Posts Tagged ‘Humor’

📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents I Am Not Brad Pitt and Other Stories Virtual Book Publicity Tour #LiteraryFiction #Satire #Humor

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Ross Dreiblatt’s I AM NOT BRAD PITT AND OTHER STORIES Virtual Book Tour February 1 – 25. Inside the Book Title: I AM NOT BRAD PITT AND OTHER STORIES Author: Ross Dreiblatt Publisher: Stone Tiger Books Pages: 391 Genre: Literary Fiction/Humor/Satire BOOK BLURB: I AM NOT BRAD PITT is the first of three riotously absurd tales in Ross Dreiblatt’s debut short-story collection sending up America’s sometimes-fatal celebrity obsessions. “I Am Not Brad Pitt” opens in a prison cell in which Mr. Pitt’s clone-like doppelganger, Tobey Crawford, remorsefully recounts the sequence of unlikely events that resulted in his wrongful conviction for murder. The
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📢 {Women’s Fiction/Humor} Harmony to Heartburn Review Campaign Sign Up

We are taking review requests for Shelly Hickman’s HARMONY TO HEARTBURN. This is a review campaign and not a blog tour. If requesting review copies, we ask that you post your review at Amazon no later than February 12, please. When you are ready to submit your review, come back and click below to take you directly to the book’s Amazon link. Review copies will be sent via PDF. Thank you! Inside the Book Title: HARMONY TO HEARTBURN Author: Shelly Hickman Publisher: Independent Pages: 224 Genre: Women’s Fiction/Humor It’s safe to say Anna’s path to wedded bliss was strewn with craziness, so the last three years of relative tranquility
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents How Not to Succeed in Hollywood Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Marissa Thomas’ HOW NOT TO SUCCEED IN HOLLYWOOD Virtual Book Tour December 4 – 29! Inside the Book Title: HOW NOT TO SUCCEED IN HOLLYWOOD Author: Marissa Thompson Publisher: Harlequin Pages: 436 Genre: Humor/Fiction BOOK BLURB: In HOW NOT TO SUCCEED IN HOLLYWOOD, Marissa Thomas offers readers an inside view of one young woman’s journey to fulfill her dream of becoming an actor. The personal and humorous story of Lisa reveals the often difficult and inspiring process of navigating the entertainment industry. The acting bug bit Lisa during her first elementary school talent show. After receiving positive reviews for her
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📢 {Humor fiction} Big & Fabulous, The Life and Times of Brenda Cankles Review Campaign Sign Up

We are taking review requests for Randi Sherman’s BIG & FABULOUS, THE LIFE AND TIMES OF BRENDA CANKLES. This is a review campaign and not a blog tour. If requesting review copies, we ask that you post your review at Amazon no later than October 17, please. When you are ready to submit your review, come back and click below to take you directly to the book’s Amazon link. Review copies will be sent via PDF, Mobi & ePub. Thank you! Inside the Book Title: BIG & FABULOUS, THE LIFE AND TIMES OF BRENDA CANKLES Author: Randi Sherman Publisher: Friesen Press Pages: 282 Genre: Humor Fiction Imperfect, impervious and
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Are You There Krishna? Virtual Book Trailer Reveal

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Rachel Khona’s ARE YOU THERE KRISHNA? IT’S ME, RESHMA. OR RACHEL. OR WHATEVER.: ESSAYS ON TALKING TO GHOSTS, ACCOSTING CELEBRITIES, GETTING HIGH, SEXISM, RACE AND FIRST-GENERATION WOES Book Trailer Reveal April 3 – 28! Inside the Book Title: ARE YOU THERE KRISHNA? IT’S ME, RESHMA. OR RACHEL. OR WHATEVER.: ESSAYS ON TALKING TO GHOSTS, ACCOSTING CELEBRITIES, GETTING HIGH, SEXISM, RACE AND FIRST-GENERATION WOES Author: Rachel Khona Publisher: Thought Catalog Pages: 257 Genre: Humor/Memoir Rachel knew even as a young child that she wasn’t like the rest of her Indian family. While her parents were plotting how she could make it
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Paradise Series Book Blast!

