Posts Tagged ‘MuseItUp Publishing’

Pump Up Chats with John Rosenman

John Rosenman recently retired as an English professor at Norfolk State University where he designed and taught a course in how to write Science fiction and Fantasy. He is a former Chairman of the Board of the Horror Writers Association and has published approximately 350 stories in places such as Weird Tales, Whitley Strieber’s Aliens, Fangoria, Galaxy, The Age of Wonders, and the Hot Blood anthology series. John has published twenty books, including SF action/romantic adventure novels such as Beyond Those Distant Stars and Speaker of the Shakk (Mundania Press), A Senseless Act of Beauty (Crossroad Press), and Alien Dreams (Drollerie Press and Crossroad Press). Shorter books include A
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New Book for Review for December 2011: ‘Empty Time’ by Frank Scully

Frank Scully is touring from December 5th – 16th with the third book in his Decade Mystery Series, Empty Time. Jim Lang’s life sputtered into a workaholic rut on a middle rung of the corporate ladder while his colleagues, using his business plan, became the international business titans he once aspired to be. Bad memories of busted marriages and broken promises are all that keep him company in his personal hours so he is more than willing to sacrifice that empty time to his job to make the corporation grow.  His bosses have one more sacrifice in mind for him.  To die for them. Deceived, betrayed and framed for murder
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Pump Up Chats with Heather Haven

Heather is a story teller by nature and loves the written word.  In her career, she’s written short stories, novels, comedy acts, plays, television treatments, ad copy, commercials, and even ghost-wrote a book.  One of her first jobs as a writer was given to her by her then agent. It was that of writing a love story for a book published by Bantam called Moments of Love. She had a deadline of one week and then promptly came down with the flu. She wrote “The Sands of Time” with a temperature of 102 and delivered some pretty hot stuff because of it. Later on, she wrote short comedy skits for nightclub acts and ad copy for
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Pump Up Chats with Christopher Hoare

Christopher Hoare lives with his wife of 40 years, Shirley, and two shelter dogs, Coco and Emmie, in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains where he writes and watches the world turn. His fantasy “Rast” was released by MuseItUp Publishing in  March 2011. You can download a free copy of the Iskander series promo “Gisel Matah and the Slave Ship” from his website at http://christopherhoare.ca. The Iskander series novels are available from Double Dragon — http://www.double-dragon-ebooks.com/eAuthor.php?Name=Christopher%20Hoare You can also find Chris online at: Iskander Blog http://thewildcatsvictory.wordpress.com Rast blog http://trailowner.blogspot.com/  Thank you for this interview, Christopher.  Do you remember writing stories as a child or did the writing bug come
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Murder is a Family Business Virtual Book Tour, May 2011

Join Heather Haven, author of the humorous mystery, Murder is a Family Business (MuseItUp Publishing, January 2011) as she virtually tours the blogosphere in May on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Heather Haven Heather is a story teller by nature and loves the written word.  In her career, she’s written short stories, novels, comedy acts, plays, television treatments, ad copy, commercials, and even ghost-wrote a book. One of her first jobs as a writer was given to her by her then agent. It was that of writing a love story for a book published by Bantam called Moments of Love. She had a deadline of one week and then promptly came down with
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New e-Book for Review: Humorous Murder Mystery Novel “Murder is a Family Business” by Heather Haven

Heather Haven is touring in May 2011 with the first book in her humorous Alvarez Family Murder Mystery series, Murder is a Family Business. Just because a man cheats on his wife and makes Danny DeVito look tall, dark and handsome, is that any reason to kill him? The reluctant and quirky PI, Lee Alvarez doesn’t think so. But the 34-year old ½ Latina, ½ WASP and 100% detective has her work cut out for her when the man is murdered on her watch.  Of all the nerve. Set in the present, Murder is a Family Business is the first in a series of humorous mysteries revolving around Lee Alvarez, a
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Rast Virtual Book Tour, April 2011

Join Christopher Hoare, author of the high fantasy novel, Rast (MuseItUp Publishing, March 2011) as he virtually tours the blogosphere in April on his second virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Christopher Hoare Christopher Hoare lives with his wife, Shirley, and two shelter dogs, Coco and Emmie, in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies. As a lad he lived, breathed, and dreamed aeroplanes, won a place at RAE Farnborough learning to engineer them, but found the reality didn’t fit the dream. Did a stint in the army and then away to Libya to join the oil circus. Flying objects only appear as tools when they now appear in his writing.
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New e-Book for Review: High Fantasy Novel “Rast” by Christopher Hoare

Christopher Hoare is touring in April 2011 with his high fantasy novel, Rast. In Rast, magic is not a convenient parlour trick, it’s a deadly force that takes no prisoners. Those who must wield it are doomed, for it never ceases to work within the mind and nerves until it destroys its master. And now, the time of the interregnum is here; the reigning sorcerer king, the Drogar of Rast, is struggling for a last grasp on magic power while his heir, Prince Egon, must take up the deadly mantle. Egon is fearful but courageous in his duty. Not one peril threatens Rast, but many. While he struggles to
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with Frank Scully

Frank Scully was born and raised in a small town in North Dakota and received a Bachelor’s degree in History with Phi Beta Kappa Honors and a Juris Doctor degree in Law from the University of North Dakota.  He then served more than five years as a Judge Advocate General Corps Officer in the U. S. Army in the U. S., Vietnam, and Thailand.  After that he attended the prestigious Thunderbird School and received a Masters in Business Administration with honors. In his professional career he has worked as an executive with large aerospace and defense manufacturers and also owned his own small business.  Depending on the vagaries of
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Resurrection Garden Virtual Book Tour February 2011

Join Frank Scully, author of the mystery novel, Resurrection Garden (MuseItUp Publishing, January 2011), as he virtually tours the blogosphere in February on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book. About Frank Scully Frank Scully was born and raised in a small town in North Dakota and received a Bachelor’s degree in History with Phi Beta Kappa Honors and a Juris Doctor degree in Law from the University of North Dakota. He then served more than five years as a Judge Advocate General Corps Officer in the U. S. Army in the U. S., Vietnam, and Thailand. After that he attended the prestigious Thunderbird School and received a Masters in Business
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