Posts Tagged ‘literary fiction’

📽Pump Up Your Book Trailer Of The Week: Crown of Blooms by R.C. Dickens #BookTrailer #BookTeaser

We’re happy to announce R.C. Dickens’ Crown of Blooms Book Teaser Trailer is this week’s PUYB Trailer of the Week! About the Book Title: Crown of Blooms Author: R.C. Dickens Publisher: Juniper Press Publication Date: September 1, 2024 Pages: 143 Genre: Coming of Age/Literary Fiction Kayden Moses has worked for 15 years to be a good pastor’s son. He’s volunteered at every Vacation Bible School, never missed a youth group meeting, and tries to follow the example of his spiritually gifted twin sister, Delilah. However, all his diligent efforts are disrupted when he meets the biggest stumbling block of his life:  Alex. The new boy in youth group. Bubbly.
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Happy Book Birthday to I Buried Paul by Bruce Ferber #happybookbirthday #releaseday #pubday

  We’re thrilled to announce the release of Bruce Ferber’s I Buried Paul (The Story Plant) 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?    Congratulations, Bruce, on your adult literary fiction new release, I Buried Paul!   About the Book Jimmy Kozlowski has a regular gig playing Paul McCartney in the Beatles tribute band, Help!. The band is part of a cottage industry built around mimicry, where each group strives to be the ultimate Fake Fab Four. And none strives harder than Help!,
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Pump Up Your Book Presents I Buried Paul Virtual Book Publicity Tour #AdultLiteraryFiction

· ┈┈┈┈┈┈ · ꕥ · ┈┈┈┈┈┈ · Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Bruce Ferber’s I Buried Paul Virtual Book Tour June 13 – July 13. · ┈┈┈┈┈┈ · ꕥ · ┈┈┈┈┈┈ · · ┈┈┈┈┈┈ · ꕥ · ┈┈┈┈┈┈ · Inside the Book Title: I Buried Paul Author: Bruce Ferber Publisher: The Story Plant Pages: 304 Genre: Adult Literary Fiction Book Blurb Jimmy Kozlowski has a regular gig playing Paul McCartney in the Beatles tribute band, Help!. The band is part of a cottage industry built around mimicry, where each group strives to be the ultimate Fake Fab Four. And none strives harder than Help!, thanks to
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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 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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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Panicles Virtual Book Publicity Tour #LiteraryFiction

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Richard Robbins’ PANICLES Virtual Book Tour December 2 – 27! Inside the book Title: PANICLES Author: Richard Robbins Publisher: Evolved Publishing Pages: 281 Genre: Literary Fiction Is it better to take the risk and pursue the glory of fame and fortune, or to live a simpler, more grounded life? “Richard Robbins has presented a cast of interesting characters, and each one is fully explored. The plot engages the reader from the first page to the last. The writing style is fast-paced and flows smoothly. Author Richard Robbins has penned a captivating novel in Panicles. A fascinating read!” ~ Readers’ Favorite
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Love, Loss and Lagniappe Virtual Book Publicity Tour @RRobbinsbooks #literaryfiction #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Richard Robbins’ LOVE, LOSS AND LAGNIAPPE Virtual Book Tour October 30 – November 30 2018! Inside the Book Title: LOVE, LOSS AND LAGNIAPPE Author: Richard Robbins Publisher: Evolved Publishing Pages: 186 Genre: Literary Fiction   BOOK BLURB: Life is good for Dr. Drew Coleman, a successful young eye surgeon living in Uptown New Orleans, and he knows it. Having met and married his beautiful medical school classmate, Kate, the two settle happily into the routine of raising their two young daughters. Drew’s charmed life is soon shattered by devastating news, causing him to go on a ten-year transcontinental journey of self-discovery,
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Code Blue Virtual Book Publicity Tour @aquarianmind1 #poetryprose #literaryfiction #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jamell Crouthers’ CODE BLUE Series Virtual Book Tour October 1 – 31 2018! Inside the Series The Code Blue: An Oath to the Badge and Gun series chronicles a police officer named Gary who has been on the force for a few years. He soon is entrenched in a lot of lies, corruption, racism and agendas being pushed by his superiors. The question throughout this series is whether he as a good cop becomes part of the corruption or does he report it? Part of this series features his son Gary, Jr who is a young teenager wanting to be
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Call House: A Washington Novel Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you C.P. Stiles’ THE CALL HOUSE: A WASHINGTON NOVEL Blog Tour June 12 – July 7! Inside the Book Title: THE CALL HOUSE: A WASHINGTON NOVEL Author: C.P. Stiles Publisher: Bacon Press Books Pages: 204 Genre: Literary Fiction A war on vice In Washington, DC—a city constantly awash in scandals? Hard to believe, but it really happened.  Only not exactly the way it’s told here. All Mattie Simon knows is that she want adventure and her hometown doesn’t have any. She wants independence, maybe some romance. All Andrew Stevens wants is to do his job as a newly-elected congressman. But Washington
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First Chapter: The Feet Say Run by Daniel A. Blum