We invite you to Deborah Brown’s PARADISE SERIES Book Blast on December 15! Leave a comment on each of her tour stops to let her know you stopped by! Inside the Book: Title: Paradise Series Author: Deborah Brown Publisher: Paradise Books Pages: 628 (total in series) Genre: Mystery/Humor Crazy in Paradise: Dying in the middle of the summer in the Florida Keys is sweaty business. Welcome to Tarpon Cove. Madison Westin has inherited her aunt’s beachfront motel in the Florida Keys. Trouble is she’s also inherited a slew of colorful tenant’s – drunks, ex-cons, and fugitives. Only one problem: First, she has to wrestle control from a conniving lawyer
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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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Pump Up Your Book Presents Wanna-be’s Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mark Connelly’s WANNA-BE’S virtual book tour October 3- December 16! Inside the Book Title: WANNA-BE’S Author: Mark Connelly Publisher: Mark Connelly Productions Pages: 188 Genre: Literary Fiction/Humor/Satire With his new girlfriend – a soccer mom with a taste for bondage – urging him to “go condo,” failed screenwriter Winfield Payton needs cash. Accepting a job offer from a college friend, he becomes the lone white employee of a black S&L. As the firm’s token white, he poses as a Mafioso to intimidate skittish investors and woos a wealthy cougar to keep the firm afloat. Figure-skating between the worlds of white
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Fairly Safe Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Deborah Ann Davis” FAIRLY SAFE virtual book tour August 1 – October 28! Inside the Book Title: FAIRLY SAFE Author: Deborah Ann Davis Publisher: D&D Universe Pages: 356 Genre: Young Adult When Mistaken Identity collides with Secret Identity, who wins? JACOB HAS COME A LONG WAY FOR AN ORPHANED FOSTER KID. He has a mentor, a great job, and has finally fallen in love. Granted, she mistook him for a stalker when they met, but every relationship has its little problems. Unfortunately, for the past few years, as the object of his affection pops in and out of his life, she has refused
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Cocktails & Mock-Tales Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Julianne McLean & Mark Lynch’s COCKTAILS & MOCK-TALES virtual book tour June 6 – August 31! Inside the Book Title: Cocktales & Mock-Tales Authors: Julianne McLean & Mark Lynch Publisher: ASJ Publishing Pages: 90 Genre: Humor Cocktails and Mock- Tales is not just about alcoholic beverages. The book is about sensations that tickle your tastebuds and humour that tickles your fancy. It includes non-alcoholic beverages that the whole family can enjoy and even herbal recipes for the adventurous. Have one extremely tall high ball glass and a giant cocktail shaker at the ready Ingredients: Unlimited centilitres of wit and humour
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{Travel/Humor} Oh Ship! Tales of a Cruising Chick and Other Travel Adventures Review Campaign Sign Up

We are taking review requests for Lori A. Moore’s OH SHIP! TALES OF A CRUISING CHICK AND OTHER TRAVEL ADVENTURES. This is an review campaign and not a tour. If requesting review copies, we ask that you post your review at Amazon no later than September 21. When you are ready to submit your review, come back and click below to take you directly to the book’s Amazon link. Review copies will be sent via paperback (U.S.) and PDF only. Thank you! Inside the Book: Title: OH SHIP! TALES OF A CRUISING CHICK AND OTHER TRAVEL ADVENTURES Author: Lori A. Moore Publisher: Tate Publishing Pages: 134 Genre: Humor/Travel Cruises
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{Satire/Humor} The Lobby Review Campaign Sign Up

We are taking review requests for Randy M. Sherman’s THE LOBBY. This is an review campaign and not a tour. If requesting review copies, we ask that you post your review at Amazon no later than September 21. When you are ready to submit your review, come back and click below to take you directly to the book’s Amazon link. Review copies will be sent via paperback or PDF only. Thank you! Inside the Book: Title: THE LOBBY Author: Randy M. Sherman Publisher: Friesen Press Pages: 222 Genre: Satire/Humor Dear Reviewer: The media loves Randi Sherman’s latest book, THE LOBBY, as evidenced by her frequent appearances on television and
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{Humor} Cocktails and Mock-Tales Blog Tour Sign Up

