Posts Tagged ‘book promotions’

{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents Traveling for Love: Searching for Self, Hoping for Love Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Becky Due, author of the women’s fiction, Traveling for Love: Searching for Self, Hoping for Love, as she tours the blogosphere July 1 – 26 2013 on her second virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT TRAVELING FOR LOVE: SEARCHING FOR SELF, HOPING FOR LOVE Amanda’s life is suddenly turned upside down when her husband tells her he wants a divorce. She realizes she no longer knows who she is – her life revolved around her husband. At age 40, she finds herself divorced, childless, living in an apartment with a roommate, with little education and no career path. Can Amanda heal her pain and find
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  • May 15, 2013
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{Book Blast} Pump Up Your Book Presents Colin M. Drysdale’s For Those in Peril on the Sea Book Blast – Win $25 Amazon GC/Paypal Cash

Join Colin M. Drysdale, author of the post-apocalyptic thriller, For Those in Peril on the Sea, as he tours the blogosphere July 1 – 5 on his first Book Blast with Pump Up Your Book! Colin will be giving away a $25 Amazon GC/Paypal Cash to one lucky reader! To enter, fill out the Rafflecopter form on the participating blogs below July 1 – 5 and good luck!  If you would like to host Colin, please leave a comment below or email Dorothy at thewriterslife (at) gmail.com. ABOUT FOR THOSE IN PERIL ON THE SEA After a six week voyage across the Atlantic, they couldn’t wait to get to
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  • May 11, 2013
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents OCD, the Dude & Me Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Lauren Roedy Vaughn, author of the contemporary humorous young adult, OCD, the Dude & Me, as she tours the blogosphere June 3 – July 26 2013 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT OCD, THE DUDE & ME Seventeen-year-old Danielle Levine is your typical high school teenager – if you count having OCD and ADHD as typical. Danielle’s “special” conditions lead her to a school for students with learning disabilities, and, even here, she struggles to fit in. How Danielle navigates her status as a “learning-challenged” teen pariah is told, with equal parts pain and hilarity, in Lauren Roedy Vaughn’s debut Young Adult
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Pump Up Your Book Presents San Francisco Secrets Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Greg Messel, author of the mystery/historical romance, San Francisco Secrets, as he tours the blogosphere June 3 – July 26 2013 on his fifth virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT SAN FRANCISCO SECRETS Noted novelist and newspaper editor Edgar Watson Howe once said. “A man who can keep a secret may be wise but he is not half as wise as a man with no secrets to keep” As the spring of 1958 arrives in San Francisco, it seems that baseball player turned private eye, Sam Slater and his fiancée, TWA stewardess Amelia Ryan, are surrounded by people who have secrets. A prominent doctor, John
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Fulton Incident Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Jordan Ekeroth, author of the suspense, The Fulton Incident, as he tours the blogosphere June 3 – 28 2013 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT THE FULTON INCIDENT International intrigue rooted in a secret history. Mysterious and unlikely allies. The memory of a lost love. A race against time. Josh Fulton is enjoying his 15 minutes of fame after catching a charismatic leader in an act of infidelity. But when he finds himself alone and hunted through the dark streets of a foreign city, he is forced to face the truth that he has found himself embroiled in a far deeper conspiracy
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Birr Elixir Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Jo Sparkes, author of the fantasy, The Birr Elixir, as he tours the blogosphere June 3 – 28 2013 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT THE BIRR ELIXIR Marra had never heard of Birr Elixir. But when Drail of the Hand of Victory saw the words in an old book, she found herself agreeing to make it. Even lacking the right ingredient. And after drinking it, the Hand of Victory defeated a Skullan team, something no one had ever done before. Now Drail walked the path his grandsire had walked, and Marra was offered a place as Brista, his potions mistress. She
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Revived by Grace Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Emma Clay, author of the Christian memoir, Revived by Grace, as he tours the blogosphere May 6 – June 28 2013 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT SURVIVED BY GRACE Emma Clay lived a life of rebellion, led astray by her own desires and her attraction to an indulgent life and a difficult man. This book is her memoir, telling the powerful story of her downward decline and the way God brought her back to himself through his love. Moving between personal storytelling, Biblical reflection, and political application, Revived by Grace is a book that speaks to the wounded place in all
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  • April 16, 2013
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Pump Up Your Book Presents A List of Offences Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Dilruba Z. Ara, author of the women’s fiction, A List of Offences, as she tours the blogosphere May 6 – July 26 2013 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT A LIST OF OFFENCES Daria, the heroine of the book is born under unusual circumstances that cause the people of her small village to gossip; yet as she grows she becomes an intelligent, sensitive and spiritual beauty that one feels is destined for a perfect life. After a flood, a boy is found on the bank of her river. Daria’s parents adopt the boy, and Daria befriends him. As they grow Daria begins
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  • April 14, 2013
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Pump Up Your Book Presents When the Morning Glory Blooms Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Cynthia Ruchti, author of the Christian fiction, When the Morning Glory Blooms, as she tours the blogosphere May 6 – 31 2013 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT WHEN THE MORNING GLORY BLOOMS Becky rocks a baby that rocked her world. Sixty years earlier, with her fiancé Drew in the middle of the Korean Conflict, Ivy throws herself into her work at a nursing home to keep her sanity and provide for the child Drew doesn’t know is coming. Ivy cares for Anna, an elderly patient who taxes Ivy’s listening ear until the day she suspects Anna’s tall tales are not just