Title: THE FEET SAY RUN Author: Daniel A. Blum Publisher: Gabriel’s Horn Press Pages: 349 Genre: Literary Fiction At the age of eighty-five, Hans Jaeger finds himself a castaway among a group of survivors on a deserted island.  What is my particular crime?  he asks.   Why have I been chosen  for this fate?  And so he begns his extraordinary chronicle. It would be an understatement to say he has lived a full life.  He has grown up in Nazi Germany and falls in love with Jewish girl.  He fights for the Germans on two continents, watches the Reich collapse spectacularly into occupation and starvation, and marries his former governess.  After the war he
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Feet Say Run Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Daniel A. Blum’s THE FEET SAY RUN Virtual Book Tour April 3 – June 30! Inside the Book Title: THE FEET SAY RUN Author: Daniel A. Blum Publisher: Gabriel’s Horn Press Pages: 349 Genre: Literary Fiction At the age of eighty-five, Hans Jaeger finds himself a castaway among a group of survivors on a deserted island.  What is my particular crime?  he asks.   Why have I been chosen  for this fate?  And so he begins his extraordinary chronicle. It would be an understatement to say he has lived a full life.  He has grown up in Nazi Germany and falls in love with Jewish
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Investment Club Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Doug Cooper’s THE INVESTMENT CLUB Virtual Book Tour April 3 – 28! Inside the Book Title: THE INVESTMENT CLUB Author: Doug Cooper Publisher: Rare Bird Books Pages: 362 Genre: Literary/Upmarket Fiction Forty million people visit Vegas every year but most never get past the strip. What about the people who live there? What brought them there? What keeps them there? Told from the perspective of a seasoned blackjack dealer, The Investment Club tells the stories of a self-destructive, dwarf entrepreneur, a drug-addicted musical performer-turned-stripper, a retired, widowed New Jersey policeman, a bereaved, divorced female sportscaster, and a card-counting, former Catholic
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Beethoven In Love; Opus 139 Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Howard J. Smith’s BEETHOVEN IN LOVE; OPUS 139 virtual book tour November 1 – April 28! Inside the Book Title: BEETHOVEN IN LOVE; OPUS 139 Author: Howard Jay Smith Publisher: SYQ Pages: 385 Genre: Literary Fiction/Biographical Fiction At the moment of his death, Ludwig van Beethoven pleads with Providence to grant him a final wish—one day, just a single day of pure joy. But first he must confront the many failings in his life, so the great composer and exceedingly complex man begins an odyssey into the netherworld of his past life led by a spirit guide who certainly seems to be
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  • September 5, 2016
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First Chapter Reveal & Tour Kickoff: Save the Last Dance by Eric Joseph & Eva Ungar Grudin

Title: Save The Last Dance Author: Eric Johnson & Eva Ungar Grudin Publisher: Hargrove Press Pages: 360 Genre: Literary Fiction A tale of the power and peril of first love rediscovered. Adam Wolf and Sarah Ross were teenage sweethearts who grew up in Cleveland Heights, Ohio in the late 50’s and early 60’s. They set a wedding date when they turned fifteen. The day came and went. For most of their lives the two were out of contact. With their 50th high school reunion approaching, Adam and Sarah reconnect. Email exchanges – after the first tentative “hi”, then a deluge- five, ten- by the end of the week twenty emails
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Save The Last Dance Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Eric Joseph and Eva Ungar Grudin’s SAVE THE LAST DANCE virtual book tour September 5 – November 30! Inside the Book Title: Save The Last Dance Author: Eric Joseph & Eva Ungar Publisher: Hargrove Press Pages: 360 Genre: Literary Fiction A tale of the power and peril of first love rediscovered. Adam Wolf and Sarah Ross were teenage sweethearts who grew up in Cleveland Heights, Ohio in the late 50’s and early 60’s. They set a wedding date when they turned fifteen. The day came and went. For most of their lives the two were out of contact. With their
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Shadows of an Empress Book Blast & Book Giveaway!

