Posts Tagged ‘contemporary fiction’

📚Pump Up Your Book Presents D.W. Brooks’ Homecoming Chaos Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Romantic Suspense

  · ┈┈┈┈┈┈ · ꕥ · ┈┈┈┈┈┈ · Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you D.W. Brooks’ Homecoming Chaos Virtual Book Tour January 2 – 31. · ┈┈┈┈┈┈ · ꕥ · ┈┈┈┈┈┈ · · ┈┈┈┈┈┈ · ꕥ · ┈┈┈┈┈┈ · Title: Homecoming Chaos Author: D.W. Brooks Publisher: Life: The Reboot LLC Publication Date: November 21, 2023 Pages: 448 Genre: Romantic Suspense/Contemporary/African American Jamie Scott’s life fell apart four years ago when she broke off her engagement, turned down a dream job, and went overseas to run away from her life. Now she’s back, but the reunion is not without problems. She arrives home just in time to
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Happy Book Birthday to The Key to Circus-Mom Highway by Allyson Rice #BookBirthday#PUYB @circusmomhwy

We’re thrilled to announce the release of Allyson Rice’s new contemporary fiction / women’s fiction The Key to Circus-Mom Highway today! To help celebrate, we are asking our readers if you can please pretty please pick up a copy at Amazon and come back and tell us how you liked it or leave a review at Amazon? Read on to find out about this exciting new release! Congratulations, Allyson, on your contemporary fiction / women’s fiction new release, THE KEY TO CIRCUS-MOM HIGHWAY! The Key to Circus-Mom Highway Title: The Key to Circus-Mom Highway Author: Allyson Rice Publisher: The Total Human Press Pages: 270 Genre: Contemporary Fiction/Women’s Fiction In an attempt
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Triangle of Hope Virtual Book Publicity Tour #ContemporaryFiction #LiteraryFiction

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Michael Meyer’s TRIANGLE OF HOPE Virtual Book Tour April 4 – 29. Inside the Book Title: TRIANGLE OF HOPE Author: Michael Meyer Publisher: Pacific Books Genre: Contemporary Fiction / Literary Fiction BOOK BLURB: If one person can make a difference, just think what three can do. A tender story of love. Three strangers, each harboring a dark secret, become united by chance in a small Irish village, and the wonderful power of the human spirit comes alive. If you believe that love and romance can happen in unusual circumstances, then this book is for you. “From page one, I found myself
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents SERPENT RISING Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Mystery #Suspense #Thriller #ContemporaryFiction

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Victor Acquista’s SERPENT RISING Virtual Book Tour November 18 – December 18! Inside the Book Title: SERPENT RISING Author: Victor Acquista Publisher: BHC Press Pages: 304 Genre: Mystery/Suspense/Thriller/Contemporary Fiction BOOK BLURB: Serena Mendez is haunted and she is hunted… … Haunted by trauma—terrified and scarred as a young child, when a secret initiation into an ancient order of Lightbringers went horribly wrong. Unaware of the power latent in her blood, she is haunted by a life out of sync with her true identity. At twenty-one, she is abrasive, jobless, in debt, and addicted to sedatives. Haunted by her past, she
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents HOW THE DEER MOON HUNGERS Virtual Book Publicity Tour #YA #ComingofAge

