Posts Tagged ‘memoir’

Pump Up Your Book Presents Vienna’s Will Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mark McCullough’s VIENNA’S WILL virtual book tour December 1st – 31st! Title: Vienna’s Will Author: Mark McCullough Publisher: Createspace Pages: 254 Genre: Memoir New author, Mark McCullough, shares his inspirational journey through chronic depression and addiction in VIENNA’S WILL (www.viennaswill.com). After struggling for years to control the negative thoughts that he attempted to quiet with drugs and alcohol, Mark’s life changes when he finds the unconditional love of a little girl and her mother. In April of 1992, Mark McCullough’s distraught parents delivered their twenty-five-year-old son to Butner Federal Prison after he committed a bank robbery. The court had arranged
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Chemo on the Rocks: My Great Alaskan Adventure Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Rebecca L. Durkin’s CHEMO ON THE ROCKS: MY GREAT ALASKAN MISADVENTURE virtual book tour September 1 – 30! Title: Chemo on the Rocks: My Great Alaskan Misadventure Author: Rebecca L. Durkin Publisher: Christine F. Anderson Publishing & Media Pages: 178 Genre: Memoir Format: Hardcover/Paperback/Kindle/Nook Chemo on the Rocks is a shoreside seat on Rebecca (Becky) Durkin’s great Alaskan misadventure. It highlights the hilarity and heartache of a young girl who finds herself marooned in Ketchikan—fondly known as “The Rock”—where she remains on her self-imposed Alaskatraz for almost thirty years. Chemo on the Rocks is witty, inspirational, satirical, and sometimes terrifying.
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  • August 21, 2015
  • Authors on Tour, Featured
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Cocktales: An After-50 Memoir Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Morgan Malone’s COCKTALES: AN AFTER-50 MEMOIR virtual book tour September 1 – 30! Title: Cocktales: An After-50 Dating Memoir Author: Morgan Malone Publisher: Turquoise Morning Press Pages: 264 Genre: Romantic Memoir An After-50 Dating Memoir…or Eight Years, around Eighty Men, but not nearly Eight Thousand Kisses. There I was. Approaching 50, widowed for 15 years, alone for all that time, except for two kids, one dog, a full-time legal career, a house, a mortgage, some dear friends…and a wish. I just wanted to feel like a woman one more time. Not “Mom.” Not “Your Honor.” Not “Sis.” But, a desirable
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Don’t Hit Me! Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Vanessa de Largie’s DON’T HIT ME! virtual book tour August 3 – 28! Title: Don’t Hit Me! Author: Vanessa de Largie Publisher: Booktrope Pages: 88 Genre: Nonfiction/Memoir/Poetry/Journey Format: Paperback/Kindle #1 Amazon Bestseller # Winner of the 2014 Global eBook Award Bronze (women’s studies) # Winner of the 2014 Honourable Mention Award London Book Festival (memoir) # Five-Star Review Midwest Book Review # Five-Star Review San Francisco Book Review # Five-Star Review #1 Amazon Hall of Fame Reviewer – UK # 3 out of 4 stars Official Online Bookclub Australian actress and author Vanessa de Largie is a survivor of domestic
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Below the Water Line Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lisa Karlin’s BELOW THE WATER LINE virtual book tour August 3 – 28! Title: Below the Water Line: Getting Out, Going Back, and Moving Forward in the Decade After Hurricane Katrina Author: Lisa Karlin Publisher: Centennial Publishers Pages: 376 Genre: Memoir Format: Paperback 14.97/Kindle 9.99/Audio 22.99 Below the Water Line provides a gripping account of a family’s hurricane evacuation experiences and all that followed in the decade after Hurricane Katrina. The story begins in August 2005, when author Lisa Karlin, her husband, thirteen-year-old daughter, eleven-year-old son, and two dogs evacuated New Orleans for what they thought would be a two-day
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{Memoir} Chemo on the Rocks: My Great Alaskan Misadventure Blog Tour Sign Up

