• September 9, 2019
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Pump Up Your Book Feature Interview: Leonard Bassed, Author of The Witch Port Video Game

“I begin to hear an eerie chant being recited in unison as the first three naked women make it to the dark summit. Holding long, makeshift brooms, in their right hands, they chant: “Drink the flight broth, wood in hand. Burn the root …” An elderly woman with lanky hair picks up the goblet, takes a sip of its contents, and inhales the smoke of an already burning smudge stick. The chanting continues: “Then dive from the cliff…” This is perhaps the most startling scene I’ve ever witnessed. The woman runs off the edge of the cliff, seemingly to plummet to her death, but I hear “Not by wind
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents DARK JUSTICE Virtual Book Publicity / Blog Tour #RomanticSuspense

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Angela Smith’s DARK JUSTICE Virtual Book Tour October 1 – 31! Inside the Book Title: DARK JUSTICE Author: Angela Smith Publisher: Independent Pages: 249 Genre: Romantic Suspense BOOK BLURB: She’s in love with her sister’s killer… Lauren has loved Luke since first grade. They planned to marry—until he murdered her sister. The moment he was sentenced to prison, Lauren fled with her secret baby and made a new life. Now she’ll do anything to keep their daughter safe. But her hard won peace shatters when Luke is exonerated, and it sets her on a path of mixed emotions to discover
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents DEAD RECKONING Virtual Book Publicity / Blog Tour #TrueCrime

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Caitlin Rother’s DEAD RECKONING Virtual Book Tour October 1 – 31! Inside the Book Title: DEAD RECKONING Author: Caitlin Rother Publisher: WildBlue Press Pages: 504 Genre: True Crime BOOK BLURB: Tom and Jackie Hawks loved their life in retirement, sailing on their yacht, the Well Deserved. But when the birth of a new grandson called them back to Arizona, they put the boat up for sale. Skylar Deleon and his pregnant wife Jennifer showed up as prospective buyers, with their baby in a stroller, and the Hawkses thought they had a deal. Soon after a sea trial and an alleged
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents THE NINTH SESSION Virtual Book Publicity / Blog Tour #PsychologicalSuspense #Thriller

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Deborah Serani’s THE NINTH SESSION: A PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE NOVEL Virtual Book Tour October 1 – November 29! Inside the Book Title: THE NINTH SESSION: A PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE NOVEL Author: Deborah Serani Publisher: TouchPoint Press Pages: 190 Genre: Psychological Suspense/Thriller BOOK BLURB: Dr. Alicia Reese, a recent widow and a CODA – a child of Deaf Adults, takes on a new patient. Lucas Ferro reveals the reason for his consultation is that he wasn’t really open with his previous therapist. After gaining Reese’s trust, he shares aspects of his life that are clearly disturbing – experiences that create anxiety and panic,
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents WITCHES PROTECTION PROGRAM Virtual Book Publicity / Blog Tour #Fantasy

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Michael Okon’s WITCHES PROTECTION PROGRAM Virtual Book Tour September 23 – October 25! Inside the Book Title: WITCHES PROTECTION PROGRAM Author: Michael Okon Publisher: WordFire Press Pages: 200 Genre: Fantasy/Urban Fantasy BOOK BLURB: Wes Rockville, a disgraced law-enforcement agent, gets one last chance to prove himself and save his career when he’s reassigned to a 232-year-old secret government organization. The Witches Protection Program. His first assignment: uncover a billion-dollar cosmetics company’s diabolical plan to use witchcraft for global domination, while protecting its heiress Morgan Pendragon from her aunt’s evil deeds. Reluctantly paired with veteran witch protector, Alastair Verne, Wes must
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Christmas From the Heart Virtual Book Publicity / Blog Tour #Women’s Fiction

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Sheila Roberts’ CHRISTMAS FROM THE HEART Virtual Book Tour October 1 – 31! Inside the Book Title: CHRISTMAS FROM THE HEART Author: Sheila Roberts Publisher: MIRA Pages: 304 Genre: Women’s Fiction BOOK BLURB: Olivia Berg’s charity, Christmas from the Heart, has helped generations of families in need in Pine River, Washington, but this year might be the end of the road. Hightower Enterprises, one of their biggest donors since way back when Olivia’s grandmother ran the charity, has been taken over by Ebenezer Scrooge the Second, aka CFO Guy Hightower, and he’s declared there will be no more money coming
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents VIEWS FROM THE COCKPIT: THE JOURNEY OF A SON Virtual Book Publicity / Blog Tour #Memoir