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Susan Wingate’s HOW THE DEER MOON HUNGERS Virtual Book Tour July 1 – 31! Inside the Book Title: HOW THE DEER MOON HUNGERS Author: Susan Wingate Publisher: Roberts Press Pages: 384 Genre: YA / Coming of Age / Contemporary Fiction BOOK BLURB: For those who enjoy reading books like Where the Crawdads Sing and My Sister’s Keeper MACKENZIE FRASER witnesses a drunk driver mow down her seven-year-old sister and her mother blames her. Then she ends up in juvie on a trumped-up drug charge. Now she’s in the fight of her life…on the inside! And she’s losing. HOW THE DEER
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Survivors’ Dawn Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Ashley Warren’s SURVIVORS’ DAWN Virtual Book Tour January 3 – March 30! Inside the Book Title: SURVIVOR’S DAWN Author: Ashley Warren Publisher: Chaparral Press LLC Pages: 316 Genre: Contemporary Fiction / Women’s Fiction / New Adult Fiction BOOK BLURB: A heroic story of three college women’s fight for justice At first glance, Brooke Flanagan, Lauren Le, and Nikki Towers have little in common: a churchgoing virgin, a party girl, and a resident advisor. But they all have their own dreams, dreams that can be shattered in a single night. When freshman Brooke Flanagan first arrives at the university, she’s excited to escape her
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Along Came Jones Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Victoria Bernadine’s ALONG CAME JONES Virtual Book Tour January 3 – 31! Inside the Book Title: ALONG CAME JONES Author: Victoria Bernadine Publisher: Love of Words Publishing Pages: 324 Genre: Chick Lit/Contemporary Fiction BOOK BLURB: Benjamin Ferrin Macon-Jones has it all: a luxurious lifestyle in Toronto and the love of an intelligent, ambitious woman…until that same woman refuses his marriage proposal, tells him he’s a detriment to her career, and leaves him. Unable to deal with his cantankerous family trying to be supportive, he quietly slips away into the Canadian countryside. Lou Upjohn has problems of her own. She’s a
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Gil Virtual Book Publicity Tour

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Darin Gabby’s GIL Virtual Book Tour April 3 – 28! Inside the Book Title: GIL Author: Darin Gibby Publisher: Keohler Books Pages: 301 Genre: Contemporary Fiction/Baseball Some gifts come with a price. Twenty years before, high school coach Gil Gilbert gave up his dream to play professional baseball so he could marry his pregnant girlfriend, Keri. When he miraculously discovers that he can pitch with deadly accuracy and speed, he must choose between his successful career and comfortable family life or his chance to play with the Colorado Rockies during a player’s strike. Gil stuns the pitching staff with
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Pump Up Your Book Presents On Top of the World (Until the Bell Chimes) Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you David Lamb’s ON TOP OF THE WORLD (UNTIL THE BELL CHIMES) virtual book tour October 3- December 16! Inside the Book Title: ON TOP OF THE WORLD (UNTIL THE BELL CHIMES) Author: David Lamb Publisher: Woolly Mammoth Books Pages: 240 Genre: Contemporary Romance Fiction/Multicultural/Humor/Satire 2016 BEST FICTION-Pacific Book Awards. FROM THE FUNNY AND NATURALLY BRILLIANT DAVID LAMB, award-winning playwright of the New York Times celebrated play, Platanos Y Collard Greens, comes a modern spin on Dickens’ classic tale that perfectly combines humor and romance in a story re-imagined for our digital, consumerist age.  This version of Scrooge and Belle is familiar, yet unlike
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{Contemporary Fiction} Meet Me in Barcelona Blog Tour Sign Up

Mary Carter will be returning August 4 – October 31 with her contemporary fiction, Meet Me in Barcelona!  Mary will be giving away a 3 book set (My Sister’s Voice, Three Months in Florence and Sunnyside Blues) at the end of her tour.  All bloggers who host the book tour are eligible to enter and win.  This tour also comes with a one day book blitz on July 29. We are looking for: Reviews (paperback) Interviews Author Guest Posts Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 48 hours. Thank you!   A surprise trip to Barcelona
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First Chapter: Meet Me in Barcelona by Mary Carter

