Posts Tagged ‘short stories’

📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Hunting Muskie Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Michael Robert Dyet’s HUNTING MUSKIE: RITES OF PASSAGE – STORIES BY MICHAEL ROBERT DYET Blog Tour March 5 – 30! Inside the Book Title: HUNTING MUSKIE: RITES OF PASSAGE – STORIES BY MICHAEL ROBERT DYET Author: Michael Robert Dyet Publisher: Blue Denim Press Pages: 240 Genre: Literary Fiction/Short Story Collection BOOK BLURB: Life becomes a search to find our way back home after unexpected storms knock us off course. This collection of 16 stories reflects that deep urge to return to where we feel at peace. The journey back becomes a rite of passage. The title story, “Hunting Muskie”, sets
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Pump Up Your Book Presents For the Love of Meat Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jenny Jaeckel’s FOR THE LOVE OF MEAT virtual book tour October 3- 28! Inside the Book Title: For the Love of Meat Author: Jenny Jaekel Publisher: Raincloud Press Pages: 162 Genre: Short Stories/Light Romance/Historical For the Love of Meat combines whimsical and surreal illustrations with engaging, intimate encounters that explore the depths of human experience. Unique and diverse in setting, and with touches of magical-realism, these nine stories will tug at the strings of the wandering, romantic heart, setting it delightfully ablaze. In Wander the Desert, Sister Aurelia, a nun from the early 20th century, finds herself stranded in the Mexican desert with
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Pump Up Your Book Presents You Won’t Remember This Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Kate Blackwell’s YOU WON’T REMEMBER THIS virtual book tour June 1 – 26! Title: You Won’t Remember This Author: Kate Blackwell Publisher: Bacon Press Books Pages: 232 Genre: Short Stories/Southern Fiction Format: Kindle The twelve stories in Kate Blackwell’s debut collection illuminate the lives of men and women who appear as unremarkable as your next-door-neighbor until their lives explode quietly on the page. Her wry, often darkly funny voice describes the repressed underside of a range of middle-class characters living in the South. Blackwell’s focus is elemental—on marriage, birth, death, and the entanglements of love at all ages—but her gift
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Loss Angeles Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mathieu Cailler’s LOSS ANGELES virtual book tour May 4-29! Title: Loss Angeles Author: Mathieu Cailler Publisher: Short Story America Press Pages: 217 Genre: Short Stories Format: Hardcover Set in the glamorous city of Los Angeles, California, LOSS ANGELES skips the shine and celebrity the city is known for and instead dives deeply into the lives of ordinary Angelenos. In each of the fifteen stories in this collection, author Mathieu Cailler examines the private lives of a diverse mix of characters. This collection of stories showcases the rawness of real life, the complexity of navigating personal challenges and internal conflicts, and
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{Southern Fiction/Women’s Fiction/Short Stories} You Won’t Remember This Blog Tour Sign Up

Kate Blackwell will be touring June 1 – 26 with her collection of southern fiction/women’s fiction short stories, YOU WON’T REMEMBER THIS! We are looking for: Reviews (paperbacks – US only please/ebooks) 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: You Won’t Remember This Author: Kate Blackwell Publisher: Bacon Press Books Pages: 232 Genre: Short Stories/Southern Fiction Format: Kindle The twelve stories in Kate Blackwell’s debut collection illuminate the lives of men and women who appear as unremarkable as your next-door-neighbor until their lives explode quietly on the page. Her wry,
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{Short Stories} Loss Angeles Blog Tour Sign Up

Mathieu Cailler will be touring May 4-29 with his short story collection, LOSS ANGELES! We are looking for: Reviews (unlimited paperbacks) 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: Loss Angeles Author: Mathieu Cailler Publisher: Short Story America Press Pages: 217 Genre: Short Stories Format: Hardcover Set in the glamorous city of Los Angeles, California, LOSS ANGELES skips the shine and celebrity the city is known for and instead dives deeply into the lives of ordinary Angelenos. In each of the fifteen stories in this collection, author Mathieu Cailler
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Pump Up Your Book Presents 41 Strange Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Diane Doniol-Valcroze & Arthur K. Flam’s 41 Strange virtual book tour July 7-31! Title: 41 Strange Author: Diane Doniol-Valcroze & Arthur K. Flam Publisher: Diane Doniol-Valcroze & Arthur K. Flam Pages: 150 Genre: Short Story Anthology Format: Kindle 41 STRANGE, a first-of-its-kind e-book anthology devoted exclusively to “short-short stories of the strange and horrifying,” awaits just a couple of clicks away for Kindle readers who enjoy a good shiver up their spines. 41 STRANGE is the bizarre debut collection of authors/screenwriters Diane Doniol-Valcroze and Arthur K. Flam, who deliver a reading experience in the spirit of such masters of the
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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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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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Stories From a Lifetime Virtual Book Tour June & July 2011

Join Hugh Aaron, author of the short story collection, Stories From a Lifetime (Stones Point Press), as he virtually tours the blogosphere in June & July 2011 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Hugh Aaron Hugh Aaron, a native of Worcester, Massachusetts, received a Liberal Arts degree in the Humanities at The University of Chicago. For three years as a Seabee he served in the South Pacific during WWII. He was CEO of his own plastics manufacturing business for 20 years before selling it to write full time. Several of his short stories have been published in national magazines and 18 of his
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  • November 4, 2009
  • Authors on Tour, Featured
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The Light, The Dark & Ember Between Virtual Book Tour ’09

Join J.W. Nicklaus, author of the book of short stories, The Light, The Dark, and Ember Between (Bedside Books), as he virtually tours the blogosphere in December on his second virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book Promotion! About J.W. Nicklaus J.W. Nicklaus resides in a place not entirely fit for human habitation about five months of the year. No pets to speak of, only the apparitions from which all romantics suffer. An Arizona native, he’s been from one coast to the other, and a few places in between. College brought an AA in Journalism with a minor in Photography, and a Bachelor of Science in Telecommunications. His
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