We invite you to Carole Waterhouse’s SHADOWS OF AN EMPRESS Book Blast on July 5 – 29! Inside the Book: Title: Shadows of an Empress Author: Carole Waterhouse Publisher: Anaphora Literary Press Pages: 310 Genre: Literary Fiction After the death of her mother, Sylvia is sent to live with her grandmother on an isolated piece of farmland, where she and a nymph-like companion run through the woods creating an imaginary world where her mother is still alive. When Sylvia marries Dan, everyone sees her life moving from tragic to fairy tale.  But when a recurring dream about a city she can’t identify leaves Sylvia feeling especially unsettled, she goes
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  • February 23, 2016
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Not Quite So Stories Virtual Book Publicity Tour & Two Book Giveaway!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you David S. Atkinson’s NOT QUITE SO STORIES virtual book tour March 1 – May 27! Inside the Book Title: NOT QUITE SO STORIES Author: David S. Atkinson Publisher: Literary Wanderlus LLC Pages: 166 Genre: Absurdist Literary Fiction The center of Not Quite So Stories is the idea that life is inherently absurd and all people can do is figure out how they will live in the face of that fact. The traditional explanation for the function of myth (including such works as the relatively modern Rudyard Kiping’s Just So Stories) is as an attempt by humans to explain and demystify
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First Chapter: From Ashes Into Light by Mouw Gudrun

Title: From Ashes Into Light Author: Gudrun Mouw Pages: 240 Genre: Literary/Visionary Fiction Publisher: Raincloud Press From Ashes into Light is a transpersonal tale of epic tragedy, spirituality, family, and personal redemption. It is told through three distinct voices: the haunting story of Ruth, a Jewish adolescent during Kristallnacht in World War II Austria, Saqapaya, a stalwart Native American from coastal California during the time of the Spanish conquest, and Friede Mai. Friede is born during WW II to a Bavarian soldier and an East-Prussian mother. As those around her struggle with the inevitable chaos and paradox of war, young Friede opens her heart to gruesome enemies, at times
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{Women’s Fiction} Unicorn Blog Tour Sign Up

L.E. Gett will be touring March 1-31 with her women’s fiction, UNICORN: ADDICTION, GUILT AND A DECISION THAT WILL CHANGE HER LIFE. We are looking for reviews (paperback U.S. and PDFs), interviews, guest posts and book spotlights. Inside the Book: Title: Unicorn: Addiction, Guilt, and a Decision That Will Change Her Life Author: L.E. Gett Publisher: Telemachus Press Pages: 240 Genre: Women’s Fiction/Literary Fiction/Drama Scarlet has the life most only dream about—she travels the world, she makes plenty of money and she has the best friend anyone could ask for. But, piece by piece, her world is falling apart because of her damaged family, years of resentment and her
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  • January 16, 2016
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Pump Up Your Book Presents From Ashes Into Light Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Gudrun Mouw’s FROM ASHES INTO LIGHT virtual book tour February 22 – April 18! Inside the Book Title: From Ashes Into Light Author: Gudrun Mouw Pages: 240 Genre: Literary/Visionary Fiction Publisher: Raincloud Press From Ashes into Light is a transpersonal tale of epic tragedy, spirituality, family, and personal redemption. It is told through three distinct voices: the haunting story of Ruth, a Jewish adolescent during Kristallnacht in World War II Austria, Saqapaya, a stalwart Native American from coastal California during the time of the Spanish conquest, and Friede Mai. Friede is born during WW II to a Bavarian soldier and
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{Literary Fiction/Visionary Fiction} From Ashes Into Light Blog Tour Sign Up

Gudrun Mouw will be touring February 1 – 26 with her literary fiction/visionary fiction, FROM ASHES INTO LIGHT! We are looking for: Reviews (Paperback (U.S. only please & PDF) Interviews Guest Posts Book Spotlights Inside the Book: Title: From Ashes Into Light Author: Gudrun Mouw Publisher: Raincloud Press Pages: 240 Genre: Literary Fiction/Visionary Fiction From Ashes into Light is a transpersonal tale of epic tragedy, spirituality, family, and personal redemption. It is told through three distinct voices: the haunting story of Ruth, a Jewish adolescent during Kristallnacht in World War II Austria, Saqapaya, a stalwart Native American from coastal California during the time of the Spanish conquest, and Friede
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  • May 7, 2015
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Color of Our Sky Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Amita Trasi’s THE COLOR OF OUR SKY virtual book tour July 6 – 31! Title: The Color of Our Sky Author: Amita Trasi Publisher: Bloomhill Books Pages: 424 Genre: Women’s Fiction/Suspense Format: Paperback/Kindle A sweeping, emotional journey of two childhood friends—one struggling to survive the human slave trade and the other on a mission to save her—two girls whose lives converge only to change one fateful night in 1993. India, 1986: Mukta, a ten-year-old girl from the lower caste Yellamma cult of temple prostitutes has come of age to fulfill her destiny of becoming a temple prostitute. In an attempt
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{Women’s Fiction} The Color of Our Sky Blog Tour Sign Up