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Ross Victory’s VIEWS FROM THE COCKPIT: THE JOURNEY OF A SON Virtual Book Tour September 2 – 27! Inside the Book Title: VIEWS FROM THE COCKPIT: THE JOURNEY OF A SON Author: Ross Victory Publisher: Independent Pages: 268 Genre: Memoir BOOK BLURB: Views from the Cockpit: The Journey of a Son by Ross Victory is a memoir born from pain. Intimate journal entries morph into a phenomenal dialogue of tender father-son memories, loss, strength and turbulence in a young boy’s life on his journey into manhood. When the author discovers that his father is terminally ill and a victim of elder abuse,
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents UNBRAIDED: TRANSFORM YOUR PAIN TO POWER AND PURPOSE Virtual Book Publicity / Blog Tour #nonfiction

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Karla Monterrosa’s  UNBRAIDED: TRANSFORM YOUR PAIN TO POWER AND PURPOSE Virtual Book Tour September 15 – October 15! Inside the Book Title: UNBRAIDED: TRANSFORM YOUR PAIN TO POWER AND PURPOSE Author: Karla Monterrosa Publisher: Inspire Books Pages: 250 Genre: Non-fiction/self-help/overcoming abuse/Christian BOOK BLURB: Vulnerable, courageous, and deeply personal, Unbraided: Transform Your Pain Into Power and Purpose, will help you to identify the areas of your life that are being affected by abuse and provide a path for you to experience breakthrough and healing. Karla Monterrosa experienced physical, emotional, and sexual abuses early in her life. She was able to take those
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Dread Pirate Arcanist Virtual Book Publicity / Blog Tour #YA #fantasy

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Shami Stovall’s DREAD PIRATE ARCANIST Virtual Book Tour September 18 – October 18! Inside the Book Title: DREAD PIRATE ARCANIST Author: Shami Stovall Publisher: Capital Station Books Pages: #437 Genre: YA Fantasy BOOK BLURB: While protecting the newborn griffins on the Isle of Landin, Volke Savan and his adopted sister, Illia, run afoul of the Dread Pirate Calisto, the same cutthroat who carved out Illia’s right eye. As a master manticore arcanist, Calisto’s strength and brutality are unrivaled. When Illia suggests they bring him to justice, Volke wonders if they’ll have what it takes to fight the corsairs on the
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Love Map: Reignite, Reconnect and Repair Your Relationship Book Blast #selfhelp

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jeannie Daly-Gunter’s THE LOVE MAP: REIGNITE, RECONNECT AND REPAIR TOUR RELATIONSHIP Book Blast on September 17!  Sign up on form below! Inside the Book Title: THE LOVE MAP: REIGNITE, RECONNECT AND REPAIR YOUR RELATIONSHIP Author: Jeannie Daly-Gunter Publisher: Phoenix Rising Press Pages: 232 Genre: Self-Help BOOK BLURB: If you aren’t growing together in your relationship, you are likely growing apart. The Love Map: Reignite, Reconnect and Repair Your Relationship, gives couples a blueprint to help navigate the inevitable ups and downs of love. This book is a practical guide, an engaging story, and a workbook. Unlike many of the psychological
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Patrick Turns His Play Into Pay Virtual Book Publicity / Blog Tour #children

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Patrick & Shani Muhammad’s PATRICK TURNS HIS PLAY INTO PAY! Virtual Book Tour September 2 – October 31! Inside the Book Title: PATRICK TURNS HIS PLAY INTO PAY Author: Patrick Muhammad & Shani Muhammad Publisher: 5 Star Publishing Pages: 40 Genre: Children’s Book Inside the Book The first book in a series, “Patrick Turns His Play Into Pay”, details the journey of an entrepreneur, through the eyes of a child. The book uses vivid illustrations and lively words, to explain the road little Patrick took into the world of entrepreneurship.  It demonstrates the benefits of tapping into your passion early
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents A Twist of Oleander Virtual Book Publicity / Blog Tour #CozyMystery #RomanticSuspense

