Posts Tagged ‘Alaska’

Pump Up Your Book Presents Chemo on the Rocks: My Great Alaskan Adventure Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Rebecca L. Durkin’s CHEMO ON THE ROCKS: MY GREAT ALASKAN MISADVENTURE virtual book tour September 1 – 30! Title: Chemo on the Rocks: My Great Alaskan Misadventure Author: Rebecca L. Durkin Publisher: Christine F. Anderson Publishing & Media Pages: 178 Genre: Memoir Format: Hardcover/Paperback/Kindle/Nook Chemo on the Rocks is a shoreside seat on Rebecca (Becky) Durkin’s great Alaskan misadventure. It highlights the hilarity and heartache of a young girl who finds herself marooned in Ketchikan—fondly known as “The Rock”—where she remains on her self-imposed Alaskatraz for almost thirty years. Chemo on the Rocks is witty, inspirational, satirical, and sometimes terrifying.
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Pump Up Chats with Contemporary Romance Author Barbara Weitz

Barbara Weitz lives in a quiet suburb of Chicago with her husband and a mischievous German shepherd, thankful her three grown sons are grown and off making mayhem elsewhere. A career executive secretary for most of her life, she has also held a variety of mundane and unusual employment opportunities, during her sons growing years. This, coupled with a passion for animals and music, has helped shape the fictional characters she creates. She invites you to visit her website at: http://barbaraweitz.com Thank you for this interview, Barbara.  Do you remember writing stories as a child or did the writing bug come later?  Do you remember your first published piece?
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Teed Up for Love Online Book Tour December 2011

Join Barbara Weitz, author of the contemporary romance novel Teed Up for Love as she virtually tours the blogosphere in December 2011 on her first tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Barbara Weitz BARBARA WEITZ lives in a quiet suburb of Chicago with her husband and a mischievous German shepherd, Heiko, thankful her three grown sons are off making mayhem elsewhere. A career executive secretary most of her life, she’s also held a variety of mundane and unusual employment opportunities, during her sons growing years. This, coupled with a passion for animals, music and poetry, has helped shape the fictional characters she creates. You can learn more about
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New Contemporary Romantic Comedy for Review: Teed Up for Love by Barbara Weitz

Barbara Weitz will be touring in December with her contemporary romantic comedy Teed Up for Love. SOMETIMES A WORKING GIRL BLOWS HER LID… Using her quick wit and take-charge attitude, Miranda Stiltgaard takes a marketing job for Stuart Golf Enterprises in Chicago determined to prove a well-educated girl raised in a small Alaskan town can succeed in a big city. WHEN ACCUSED OF A CRIME SHE DIDN’T DO… Embezzlement of company funds sends aloof London bachelor, Keegan Stuart, roaring into Chicago to ferret out a thief and protect the family business. THEN RISKS HEARTBREAK TO BOOT…. Miranda hates that this unreadable Brit sees her as a backwoods frontierswoman dragging
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