Posts Tagged ‘legal thriller’

Join ‘Terminal Ambition’ author Kate McGuinness at The Writer’s Life – WIN A FREE KINDLE FIRE!

Kate McGuinness, author of Terminal Ambition, is stopping off today at The Writer’s Life, as part of her colossal 3 month virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book where she is giving away a Kindle Fire!Visit today’s stop at: http://thewriterslife.blogspot.com/2012/08/interview-with-kate-mcguinness-author.html Enter every day at a different blog for more entries! This contest begins August 13 and ends on November 16 2012. An extra bonus prize: $50 goes to the person who visits the most tour stops and leaves a comment. If there is a tie, we will choose a winner at Random.org. This contest is open to U.S. and Canadian citizens only. Sorry international! If you’d like to visit the authors’
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with author Kate McGuinness

ABOUT KATE McGUINNESS After leaving the corporate world, Kate was determined to master writing and riding, pastimes that often led to confusion in the telling. Her studies of creative writing proved to be more successful than her horseback adventures which included a broken leg! However, her love of horses remains. Kate also took the opportunity to be more fully involved with her son’s life – too involved, he would say. She enjoyed watching scores of soccer games and cheering his team on to a divisional state championship. All grown up now, her son lives in Eastern Europe and teaches English as a second language. In addition to Terminal Ambition,
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New Legal Thriller for Review: Terminal Ambition by Kate McGuinness

Kate McGuinness will be touring August 13 – November 16,2012 with her legal thriller, Terminal Ambition. Maggie Mahoney wants justice for women at her law firm. The firm chairman wants to be Attorney General. Only one can win. Sweeny, Owens & Boyle sits at the top of Wall Street law firms. Brilliant and beautiful, Maggie Mahoney became a partner and the trophy wife of its managing attorney. Her husband’s death renders Maggie an outsider with the firm’s male establishment and creates a power vacuum. Obsessed with his dream of becoming the next Attorney General, firm chairman, Andy Anderson, chooses a surprising replacement: Jack Slattery, a reputed sexist. Jack’s background
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New Legal Thriller for Review: Attorney-Client Privilege by Pamela Samuels Young

Pamela Samuels Young will be touring August 6 through October 26, 2012 with her legal thriller, Attorney-Client Priviledge! A brutal murder, missing documents and an unscrupulous opposing counsel lead attorney Vernetta Henderson on a quest for justice—and ultimately—revenge. The hotshot L.A. lawyer takes on a corporation with a long history of discriminating against women. While Vernetta simply wants justice for her clients, the corporation’s hired gun wants to win . . . and she doesn’t care how. On the home front, Vernetta’s infamous sidekick Special has finally found true love. But is the price more than she’s willing to pay? 402 pages You can visit Pamela’s website at http://www.pamelasamuelsyoung.com
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Attorney-Client Privilege Virtual Book Tour 2012 – Win a Free Kindle Fire HD!

Join Pamela Samuels Young, author of the legal thriller, Attorney-Client Privilege (Goldman House Publishing), as she virtually tours the blogosphere September 3 – November 30 2012 on her 14th virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT PAMELA SAMUELS YOUNG PAMELA SAMUELS YOUNG is a practicing attorney, whose fast-paced legal thrillers tackle law and crime. Her novels include Attorney-Client Privilege, Murder on the Down Low and Buying Time. A former television news writer, Pamela is a graduate of USC, Northwestern University and UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law. Pamela currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Chapter of Sisters in Crime, an organization
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New Legal Thriller Suspense Mystery Novel for Review: The Last Justice by Anthony Franze

Anthony Franze will be touring in april with her legal thriller/suspense/mystery novel, The Last Justice. CHAOS ERUPTS at the U.S. Supreme Court when an assassin guns down six justices as they are hearing a case. Solicitor General Jefferson McKenna, the government’s top lawyer in the Supreme Court, is appointed to the multiagency commission investigating the murders. As Congress draws battle lines over who will replace the slain justices, the commission follows clue after clue, each one pointing to an unlikely suspect: McKenna himself. In a desperate bid to prove his innocence, McKenna, on the run with his deputy, Kate Porter, must track down a disgraced law clerk with ties
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The Last Justice Virtual Book Publicity Tour April 2012

