Posts Tagged ‘book publicity’

  • June 9, 2011
  • Authors on Tour, Featured
  • Comments Off on ‘So You Want to Write a Guest Post: An Author’s Guide to Promoting with Guest Blogging’ Online Book Tour July 2011

‘So You Want to Write a Guest Post: An Author’s Guide to Promoting with Guest Blogging’ Online Book Tour July 2011

Join Jaime McDougall, author of the non-fiction author guide So You Want to Write a Guest Post: An Author’s Guide to Promoting with Guest Blogging as she virtually tours the blogosphere in July 2011 on her first tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Jaime McDougall Jaime McDougall is a citizen of the world, currently loving life in beautiful country Victoria in Australia. She loves eating sushi, kidnapping her husband and naming her pets in honour of science fiction authors. (So far, a cat named Asimov and a puppy named Brin.) A love of fiction has always coursed through her veins and she told stories as a child even
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New Book for Review: Women’s Fiction ‘The Full Moon Bride’ by Shobhan Bantwal

Women’s fiction author Shobhan Bantwal will be touring in September with her novel Full Moon Bride (Kensington Publishing Corp. August 2011). What makes a marriage—love or compatibility? Passion or pragmatism? THE FULL MOON BRIDE is a compelling story that explores the fascinating subject of arranged marriage, as young Indian-American attorney Soorya Giri navigates the gulf between desire and tradition. In choosing between two very different men, Soorya must reconcile her burgeoning independence and conservative background. And she must decide what matters most to her—not just in a husband, but in a family, a culture, and a life. Find more about THE FULL MOON BRIDE, other books by Shobhan Bantwal,
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Pump Up Your Book’s June 2011 Authors on Virtual Book Tour – Day 3

Welcome to Day Three of Pump Up Your Book’s June 2011 Authors on Virtual Book Tour! Follow along as these talented authors travel the blogosphere all month long to talk about their books, their lives and their future projects. Pick your favorites, follow their tours, and make sure you leave them a note to tell them you stopped by! Don’t forget our Facebook party on June 30 where you can win lots of valuable prizes. “Like” our page at www.facebook.com/pumpupyourbook before June 30, then leave a comment at our Facebook party page at http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150178034587393 to make sure you’re in. Full details are on the party page along with what
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Pump Up Your Book’s June 2011 Authors on Virtual Book Tour – Day Two

Welcome to Day Two of Pump Up Your Book’s June 2011 Authors on Virtual Book Tour! Follow along as these talented authors travel the blogosphere all month long to talk about their books, their lives and their future projects. Pick your favorites, follow their tours, and make sure you leave them a note to tell them you stopped by! Don’t forget our Facebook party on June 30 where you can win lots of valuable prizes. “Like” our page at www.facebook.com/pumpupyourbook before June 30, then leave a comment at our Facebook party page at http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150178034587393 to make sure you’re in. Full details are on the party page along with what
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Pump Up Your Book’s June 2011 Authors on Virtual Book Tour – Day 1

Welcome to Day One of Pump Up Your Book’s June 2011 Authors on Virtual Book Tour! Follow along as these talented authors travel the blogosphere all month long to talk about their books, their lives and their future projects. Pick your favorites, follow their tours, and make sure you leave them a note to tell them you stopped by! Don’t forget our Facebook party on June 30 where you can win lots of valuable prizes. “Like” our page at www.facebook.com/pumpupyourbook before June 30, then leave a comment at our Facebook party page at  http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150178034587393 to make sure you’re in. Full details are on the party page along with what
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Mother Goddess Speaks Online Book Tour July 2011

Join Blanca Beyar, author of the Mind/Body/Spirit book Mother Goddess Speaks as she virtually tours the blogosphere in July 2011 on her first tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Blanca Beyar Blanca, also known as (Lavanya) wears many hats. She is a Doctor of Natural Health, a Reiki Master, Shaman, Spiritual Counselor and beloved Guru. Her purpose and passion in life is to assist humanity in raising their consciousness, to help them unveil their divine radiance and achieve spiritual and emotional wholeness. Blanca honors her calling for service through her healing work and also through her writing. Her latest book, “The Goddess Speaks” is a sacred dictation that
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Pump Up Your Book! Announces June ‘11 Authors on Virtual Book Tour

