Posts Tagged ‘sci-fi’

First Chapter: Summer on Earth by Peter Thompson

Title: SUMMER ON EARTH Author: Peter Thompson Publisher: Persnickety Press Pages: 293 Genre: Sci-fi / Middle Grade BOOK BLURB: The night that eleven-year-old Grady Johnson looked out his window and wished upon a shooting star, his life changed forever. Grady, his Ma, and younger sister Luanne are having a hard summer. Dad has died and the family isn’t the same. Though Ma is trying her best, Grady knows they don’t have enough money to get by. The shooting star he saw was a space craft plunging to Earth, and landing at the back of their farm. Extraterrestrial engineer Ralwil Turth has one goal, to fix his power drive and
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Desert Melody Virtual Book Publicity Tour

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Laura Evans Serna’s DESERT MELODY blog tour May 1 – 31! Inside the Book Title: DESERT MELODY Author: Laura Evans Serna Publisher: New Land Publishing Pages: 219 Genre: Sci-Fi Romance For generations the Ahn, Voyan, and Humans have thrived living side by side. The ambitious Ahn need solitude.  The communal Voyan thought share and hear the voices of the sacred dead around them.  Now Humans are becoming more like the Ahn, and the Voyan are struggling. Teagan is a single Voyan mother and wet nurse. She lost the ability to thought share.  Though she spends hours walking in the
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Floor 21 Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jason Luther’s FLOOR 21 virtual book tour June 6 – August 31! Inside the Book Title: Floor 21 Author: Jason Luthor Publisher: Scout Press Pages: 355 Genre: Sci-fi/Dystopian The last of humanity is trapped at the top of an isolated apartment tower with no memory of how they got there or why. All travel beneath Floor 21 is forbidden, and nobody can ever recall seeing the ground floor. Beneath Floor 21, a sickness known as the Creep infests that halls of the Tower. A biological mass that grows stronger in reaction to people’s fear and anger, the Creep prey’s on
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Tearing Down the Statues Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Brian Bennudriti’s TEARING DOWN THE STATUES virtual book tour February 1-26! Inside the Book Title: TEARING DOWN THE STATUES Author: Brian Bennudriti Pages: 344 Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: Grailrunner Publishing Misling is a Recorder, having perfect memory and expected to help build a seamless record of history. That’s what the Salt Mystic taught us two thousand years ago when she came stumbling from the flats with her visions. Unfortunately he’s probably the worst Recorder ever. So when he meets a joker with an incredible secret, the two of them are soon on the run from swarming lunatics and towering assault
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Rath’s Deception Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Piers Platt’s RATH’S DECEPTION virtual book tour November 2nd – December 31st! Title: Rath’s Deception Author: Piers Platt Publisher: Piers Platt Pages: 350 Genre: Sci Fi/Thriller On the cut-throat streets of Tarkis, orphaned teens like Rath end up jailed … or dead. So when the shadowy Janus Group offers Rath a chance to earn riches beyond his wildest dreams, he seizes it. But the Janus Group is as ruthless as the elite assassins it controls. Rath will have to survive their grueling, off-world training, and fulfill all fifty kills in his contract before a single cent comes his way. And ending so many lives comes with a price Rath can’t anticipate. It’ll certainly
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{Sci fi/Thriller} Rath’s Deception Blog Tour Sign Up

Piers Platt will be touring November 2 – December 31 with his  sci fi/thriller, RATH’S DECEPTION! We are looking for: Reviews (PDF/Mobi/ePub) 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: Rath’s Deception Author: Piers Platt Publisher: Piers Platt Pages: 350 Genre: Sci Fi/Thriller On the cut-throat streets of Tarkis, orphaned teens like Rath end up jailed … or dead. So when the shadowy Janus Group offers Rath a chance to earn riches beyond his wildest dreams, he seizes it. But the Janus Group is as ruthless as the elite assassins it controls. Rath will have to
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Quantum Level Zero Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Ted Grosch’s QUANTUM LEVEL ZERO virtual book tour May 4-29! Title: Quantum Level Zero Author: Ted Grosch Publisher: Double Dragon eBooks Pages: 287 Genre: SciFi Format: Kindle/Nook Winston Churchill stated that history is written by the victors. Germany terrorized Britain’s civilian population with V1 and V2 rockets. The Nazi historians would have a legitimate rational for that had they won the war. Quantum Level Zero takes place in a dystopian society of the near future Earth, where fanatics are about to win the war on terror for the good for the people and the good of society. Their leader, Matteen
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{YA SciFi} The Ark Blog Tour Sign Up