Join Anthony Franze, author of the legal thriller/suspense/mystery novel, The Last Justice (Sterling and Ross Publishers), as he virtually tours the blogosphere April 2 – April 20,2012 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Anthony Franze Anthony J. Franze is a lawyer in the Appellate and Supreme Court practice at a large Washington, D.C. law firm and author of the debut legal thriller, THE LAST JUSTICE. In addition to his law practice, he is an adjunct professor of law, teaching courses in Federal Courts and Appellate Practice. Franze is a graduate of Notre Dame Law School and the author of numerous scholarly works. He
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New Book for Review: Urban Fiction Legal Thriller ‘Reasonable Facsimile by Chris Shella

Chris Shella will be touring January 3 – 27 2012 with his urban fiction legal thriller, Reasonable Facsimile. Can Jasper Davis pull himself from his life of loose women, liquor, and general debauchery in enough time to win a murder case and possibly save his own hide ? Jasper Davis is a criminal trial lawyer in Baltimore who has slowly but surely become like the drug dealers and lowlifes he represents. He spends more time with hookers than clients and more time drinking Jack Daniels than studying the law books. Simply put. he is a shade of his former self. In Reasonable Facsimile, Jasper is in the middle of
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Reasonable Facsimile Virtual Book Publicity Tour January 2012

Join Chris Shella, author of the legal thriller, Reasonable Facsimile (Digisoda Publishing), as he virtually tours the blogosphere January 3 – 27 2012 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Chris Shella Author Chris Shella is a graduate of Morehouse College and the University of Texas Law School and started his legal career in Long Island, New York at the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office. He is admitted to the practice of law in New York, Maryland, the District of Columbia, and North Carolina. Shella is also admitted to the federal court in the Eastern District of North Carolina, the Middle District of North
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First Chapters: Death On a High Floor by Chuck Rosenberg

Pump Up Your Book is proud to bring you the first chapters of fantastic books from magnificently talented authors.  Not only does this give you a chance to see the author’s writing style, but it also helps in your book buying decisions.  Today’s first chapter is from Chuck Rosenberg’s legal thriller, Death on a High Floor. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Death On a High Floor By Chuck Rosenberg Sliding Hill Press (August 12, 2011) Legal Thriller 453 pages Chapter One © Copyright Charles Rosenberg 2011 All Rights Reserved
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The Public Pretender Virtual Book Publicity Tour February 2012

Join M.D. Cliatt, author of the legal thriller, The Public Pretender (CreateSpace), as she virtually tours the blogosphere February 6 -February 17 2012 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About M.D. Cliatt M. D. Cliatt is a wife and a mother of two teenage boys. She lives in Central Pennsylvania where she is a staff attorney in a law school clinical program, and an adjunct law professor who teaches juvenile justice and legal writing. She used to be a public defender specializing in representing children, and for the most part, loved the work. She thrived in the heat of courtroom battle, but the highs
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Death on a High Floor Virtual Book Publicity Tour December 2011

Join Charles Rosenberg, author of the legal thriller, Death on a High Floor (Sliding Hill Press), as he virtually tours the blogosphere December 5 – 16 2011 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Charles Rosenberg Charles B. (“Chuck”) Rosenberg has been the credited legal script consultant to three prime time television shows: L.A. Law, The Practice and Boston Legal, as well as The Paper Chase (Showtime). During the O .J. Simpson criminal trial, he was one of two on-air legal analysts for E! Entertainment Television’s live coverage of the trial. He also provided commentary for E!’s coverage of the Simpson civil trial. He
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Murder on the Down Low Virtual Book Publicity Tour January & February 2012

Join Pamela Samuels Young, author of the legal thriller, Murder on the Down Low (Goldman House Publishing), as she virtually tours the blogosphere in January and February on her 13th virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Pamela Samuels Young Corporate attorney Pamela Samuels Young has always abided by the philosophy that you create the change you want to see. Fed up with never seeing women or people of color depicted as savvy, hot shot attorneys in the legal thrillers she read, Pamela decided to create her own characters. Despite the demands of a busy legal career, Pamela accomplished her ambitious goal by rising at four in
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Murder on the Down Low by Pamela Samuels Young Virtual Book Tour August 2011

Join Pamela Samuels Young, author of the legal thriller, Murder on the Down Low (Goldman House Publishing), as she virtually tours the blogosphere in December-March on her 12th virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Pamela Samuels Young Corporate attorney Pamela Samuels Young has always abided by the philosophy that you create the change you want to see. Fed up with never seeing women or people of color depicted as savvy, hot shot attorneys in the legal thrillers she read, Pamela decided to create her own characters. Despite the demands of a busy legal career, Pamela accomplished her ambitious goal by rising at four in the morning
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Murder on the Down Low Virtual Book Tour December-March ’10 and ’11

