Posts Tagged ‘aids’

New Book For Review : Well With My Soul by Gregory Allen

Gregory Allen is touring from November 1 – 23 with his literary fiction novel, Well With My Soul. Well with My Soul introduces two brothers who, although close in childhood, have drifted away from each other and closed the door to engagement and emotional connection. The older brother, Jacob, flees his small Tennessee hometown to seek a new life in New York, where he imagines he will overcome his self-hatred and growing sexuality as a homosexual. The younger brother, Noah, stays behind and feels trapped by his role as caretaker for his aging mother. As they grow apart, both brothers go through a series of traumatic events that irrevocably
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Pump Up Chats with Gregory Allen, author of “Well With My Soul”

Gregory G. Allen moved from Texas to New York in the late 80s and has been in the entertainment business for over twenty years as an actor, director, producer, songwriter, playwright and author. He’s had over ten shows that he has written produced on stage, been the recipient of musical grants from BMI, ASCAP and the Watershed Foundation, and has had short stories and poetry published in Off The Rocks, Muscadine Lines: A Southern Journal, The Oddville Press, Perpetual Magazine, Loch Raven Review, Word Catalyst Magazine, and Rancor’d Type. He is a member of ASCAP, The Dramatist Guild, and the Theatre Communications Group. He now lives in the suburbs
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Well With My Soul by Gregory G. Allen Virtual Book Tour October and November 2011

Join Gregory G. Allen, author of the literary fiction novel, Well With My Soul (ASD Publishing), as he virtually tours the blogosphere October 17 through November 18 2011 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Gregory G. Allen Gregory G. Allen moved from Texas to New York in the late 80s and has been in the entertainment business for over twenty years as an actor, director, producer, songwriter, playwright and author. He’s had over ten shows that he has written produced on stage, been the recipient of musical grants from BMI, ASCAP and the Watershed Foundation, and has had short stories and poetry published
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The Human Spirit Virtual Book Publicity Tour September 2011

Join Carole Eglash-Kosoff, author of the nonfiction book, The Human Spirit (Author House), as she virtually tours the blogosphere September  5 – 30 2011 on her second virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Carole Kosoff Carole Eglash-Kosoff lives and writes in Valley Village, California. She graduated from UCLA and spent her career in business and in teaching. In 2006 her husband, mother, and brother died within a month of one another, causing her to reevaluate her life. She volunteered to work with the American Jewish World Service and was sent to South Africa to teach. She returned there a year later, having met an amazing array
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with Daren Krupa Author of Such A Nice Boy

A native of New York State Krupa grew up in Phoenix and worked as a newspaper reporter and editor, waiter and telemarketer. At least a dozen novels have presented themselves throughout his life. Such a Nice Boy is the second he wrote and the first to be published. Krupa lives in the Sonoran desert. You can visit him at his website http://www.suchaniceboy.com/ Thank you for this interview, Daren.  Do you remember writing stories as a child or did the writing bug come later?  Do you remember your first published piece? A: When I was nine I wrote a diary of my family’s trip from New York State to Arizona. 
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with Dangerous Lee

Dangerous Lee, HIV Prevention Specialist and Author of Keep Your Panties Up and Your Skirt Down – Six Erotic Tales of Safe Sex, is a brand with various projects in the fields of activism, writing, acting, painting, and internet radio. She lives in Burton, Michigan with her daughter and two pet rats! Learn more about Keep Your Panties Up and Your Skirt Down by visiting www.pantiesupskirtdown.com. Follow Dangerous Lee on Facebook www.facebook.com/DangerousLee.Biz and on Twitter www.twitter.com/DangerousLee Thank you for this interview, Dangerous.  Do you remember writing stories as a child or did the writing bug come later?  Do you remember your first published piece? A: I have been writing
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