Julianne McLean and Mark Lynch will be touring July 5 – August 31 with their humor book, COCKTAILS & MOCK-TALES. We are looking for reviews (PDF), interviews, guest posts and book spotlight/promos. Thank you! Inside the Book Title: Cocktales and Mock-Tales Authors: Julianne McLean & Mark Lynch Publisher: ASJ Publishing Pages: 90 Genre: Humor “ Cocktails and Mock- Tales” is not just about alcoholic beverages. The book is about sensations that tickle your tastebuds and humour that tickles your fancy. It includes non-alcoholic beverages that the whole family can enjoy and even herbal recipes for the adventurous. Have one extremely tall high ball glass and a giant cocktail shaker
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Going Both Ways Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Phil Fragasso’s GOING BOTH WAYS virtual book tour April 4 – 29! Inside the Book Title: GOING BOTH WAYS Author: Phil Fragasso Publisher: Wild Rose Press Pages: 276 Genre: Paranormal Romance/Satire/Humor/Mainstream Fiction After a prolonged rant about how easy women have it, Patrick awakens as a woman (Trish). But rather than staying a woman, he’s male one day and female the next. The male and female characters share a single mindset – so Patrick is always in Trish’s head and vice versa. As much as Patrick tries to keep his situation private, he eventually becomes a worldwide sensation sought after
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{Paranormal Romance} Going Both Ways Blog Tour Sign Up

Phil Fragasso will be touring April 4-29 with his paranormal romance/satire/humor/mainstream fiction, GOING BOTH WAYS. We are looking for reviews (paperback U.S./PDF ), interviews, and guest posts. Thank you! Inside the Book: Title: GOING BOTH WAYS Author: Phil Fragasso Publisher: Wild Rose Press Pages: 276 Genre: Paranormal Romance/Satire/Humor/Mainstream Fiction After a prolonged rant about how easy women have it, Patrick awakens as a woman (Trish). But rather than staying a woman, he’s male one day and female the next. The male and female characters share a single mindset – so Patrick is always in Trish’s head and vice versa. As much as Patrick tries to keep his situation private,
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Oh Ship! Tales of a Cruising Chick and Other Travel Adventures Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lori A. Moore’s OH SHIP! TALES OF A CRUISING CHICK AND OTHER TRAVEL ADVENTURES virtual book tour January 4-29! Inside the Book Title:  OH SHIP! TALES OF A CRUISING CHICK AND OTHER TRAVEL ADVENTURES Author: Lori Moore Publisher: Tate Publishing Pages: 134 Genre: Travel/Humor Reading Lori A. Moore’s true tales of things that happen on the high seas will have you saying, “Oh Ship!” From stories of passengers pepper-spraying other passengers to grown men fighting over glass figurines of penguins, you’ll laugh until your ribs hurt. For More Information Oh Ship! Tales of a Cruising Chick and Other Travel Adventures
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  • December 30, 2015
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Caskets From Costco Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Kelly Wilson’s CASKETS FROM COSTCO virtual book tour January 4-29! Inside the Book Title: CASKETS FROM COSTCO Author: Kelly Wilson Publisher: Gravity Pages: 182 Genre: Memoir/Humor For twenty years, I thought that I had been marching through the stages of grief in a straight line. I had been following the formula, crossing each processed grief experience off my list. Except that I was totally deluded. And I didn’t discover that until Jim, my beloved father-in-law, died. I found myself drying off from my shower the morning after his death, really hoping he couldn’t see me naked. Or, if he could,
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{Memoir/Humor} Caskets From Costco Blog Tour Sign Up