Amita Trasi will be touring June 1-26 with her women’s fiction/suspense, THE COLOR OF OUR SKY! We are looking for: Reviews (10 paperbacks US only & unlimited ebooks) Interviews Guest Posts Book Spotlights Read first chapter here. Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 72 hours. Thank you! Title: The Color of Our Sky Author: Amita Trasi Publisher: Bloomhill Books Pages: 304 Genre: Women’s Fiction/Suspense Format: Paperback/Kindle A sweeping, emotional journey of two childhood friends—one struggling to survive the human slave trade and the other on a mission to save her—two girls whose lives converge only to change
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Landfall Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Joseph Jablonski’s LANDFALL virtual book tour January 5 – 30! Title: Landfall Author: Joseph Jablonski Publisher: Bacon Press Books Pages: 204 Genre: Literary Fiction Format: Paperback/Kindle After a long career at sea, Jake Thomas thinks he’s finally put his life in order. He’s got a new wife, a new home, time to write and tend his roses. But his past and the secrets he’s kept, even from himself, won’t stay buried. Forty years earlier, a woman was murdered during Jake’s first voyage on the American freighter, the SS James Wait. Her children want answers only Jake can give. But resurrecting
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{Literary Fiction} Landfall Blog Tour Sign Up

Joseph Jablonski will be touring January 5 – 30 with his literary fiction, LANDFALL! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback & ebook) 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: Landfall Author: Joseph Jablonski Publisher: Bacon Press Books Pages: 204 Genre: Literary Fiction Format: Paperback/Kindle After a long career at sea, Jake Thomas thinks he’s finally put his life in order. He’s got a new wife, a new home, time to write and tend his roses. But his past and the secrets he’s kept, even from himself, won’t stay buried. Forty years
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Captain Shelby Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jesse Giles Christiansen’s CAPTAIN SHELBY virtual book tour September 2 – 26! Title: Captain Shelby Author: Jesse Giles Christiansen Publisher: Imajin Books Pages: Genre: Literary Fiction/Magical Realism Format: Kindle There are places even the sea cannot go… In coastal Denmark, a young man named Nereus builds a longship and leaves at age eighteen to discover a new, enigmatic land. Faced with unimaginable obstacles, he crosses the North Atlantic, only to be captured by the Skraelings, the Inuit indigenous people who seek revenge on all settlers because of a “Great Red Man” who murdered many of their family members. Many years
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{Literary Fiction/Magical Realism} Captain Shelby Blog Tour Sign Up

Jesse Giles Christiansen will be touring September 2 – 26 with his literary fiction/magical realism novel, Captain Shelby! We are looking for: Reviews (ebook) Interviews Author Guest Posts Character 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! There are places even the sea cannot go… In coastal Denmark, a young man named Nereus builds a longship and leaves at age eighteen to discover a new, enigmatic land. Faced with unimaginable obstacles, he crosses the North Atlantic, only to be captured by the Skraelings, the Inuit indigenous people who seek revenge on
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Sense of Touch Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Ron Parsons’ The Sense of Touch virtual book tour May 5 – July 31! Title: The Sense of Touch Author: Ron Parsons Publisher: Aqueous Books Pages: 252 Genre: Short Story/Literary Fiction Format: Paperback; Kindle Old friends uncomfortably reunited and lovers who cling to their distance from one another; disappearing fathers, fiercely loving grandfathers, and strangers who pass through and radically change lives…These are among the characters who populate the rugged Midwestern landscapes of the mesmerizing fiction world of Ron Parsons. In his debut collection, THE SENSE OF TOUCH (Aqueous Books; May 1, 2013), Parsons captures people of various ages in
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{Short Story Collection – Literary Fiction} The Sense of Touch Blog Tour Sign Up

Ron Parsons will be on tour May 5 – July 31 with his collection of short stories, The Sense of Touch. We are looking for reviews (paperback or ebook), interviews, guest posts or book spotlights (preformatted html for both blogger and wordpress blogs). Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 48 hours. Thank you! Old friends uncomfortably reunited and lovers who cling to their distance from one another; disappearing fathers, fiercely loving grandfathers, and strangers who pass through and radically change lives…These are among the characters who populate the rugged Midwestern landscapes of the mesmerizing fiction world of
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  • October 27, 2012
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Beside Two Rivers Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Rita Gerlach, author of the Christian historical fiction, Beside Two Rivers, as she tours the blogosphere November 5 – 30 2012 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT RITA GERLACH Rita Gerlach lives with her husband and two sons in a historical town nestled along the Catoctin Mountains, amid Civil War battlefields and Revolutionary War outposts in central Maryland.  In many of her stories, she writes about the struggles endured by early colonists, with both American and English settings. Her new historical series for Abingdon Press entitled ‘Daughters of the Potomac‘ was launched in February 2012, with Before the Scarlet Dawn, book 1,
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