Rebecca Durkin will be touring September 1-30 with her memoir, CHEMO ON THE ROCKS: MY GREAT ALASKAN MISADVENTURE! We are looking for: Review (Paperback U.S. only/PDF) Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 72 hours. Thank you! Title: Chemo on the Rocks: My Great Alaskan Misadventure Author: Rebecca L. Durkin Publisher: Christine F. Anderson Publishing & Media Pages: 178 Genre: Memoir Format: Hardcover/Paperback/Kindle/Nook Chemo on the Rocks is a shoreside seat on Rebecca (Becky) Durkin’s great Alaskan misadventure. It highlights the hilarity and heartache of a young girl who finds herself marooned in Ketchikan—fondly known as “The Rock”—where
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{Memoir} Below the Water Line Blog Tour Sign Up

Lisa Karlin will be touring August 3 – 28 with her memoir, Below the Water Line: Getting Out, Going Back, and Moving Forward in the Decade After Hurricane Katrina! We are looking for: Reviews (Paperback US only/PDFs) Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 72 hours. Thank you! Title: Below the Water Line: Getting Out, Going Back, and Moving Forward in the Decade After Hurricane Katrina Author: Lisa Karlin Publisher: Centennial Publishers Pages: 376 Genre: Memoir Format: Paperback 14.97/Kindle 9.99/Audio 22.99 Below the Water Line provides a gripping account of a family’s hurricane evacuation experiences and all that
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{Nonfiction/Memoir/Poetry} Don’t Hit Me! Blog Tour Sign Up

Vanessa de Largie will be touring August 3 – 28 with her nonfiction/memoir/poetry book, Don’t Hit Me! We are looking for: Reviews Interviews Guest Posts Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 72 hours. Thank you! Title: Don’t Hit Me! Author: Vanessa de Largie Publisher: Booktrope Pages: 88 Genre: Nonfiction/Memoir/Poetry/Journey Format: Paperback/Kindle #1 Amazon Bestseller # Winner of the 2014 Global eBook Award Bronze (women’s studies) # Winner of the 2014 Honourable Mention Award London Book Festival (memoir) # Five-Star Review Midwest Book Review # Five-Star Review San Francisco Book Review # Five-Star Review #1 Amazon Hall of
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  • March 2, 2015
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First Chapter: Czar Nicholas, The Toad, and Duck Soup by Elisabeth Amaral

Title: Czar Nicholas, The Toad, and Duck Soup Author: Elisabeth Amaral Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 324 Genre: Memoir Format: Paperback/Kindle The mid-1960s through the mid-1970s was a heady, turbulent time. There was a lot going on back then, and author Elisabeth Amaral was in the middle of it all: the fights for women’s rights, racial equality, a music revolution, be-ins, love-ins, riots in the streets, the rage against the Vietnam War, and sex, drugs, and rock and roll. It was an amazing time to be young. In Czar Nicholas, The Toad, and Duck Soup, Amaral shares her recollections of those times. She and her husband gave up their jobs in
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  • February 23, 2015
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Czar Nicholas, The Toad, and Duck Soup Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Elisabeth Amaral’s CZAR NICHOLAS, THE TOAD, AND DUCK SOUP: A MEMOIR OF MARRIAGE, MIME AND MOVING ON virtual book tour March 2 – April 30! Title: Czar Nicholas, The Toad, and Duck Soup Author: Elisabeth Amaral Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 324 Genre: Memoir Format: Paperback/Kindle/Nook The mid-1960s through the mid-1970s was a heady, turbulent time. There was a lot going on back then, and author Elisabeth Amaral was in the middle of it all: the fights for women’s rights, racial equality, a music revolution, be-ins, love-ins, riots in the streets, the rage against the Vietnam War, and sex, drugs, and rock
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{Memoir} Czar Nicholas, The Toad, and Duck Soup: A Memoir of Marriage, Mime and Moving On Blog Tour Sign Up