Kelly Wilson will be touring January 4-29 with her memoir/humor, CASKETS FROM COSTCO! We are looking for: Reviews (Paperback & PDF) Interviews Guest Posts Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 72 hours. Thank you! Title: CASKETS FROM COSTCO Author: Kelly Wilson Publisher: Gravity Pages: 182 Genre: Memoir/Humor For twenty years, I thought that I had been marching through the stages of grief in a straight line. I had been following the formula, crossing each processed grief experience off my list. Except that I was totally deluded. And I didn’t discover that until Jim, my beloved
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Welcome to Fat Chance, Texas and Hold Me Close Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lyrical Press’ WELCOME TO FAT CHANCE, TEXAS and HOLD ME CLOSE virtual book tour July 27 – August 7! Title: Welcome to Fat Chance, Texas Author: Celia Bonaduce Publisher: Lyrical Press Genre: Fiction/Humor Format: Kindle/Paperback “A fresh, heartwarming voice.”  —Jodi Thomas, New York Times bestselling author For champion professional knitter Dymphna Pearl, inheriting part of a sun-blasted ghost town in the Texas hill country isn’t just unexpected, it’s a little daunting. To earn a cash bequest that could change her life, she’ll have to leave California to live in tiny, run-down Fat Chance for six months—with seven strangers. Impossible! Or is it? Trading her sandals for cowboy boots, Dymphna dives into her
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Admit to Mayhem Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you D.J. Anderson’s ADMIT TO MAYHEM virtual book tour February 2 – March 27! Title: Admit to Mayhem Author: D.J. Adamson Publisher: Horatio Press Pages: 286 Genre: Mystery/Amateur Sleuth Format: Paperback/Kindle With a contrary attitude and an addiction for independence, Lillian Dove admits she has not been a success in life. In fact, she considers failing as one of her addictions. Yet, when she comes across a suspicious house fire with a history of arson and murder, she instinctively attempts to help someone trapped. Lillian becomes the only possible eyewitness to criminal arson, and her life begins to spiral out of
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Cracked: A Magic iPhone Story Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Janine A. Southard’s CRACKED: A MAGIC IPHONE STORY virtual book tour February 2 – 27! Title: Cracked! A Magic iPhone Story Author: Janine A. Southard Publisher: Cantina Publishing Pages: 265 Genre: Contemporary Lit/Humor Format: Paperback/Kindle What can your phone do for you? This is the story of a girl and her iPhone. No, that’s not quite right. This is the story of a middle-aged statistician and her best friend. Though she didn’t consider herself middle-aged. And the best friend was more of a roommate-with-whom-she’d-developed-a-friendship. And this description completely ignores the 6,000-year-old elf with whom the woman and her best friend
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{Contemporary Lit/Humor} Cracked! A Magic iPhone Story Blog Tour Sign Up

Janine A. Southard will be touring February 2 – 27 with her contemporary lit/humor, CRACKED! A MAGIC IPHONE STORY! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback – 4 or 5 available & unlimited ebook) Interviews Guest Posts Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 72 hours. Thank you! Title: Cracked! A Magic iPhone Story Author: Janine A. Southard Publisher: Cantina Publishing Pages: 265 Genre: Contemporary Lit/Humor What can your phone do for you? This is the story of a girl and her iPhone. No, that’s not quite right. This is the story of a middle-aged statistician and
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Double Blind Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Tiffany Pitts‘ Double Blind virtual book tour August 4-29! Title: Double Blind Author: Tiffany Pitts Publisher: Booktrope Editions Pages: 280 Genre: Action/Adventure/Humor/Sci-fi Format: Paperback/Kindle Delilah Pelham’s brother, Paul, is missing. She should probably be worried about that but honestly, he’s been in trouble since the day he learned the words “trust me.” In fact, if it weren’t for his roommate, Carl, she would gladly leave him to his fate. Carl is a good guy, even if he’s a bit of a dork. Okay, a large slice of a dork. Possibly the entire cake. But he wants to help, as do
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{Action/Adventure/Humor/Sci-Fi} Double Blind Blog Tour Sign Up

Tiffany Pitts will be touring August 4-29 with her action/adventure/humor/sci-fi novel, Double Blind! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback or ebook) 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!   Delilah Pelham’s brother, Paul, is missing. She should probably be worried about that but honestly, he’s been in trouble since the day he learned the words “trust me.” In fact, if it weren’t for his roommate, Carl, she would gladly leave him to his fate. Carl is a good guy, even if he’s a bit of a dork. Okay,
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First Chapter: Hair of the Corn Dog by A.K. Turner