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Raven McKray’s A TWIST OF OLEANDER Virtual Book Tour September 2 – 27! Inside the Book Title: A TWIST OF OLEANDER Author: Raven McKray Publisher: Keystone, Imprint of Brownridge Publishing Pages: 204 Genre: Cozy Mystery / Romantic Suspense / Detective Fiction BOOK BLURB: An escape from madness leads to murder … After suffering a manic episode, twenty-six-year old Maddie Malone retreats to small-town Kenowa and her aunt and uncle’s cattle ranch for peace and restoration. But things are never quiet for long in Maddie’s world: She finds her heart torn between her childhood sweetheart and a suave older man. Then
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Wolf Queen: The Hope of Aferi: Book One Virtual Book Publicity / Blog Tour #YA #Fantasy @cerecermurphy

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Cerece Rennie Murphy’s THE WOLF KING: THE HOPE OF AFERI (Book One) Virtual Book Tour September 2 – 27! Inside the Book Title: THE WOLF QUEEN: THE HOPE OF AFERI (Book 1) Author: Cerece Rennie Murphy Publisher: LionSky Publishing Pages: 242 Genre: YA Fantasy BOOK BLURB: Once great and powerful sorcerers, the Amasiti were hunted to the brink of extinction by the Hir and his followers. For four hundred years, their legacy faded from memory waiting for the hope of Aferi to be renewed… In the Land of Yet At the edge of the Forbidden Forest A young woman lives alone. Forced
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Witch Port Video Game Virtual Book Publicity / Blog Tour #YA

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Leonard Bassed’s THE WITCH PORT VIDEO GAME Virtual Book Tour September 2 – November 29! Inside the Book Title: THE WITCH PORT VIDEO GAMEAuthor: Leonard BassedPublisher: IndependentPages: 108Genre: YA BOOK BLURB: Leonard Bassed had no plan to write a novel titled THE WITCH PORT VIDEO GAME when he set out to create a movie script with a similar name.  “I had written the pilot script first and I kept the same ending for the novel…everything from the script I wrote found its way into the finished book version of ‘The Witch Port Video Game,’ said writer-singer-actor Leonard Bassed.  “I was
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents MALL Virtual Book Publicity / Blog Tour #Dystopian

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Pattie Palmer-Baker’s MALL Virtual Book Tour September 2 – 27! We are looking for reviews (paperback U.S./PDF), interviews, guest posts and book features/promo. Sign up on form below! Inside the Book Title: MALL Author: Pattie Palmer-Baker Publisher: Del Sol Press Pages: 272 Genre: Dystopian BOOK BLURB: A Novel by Pattie Palmer-Baker Winner of the Del Sol Most Promising Novel, 2017 MALL is a sparkling alternate world where everyone is beautiful, employed with enough income to consume and to experience a myriad of pleasures including drugs, gambling, theater, holographic adventures. No poverty and little or no crime. A lot of sex. But
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Twists Turns & Truths Virtual Book Publicity / Blog Tour #Memoir

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jayne Sanders’ TWISTS TURNS & TRUTHS Virtual Book Tour September 2 – 27! Inside the Book Title: Twists Turns & Truths – The Life and Lines of a Master Scientific Hand Analyst Author: Jayne Sanders Publisher: Full Gallop Press Pages: 204 Genre: Memoir/Self-Help BOOK BLURB: A master scientific hand analyst and conversational storyteller, Jayne Sanders courageously reveals several of the more emotive high and low experiences of her life—stories about everything from love to animals to abuse, and then connects some of her characteristics involved to relevant markings in her hands. Readers will laugh, cry, cheer, and even wince as
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents A Garden on Top of the World Virtual Book Publicity / Blog Tour #YA #Ecofiction

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Virginia Aronson’s A GARDEN ON TOP OF THE WORLD Virtual Book Tour September 2 – 27! Inside the Book Title: A Garden on Top of the World Author: Virginia Aronson Publisher: Dixi Books Pages: 112 Genre: YA Ecofiction   BOOK BLURB: The year is 2066 and life in Greenland is much warmer and more crowded, and lacking in fresh food. Sixteen-year-old Jonnie lives in the Relocation city of Shamed, where hundred-story high rises house extended families from American coastal cities relocated after the Sixth Sea Rise. Work and school are conducted from overcrowded apartments, while the homeless camp out on
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Featured Interview: Soren Paul Petrek, Author of ‘Wolves At Our Door’