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Magic’s Daughter & Dancing in the Flame Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Ann Gimpel, author of the spicy paranormal romances, Magic’s Daughter and Dancing in the Flame, as she tours the blogosphere May 6 – 31 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT MAGIC’S DAUGHTER Destined to be surrounded by magic yet have none of her own, Cassie walks a thin line between love and danger. Her mother is dying and her boyfriend has turned into something which terrifies her. By the time she wakes up to the danger she’s in, it’s nearly too late. Cassie’s friend Jeremy warns her about her scumbag boyfriend, but she’s not listening. Deeply disturbing events unfold. Her life hangs
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  • April 12, 2013
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Narcotic Nation Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Scarlett Savage, author of the fantasy, Narcotic Nation, as she tours the blogosphere May 6 – 31 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT NARCOTIC NATION It’s present-day America, but in which all Narcotics were legalized fifteen years ago with the advent of the Freedman Bill (the formal name for the Legalization). While there is finally plenty of money to pay police, teachers, firemen, and other public workers, and no one in the country is without food, shelter, or insurance, the government now utilizes methods designed to keep usage within a safe parameter…violating many Constitutional rights in the process. The country is torn
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Knights of Galaria: The Crystals of Power Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join O.S. Gill, author of the sci-fi fantasy, The Knights of Galaria: The Crystals of Power, as he tours the blogosphere May 6 – 31 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT THE KNIGHTS OF GALARIA: THE CRYSTALS OF POWER For Kaz Silverwynd, graduation from the Galarian Knight Academy begins normally, but an the attempt on the life of Xul Xandu, the newly-appointed head of the Confederation of Nations, pushes Kaz and his team into an epic and dangerous adventure. The action ranges from the floating city of Civitas to the underwater empire of Aequoria to the moon colony of Ourea. Kaz leads his
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  • April 9, 2013
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Heart Stone Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Sherry Kyle, author of the Christian fiction, The Heart Stone, as she tours the blogosphere May 6 – 31 2013 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT THE HEART STONE When the biological father of Jessica MacAllister’s son decides to break their custody agreement, Jessica and her son visit her Uncle George for advice and refuge… Following a year of grief, Evelyn Sweeney is finally ready to move on. Pondering her new path in life, her mind drifts to her first love, George MacAllister… When the lives of these two women cross, they discover that one heart-shaped ring binds their stories together. But
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Always the Baker, Finally the Bride Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Sandra D. Bricker, author of the Christian fiction, Always the Baker, Finally the Bride, as she tours the blogosphere May 6 – 31 2013 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT ALWAYS THE BAKER, FINALLY THE BRIDE In the first book, readers fell in love with Emma Rae and Jackson, and they’ve gotten more acquainted with them in the two books that followed. But now it’s time for the diamond to meet the road as Jackson fields an offer to sell The Tanglewood, a move that will uproot this high-flying family act once and for all. Get reacquainted with all of the lovable
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  • April 7, 2013
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Seeds of Evidence Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Linda J. White, author of the Christian fiction, Seeds of Evidence, as she tours the blogosphere May 6 – 31 2013 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT SEEDS OF EVIDENCE Stressed-out FBI Special Agent Kit McGovern returns to her grandmother’s Chincoteague Island home in search of peace. But when a little boy’s body washes up on the beach, Kit cannot resist throwing herself into the mystery of his murder. Her only clues: the tomato seeds in the Latino boy’s gut, and the acorns in his pockets. The medical examiner points out that the volume of tomato seeds in the boy’s gut could
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  • April 6, 2013
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Cat That God Sent Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Jim Kraus, author of the Christian fiction, The Cat That God Sent, as he tours the blogosphere May 6 – 31 2013 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT THE CAT THAT GOD SENT Jake Wilkerson, a disillusioned young pastor who is an expert at hiding his fears, takes on a new assignment in a small, rural church in Coudersport, Pennsylvania. It’s a far piece from anywhere and full of curiously odd and eccentric people, including Sally Grainger, a single woman and veterinarian who dismisses all Christians as “those people,” and Tassy, a young runaway with a secret. His first day on the
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Spellcaster’s Grimoire Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Mark All, author of the paranormal thriller, The Spellcaster’s Grimoire, as he tours the blogosphere May 6 – 31 2013 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT THE SPELLCASTER’S GRIMOIRE Bestselling witchcraft author Trish Sinclair has a shameful secret: she’s a lousy spellcaster, and the spells in her books belong to others. So when a dying warlock entrusts her with an ancient and powerful grimoire, she runs for her life from his murderer, psychotic witch Kate Cavanaugh. Kate pursues Trish relentlessly to obtain the grimoire, which holds spells to command the fearsome power of a magic crystal hidden in town—and Kate is determined to
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Scorned Justice Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Margaret Daley, author of the Christian fiction, Scorned Justice, as she tours the blogosphere April 1 – 26 2013 on her second virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT SCORNED JUSTICE Texas Ranger Brody Calhoun is with his parents in west Texas when an unexpected attack injures the brother of Rebecca Morgan, Brody’s high school sweetheart. The local sheriff, a good friend, asks for Brody’s help. At first, it seems an open-and-shut case. As Brody digs deeper, he realizes the attack may be related to an organized crime trial Rebecca will be overseeing. With Rebecca’s help, he compiles evidence involving cattle rustling, bribery and dirty payoffs
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  • March 30, 2013
  • Book Blasts, Featured
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Lila Munro’s Love Vindicated Book Blast – Win $25 Amazon GC/Paypal Cash + Gift Basket!