Join a talented and diverse group of 38 authors who are touring with Pump Up Your Book! Virtual Book Tours during the month of June 2011. Follow these authors as they travel the blogosphere from June 6th through June 30th to discuss their books. This month is filled with a variety of genres:  thrillers, children’s books, fantasy novels, historicals, memoirs and more! The month of June finds several authors continuing their virtual book tours. Returning are Buzz Bernard and “Eyewall,” Sandi Gelles-Cole and “The Memoir of Marilyn Monroe,” Emily Sue Harvey and “Homefires,” Douglas Jacobson and “The Katyn Order,” Tom McLaughlin and “Borneo Tom,” M.J. Rose and “The Hypnotist,”
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Making It In Hollywood Virtual Book Tour July 2011

Join Bryan Hidalgo and Gail O’Donnell, authors of the entertainment nonfiction book, Making It In Hollywood (Createspace), as they virtually tour the blogosphere July 5 – July 29 2011 on their first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Bryan Hidalgo Bryan Hidalgo is an entertainment attorney who worked for several years in Business and Legal Affairs for Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures, MCA Records, and Geffen Records, before transitioning to private practice.  He is a graduate of the UCLA School of Law.  Prior to his legal career, he performed as a concert pianist, and was an Official Pianist for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics Opening Ceremonies.  In
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Island Girl Virtual Book Tour June 2011

Join Lynda Simmons, author of the literary fiction novel, Island Girl (Berkley), as she virtually tours the blogosphere June 6 – 30 2011 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Lynda Simmons Lynda Simmons is a writer by day, college instructor by night and a late sleeper on weekends. She grew up in Toronto reading Greek mythology, bringing home stray cats and making up stories about bodies in the basement. From an early age, her family knew she would either end up as a writer or the old lady with a hundred cats. As luck would have it, she married a man with allergies
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  • May 28, 2011
  • Authors on Tour, Featured
  • Comments Off on The Safe and Sane Guide to Teenage Plastic Surgery Virtual Book Tour June 2011

The Safe and Sane Guide to Teenage Plastic Surgery Virtual Book Tour June 2011

Join Frederick Lukash, M.D., author of the nonfiction health book, The Safe and Sane Guide to Teenage Plastic Surgery (BenBella Books), as he virtually tours the blogosphere June 6 – 30 2011 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Frederick Lukash, M.D. Dr. Frederick N. Lukash, M.D.,FACS, FAAP, has consistently been voted one of “America’s Top Doctors,” by the Castle Connolly guide, and by the Consumer Research Council of America (www.bestdoctors.com). A board-certified cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgeon in practice in Manhattan and Long Island since 1981, he is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Lukash
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Black Widow and the Sandman Virtual Book Tour June July & August 2011

Join LL Reaper, author of the thriller suspense novel, Black Widow and the Sandman (Hourglass Unlimited), as she virtually tours the blogosphere June 20 – August 12 2011 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About L.L. Reaper L.L. Reaper is two multi-published, award-winning authors who decided to write under a pen name for their dangerously sexy suspense series, Black Widow and the Sandman. You can visit their website at www.llreaper.com or connect with them at Twitter at www.twitter.com/llreaper and Facebook at www.facebook.com/AuthorLLReaper. About Black Widow and the Sandman Children in Cuba are suffering an agonizing death. The cause, a toxin released by a terrorist
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Pump Up Your Book’s May 2011 Authors on Virtual Book Tour – Day 20

Welcome to Day Twenty of Pump Up Your Book’s May 2011 Authors on Virtual Book Tour! Follow along as these talented authors travel the blogosphere all month long to talk about their books, their lives and their future projects. Pick your favorites, follow their tours, and make sure you leave them a note to tell them you stopped by! Don’t forget our Facebook party on May 27 where you can win lots of valuable prizes. “Like” our page at www.facebook.com/pumpupyourbook before May 27, then leave a comment at our Facebook party page at http://www.facebook.com/note.php?saved&&note_id=10150120034742449 to make sure you’re in. Full details are on the party page along with what
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No One to Hear You Scream Virtual Book Tour June & July 2011