Laura Lidden Nolen will be touring May 6 – June 26 with her young adult scifi, THE ARK! We are looking for: Reviews (ebook only – you will be sent an ebook from Kindle store) 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 Ark Author: Laura Liddell Nolen Publisher: HarperCollins Pages: 239 Genre: YA Scifi Format: Paperback/Kindle/Nook There’s a meteor headed for Earth, and there is only one way to survive. It’s the final days of earth, and sixteen-year-old Char is right where she
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{SciFi} Unexpected Rain Blog Tour Sign Up

Jason LaPier will be touring June 1-26 with his scifi, UNEXPECTED RAIN! We are looking for: Reviews (ebook only – you will be sent a link to NetGalley) Read excerpt here. Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 72 hours. Thank you! Title: Unexpected Rain Author: Jason LaPier Publisher: HarperCollins (HarperVoyager) Pages: 350 Genre: SciFi Format: Paperback/Kindle/Nook In a domed city on a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, a recently hired maintenance man named Kane has just committed murder. Minutes later, the airlocks on the neighbourhood block are opened and the murderer is asphyxiated along with thirty-one innocent residents.
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{SciFi} Quantum Level Zero Blog Tour Sign Up

Ted Grosch will be touring May 4-29 with his scifi novel, QUANTUM LEVEL ZERO! 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: Quantum Level Zero Author: Ted Grosch Publisher: Double Dragon eBooks Pages: 287 Genre: SciFi Format: Kindle/Nook Winston Churchill stated that history is written by the victors. Germany terrorized Britain’s civilian population with V1 and V2 rockets. The Nazi historians would have a legitimate rational for that had they won the war. Quantum Level Zero takes place in a dystopian
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{SciFi Comedy} Genius De Milo Blog Tour Sign Up

Russ Colchamiro will be touring April 6 – June 26 with his scifi comedy, GENIUS DE MILO! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback U.S. only & 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: Genius De Milo Author: Russ Colchamiro Publisher: Crazy 8 Press Pages: 320 Genre: SciFi/Comedy Format: Paperback/Kindle Best pals Jason Medley and Theo Barnes barely survived a backpacking trip through Europe and New Zealand that — thanks to a jar of Cosmic Building Material they found — almost wiped out the galaxy. But just as
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Epitaph Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Victor Nieves’ EPITAPH: REVEILLE virtual book tour February 2-27! Title: Epitaph: Reveille Author: Victor Nieves Publisher: Acorn Book Services Pages: 358 Genre: Sci-Fi Format: Paperback/Kindle In year 2343, the galaxy receives a deadly wake-up call… Nearly three-hundred years have passed since humanity ascended to the stars, joining with a conglomeration of alien races all living under the rule of a single, united community – the United Galactic Coalition – a joint, multi-species alliance that upholds the principles of democracy, freedom, and equality for all races. The Milky Way Galaxy’s future looks bright … Until a research team uncovers a mysterious
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{Sci-Fi} Epitaph: Reveille Blog Tour Sign Up

Victor Nieves will be touring January 5 – 30 with his sci-fi, EPITAPH: REVEILLE! 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: Epitaph: Reveille Author: Victor Nieves Publisher: Acorn Book Services Pages: 358 Genre: Sci-Fi Format: Paperback/Kindle In year 2343, the galaxy receives a deadly wake-up call… Nearly three-hundred years have passed since humanity ascended to the stars, joining with a conglomeration of alien races all living under the rule of a single, united community – the United Galactic Coalition –
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Tavern on the Edge of Time Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Peter Darrach’s TAVERN ON THE EDGE OF TIME virtual book tour September 2 – 26! Title: Tavern on the Edge of Time Author: Peter Durrach Publisher: CreateSpace Pages: 366 Genre: Sci-fi Format: Paperback During the year 2125, former asteroid miners Max Cody and Elaine Zhou never get a moment’s rest. No sooner have they doused the flames of war between Earth and Mars or returned from their first trip to the Tavern on the Edge of Time when they are called upon to help fit out the fledging Martian colony orbiting Jupiter’s moon Callisto. In parallel, Earth extradites the war’s
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Lieutenant Henry Gallant Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you H. Peter Alesso’s LIEUTENANT HENRY GALLANT virtual book tour September 2 – 26! Title: Lieutenant Henry Gallant Author: H. Peter Alesso Publisher: Video Software Publishing Pages: 320 Genre: Science fiction space opera Format: Paperback/Kindle In an era of genetic engineering, Lieutenant Henry Gallant is the only Natural (non-genetically enhanced) officer left in the fleet. Many of his superiors, including rival Anton Neumann, have expressed concern he is not up to the challenge. However, his unique mental abilities have proven essential to the defense of the United Planets in its fight against the Titan invaders. Serving on the first FTL prototype,
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{Sci-fi} Tavern on the Edge of Time Blog Tour Sign Up