Title: Hair of the Corn Dog Genre: Humor Author: A.K. Turner Publisher: Fever Streak Press Pages: 220 Format: Hardcover/Kindle Purchase at AMAZON In the latest laugh-out-loud confessional from A.K. Turner’s “Tales of Imperfection” series, the author of This Little Piggy Went to the Liquor Store and Mommy Had a Little Flask relates her adventures on the Jersey Shore, at an Idaho drag show with her in-laws, and surviving the perils of an elementary school ice-cream social with equal parts wit and heart. The laughter pairs well with two parts cocktail. Chapter 1 Humpin’ Hannah’s Humpin’ Hannah’s seems determined to communicate via its name that it welcomes all manner of
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First Chapter: The Eight Fingered Fiend of Lake Porker by Fletcher Best

Title: The Eight Fingered Fiend of Lake Porker Genre: Humor/Satire Author:  Fletcher Best Publisher: Fletcher Best Pages: 202 Language: English Format: Paperback Purchase at AMAZON Dark secrets lie just below the surface of the small town of Lake Porker, Texas. The long-time, yet much-despised mayor has been keeping his job by means of rigging elections with the help of the town clerk, a highly respected woman who secretly happens to be the mayor’s dominatrix lover. The man that most of the town thinks is a successful stock day trader is actually a methamphetamine kingpin. His drop-dead beautiful and supposedly devoted God-fearing wife is not only plotting to kill him
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  • February 21, 2014
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Eight Fingered Fiend of Lake Porker

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Fletcher Best’s The Eight Fingered Fiend of Lake Porker virtual book tour March 3 – 28! ABOUT THE EIGHT FINGERED FIEND OF LAKE PORKER   Title: The Eight Fingered Fiend of Lake Porker Genre: Humor/Satire Author:  Fletcher Best Publisher: Fletcher Best Pages: 202 Language: English Format: Paperback Dark secrets lie just below the surface of the small town of Lake Porker, Texas. The long-time, yet much-despised mayor has been keeping his job by means of rigging elections with the help of the town clerk, a highly respected woman who secretly happens to be the mayor’s dominatrix lover. The man that
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Johnny Gora Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you John Goodale’s Johnny Gora  Book Blast February 17 – 28! ABOUT JOHNNY GORA     Title: Johnny Gora Genre: Biography/Memoir Author: John Goodale Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 194 Language: English Format: Ebook Have you ever had your life fall apart, or felt you were on the verge of oblivion and wonder if there were any glimmers of hope ahead? If you’re human, it’s likely that has happened to you at least once. During those times, it may seem like nothing good will ever come your way again. John Goodale felt that way. In his memoir, Johnny Gora, Goodale tells how he watched his entire life
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Pump Up Your Book Presents I Want Your Body, Candy Starr Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Tom Kempinski’s I Want Your Body, Candy Starr Book Blast February 17 – 28! ABOUT I WANT YOUR BODY, CANDY STARR   Title: I Want Your Body, Candy Starr Genre: Humor Author: Tom Kempinski Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 170 Language: English Format: Ebook Joe Andretti is a hospital porter living in New York, an eager member of the fan club of movie superstar, Candy Starr. One fine day, the way these things go in life, he suddenly snaps during a particularly boring session of the fan club and decides that instead of messing around looking at Candy’s movies and assessing her artistic qualities, he is
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{Humor/Satire} The Eight Fingered Fiend of Lake Porter Blog Tour Sign Up

Fletcher Best will be on tour March 3 – 28 with his humor/satire, The Eight Fingered Fiend of Lake Porter. We are looking for reviews (paperback & ebook), interviews, guest posts, first chapter reveals and book spotlights. Deadline to sign up is February 15. Please sign up on the form below if you are interested in hosting him and thank you! Dark secrets lie just below the surface of the small town of Lake Porker, Texas. The long-time, yet much-despised mayor has been keeping his job by means of rigging elections with the help of the town clerk, a highly respected woman who secretly happens to be the mayor’s
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