Title: Meet Me in Barcelona Author: Mary Carter Publisher: Kensington Pages: 352 Genre: Mainstream fiction Format: Paperback/Kindle/MP3 CD, Audiobook, MP3 Audo, Unabridged Purchase at AMAZON A surprise trip to Barcelona with her boyfriend, Jake, seems like the perfect antidote to Grace Sawyer’s current woes. The city is dazzling and unpredictable, but the biggest surprise for Grace is discovering who arranged and paid for the vacation. Carrie Ann wasn’t just Grace’s foster sister. Clever, pretty, and mercurial, she was her best friend—until everything went terribly wrong. Now, as she flees an abusive marriage, Carrie Ann has turned to the one person she hopes will come through for her. Despite her
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  • November 27, 2013
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents Wifey Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Fey Ugokwe’s Wifey virtual book tour December 2 – 27! ABOUT WIFEY Title: Wifey Author: Fey Ugokwe Genre: Contemporary Fiction Publisher: Pink Purse International Pages: 154 Language: English ISBN-10: 0615764908 ISBN-13: 978-0615764900 Purchase at AMAZON When life as a curiously paired, young married couple in California–in the midst of a growing state and national economic crisis–becomes literally unworkable, Rodney, an earnestly toiling, playboy of a husband, unilaterally determines that he and P.V., his ambitious but naive, exotic wife, should relocate to Texas. So P.V., a struggling sophomore realtor and avid foodie, and Rodney, a newly unemployed marketer and sports addict,
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  • July 2, 2013
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{FEATURED AUTHOR} Mary Carter, author of ‘Three Months in Florence’ + GIVEAWAYS!

Mary Carter is a freelance writer and novelist.  Three Months in Florence is her seventh novel. Her other works include:  The Things I Do For You, The Pub Across the Pond, My Sister’s Voice, Sunnyside Blues, She’ll Take It, and Accidentally Engaged.  In addition to her novels she has written three novellas: A Kiss Before Midnight in the anthology, You’re Still the One, A Very Maui Christmas in the New York Times best selling anthology Holiday Magic, and The Honeymoon House in the New York Times best selling anthology Almost Home. Mary is working on two more novellas for winter and summer of 2014, as well as her eighth
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  • October 22, 2012
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Pump Up Your Book Presents No Time for Love Virtual Book Publicity Tour – Godiva Chocolates/Book Giveaway

Join JB Miller, author of the chick lit novel, No Time for Love, as she tours the blogosphere November 15 ’12 – January 25 ’13 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! The No Time for Love Virtual Book Publicity Tour is part of a Godiva Chocolates/Book  Giveaway. See details further down on how you can win! ———————————– ABOUT JB MILLER J.B. Miller is a published author of fiction, non-fiction, award-winning poetry, music, and numerous articles and blogs. No Time For Love is her first novel. She resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and three children. Visit her blog at http://notimeforlovebyjbmiller.wordpress.com.
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Pump Up Your Book Presents the Unexpected Christmas Hero Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Kathi Macias, author of the contemporary Christmas novel, Unexpected Christmas Hero, as she travels the blogosphere from November 12 -24, 2012 on her twelfth virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT KATHI MACIAS Kathi Macias is a multi-award winning writer who has authored nearly 40 books and ghostwritten several others. A former newspaper columnist and string reporter, Kathi has taught creative and business writing in various venues and has been a guest on many radio and television programs. Kathi is a popular speaker at churches, women’s clubs and retreats, and writers’ conferences. She won the 2008 Member of the Year award from AWSA (Advanced Writers and Speakers Association) and
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  • August 7, 2012
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Third Grace Virtual Book Publicity Tour – Kindle Fire HD Giveaway!

Join Deb Elkink, author of the women’s fiction,  The Third Grace, as she tours the blogosphere October 1 – November 30 2012 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT DEB ELKINK When author and city-slicker Deb Elkink fell in love and married an introverted cowboy, she moved from her bright lights to his isolated cattle ranch far off in the prairie grasslands. Still—between learning to pilot a light aircraft, sewing for a costume rental store, and cooking for branding crews of a hundred—Deb graduated with a B.A. in Communications from Bethel University in St. Paul, MN; she also holds an M.A. in Theology (both
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Wanting Rita Virtual Book Publicity Tour 2012 + Kindle Fire Giveaway

Join Elyse Douglas, the husband/wife writing team of the women’s fiction novel, Wanting Rita, as they tour the blogosphere July 2 – August 24 2012 on their first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! The Wanting Rita Book Publicity Tour is part of huge Kindle Fire giveaway. See details further down on how you can win one for your own! ABOUT ELYSE DOUGLAS Elyse Douglas is the pen name for the married writing team Elyse Parmentier and Douglas Pennington. Elyse grew up near the sea, roaming the beaches, reading and writing stories and poetry, receiving a Master’s Degree in English Literature from Columbia University. She has enjoyed
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New Women’s Fiction eBook for Review: Wanting Rita by Elyse Douglas