Peter Darrach will be touring September 2 – 26 with his sci-fi, Tavern on the Edge of Time! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback & 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! During the year 2125, former asteroid miners Max Cody and Elaine Zhou never get a moment’s rest. No sooner have they doused the flames of war between Earth and Mars or returned from their first trip to the Tavern on the Edge of Time when they are called upon to help fit
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Double Blind Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Tiffany Pitts‘ Double Blind virtual book tour August 4-29! Title: Double Blind Author: Tiffany Pitts Publisher: Booktrope Editions Pages: 280 Genre: Action/Adventure/Humor/Sci-fi Format: Paperback/Kindle Delilah Pelham’s brother, Paul, is missing. She should probably be worried about that but honestly, he’s been in trouble since the day he learned the words “trust me.” In fact, if it weren’t for his roommate, Carl, she would gladly leave him to his fate. Carl is a good guy, even if he’s a bit of a dork. Okay, a large slice of a dork. Possibly the entire cake. But he wants to help, as do
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Academy Series Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Aubrey Coletti’s The Academy Series virtual book tour July 7-31! Title: Altered Author: Aubrey Coletti Publisher: Escape Artist Press Pages: 272 Genre: YA Thriller/Sci-Fi Format: Paperback/Kindle When Toni, Joseph and Charlie arrive at their new boarding school, they are glad to leave their families — and respective problems — behind. Isolated as boarders, they meet a handsome senior with a personality like iced snake’s blood, teachers with a penchant for physical punishment, and four other outcasts who reveal that their being brought to the Academy wasn’t random at all. When the arrivals discover that their new school is engaged in
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{Action/Adventure/Humor/Sci-Fi} Double Blind Blog Tour Sign Up

Tiffany Pitts will be touring August 4-29 with her action/adventure/humor/sci-fi novel, Double Blind! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback or 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!   Delilah Pelham’s brother, Paul, is missing. She should probably be worried about that but honestly, he’s been in trouble since the day he learned the words “trust me.” In fact, if it weren’t for his roommate, Carl, she would gladly leave him to his fate. Carl is a good guy, even if he’s a bit of a dork. Okay,
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{Virtual Book Tour} Loving in Time Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you AE. Kirk’s Loving in Time virtual book tour March 3 – 28! Title: Loving in Time Genre: Romantic Sci-Fi Author: A.E. Kirk Publisher: Pegasus Publishing Pages: 370 Language: English High school student Helen Xenakis is not just a teenager, she is also a Princess of Sparta. When her guards travel to her time, from the past, they take her back to the time of Trorian war, but there is someone that threatens her new regal life. Can Helen truly have her soul-mate or is her heart destined to be for someone else? And when a tragedy occurs, will she take
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Knights of Galaria: The Crystals of Power Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join O.S. Gill, author of the sci-fi fantasy, The Knights of Galaria: The Crystals of Power, as he tours the blogosphere May 6 – 31 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT THE KNIGHTS OF GALARIA: THE CRYSTALS OF POWER For Kaz Silverwynd, graduation from the Galarian Knight Academy begins normally, but an the attempt on the life of Xul Xandu, the newly-appointed head of the Confederation of Nations, pushes Kaz and his team into an epic and dangerous adventure. The action ranges from the floating city of Civitas to the underwater empire of Aequoria to the moon colony of Ourea. Kaz leads his
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Featured Guest Author B.A. Chepaitis on ‘Digging For Souls’

After devouring the first two books of the Fear series, I invited the author – B.A. Chepaitis – to talk about the research involved in writing the series. Research for the Jaguar Addams’ novels primarily involves using my claws to dig through flesh toward the heart and soul of human fear, human love, human joy and pain. That’s what Jaguar does for a living, and to tell her stories I have to be constantly learning about the art and disaster of being human.  That learning has three layers – psychology, mythology, and experience. For the psychology, I read articles and books about the functioning of the mind, the vagaries
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New Sci-Fi Paranormal Book for Review: The Green Memory of Fear by B.A. Chepaitis