Elisabeth Amaral will be touring March 2 – April 30 with her memoir, CZAR NICHOLAS, THE TOAD, AND DUCK SOUP: A MEMOIR OF MARRIAGE, MIME AND MOVING ON! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback & 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: Czar Nicholas, The Toad, and Duck Soup Author: Elisabeth Amaral Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 324 Genre: Memoir Format: Paperback/Kindle The mid-1960s through the mid-1970s was a heady, turbulent time. There was a lot going on back then, and author Elisabeth Amaral was in the middle
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First Chapter: Not Without My Father by Andra Watkins

Title: Not Without My Father: One Woman’s 444 Mile Walk of the Natchez Trace Author: Andra Watkins Publisher: Word Hermit Press Pages: 240 Genre: Memoir Format: Paperback/Kindle Can an epic adventure succeed without a hero? Andra Watkins needed a wingman to help her become the first living person to walk the historic 444-mile Natchez Trace as the pioneers did. She planned to walk fifteen miles a day. For thirty-four days. After striking out with everyone in her life, she was left with her disinterested eighty-year-old father. And his gas. The sleep apnea machine and self-scratching. Sharing a bathroom with a man whose gut obliterated his aim. As Watkins trudged
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Pump Up Your Book Presents You’re Not From Around Here, Are You? Reminiscences Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Helga Stipa Madland’s YOU’RE NOT FROM AROUND HERE, ARE YOU? REMINISCENCES virtual book tour March 2 – 27! Title: You’re Not From Around Here, Are You? Reminiscences Author: Helga Stipa Madland Publisher: Aventine Press Pages: 202 Genre: Memoir Format: Paperback/Kindle I start with when I was born, then there was a World War, and then I went to Norman.—Klodnitz, in Upper Silesia, now a part of Poland, was my birth place; when everything collapsed in 1945 at the end of WWII, my family and I became refugees. We trekked across Germany, to the west, and eventually settled in a small
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Not Without My Father Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Andra Watkins’ NOT WITHOUT MY FATHER virtual book tour January 19 – April 17! Title: Not Without My Father: One Woman’s 444 Mile Walk of the Natchez Trace Author: Andra Watkins Publisher: Word Hermit Press Pages: 240 Genre: Memoir Format: Paperback/Kindle Can an epic adventure succeed without a hero? Andra Watkins needed a wingman to help her become the first living person to walk the historic 444-mile Natchez Trace as the pioneers did. She planned to walk fifteen miles a day. For thirty-four days. After striking out with everyone in her life, she was left with her disinterested eighty-year-old father.
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{Memoir} Not Without My Father: A Woman’s 444 Mile Walk of the Natchez Trace Blog Tour Sign Up

Andra Watkins will be touring January 19 – April 17 with her memoir, NOT WITHOUT MY FATHER: A WOMAN’S 444 MILES WALK OF THE NATCHEZ TRACE! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback & 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: Not Without My Father: One Woman’s 444 Mile Walk of the Natchez Trace Author: Andra Watkins Publisher: Word Hermit Press Pages: 240 Genre: Memoir Format: Paperback/Kindle Can an epic adventure succeed without a hero? Andra Watkins needed a wingman to help her become the first living person
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{Memoir} Fighter Pilot’s Daughter: Growing Up in the Sixties and the Cold War Blog Tour Sign Up

Mary Lawlor will be touring November 17 – December 19 with her memoir, FIGHTER PILOT’S DAUGHTER: GROWING UP IN THE SIXTIES AND THE COLD WAR! 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 72 hours. Thank you!   FIGHTER PILOT’S DAUGHTER: GROWING UP IN THE SIXTIES AND THE COLD WAR tells the story of the author as a young woman coming of age in an Irish Catholic, military family during the Cold War.  Her father, an aviator in the Marines and later the Army, was transferred more
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Searching for Normal: A Memoir Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Alison Neuman’s SEARCHING FOR NORMAL: A MEMOIR virtual book tour November 3 – 28! Title: Searching for Normal: A Memoir Author: Alison Neuman Publisher: Fireside Publications Pages:302 Genre: Memoir Format: Paperback/Kindle They thought she was going to die. At three-and-a-half years old, bed-ridden shivering in a cold sweat, Alison Neuman’s tiny fingers wrap around her mother’s for strength.  But even at this age, Alison is determined to beat the odds. When years of hospitalization robs her of most of her childhood, she finds joy. When children and adults avoid her like the plague, she finds friendship. When she cracks her
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Temple of All Knowing Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lee Papa’s THE TEMPLE OF ALL KNOWING virtual book tour November 3 – December 19! Title: Temple of All Knowing Author: Lee Papa Publisher: WaveCloud Corporation Pages: 186 Genre: Memoir Format: Paperback/Kindle The Temple of All Knowing is a memoir of one woman’s passage from personal and professional turmoil to spiritual awakening. A compelling straight forward and sometimes humorous account of the most personal of journeys as this 40-something woman finds herself in Sin City with promise of a new life, new husband and elderly mother living with her. She instead is uncovered as a central character in the deepest
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{Memoir} The Temple of All Knowing Blog Tour Sign Up

