Archive for the ‘Authors on Tour’ Category:

📚 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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📚 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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