Join Julia Madeleine, author of the thriller novel, No One to Hear You Scream (Black Heart Books), as she virtually tours the blogosphere June 6 – July 29 2011 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Julia Madeleine Julia Madeleine is the youngest daughter of Irish immigrant parents from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Born in Canada and raised in a small town in southern-western Ontario on the shores of Lake Huron, Julia honed her duel passions for art and fiction writng from the time she was old enough to hold a crayon. As a teenager she moved to Toronto and graduated in Media Writing from
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Pump Up Your Book’s May 2011 Authors on Virtual Book Tour – Day 18

Welcome to Day Eighteen of Pump Up Your Book’s May 2011 Authors on Virtual Book Tour! Follow along as these talented authors travel the blogosphere all month long to talk about their books, their lives and their future projects. Pick your favorites, follow their tours, and make sure you leave them a note to tell them you stopped by! Don’t forget our Facebook party on May 27 where you can win lots of valuable prizes. “Like” our page at www.facebook.com/pumpupyourbook before May 27, then leave a comment at our Facebook party page at http://www.facebook.com/note.php?saved&&note_id=10150120034742449 to make sure you’re in. Full details are on the party page along with what
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Class Struggle: Journal of a Teacher In Up to His Ears Online Book Tour July 2011

Join Steven Verrier, author of the nonfiction book, Class Struggle: Journal of a Teacher In Up to His Ears, as he virtually tours the blogosphere in July 2011 on his third tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Steven Verrier Steven Verrier has been a teacher for over two decades. From 2007-2010 he taught English at “Webster High School,” an institution in San Antonio, Texas, that seemed to revel in dysfunction. Class Struggle: Journal of a Teacher In Up to His Ears is Steve’s account of his third and final year at “Webster” – which turned out to be even wackier than Steve dared expect. Steve’s previous books include
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Pump Up Your Book’s May 2011 Authors on Virtual Book Tour – Day 17

Welcome to Day Seventeen of Pump Up Your Book’s May 2011 Authors on Virtual Book Tour! Follow along as these talented authors travel the blogosphere all month long to talk about their books, their lives and their future projects. Pick your favorites, follow their tours, and make sure you leave them a note to tell them you stopped by! Don’t forget our Facebook party on May 27 where you can win lots of valuable prizes. “Like” our page at www.facebook.com/pumpupyourbook before May 27, then leave a comment at our Facebook party page at http://www.facebook.com/note.php?saved&&note_id=10150120034742449 to make sure you’re in. Full details are on the party page along with what
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Pump Up Your Book’s May 2011 Authors on Virtual Book Tour – Day 16

Welcome to Day Sixteen of Pump Up Your Book’s May 2011 Authors on Virtual Book Tour! Follow along as these talented authors travel the blogosphere all month long to talk about their books, their lives and their future projects. Pick your favorites, follow their tours, and make sure you leave them a note to tell them you stopped by! Don’t forget our Facebook party on May 27 where you can win lots of valuable prizes. “Like” our page at www.facebook.com/pumpupyourbook before May 27, then leave a comment at our Facebook party page at http://www.facebook.com/note.php?saved&&note_id=10150120034742449 to make sure you’re in. Full details are on the party page along with what
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New Book for Review: Class Struggle: Journal of a Teacher In Up to His Ears by Steven Verrier

Steven Verrier is touring in July with his nonfiction book Class Struggle: Journal of a Teacher In Up to His Ears. Class Struggle: Journal of a Teacher In Up to His Ears takes readers deep into the heart of San Antonio’s “Webster High School” (fictional name), an institution that seems to revel in dysfunction. Told from the point of view of a bemused teacher, Class Struggle is a guided tour through the landscapes and minefields of modern urban education. Readers will meet intriguing characters – the brilliant student “on a quest to kill,” the barking boy, the substitute teacher who won’t shut up, and many others – who’ll make
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New Book for Review: Goddess Mother Speaks by Blanca Beyar