Join Lila Munro, author of the BDSM contemporary romance, Love Vindicated (Book 1 of the Steele Image series), as she tours the blogosphere June 20 on her first Book Blast with Pump Up Your Book! Lila will be giving away a $25 Amazon GC/Paypal Cash to one lucky reader PLUS a gift basket which includes her Slower Lower seies of 3 books and a copy of The Executive Officer’s Wife! To enter, fill out the Rafflecopter form on the participating blogs below on June 20 and good luck! WE HAVE A WINNER! Congratulations to Sarah L for winning the Amazon Gift Card and Gift Basket! ABOUT LOVE VINDICATED In
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  • March 29, 2013
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Search for the Lost Realm Virtual Book Publicity Tour + Win $100 Amazon Gift Card/Paypal Cash!

Join Kraig Dafoe, author of the fantasy/adventure novel, Search for the Lost Realm, as he tours the blogosphere April 1 – May 31 2013 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book!This tour is part of a $100 Amazon GC/Paypal Cash giveaway. ABOUT SEARCH FOR THE LOST REALM Search for the Lost Realm is an epic journey in which a young man named Varan wants to find a power which has been missing from the world of Kantania for thousands of years. Varan sets out but soon discovers his true mission is to save the worlds creator from a spiritual bond placed upon him by the
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  • March 16, 2013
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Angel Falls Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Connie Mann, author of the Christian fiction, Angel Falls, as she tours the blogosphere April 1 – 26 2013 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT ANGEL FALLS Her best friend’s been murdered and Brazilian orphanage director Regina da Silva will do whatever it takes to protect her friend’s baby. Even if it means dealing with an intimidating man she’s not sure she can trust. Former Army Ranger Brooks Anderson refuses to protect anyone ever again. The last time he did, the woman and child both died. He’s just here to transport an orphan for adoption, as promised, and then he’s outta there.
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  • March 15, 2013
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Guest Blogger: Vicious Circle: A Writer’s Lament by Susan DiPlacido

Vicious Circle By Susan DiPlacido You are a writer. No.  Not yet.  You want to be a writer.  You know you can be a writer.  So here’s your intricate, long-thought, grand plan to accomplish this. Write. So you do.  Put ass in chair, hit the keys, and turn that white page into a blur of intentioned, clever, and compelling words.  Words that string to sentences, sentences to characters, characters creating plot and problems, littered with jokes and allegory and metaphor and any other trick in your arsenal. Write and keep writing and then when you’re tired, write some more. When it’s almost done, when you’re scanning for spelling and
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  • March 10, 2013
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Terminus Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Joshua Graham, author of the paranormal suspense novel, Terminus, as he tours the blogosphere April 1 – 29 2013 on his fourth virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT TERMINUS How far must an angel fall to find his destiny? Having witnessed one too many senseless deaths, Nikolai, a disillusioned Reaper 3rd Class, resigns his commission with the Angel Forces after a tedious century of gathering souls. Immediately, another division recruits him with the promise of a more rewarding career, and issues his initial assignments: To bring down a few very dangerous threats to the human race.  In the process, Nikolai falls in love with one
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Promote Your Book Through Magazine and Ezine Articles

The editor of a writing-related ezine said to me the other day, “I don’t know why more authors don’t offer us articles. We almost always publish them along with their bio. It’s great publicity for their books.” Why not promote your book doing what you love best — writing? Here are several examples to help get your started. Many popular magazines and ezines use book excerpts. Of course, they generally want excerpts from books that relate to their magazine — cooking magazines want excerpts from cookbooks, a travel magazine will quote travel books and poetry magazines want to excerpt poetry books. Use your imagination to come up with more
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PUYB Virtual Book Tour: Join ‘Shuffle Up and Deal’ Susan DiPlacido at Broowaha & Win Kindle Fire HD!