Lee Papa will be touring November 3 – December 19 with her memoir, THE TEMPLE OF ALL KNOWING! We are looking for: Reviews (ebook/paperback) 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!   The Temple of All Knowing (186 pp) is a memoir of one woman’s passage from personal and professional turmoil to spiritual awakening. A compelling straight forward and sometimes humorous account of the most personal of journeys as this 40-something woman finds herself in Sin City with promise of a new life, new husband and elderly mother living
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{Memoir} Searching for Normal: A Memoir Blog Tour Sign Up

Alison Neuman will be touring November 3 – 28 with her memoir, Searching for Normal: A Memoir! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback – only 3 available/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 72 hours. Thank you! They thought she was going to die. At three-and-a-half years old, bed-ridden shivering in a cold sweat, Alison Neuman’s tiny fingers wrap around her mother’s for strength.  But even at this age, Alison is determined to beat the odds. When years of hospitalization robs her of most of her childhood, she finds joy. When
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Finding Zoe Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Brandi Rarus’ Finding Zoe: A Deaf Woman’s Story of Identity, Love, and Adoption virtual book tour October 6-17! Title: Finding Zoe: A Deaf Woman’s Story of Identity, Love, and Adoption Author: Brandi Rarus Publisher: BenBella Books Pages: 320 Genre: Biography/Autobiography/Personal Memoir Format: Hardcover In Finding Zoe, Brandi Rarus shares the story of her very personal path of self-discovery and the struggle of being caught between two worlds—the hearing and the Deaf. We travel with her through her mainstreamed younger years and later on to college at The National Technical Institute for the Deaf where she embraces Deaf culture and realizes
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{Biography/Autobiography/Personal Memoir} Finding Zoe: A Deaf Woman’s Story of Identity, Love, and Adoption Blog Tour Sign Up

Brandi Rarus will be touring October 6 – 17 with her biography/autobiography/personal memoir, Finding Zoe: A Deaf Woman’s Story of Identity, Love, and Adoption! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback & ebook) Interviews Guest posts Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 72 hours. Thank you! In Finding Zoe, Brandi Rarus shares the story of her very personal path of self-discovery and the struggle of being caught between two worlds—the hearing and the Deaf. We travel with her through her mainstreamed younger years and later on to college at The National Technical Institute for the Deaf where she
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  • July 29, 2014
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Moonflower: A Memoir of Healing Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Tara Edin’s Moonflower: A Memoir of Healing virtual book tour August 4-29! Title: Moonflower: A Memoir of Healing Author: Tara Edin Publisher: Tara Edin Pages: 156 Genre: Memoir Format: Kindle Blooming was her Birthright. Darkness the Unexpected Catalyst. Tara is an incest, rape and sexual abuse survivor, who suffered from PTSD for many years but was misdiagnosed with mental illnesses instead. This took her down a near-fatal path ultimately ending in an accident, which nearly claimed her life at age 29. Most only know the abridged version of the story, yet the real story holds many truths and miracles that
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Sister Surrendered Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Darla M. Grese’s Sister Surrendered virtual book tour August 4-29! Title: Sister Surrendered Author: Darla M. Grese Publisher: Darla M. Grese Pages: 210 Genre: Memoir Format: Paperback / Kindle When you’re a twin, loneliness is somewhat unfamiliar because you’ve always had each other. So when a twin passes, the other is left unprepared. Our loyalty was steadfast and our devotion to one another, solid. Our love was unconditional no matter what the circumstances. I’m so grateful every day for the memories of the joy and laughter that we shared together. I know the bond that Kelli and I shared is
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{Memoir} Moonflower: A Memoir of Healing Blog Tour Sign Up

