Posts Tagged ‘urban fantasy’

Pump Up Your Book Presents Julie Flanders Polar Night Book Blast – Win $25 Amazon Gift Card/Paypal Cash!

Join Julie Flanders, author of the suspense/urban fantasy book, Polar Night, as she tours the blogosphere May 6 through May 10 on her first Book Blast with Pump Up Your Book! Julie will be giving away a $25 Amazon GC/Paypal Cash to one lucky reader! To enter, fill out the Rafflecopter form on the participating blogs below anytime during the tour and good luck! ————————————————– ABOUT POLAR NIGHT When Detective Danny Fitzpatrick leaves his hometown of Chicago and moves to Fairbanks, Alaska he wants nothing more than to escape the violence and heartbreak that left his life in pieces. Numbed by alcohol and the frozen temperatures of an Alaskan
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with AB Bard, author of ‘The Killer Poet’s Guide to Immortality’

ABOUT AB BARD Reclusive Seattle author AB Bard’s poetry has twice been nominated for the Pushcart. He is the author under a pseudonym of two other hysterical novels, or perhaps historical novels, neither of which is funny. Mr. Bard is not now, nor has he ever been, a member of the Republican Party. Mr. Bard does not Tweet. He was awarded a sheepskin (BAaa) from Reed College Sleeper Cell. His one super power is the ability to repel all conventional measures of literary success. Mr. Bard is lap to a cat, pal to a girl, God to a dog, & dog to the Man. To find out more, please
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Killer Poet’s Guide to Immortality Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join AB Bard, author of the crime fiction/urban fantasy novel, The Killer Poet’s Guide to Immortality, as he tours the blogosphere November 19 through January 18, 2013 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT AB BARD Reclusive Seattle author AB Bard’s poetry has twice been nominated for the Pushcart. He is the author under a pseudonym of two other hysterical novels, or perhaps historical novels, neither of which is funny. Mr. Bard is not now, nor has he ever been, a member of the Republican Party. Mr. Bard does not Tweet. He was awarded a sheepskin (BAaa) from Reed College Sleeper Cell. His one
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Brachman’s Underworld Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Vlad Vaslyn, author of the horror/fantasy novel, Brachman’s Underworld, as he tours the blogosphere November 5 – November 30, 2012 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT VLAD VASLYN Vlad snuck The Tommyknockers by Stephen King out of the library on his sister’s library card when he was eleven years old. Despite the nightmares, he’d stay up all night reading it, partly because he was discovering that there was pleasure in terror, and partly because he was too scared to go to bed before the sun came up. It took him all summer and some of the fall to finish it, but when he
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Mind Secrets Virtual Book Publicity Tour 2012

Join Chris Reynolds, author of the urban fantasy/young adult novel, Mind Secrets, as she tours the blogosphere August 6  – 24 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT CHRIS REYNOLDS Chris Reynolds is a lover of adventure stories. Chris spent her time growing up avidly reading them, watching them on TV and writing them in her school exercise books. She was often frustrated that stories written by other people didn’t go the way she wanted them to, so she decided to write her own. In the interim, she has worked for the BBC and independent radio as a journalist, written for magazines and some
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The Grym Brothers Series Virtual Book Publicity Tour November 2011

Join Jason Krumbine, author of The Grym Brothers Series, Two and a Half Dead Men, The Dead Couple and Better off Dead (One Stray Word Books), as he virtually tours the blogosphere November 1 – 23 2011 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Jason Krumbine Jason Krumbine is the author behind the pulse pounding, wisecracking Alex Cheradon Series, the dead soul hunting Grym Brothers Series (including Two and a Half Dead Men, The Dead Couple and Better Off Dead), and the tongue-in-cheek paranormal romance “A Graveyard Romance.” You can visit his website at www.jasonkrumbine.com or visit him at Twitter at www.twitter.com/jasonkrumbine and Facebook
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  • October 13, 2011
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Something Witchy This Way Comes Virtual Book Publicity Tour November 2011

Join Veronica Blade, author of the YA Urban Fantasy novel, Something Witchy This Way Comes (Crush Publishing), as she virtually tours the blogosphere November 1 – 23 2011 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Veronica Blade Veronica Blade is married with children and living in Southern California. By day she runs the family business, but each night she slips away to spin her tales. She writes stories about young adults to relive her own childhood and to live vicariously through her characters. Except her heroes and heroines lead far more interesting lives — and they are always way hotter. Her latest book is
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Nephilim Virtual Book Publicity Tour October 2011

