belongs to an enemy bent on destruction? This is Buddy Cullen’s fate when he first dreams of his grandfather’s
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Die Noon Virtual Book Publicity Tour @TheEliseSax #cozymystery #mystery #romantic #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Elise Sax’s DIE NOON Virtual Book Tour September 3 – 28! Inside the Book Title: DIE NOON (Goodnight Mysteries Book 1) Author: Elise Sax Publisher: 13 Lakes Publishing Pages: 259 Genre: Cozy Mystery/Humorous Romantic Mystery BOOK BLURB: Matilda Dare can’t sleep. Her insomnia is one more reason to move to the quirky small town of Goodnight, New Mexico after she inherits a house, a small newspaper, and two old dogs there. But despite the Goodnight name, Matilda still spends her nights wide awake, and she has good reason after a reporter is murdered. With a mystery to solve, she begins
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Fragments of Ash Pre-Order Blitz @KatyRegnery #fairytale #romance #VBT

    Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Katy Regnery’s FRAGMENTS OF ASH Pre-Order Blitz August 1 – 31! Inside the Book Title: FRAGMENTS OF ASH Author: Katy Regnery Publisher: Katharine Gilliam Regnery Pages: Appr. 300 Genre: Contemporary Romance/Reimagined Fairy Tale BOOK BLURB: Coming October 1st My name is Ashley Ellis… I was thirteen years old when my mother – retired supermodel, Tig – married Mosier Răumann, who was twice her age and the head of the Răumann crime family. When I turned eighteen, my mother mysteriously died. Only then did I discover the dark plans my stepfather had in store for me all along; the
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Three Brothers Virtual Book Publicity Tour @jorg2dots #thriller #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Joerg H. Trauboth’s THREE BROTHERS Virtual Book Tour August 1 – September 28! Inside the Book Title: THREE BROTHERS Author: Joerg H. Trauboth Publisher: Ratio Books Pages: 581 Genre: Thriller BOOK BLURB: Marc Anderson and his two commando brothers Thomas and Tim are highly respected elite soldiers in the secretive German Commando Special Forces, the KSK. Together with the American Navy Seals, they successfully rescue the crew of a downed American F-15 tactical fighter jet in the Hindu Kusch Mountains under a barrage of heavy fire from the Taliban. However, their next mission – in Northern Iraq – to save
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Killing the Rougarou Virtual Book Publicity Tour @MamaShawnBeasl1 #romantic #suspense #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Shawn M. Beasley’s KILLING THE ROUGAROU Virtual Book Tour September 3 – 28! Inside the Book Title: KILLING THE ROUGAROU Author: Shawn M. Beasley Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 492 Genre: Romantic Suspense BOOK BLURB: Author Shawn Beasley captivates readers with the enthralling saga of two southern families-the Gauthiers from the South Louisiana bayou country and the Thomases from rural Texas-and the nightmare that will ultimately touch them both. In her sweeping and richly evocative novel, Beasley unfolds two remarkable family histories, populated by unforgettable, deeply human characters, and then rocks their worlds with tragedy and true horror. A novel that succeeds
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Wheels Up Virtual Book Publicity Tour @JeanineKitchel #thriller #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jeanine Kitchel’s WHEELS UP: A NOVEL OF DRUGS, CARTELS AND SURVIVAL Virtual Book Tour August 13 – September 13! Inside the Book Title: WHEELS UP: A NOVEL OF DRUGS, CARTELS, AND SURVIVAL Author: Jeanine Kitchel Publisher: Independent Pages: 294 Genre: Thriller BOOK BLURB: Layla always wanted to run the family business. But is she willing to kill for it? When her notorious drug lord uncle is recaptured, Layla Navarro catapults to the top of Mexico’s most powerful cartel. Groomed as his successor, Layla knows where the bodies are buried. But not all the enemies. She strikes her first deal to
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents I Am the Product of Rape: A Memoir Virtual Book Publicity Tour @CWM_Women #memoir