Join Pamela Samuels Young, author of the legal thriller, Murder on the Down Low (Goldman House Publishing), as she virtually tours the blogosphere in December-March on her eleventh virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Pamela Samuels Young Corporate attorney Pamela Samuels Young has always abided by the philosophy that you create the change you want to see. Fed up with never seeing women or people of color depicted as savvy, hot shot attorneys in the legal thrillers she read, Pamela decided to create her own characters. Despite the demands of a busy legal career, Pamela accomplished her ambitious goal by rising at four in the morning
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Talking Virtual Book Tours with Joshua Graham

Joshua Graham grew up in Brooklyn, NY, where he lived for the better part of 30 years. He holds a Bachelor and Master’s Degree and went on to earn his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University.   During his time in Maryland, he taught as a professor at Shepherd College (WV), Western Maryland College, and Columbia Union College (MD). Today he lives with his beautiful wife and children in San Diego.  Several of Graham’s short fiction works have been published by Pocket Books and Dawn Treader Press under different pen names. Beyond Justice is now available in Trade Paperback through Amazon.com as well as Barnes and Noble.  It’s available at the
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Buying Time Virtual Book Tour November and December’10

Join Pamela Samuels Young, author of the legal thriller, Buying Time (Goldman House Publishing), as she virtually tours the blogosphere in November on her tenth virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Pamela Samuels Young Corporate attorney Pamela Samuels Young has always abided by the philosophy that you create the change you want to see. Fed up with never seeing women or people of color depicted as savvy, hot shot attorneys in the legal thrillers she read, Pamela decided to create her own characters. Despite the demands of a busy legal career, Pamela accomplished her ambitious goal by rising at four in the morning to write before work,
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Buying Time Virtual Book Tour October ’10

Join Pamela Samuels Young, author of the legal thriller, Buying Time  (Goldman House Publishing), as she virtually tours the blogosphere in October 2010 on her ninth virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Pamela Samuels Young Corporate attorney Pamela Samuels Young has always abided by the philosophy that you create the change you want to see. Fed up with never seeing women or people of color depicted as savvy, hot shot attorneys in the legal thrillers she read, Pamela decided to create her own characters. Despite the demands of a busy legal career, Pamela accomplished her ambitious goal by rising at four in the morning to write before
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Joshua Graham in Suspense Magazine

We have great news!  Joshua Graham, author of the suspense thriller, Beyond Justice, and who will be touring with us in September and October is appearing in Suspense Magazine! THE DESCENT INTO HELL IS NOT ALWAYS VERTICAL… Sam Hudson, a reputable San Diego attorney, learns this when the authorities wrongfully convict him of the brutal rape and murder of his wife and daughter, and sends him to death row. There he awaits execution by lethal injection. If he survives that long. In prison, Sam fights for his life while his attorney works frantically on his appeal. It is then that he embraces the faith of his departed wife and
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Buying Time Virtual Book Tour September ’10

Join Pamela Samuels Young, author of the legal thriller, Buying Time  (Goldman House Publishing), as she virtually tours the blogosphere in September 2010 on her eighth virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Pamela Samuels Young Corporate attorney Pamela Samuels Young has always abided by the philosophy that you create the change you want to see. Fed up with never seeing women or people of color depicted as savvy, hot shot attorneys in the legal thrillers she read, Pamela decided to create her own characters. Despite the demands of a busy legal career, Pamela accomplished her ambitious goal by rising at four in the morning to write
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with Pamela Samuels Young

Pamela Samuels Young is a Los Angeles attorney and the author of four legal thrillers. In her latest novel, Buying Time, a disbarred attorney is unwittingly drawn into a scam targeting the terminally ill. NY Times bestselling author Sheldon Siegel describes Buying Time as “a deftly plotted thriller that combines the best of Lisa Scottoline and Robert Crais.” A former journalist, Pamela is the Fiction Expert for BizyMoms.com and is on the Board of Directors of the Southern California Chapter of Mystery Writers of America. She is a graduate of USC, Northwestern University and UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law. To invite Pamela to your book club meeting
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Beyond Justice Virtual Book Tour September & October ’10

Join Joshua Graham, author of the suspense thriller, Beyond Justice (Dawn Treader Press), as he virtually tours the blogosphere September 7 – October 29 ‘10 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Joshua Graham Joshua Graham grew up in Brooklyn, NY, where he lived for the better part of 30 years. He holds a Bachelor and Master’s Degree and went on to earn his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University.   During his time in Maryland, he taught as a professor at Shepherd College (WV), Western Maryland College, and Columbia Union College (MD). Today he lives with his beautiful wife and children in San Diego.  Several
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