Blanca Beyar is touring in July with her Mind/Body/Spirit book Goddess Mother Speaks. The Goddess Mother is speaking to us in a way she has never done so before! The Omega aspect of the GodHead shares with us vital information about the changing times we are living in, the future creation, the Children of the Light, Sacred Relationships and so many other vital areas of our lives. In this incredible and divine dialogue from the Goddess Mother, she reaches out to all the children of the world with a spark of hope, of healing and renewal. In this epic time of change and transformation, our beloved Goddess provides vital
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Pump Up Your Book’s May 2011 Authors on Virtual Book Tour – Day 15

Welcome to Day Fifteen of Pump Up Your Book’s May 2011 Authors on Virtual Book Tour! Follow along as these talented authors travel the blogosphere all month long to talk about their books, their lives and their future projects. Pick your favorites, follow their tours, and make sure you leave them a note to tell them you stopped by! Don’t forget our Facebook party on May 27 where you can win lots of valuable prizes. “Like” our page at www.facebook.com/pumpupyourbook before May 27, then leave a comment at our Facebook party page at http://www.facebook.com/note.php?saved&&note_id=10150120034742449 to make sure you’re in. Full details are on the party page along with what
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Pump Up Your Book’s May 2011 Authors on Virtual Book Tour – Day 14

Welcome to Day Fourteen of Pump Up Your Book’s May 2011 Authors on Virtual Book Tour! Follow along as these talented authors travel the blogosphere all month long to talk about their books, their lives and their future projects. Pick your favorites, follow their tours, and make sure you leave them a note to tell them you stopped by! Don’t forget our Facebook party on May 27 where you can win lots of valuable prizes. “Like” our page at www.facebook.com/pumpupyourbook before May 27, then leave a comment at our Facebook party page at http://www.facebook.com/note.php?saved&&note_id=10150120034742449 to make sure you’re in. Full details are on the party page along with what
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Pump Up Your Book’s May 2011 Authors on Virtual Book Tour – Day 13

Welcome to Day Thirteen of Pump Up Your Book’s May 2011 Authors on Virtual Book Tour! Follow along as these talented authors travel the blogosphere all month long to talk about their books, their lives and their future projects. Pick your favorites, follow their tours, and make sure you leave them a note to tell them you stopped by! Don’t forget our Facebook party on May 27 where you can win lots of valuable prizes. “Like” our page at www.facebook.com/pumpupyourbook before May 27, then leave a comment at our Facebook party page at http://www.facebook.com/note.php?saved&&note_id=10150120034742449 to make sure you’re in. Full details are on the party page along with what
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Pump Up Your Book’s May 2011 Authors on Virtual Book Tour – Day 12

Welcome to Day Twelve of Pump Up Your Book’s May 2011 Authors on Virtual Book Tour! Follow along as these talented authors travel the blogosphere all month long to talk about their books, their lives and their future projects. Pick your favorites, follow their tours, and make sure you leave them a note to tell them you stopped by! Don’t forget our Facebook party on May 27 where you can win lots of valuable prizes. “Like” our page at www.facebook.com/pumpupyourbook before May 27, then leave a comment at our Facebook party page at http://www.facebook.com/note.php?saved&&note_id=10150120034742449 to make sure you’re in. Full details are on the party page along with what
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Pump Up Your Book’s May 2011 Authors on Virtual Book Tour – Day 11

Welcome to Day Eleven of Pump Up Your Book’s May 2011 Authors on Virtual Book Tour! Follow along as these talented authors travel the blogosphere all month long to talk about their books, their lives and their future projects. Pick your favorites, follow their tours, and make sure you leave them a note to tell them you stopped by! Don’t forget our Facebook party on May 27 where you can win lots of valuable prizes. “Like” our page at www.facebook.com/pumpupyourbook before May 27, then leave a comment at our Facebook party page at http://www.facebook.com/note.php?saved&&note_id=10150120034742449 to make sure you’re in. Full details are on the party page along with what
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Pump Up Your Book’s May 2011 Authors on Virtual Book Tour – Day 10