Join Mary Ann Loesch, author of the urban fantasy/paranormal novel, Nephilim (Lyrical Press, Inc.), as she virtually tours the blogosphere October 3 – 28 2011 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Mary Ann Loesch Mary Ann Loesch is an award-winning author living in the Austin Area. Teacher by day, writer by night, Ms. Loesch has an extensive background in Theatre Arts and education. In 2009 her novel, Nephilim, won the Writers League of Texas Manuscript contest in the category of Science Fiction/Fantasy. Having published short stories in SNM Horror Magazine, A Side of Grits, and Red Fez, she is also a proud contributor
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New eBook for Review: Urban Fantasy/Paranormal/Crime ‘Better Off Dead’ by Jason Krumbine

Jason Krumbine is touring November 1 – 23, 2011 with his urban fantasy/paranormal/crime novel, Better Off Dead, Book 3 in The Grym Brothers Series! They say dead men tell no tales, but that’s just because they’ve never worked as a Grim Reaper. Grim Reapers are real. They are governed by the Council of Reapers. Reapers are responsible for the capture and containment of dead souls that refuse to or cannot move on to the afterlife. Lori Standford’s mother died six months ago. Now she’s back, haunting Lori out of her home. Lori turns to her close friend, Emma Grym, mother of Thane and Mort Grym, for help. Now Thane
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Pump Up Chats with Erin Bassett – Author of Online Series ‘Clock Work’

Erin Bassett is author of the online serial Clock Work, published in several magazines and has a Chapbook published. She is a member of NTSFWW and Senior Editor for CW Productions. Erin enjoys off beat, out the ordinary writing of the urban fantasy persuasion, but also revels in classic fantasy stories with gripping battles, wizards, dragons or monsters, and epic fight scenes set in far off, mythical or fantastic places. Her book shelves are packed with everything from Holly Black, Martin Miller and Terry Pratchett to Christy Lijewski, Dean Koontz and Hal Duncan. Thank you for this interview, Erin Bassett. Do you remember writing stories as a child or
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with Martin Sharlow author of Shades of Twilight

Martin Sharlow was always a storyteller. In his youth he used to play roleplaying games and usually he was the game master. That allowed him to create and modify stories and then tell them to his captive audience in the form of a game.  Because of this and the many fantasy books he read, Martin went the next step and started writing fantasy novels. Recently, however, Martin changed genres to vampire romance as he got bitten by the vampire bug. This happened after picking up one of the latest novels and finding himself hooked on it. Today Martin has written three vampire romance novels, and is in the process
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Clock Work Online Series Tour February 2011

Join Erin Basset, author of the urban fantasy online series, Clock Work (Abandoned Towers Magazine), as she virtually tours the blogosphere February 14 – February 25 2011 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Erin Bassett E.L. Bassett, informally Erin and familiarly Rin, has been writing since she was old enough to hold a pencil. Before that she was prone to telling you all about how her sister was an alien and her dog pulled carts for garden fairies and dragging you into to the backyard to show you were Flybys (insect like creatures with powers over the elements) were nesting. Her penchant for
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Shades of Twilight Virtual Book Tour January ’11

Join Martin Sharlow author of Shades of Twilight  as he virtually tours the blogosphere on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book.   About the Author Martin Sharlow was always a storyteller. In his youth he used to play role playing games and usually he was the game master. That allowed him to create and modify stories and then tell them to his captive audience in the form of a game. Because of this and the many fantasy books he read, Martin went the next step and started writing fantasy novels. Recently, however, Martin changed genres to vampire romance as he got bitten by the vampire
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Immortalis: Hunters & Prey Virtual Book Tour January 2011

Join Katie Salidas author of the Urban Fantasy series, Immortalis: Hunters & Prey, as she virtually tours the blogosphere in January 2011 on her fourth book tour with Pump Up Your Book. About Katie Salidas Author of the hot new Urban Fantasy series, Immortalis, Katie has always had a desire to entertain. Since, early childhood, she’s dreamed up fantastical characters and scribbled them into pages of various journals and notebooks. Taking an interest in vampires at an early age, she devoured every book, featuring those mysterious, blood sucking creatures, in any genre she could find. She claims that, of all the monsters out there, vampires had always been the most
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Ni’il: The Awakening Virtual Book Tour May 2010

Join James Boyle, author of the urban fantasy/horror novel, Ni’il the Awakening (iUniverse, December 2008), as he virtually tours the blogosphere in May on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About James Boyle Like all of us, James is a product of his environment. He was raised in a religious/spiritual family and that spirituality pervades most of his work. He even attended a Catholic Seminary for a year before deciding the priesthood was not for him. James’ father worked for the phone company as he was growing up, which was much like growing up in a military family. The company transferred his family from town
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