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Catherine Wyatt-Morley and Jalyon Welsh-Cole’s I AM THE PRODUCT OF RAPE: A MEMOIR Virtual Book Tour August 1 – 31! Inside the Book Title: I AM THE PRODUCT OF RAPE – A MEMOIR Authors: Catherine Wyatt-Morley and Jalyon Welsh-Cole Publisher: Four Pillars Media Group Pages: 194 Genre: Memoir BOOK BLURB: The phrase “secrets and lies” takes on terrible new meaning in Catherine Wyatt-Morley’s devastating book, I AM THE PRODUCT OF RAPE – A MEMOIR. Wyatt-Morley’s shocking story traces the repeated patterns of rape and incest that plagued four generations of her family, including Wyatt-Morley’s birth in a filthy basement to
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Unlawful Desires Virtual Book Publicity Tour @AuthorPSY #erotic #romance #suspense #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Sassy Sinclair’s UNLAWFUL DESIRES: AN EROTIC SUSPENSE NOVELLA Virtual Book Tour August 1 – September 28! Inside the Book Title: UNLAWFUL DESIRES Author: Sassy Sinclair Publisher: Goldman House Publishing Pages: 198 Genre: Erotic Romance   BOOK BLURB: Sparks fly when a handsome lawyer falls hard for a smart, seductive woman who thinks like a man and acts like one too. Sharla Ratliff is done with having her heart broken. Her new dating rules are simple. No emotion. No expectation of commitment. Sex purely for her own physical enjoyment. Then she meets Marcel Dennard. The attractive lawyer has all the trappings
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Miss Behave Virtual Book Publicity Tour @TraciHighland #romantic #comedy #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Traci Highland’s MISS BEHAVE Virtual Book Tour August 1 – September 28! Inside the Book Title: Miss Behave (The Anderson Family Series Book 1) Author: Traci Highland Publisher: Cheshire Lane Press Pages: 330 Genre: Romantic Comedy BOOK BLURB: She’s great at giving advice, too bad she never takes it… Piper Anderson wants to be a serious journalist at a serious paper covering serious news. Instead, she’s stuck at the Pendleton Falls Herald, where her massive investigative skills are wasted penning the paper’s advice column, Miss Behave. Her shot at a meaty story comes when she’s assigned to write up a
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Wyoming Tryst Virtual Book Publicity Tour #historical #romance #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Charlene Whitman’s WYOMING TRYST Virtual Book Tour August 1 – September 28! Inside the Book Title: WYOMING TRYST Author: Charlene Whitman Publisher: Ubiquitous Press Pages: 360 Genre: Sweet Historical Western Romance BOOK BLURB: Two ranching tycoons. A decades-old feud. A sheriff bent on ridding the town of lawlessness . . . In the midst of the trouble brewing in Laramie City in 1878, Julia Carson yearns to be free of her parents’ smothering and wonders whether she’ll ever find a man worthy to love in such a violent town rife with outlaws. But when Robert Morrison sneaks onto her ranch
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Appointment in Prague Virtual Book Publicity Tour #historical #thriller #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Michael McMenamin & Kathleen McMenamin’s APPOINTMENT IN PRAGUE: A MATTIE MCGARY + WINSTON CHURCHILL WORLD WAR II ADVENTURE Virtual Book Tour August 1 – September 28! Inside the Book Title: APPOINTMENT IN PRAGUE: A MATTIE MCGARY + WINSTON CHURCHILL WORLD WAR II ADVENTURE Author: Michael McMenamin & Kathleen McMenamin Publisher: First Edition Design Publishing Pages: 160 Genre: Historical Thriller BOOK BLURB: In the novella, Appointment in Prague, one woman, a British secret agent, sets out in May 1942 to single-handedly send to hell the most evil Nazi alive—SS General Reinhard Heydrich, the head of the SD, the domestic and foreign
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Prayer, Marriage and the Leadership Roles of the Husband and Wife Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Christian #Nonfiction

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Ken Giles & Pastor Sheila Giles’ PRAYER, MARRIAGE AND THE LEADERSHIP ROLES OF THE HUSBAND AND WIFE Virtual Book Tour July 2 – 27! Inside the Book Title: PRAYER, MARRIAGE AND THE LEADERSHIP ROLES OF THE HUSBAND AND WIFE Author: Bishop Ken Giles & Pastor Sheila Giles Publisher: Independent Pages: 98 Genre: Christian Living BOOK BLURB: Marriage is an institution established by God. God ordains a man and a woman to be husband and wife to fulfill his purpose of expanding His likeness and kingdom through their rule and dominion over His creation. Within the institution of marriage, the
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Brimstone Virtual Book Publicity Tour #historical #fiction #womensleuths #mystery #thriller #suspense