Susan DiPlacido, author of Shuffle Up and Deal, is stopping off today at Broowaha, as part of her virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book where she is giving away a Kindle Fire HD! Meet Izzy Santillo. She’s a charming-but-lonely thirty-four year old woman who loves poker and harbors a secret crush on the reigning king of Hold ‘em. Meet Nick Nolan, the reigning king of Hold ‘em. On the tables, he’s fast and loose and almost always wins. But when it comes to women, playboy Nick holds his cards too close and always loses. When Izzy and Nick meet in embarrassing fashion at a Las Vegas poker
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Wondertown Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Mac Fallows, author of the fantasy novel, Wondertown, as he tours the blogosphere March 4 – 29 2013 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ——————————————————————– ABOUT WONDERTOWN Wondertown is a full-length fantasy novel from Mac Fallows that includes twelve original songs—each one an extension of the story sung by the characters themselves- and seventeen illustrations from acclaimed illustrator, Emrah Elmasli. The story centres around Neil Abbott, an undersized, introverted eleven-year old boy with the ability to tell about people by touching their possessions. He doesn’t fit in either at home or at school and rarely speaks to anyone, with the exception of his grandmother, who
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  • February 25, 2013
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Lowell Christensen’s The One-Minute Zillionaire Book Blast – Win $25 Amazon GC/Paypal Cash!

Join Lowell Christensen, author of the humor book, The One-Minute Zillionaire: Achieve Wealth, Fame, and Success in an Instant, Give or Take Hundred Years, as he tours the blogosphere April 1 on his first Book Blast with Pump Up Your Book! Lowell will be giving away a $25 Amazon GC/Paypal Cash to one lucky reader! To enter, fill out the Rafflecopter form on the participating blogs below on April 1 and good luck! ABOUT THE ONE-MINUTE ZILLIONAIRE Like any good success book, The One-Minute Zillionaire will get you so crazed with principles, keys, goals, affirmations, and profound and poetic platitudes that you’ll want to dash to Alaska to search
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  • February 23, 2013
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Revelation Virtual Book Publicity Tour + Win $100 Amazon Gift Card/Paypal Cash!

Join Morrie Richfield, author of the inspirational fantasy, Revelation, as he tours the blogosphere March 4 – May 31 2013 on his second virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! This tour is part of a $100 Amazon GC/Paypal Cash giveaway. If interested in signing up for a review, interview, guest post, first chapter reveal, book trailer reveal or book spotlight, please let us know by contacting Dorothy at thewriterslife (at) gmail.com or leave a comment below along with your contact information. ——————————————————————– ABOUT REVELATION Mr. Breeze is back; so is Michael Ryan and Rover, the magical dog. MR. BREEZE fans can rejoice. REVELATION, Morrie Richfield’s much-anticipated sequel
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  • February 23, 2013
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Beyond the Valley Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Rita Gerlach, author of the Christian historical romance, Beyond the Valley, as she tours the blogosphere March 4 – 29 2013 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ——————————————————————– ABOUT BEYOND THE VALLEY When Sarah Carr’s husband Jamie drowns, her young life is shattered and takes a turn that she never expected. Pregnant and now widowed, she reaches out to Jamie’s family for help, but they are unwilling. Instead they devise a plan to have her kidnapped and taken to the Colonies to live a life of servitude. Sarah’s new life in the Colonies finds her surrounded by a family’s whirlwind of secrets, while
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  • February 23, 2013
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Secret of Maggie’s Swamp Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Paul A. Barra, author of the children’s/middle grade novel, The Secret of Maggie’s Swamp, as he tours the blogosphere March 4 – 29 2013 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ——————————————————————– ABOUT THE SECRET OF MAGGIE’S SWAMP In this middle-grade mystery-adventure, a twelve-year-old girl discovers a grave injustice in the 1980s South when a neighbor is convicted of a crime he didn’t commit. Penny must find the courage to use her unique gift – her uncanny ability to foresee the future – to thwart a crazed desperado and find a treasure that will prove her neighbor’s innocence. Poor Penelope Andrews. Her neighbor is
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