Welcome to Day Ten of Pump Up Your Book’s May 2011 Authors on Virtual Book Tour! Follow along as these talented authors travel the blogosphere all month long to talk about their books, their lives and their future projects. Pick your favorites, follow their tours, and make sure you leave them a note to tell them you stopped by! Don’t forget our Facebook party on May 27 where you can win lots of valuable prizes. “Like” our page at www.facebook.com/pumpupyourbook before May 27, then leave a comment at our Facebook party page at http://www.facebook.com/note.php?saved&&note_id=10150120034742449 to make sure you’re in. Full details are on the party page along with what
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Pump Up Your Book’s May 2011 Authors on Virtual Book Tour – Day 9

Welcome to Day Nine of Pump Up Your Book’s May 2011 Authors on Virtual Book Tour! Follow along as these talented authors travel the blogosphere all month long to talk about their books, their lives and their future projects. Pick your favorites, follow their tours, and make sure you leave them a note to tell them you stopped by! Don’t forget our Facebook party on May 27 where you can win lots of valuable prizes. “Like” our page at www.facebook.com/pumpupyourbook before May 27, then leave a comment at our Facebook party page at http://www.facebook.com/note.php?saved&&note_id=10150120034742449 to make sure you’re in. Full details are on the party page along with what
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Pump Up Chats with Sci-Fi Mystery Author B.A. Chepaitis

Barbara Chepaitis is the author of 8 published books, including The Fear Principle featuring Jaguar Addams, and the critically acclaimed Feeding Christine and These Dreams. Her first nonfiction book, Feathers of Hope, is about Berkshire Bird Paradise and the human connection with birds.   She’s writing a sequel about Eagle Mitch, a bird she helped our US troops rescue from Afghanistan.  Barbara is founder of the storytelling trio The Snickering Witches, and faculty coordinator for the fiction component of Western Colorado’s MFA program in creative writing. Facebook site for Barbara – http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=615302442 Facebook site for Jaguar – http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jaguar-Addams-and-the-Fear-Series/135879429815445 Barbara’s website:   http://www.wildreads.com Thank you for this interview, Barbara.  Do you remember
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Pump Up Your Book’s May 2011 Authors on Virtual Book Tour – Day 8

Welcome to Day Eight of Pump Up Your Book’s May 2011 Authors on Virtual Book Tour! Follow along as these talented authors travel the blogosphere all month long to talk about their books, their lives and their future projects. Pick your favorites, follow their tours, and make sure you leave them a note to tell them you stopped by! Don’t forget our Facebook party on May 27 where you can win lots of valuable prizes. “Like” our page at www.facebook.com/pumpupyourbook before May 27, then leave a comment at our Facebook party page at http://www.facebook.com/note.php?saved&&note_id=10150120034742449 to make sure you’re in. Full details are on the party page along with what
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From Mason to Minister: Through the Lattice Online Book Tour June 2011

Join Neil Cullan McKinlay, author of the Christian memoir, From Mason to Minister: Through the Lattice as he virtually tours the blogosphere in June 2011 on his first tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Neil Cullan McKinlay I was born in Ontario, Canada when the leaves turned a beautiful red and gold in the fall. With mum and dad and my two older brothers we sailed across the Atlantic to my parent’s native Scotland when I was two. As my brother Stuart remembers it, “we sailed from the St. Lawrence in November 1958 in the bowels of the Royal Mail ship, Carinthia, taking a week to cross the
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‘Through The Fire: One Woman’s Experiences in Surviving Domestic Violence’ Online Book Tour June 2011

Join Harriet Cammock, author of the inspirational non-fiction Through The Fire: One Woman’s Experiences in Surviving Domestic Violence as she virtually tours the blogosphere in June 2011 on her first tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Harriet Cammock It doesn’t matter how you start, it matters how you finish. This can be said of Harriet Cammock’s life. Born in Montego Bay, Jamaica, Harriet’s journey is one marked by a strong faith in the belief that you can overcome, if you try hard enough. Through childhood, her grandmother instilled in her a drive to succeed. After an abusive marriage, Harriet determined she would use her own experiences in overcoming
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