Elyse Douglas will be touring July 2 – August 24 with her new women’s fiction novel, Wanting Rita. When his high school sweetheart experiences a devastating tragedy, Dr. Alan Lincoln reluctantly returns to his Pennsylvania hometown to see her. It’s been 15 years. Rita was a small town beauty queen—his first love whom he has never forgotten. He was a nerd from a wealthy family. Her family was poor. They formed a strong connection during their senior year, but Rita married someone else, and the marriage ended tragically. Alan’s marriage of three years is disintegrating, and he sees in Rita the chance to begin again with the true love
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  • February 6, 2012
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Special Delivery Virtual Book Publicity Tour March/April 2012

Join Kathi Macias, author of the Christian contemporary novel, Special Delivery (New Hope Publishers, March 6, 2012), as she virtually tours the blogosphere from mid-March to mid-April on her tenth virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Kathi Macias Kathi Macias is a multi-award winning writer who has authored more than 30 books and ghostwritten several others. A former newspaper columnist and string reporter, Kathi has taught creative and business writing in various venues and has been a guest on many radio and television programs. Kathi is a popular speaker at churches, women’s clubs and retreats, and writers’ conferences, and won the 2008 Member of the Year award from AWSA (Advanced Writers and Speakers Association).
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A Christmas Journey Home Virtual Book Tour, October 2011

Join Kathi Macias, author of the Christian contemporary seasonal novel, A Christmas Journey Home (New Hope Publishers, October 5, 2011), as she virtually tours the blogosphere in October 2011 on her ninth virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Kathi Macias Kathi Macias is a multi-award winning writer who has authored more than 30 books and ghostwritten several others. A former newspaper columnist and string reporter, Kathi has taught creative and business writing in various venues and has been a guest on many radio and television programs. Kathi is a popular speaker at churches, women’s clubs and retreats, and writers’ conferences, and won the 2008 Member of the Year award from AWSA (Advanced Writers and
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The Edge of Grace Virtual Book Publicity Tour September 2011

Join Christa Allan, author of the contemporary fiction novel, The Edge of Grace (Abingdon Press), as she virtually tours the blogosphere September 5 – 30 2011 on her second virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Christa Allan A true Southern woman who knows that any cook worth her gumbo always starts with a roux and who never wears white after Labor Day, The Edge of Grace is Christa’s second novel. Her debut women’s fiction, Walking on Broken Glass, released in February from Abingdon Press. She is under contract for three more novels that will release in 2012 and 2013. She has been teaching high school English
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New Book for Review: ‘A Christmas Journey Home’ by Kathi Macias

Multi-published award-winning Christian author Kathi Macias is touring from October 17 – 28, 2011 with her contemporary novel, A Christmas Journey Home. During Isabella Alcantara’s seventh month of pregnancy, her parents and siblings are murdered in gang- and drug-related violence, simply because their home was targeted by mistake. Isabella knows she was spared only because she now lives in a different location, but she knows too that the same thing could easily happen to her and her husband, Francisco. When her grandfather offers to hire a “coyote” to bring them across the border to America, she agrees. But Francisco and Isabella are abandoned by the coyote and left to die.
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New Book for Review: Contemporary Fiction ‘The Edge of Grace’ by Christa Allan

Christa Allan is touring in September 2011 with her contemporary fiction novel, The Edge of Grace. When Caryn Becker answers the telephone on most Saturday morning, it’s generally not a prelude to disaster. Except this time, her brother David’s call shifts her universe. Her emotional reserves are already depleted being a single parent to six-year-old Ben after the unexpected death of her husband Harrison. But when David is the target of a brutal hate crime, Caryn has to decide what she’s willing to risk, including revealing her own secrets, to help her brother.  A family ultimately explores the struggle of acceptance, the grace of forgiveness, and moving from prejudice
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with Michael Scott Miller