I’m not on holiday, she told herself, but it’s my first time out of Germany, and I’m not going to waste it. She’d wanted to help with the war effort, and now she had her chance. Even after the invasion, everyone back home still thought Germany would win—Hitler told them so, and the propaganda films left no doubt. Why wouldn’t she believe it as well? –From Wolves At Our Door by Soren Paul Petrek Soren Petrek is a practicing criminal trial attorney, admitted to the Minnesota Bar in 1991.  Married with two adult children, Soren continues to live and work in St. Paul, Minnesota. Educated in the U.S., England
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents There’s Something Your Son Needs To Tell You Virtual Book Publicity / Blog Tour @VernonEnnels #Memoir

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Vernon Ennels Jr.’s THERE’S SOMETHING YOUR SON NEEDS TO TELL YOU Virtual Book Tour August 5 – 30! We are looking for reviews (paperback U.S.), interviews, guest posts and book features/promo. Sign up on form below! Inside the Book Title: THERE’S SOMETHING YOUR SON NEEDS TO TELL YOU Author: Vernon Ennels Jr. Publisher: Xulon Press Pages: 140 Genre: Memoir BOOK BLURB: Page six of Vernon Ennels, Jr. book, THERE’S SOMETHING YOUR SON NEEDS TO TELL YOU, reads, “I still remember his face, his breath, and hear his voice demand me to lie on my stomach. He would down my pants
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Red Carpet at Cannes Virtual Book Publicity / Blog Tour @Byrge_Duane #Mystery

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Duane Byrge’s THE RED CARPET AT CANNES Virtual Book Tour August 5 – 30! Inside the Book Title: THE RED CARPET AT CANNES Author: Duane Byrge Publisher: Independent Pages: 235 Genre: Mystery BOOK BLURB: Veteran film critic Duane Byrge takes readers on a behind-the-scenes thrill ride at the legendary Cannes Film Festival in his new mystery, THE RED CARPET AT CANNES. A longtime movie writer and editor for the Hollywood Reporter, Byrge turns to the thriller genre to tell the tale of Ryan Hackbart, who, like Byrge, covers the Cannes Film Festival for the fictional Hollywood Times. Hackbart finds himself
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DARK SPIRAL DOWN by Michael Houtz * Official Book Teaser Trailer *

 Watch the latest Book Teaser Trailer for DARK SPIRAL DOWN by Michael Houtz!   https://youtu.be/FSQKHZtXDpI  


📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Realms of Edenocht Descendants and Heirs Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Fantasy #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you DS Johnson’s REALMS OF EDENOCHT DESCENDANTS AND HEIRS Virtual Book Tour July 1 – 31! Inside the Book Title: REALMS OF EDENOCHT DESCENDANTS AND HEIRS Author: DS Johnson Publisher: Rosecrest Publishing Pages: 312 Genre: Action Adventure Fantasy BOOK BLURB: Shaz, Edenocht’s forbidden War Wizard, his elemental mage Serin and, miniature warriors, the Minca begin their unsurmountable task of securing the ancient artifacts, the Sev-Rin-Ac-Lava. Their first task of finding the sheath to the sword Shaz already has, takes them to the realm of their friends the Minca. The companions find themselves in a world torn open by earthquakes and melted
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Wolves At Our Door Virtual Book Publicity Tour & Giveaway @SPetrek_Toche44 #Historical #VBT

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Soren Paul Petrek’s WOLVES AT OUR DOOR Virtual Book Tour July 1 – September 27! Inside the Book Title: WOLVES AT OUR DOOR Author: Soren Paul Petrek Publisher: Editions Encre Rouge/Hachette Livre Pages: 319 Genre: Historical/Action/Adventure BOOK BLURB: The Allies and the Nazis are in a deadly race to develop the ultimate weapon while supersonic V-2 rockets rain down on London. Madeleine Toche and Berthold Hartmann, the German super assassin who taught her to kill, search for the secret factory where Werner von Braun and his Gestapos masters use slave labor to build the weapons as the bodies of
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Love Never Quits Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Memoir #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Gina Heumann’s LOVE NEVER QUITS: SURVIVING & THRIVING AFTER INFERTILITY, ADOPTION, AND REACTIVE ATTACHMENT DISORDER Virtual Book Tour July 1 – August 30! Inside the Book Title: LOVE NEVER QUITS: SURVIVING & THRIVING AFTER INFERTILITY, ADOPTION, AND REACTIVE ATTACHMENT DISORDER Author: Gina Heumann Publisher: MadLand Press Pages: 246 Genre: Memoir BOOK BLURB: WHACK… At three in the morning Gina was sound asleep, yet somehow she was smacked in the head. She looked over at her husband, thinking perhaps he accidentally rolled over and flopped his arm on top of her, but he was sleeping soundly and facing the opposite direction.
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  • June 4, 2019
  • Author Interviews
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Featured Interview with Patrick Stull, Author of Encounters

