Posts Tagged ‘Phyllis Schieber’

Pump Up Your Book Presents October 2011 Authors on Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book! Announces Oct ‘11 Authors on Virtual Book Tours Join a talented and diverse group of 42 authors, promoting 44 books, who are touring with Pump Up Your Book! Virtual Book Tours during the month of October 2011. Follow them as they travel the blogosphere from October 3rd through October 28th to discuss their books. There are genres for everyone: from literary fiction to satire, from fantasy to historical fiction, from true crime to memoir, and more! Award-winning authors Kathi Macias and Marilyn Meredith return for their ninth virtual book tours to promote their latest releases. Literary fiction comes to you from Gregory Allen, John Banks,
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with Phyllis Schieber

The first great irony of Phyllis Schieber’s life was that she was born in a Catholic hospital. Her parents, survivors of the Holocaust, had settled in the South Bronx among other new immigrants.  In the mid-fifties, her family moved to Washington Heights, an enclave for German Jews on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, known as “Frankfurt-on-the-Hudson.” She graduated from high school at sixteen, earned a B.A. in English from Herbert H. Lehman College, an M.A. in Literature from New York University, and later an M.S. as a Developmental Specialist from Yeshiva University. She lives in Westchester County where she spends her days creating new stories and teaching writing. She is married
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The Manicurist Virtual Book Publicity Tour August, September & October 2011

Join Phyllis Schieber, author of the literary fiction novel, The Manicurist (Bell Bridge Books), as she virtually tours the blogosphere August 1 – September 30 2011 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Phyllis Schieber The first great irony of Phyllis Schieber’s life was that she was born in a Catholic hospital. Her parents, survivors of the Holocaust, had settled in the South Bronx among other new immigrants.  In the mid-fifties, her family moved to Washington Heights, an enclave for German Jews on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, known as “Frankfurt-on-the-Hudson.” She graduated from high school at sixteen, earned a B.A. in English from Herbert H.
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New Book for Review: Literary Fiction ‘The Manicurist’ by Phyllis Schieber

Phyllis Schieber will be touring in August and September with her literary fiction novel, The Manicurist. The Manicurist is the story of Tessa Emanuel, a young woman who is engulfed by vivid images of the past.  When Tessa is a child, both parents allegedly die in a car accident.  However, the body of Tessa mother, Ursula, is never found. Tessa is obsessed by memories of her mother, whose battle with mental illness made Tessa’s childhood a secret world of intrigue and betrayal.  Now married with a daughter, Tessa must come to terms with her own identity as a mother, a wife, a daughter, and a woman—but above all she must
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