Michael Scott Miller works with numbers by day in the business world and with words by night. He began writing shortly after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania and has had his work published in the Welcomat (now Philadelphia Weekly) and wrote music reviews for the Wharton Journal while his wife was getting her degree there. Miller’s debut novel, Ladies and Gentlemen…The Redeemers, has been downloaded more than ten thousand times and has received tremendously positive reader feedback, earning 4-star to 5-star ratings at Amazon, barnesandnoble.com, Smashwords, and Kobo. The complete set of reader reviews and comments can be accessed at http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/40309/ . Miller grew up in Cherry Hill,
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Ladies and Gentlemen…The Redeemers Virtual Book Tour June 2011

Join Michael Scott Miller, author of the contemporary fiction novel, Ladies and Gentlemen…The Redeemers (Kindle Direct Publishing), as he virtually tours the blogosphere in June 2011 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Michael Scott Miller Michael Scott Miller works with numbers by day in the business world and with words by night.  He began writing shortly after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania and has had his work published in the Welcomat (now Philadelphia Weekly) and wrote music reviews for the Wharton Journal while his wife was getting her degree there. Miller’s debut novel, Ladies and Gentlemen…The Redeemers, has been downloaded more than
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New Book for Review: Contemporary Fiction ‘Ladies and Gentlemen…The Redeemers’ by Michael Scott Miller

Michael Scott Miller is touring in June 2011 with his contemporary fiction novel, Ladies and Gentleman…The Redeemers. Ladies and Gentlemen…The Redeemers tells the story of Bert Ingram, once a successful rep in the music industry, who has lost his way.  Desperate for redemption, the perpetual dreamer decides to put together a band, recruiting musicians who have only one thing in common:  the need to overcome a significant obstacle in their lives.  The volatile mix of the musicians’ personalities and backgrounds threatens to derail the band at every opportunity, but in time, the Redeemers begin to realize they have more to gain from one another than they ever could have imagined.
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New Book for Review: Christian Contemporary International Thriller ‘People of the Book’ by Kathi Macias

Kathi Macias will be touring in May with the fourth book in her Extreme Devotion series, People of the Book.  Eighteen-year-old Farah, who lives in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, wants nothing more than to develop a deeper devotion to her Muslim faith. Then the prophet Isa—Jesus—appears to her in a dream and calls her to Himself. Her older brother, Kareem, who has never liked Farah, actively seeks to expose her for the sham he believes she is. At the same time, Farah’s 17-year-old cousin, Nura, begins frequenting an online chat room where former Muslims discuss their new Christian faith. While there, Nura meets an American girl of Muslim ancestry—now a
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The Red Ink Virtual Book Tour December ’10

Join Kathi Macias, author of the Contemporary/International Thriller, Red Ink  (New Hope Publishers, October 2010), as she virtually tours the blogosphere in December 2010 on her sixth virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Kathi Macias Kathi Macias is a blogtalkradio host and an award-winning author of more than 30 books, including her popular Extreme Devotion series from New Hope Publishers and Valeria’s Cross from Abingdon Press. A wife, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother, Kathi lives in Southern California with her husband, Al, where the two of them spend their spare time riding Al’s Harley—hence, Kathi’s “road name” of Easy Writer! Her latest release is Red Ink, the third book
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Book Review: Hakim & Terrance Shadow Mystery by Bernadine Feagins

Hakim & Terrance Shadow Mystery Author: Bernadine Feagins Publisher: LuLu Rating: Reviewed by: Cheryl Malandrinos What would you do if one day you woke up and your dog was missing? Well, if you’re Hakim, you go find your best friend and start searching for clues. With the help of their families and friends in the neighborhood, Terrance and Hakim are sure to find Shadow. In this debut release by children’s author Bernadine Feagins, two best friends set out to solve the mystery of a missing dog. Young readers will sympathize with Hakim as he searches for his beloved pet. They will also enjoy the friendship between the two boys
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