Tara Edin will be touring August 4-29 with her memoir, Moonflower: A Memoir of Healing! We are looking for: Reviews (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!   Moonflower is Part Memoir, Part Self-Help and Part Spiritual Odyssey. Tara is an incest, rape and sexual abuse survivor, who suffered from PTSD for many years but was misdiagnosed with mental illnesses instead. This took her down a near-fatal path ultimately ending in an accident, which nearly claimed her life at age 29. Most only know the abridged version of
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{Memoir} Sister Surrendered Blog Tour Sign Up

Darla M. Grese will be touring August 4-29 with her memoir, Sister Surrendered! 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!   When you’re a twin, loneliness is somewhat unfamiliar because you’ve always had each other. So when a twin passes, the other is left unprepared. Our loyalty was steadfast and our devotion to one another, solid. Our love was unconditional no matter what the circumstances. I’m so grateful every day for the memories of the joy and laughter that we shared together.
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First Chapter: Sister Surrendered by Darla M. Grese

Title: Sister Surrendered Author: Darla M. Grese Publisher: Darla M. Grese Pages: 210 Genre: Memoir Format: Paperback / Kindle Purchase at AMAZON When you’re a twin, loneliness is somewhat unfamiliar because you’ve always had each other. So when a twin passes, the other is left unprepared. Our loyalty was steadfast and our devotion to one another, solid. Our love was unconditional no matter what the circumstances. I’m so grateful every day for the memories of the joy and laughter that we shared together. I know the bond that Kelli and I shared is impossible for anyone to replace. This memoir has become something so much more than initially intended.
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  • January 13, 2014
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents Closet Full of Coke Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Indra Sena’s Closet Full of Coke virtual book tour February 3 – 28! ABOUT CLOSET FULL OF COKE: A DIARY OF A TEENAGE DRUG QUEEN Title: Closet Full of Coke: A Diary of a Teenage Drug Queen Author: Indra Sena Publisher: Indra Sena Pages: 294 Language: English Genre: Memoir Format: Paperback & eBook Narrated by the teenage girl who lived it, Closet Full of Coke tells the true story of how a New York suburban fifteen-year-old girl’s savvy and wit helps turn the small-time drug business of Armando, a Colombian drug dealer, into a multi-million-dollar cocaine operation that puts them
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents My Death: A Personal Guidebook Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jeremy Kagan’s My Death: A Personal Guidebook virtual book tour January 6 – 31! ABOUT MY DEATH: A PERSONAL GUIDEBOOK Title: My Death: A Personal Guidebook Genre: Spiritual/Self-Help Author: Jeremy Kagan Publisher: Balboa Press Pages: 124 Language: English Format: eBook This is a powerful memoir of a near-death experience. After a Native American sweat lodge, the author loses control of his body and then his life. He begins a passage that leads to a personal hell. He discovers a way to escape and emerges into an amazing exploration of the soul’s journey. In this intense adventure, there are insights into
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{Memoir} Closet Full of Coke Blog Tour Sign-Up

Indra Sena will be touring February 3 – 28 with her memoir, Closet Full of Coke. We are looking for reviews, interviews, guest posts, first chapter reveals and book spotlights. Deadline to sign up is January 31. Please note this book is only available in ebook format for review. If you would like to host this tour, please fill out the form below. Thank you! Closet Full of Coke Description: Narrated by the teenage girl who lived it, Closet Full of Coke tells the true story of how a New York suburban fifteen-year-old girl’s savvy and wit helps turn the small-time drug business of Armando, a Colombian drug dealer,
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