American artist Patrick Stull has spent the last eighteen years mostly creating imagery about the lives of women. He searches for what lies beneath the surface of his subjects, empowering each one he encounters. He has recently ventured into the realm of surrealism, creating powerful imagery that reflects on our humanity while dealing with the meaning and power of art. His latest book is the fine art photography book, Encounters. Visit his website at www.patrickstull.com. Book Description: With photography at its base, Stull offers a nuanced explication of his encounters to allow the viewer an opportunity to form a relationship with his art. While looking within ourselves, exploring our
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Featured Interview: Greg Messel, Author of ‘Dreams That Never Were’ @gregmessel #Interview

“Way to go slow, John. Senator Kennedy was shot. You and some other people were also wounded by the assassin.” “No, no, no!” I yelled. “Bobby was shot? No, not this time! This wasn’t supposed to happen! Assassin? Is Senator Kennedy going to be all right?”  — From Dreams That Never Were by Greg Messel Greg Messel grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and lives on the Puget Sound in Edmonds, Washington, with his wife, Jean DeFond. Dreams That Never Were is his 11th novel and is a historical fiction account of a young reporter caught up in the events surrounding the assassination of Sen. Robert F.
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Farewell My Life Virtual Book Publicity Tour @CynthiaHaggard #Historical #Fiction #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Cynthia Sally Haggard’s FAREWELL MY LIFE Virtual Book Tour July 1 – 31!   Title: FAREWELL MY LIFE Author: Cynthia Sally Haggard Publisher: Spun Stories Press Pages: 585 Genre: Historical Fiction Angelina led a life which required her to fib. When Angelina, the black sheep of the Pagano family, meets the mysterious Mr. Russell, she has no idea that she has seen him before…in another country. And so begins Farewell My Life, a novel in three parts, which spins an operatic tale of dangerous love and loss. The Lost Mother, the first part of this novel, slices back and forth
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents A Burdened Novel Series Book Blast @PieriAnn #ABurdenedNovel #YA #Paranormal #Romance #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Felisha Antonette’s A BURDENED NOVEL Series Book Blast June 21 – July 19! There is a $25 Amazon Gift Card and All Four Books in the Series Giveaway as well. Inside the Book FOUR TIMES BROKEN (A Burdened Novel – Book 1) BOOK BLURB: When Tracey’s life spirals out of control, who will help her pick up the pieces? Tracey Warren’s last year of high school is mapped out: stay focused, graduate in a few months, and get the hell out of Bennington, Virginia. The finish line is in plain sight and everything is going according to plan. Until a
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Great Jewel Robbery Virtual Book Publicity Tour @ElizaMcKenna #cozymystery #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Elizabeth McKenna’s THE GREAT JEWEL ROBBERY Virtual Book Tour July 1 – 31! We are looking for reviews (paperback U.S. / PDF), interviews and book features/promo. Sign up on form below! Inside the Book Title: THE GREAT JEWEL ROBBERY Author: Elizabeth McKenna Publisher: Independent Pages: 210 Genre: Cozy Mystery BOOK BLURB: Mystery with a splash of romance… Chicago Tribune reporters Emma and Grace have been best friends since college despite coming from different worlds. When Grace is assigned to cover an annual charity ball and auction being held at a lakeside mansion and her boyfriend bails on her, she brings
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents By the Light of Embers Virtual Book Publicity Tour @ShaylinGandhi #Historical #WomensFiction #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Shaylin Gandhi’s BY THE LIGHT OF EMBERS Virtual Book Tour July 1 – 31! We are looking for reviews (paperback U.S. / PDF), interviews and book features/promo. Sign up on form below! Inside the Book Title: BY THE LIGHT OF EMBERS Author: Shaylin Gandhi Publisher: Briar Rose Publishing Pages: 382 Genre: Historical Women’s Fiction BOOK BLURB:  It’s 1954, and twenty-two-year-old Lucia Lafleur has always dreamed of following in her father’s footsteps. While sock hops and poodle skirts occupy her classmates, she dreams of bacteria and broken bones—and the day she’ll finally fix them. After graduation, a letter arrives, and Lucia
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