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you John Allen’s BRIMSTONE Virtual Book Tour July 2 – 27! Inside the Book Title: BRIMSTONE Author: John Allen Publisher: Allen & Allen Semiotics Inc. Pages: 224 Genre: Historical Fiction/Women Sleuths/Mystery/Suspense/Thriller BOOK BLURB: Author John Allen has a theory about the creator of Sherlock Holmes: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did not create Holmes. It was Doyle’s wife, Louise Hawkins Conan Doyle, who gave birth to the beloved sleuth. Allen has put his beliefs to the test, writing and publishing the first of a projected 12-novel series of Holmes mysteries titled BRIMSTONE. His detective is Louise Hawkins Conan Doyle, and Allen names
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Heartfulness Way Virtual Book Publicity Tour @heartful_ness #nonfiction #spiritual #meditation

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Kamlesh D. Patel and Joshua Pollock’s THE HEARTFULNESS WAY Virtual Book Tour July 2 – 27! Inside the Book Title: THE HEARTFULNESS WAY Author: Kamlesh D. Patel & Joshua Pollock Publisher: New Harbinger Publications Pages: 190 Genre: Nonfiction/Spiritual/Meditation “A must-read for anyone interested in incorporating meditation into their lifestyle.” ––Sanjay Gupta, MD, chief medical correspondent for CNN Heartfulness is an ideal, a spiritual way of living by and from the heart that is inclusive of all ideologies, beliefs, and religions. In this heart-centered book, a student in conversation with his teacher, Kamlesh D. Patel—affectionately known as Daaji, the fourth
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Fighter Pilot’s Daughter Virtual Book Publicity Tour @MaryLawlor5 #Memoir #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mary Lawlor’s FIGHTER PILOT’S DAUGHTER Virtual Book Tour July 2 – 27! Inside the Book Title: Fighter Pilot’s Daughter: Growing Up in the Sixties and the Cold War Author: Mary Lawlor Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield Pages: 336 Genre: Memoir Format: Hardcover/Kindle Fighter Pilot’s Daughter: Growing Up in the Sixties and the Cold War tells the story of Mary Lawlor’s dramatic, roving life as a warrior’s child. A family biography and a young woman’s vision of the Cold War, Fighter Pilot’s Daughter narrates the more than many transfers the family made from Miami to California to Germany as the Cold War
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Freedom Club Virtual Book Publicity Tour @CindyVine #YA #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Cindy Vine’s THE FREEDOM CLUB Virtual Book Tour July 2 – 27! Inside the Book Title: THE FREEDOM CLUB Author: Cindy Vine Publisher: Createspace Pages: 184 Genre: YA BOOK BLURB: “We could be anybody and everybody. A group of high school stereotypes with one thing in common.  Every one of us has a story.” Every high school has the bullies, the freaks, and the weird kids that make you feel uneasy.  Rourke High has more than their fair share.  A few months before the end of their senior year, a group of seemingly mismatched kids get together to form The
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Scene of the Crime Virtual Book Publicity Tour @JChaseNovelist

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jennifer Chase’s SCENE OF THE CRIME Virtual Book Tour July 2 – October 31! Inside the Book Title: SCENE OF THE CRIME Author: Jennifer Chase Publisher: JEC Press Pages: 300 Genre: Mystery Suspense BOOK BLURB: A calculating cold-blooded predator closes in… When a community has barely recovered from a ruthless serial killer six months earlier; now two more horrifying murders hit the radar again. It leaves police burdened with two of the most shockingly contaminated crime scenes ever documented in California’s law enforcement history. The Slayer works behind the scenes as a sinister puppet master, precisely pulling the strings, taunting
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Scornful Scones Book Blast & $25 Amazon Gift Card Giveaway! @MACozyMystery #bookblast #giveaway #win

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mildred Abbott’s SCORNFUL SCONES Book Blast July 2 – 27! Inside the Book Title: SCORNFUL SCONES Author: Mildred Abbott Publisher: Wings of Ink Publications, LLC Pages: 300 Genre: Cozy Mystery BOOK BLURB: With summer approaching, Estes Park is abuzz with flowers, baking, tourists, and… murder. Tourist season is about to begin, and the lovely weather has Winifred Page and her corgi sidekick, Watson, leaving the comfort of the Cozy Corgi Bookshop and Bakery to reluctantly attend a celebration at the Black Bear Roaster coffee shop. But a chill of uncertainty settles over Fred when a choking death doesn’t seem so
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