B.A. Chepaitis will be touring in March and April with her sci-fi paranormal novel The Green Memory of Fear. On Prison Planetoid Three, Jaguar Addams uses her empathic gifts to make criminals face the fears that drive their heinous acts. Very few escape the telepathic web she weaves around them. . . . until now. When Jaguar takes on an assignment investigating a psychiatrist on trial for abuse of a little boy, she finds a killer unlike any she’s faced before. Dr. Senci’s psi skills are a match for her own, and unless she consents to do as he wants, he’ll use them to kill everyone she loves. Once
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The Star-Crossed Saga: Protostar Virtual Book Publicity Tour December 2011/January 2012

Join Braxton A. Cosby, author of the young adult science fiction novel, The Star-Crossed Saga: Protostar (Firefly Publishing & Ent,LLC), as he virtually tours the blogosphere December 5 – January 23 2012 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Braxton A. Cosby Braxton A. Cosby is a dreamer with a vision of continuously evolving and maximizing the untapped potential of the human spirit. Braxton received a lot of his inspiration from watching the accomplishments and exploits of his famous uncle, comedic legend Bill Cosby. A physical therapist by background, Braxton received his Bachelors, Masters, and Doctorate from the University of Miami. Braxton’s fascination of
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In Blackness Virtual Book Tour September 2011

Join U.L. Harper author of the young adult science fiction novel, In Blackness, as he virtually tours the blogosphere during the month of September, 2010 on his second book tour with Pump Up Your Book. About U. L. Harper U.L. Harper is an after-school program Site Director in Long Beach, California. Over one hundred students attend his program. He previously worked as a corporate manager, and a journalist for a now defunct news agency in Los Alamitos, California. Newspapers are part of his writing background but he also dabbled in poetry. His poetry is published in The Body Politic chapbooks. He is the author of In Blackness, The Flesh
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Homecoming – Osguards: Guardians of the Universe Virtual Book Publicity Tour August 2011

Join Malcolm Petteway, author of science fiction novel, Homecoming – Osguards: Guardians of the Universe – Book 1 (Rage Books LLC), as he virtually tours the blogosphere August 1 – 26 2011 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Malcolm Petteway Malcolm Dylan Petteway is a senior military analyst, a retired military officer and a twenty-year veteran of the United States Air Force. He flew B-52’s as an Electronic Warfare Officer and has 3,000 flight hours and 300 combat hours. In his distinguished career, Malcolm has used his knowledge in the art of war, military weapons and combat defenses in planning over 400 combat
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The Fear of God Online Book Tour July 2011

Join B.A. Chepaitis, author of the sci-fi mystery with romantic elements The Fear of God as she virtually tours the blogosphere in July 2011 on her second tour with Pump Up Your Book! About B.A. Chepaitis BARBARA CHEPAITIS is author of 7 published novels, including the critically acclaimed Feeding Christine and These Dreams, as well as the sci-fi series featuring Jaguar Addams. The fourth novel in that series, A Lunatic Fear was a finalist for a Romantic Times Bookclub award. Her first nonfiction book, Feathers of Hope, came out through SUNY Press in July. She has optioned two scripts, and has recently been awarded a seed grant to develop
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Pump Up Chats with Sci-Fi Mystery Author B.A. Chepaitis

Barbara Chepaitis is the author of 8 published books, including The Fear Principle featuring Jaguar Addams, and the critically acclaimed Feeding Christine and These Dreams. Her first nonfiction book, Feathers of Hope, is about Berkshire Bird Paradise and the human connection with birds.   She’s writing a sequel about Eagle Mitch, a bird she helped our US troops rescue from Afghanistan.  Barbara is founder of the storytelling trio The Snickering Witches, and faculty coordinator for the fiction component of Western Colorado’s MFA program in creative writing. Facebook site for Barbara – http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=615302442 Facebook site for Jaguar – http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jaguar-Addams-and-the-Fear-Series/135879429815445 Barbara’s website:   http://www.wildreads.com Thank you for this interview, Barbara.  Do you remember
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New Book for Review: The Fear Principle by B.A. Chepaitis

B.A. Chepaitis is touring in May with her sci-fi mystery with romantic elements, The Fear Principle. On Prison Planetoid Three, Jaguar Addams and Alex Dzarny rehab the worst criminals by telepathically making them face their fears. Their current case is hitwoman Clare Rilasco, emotionless, beautiful, and part of a death machine plot that threatens to take over the world. Jaguar can’t tell who the bad guys are anymore, as she’s dragged into her own terrifying past by Clare’s telepathic tricks. While the search for the man behind the mirror continues, Jaguar and Clare are enmeshed in a relationship of seduction and trickery that makes Jaguar face her own deepest
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