Posts Tagged ‘young adult fiction’

Pump Up Your Book Presents Escape Through The Wilderness Virtual Book Publicity Tour

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Gary Rodriguez’s ESCAPE THROUGH THE WILDERNESS virtual book tour October 6 – 31. Title:  Escape Through the Wilderness Author: Gary Rodrgiuez Genre: Tween/Young Adult Christian Adventure Paperback: 256 pages Publisher: Tate Publishing (June 2014) ISBN-13: 978-1-63268-201-7 Sixteen-year-old Savannah Evans walks with a slight limp thanks to a gymnastics’ accident that dashed her Olympic dreams, but didn’t stop her from attending an adventure camp in Idaho. At Camp Arrowhead, she quickly befriends Jade Chang and Rico Cruz, but Conner Swift taunts Savi because of her injury. When the four are teamed together for an overnight white-water river rafting adventure, Savi refuses
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{Tween/YA Christian Adventure} Escape Through the Wilderness Blog Tour Sign Up

Gary Rodriguez will be touring August 4 – 29 with his tween/young adult Christian adventure novel, Escape Through the Wilderness. We are looking for: Reviews Interviews Author Guest Posts Book Spotlights with Giveaways First Chapter Reveals Video Trailer Reveals Sixteen-year-old Savannah Evans walks with a slight limp thanks to a gymnastics’ accident that dashed her Olympic dreams, but didn’t stop her from attending an adventure camp in Idaho. At Camp Arrowhead, she quickly befriends Jade Chang and Rico Cruz, but Conner Swift taunts Savi because of her injury. When the four are teamed together for an overnight white-water river rafting adventure, Savi refuses to get in the same raft with Conner.
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  • March 25, 2014
  • Authors on Tour, Featured
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Soul of the Sun Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Genevieve Crownson’s The Soul of the Sun virtual book tour April 7- June 27! Title: The Soul of the Sun Genre: Paranormal/Young Adult Author: Genevieve Crownson Publisher: Genevieve Crownson Pages: 348 Format: Paperback; Kindle “The hands of time turn on the face of the sun. Only you can move them. If the Watcher controls the hands of the clock he can go anywhere, past or future– and destroy our planet.” Since the days of ancient Greece, the Argos dynasty has kept a secret, a mystery passed down through their descendants from generation to generation, in the hopes that the forces
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  • October 8, 2013
  • Book Blasts, Featured, What's New?
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Pump Up Your Book Presents XGeneration: You Don’t Know Me Book Blast & Win $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is proud to announce Brad Magnarella’s young adult science fiction/coming of age XGeneration: You Don’t Know Me Book Blast December 2 – 27! Brad will be giving away a $25 Amazon Gift Card. To enter, fill out the Rafflecopter form below or on participating blogs throughout the blast and good luck! All participating bloggers willing to host are eligible to win. Thank you! ABOUT XGENERATION: YOU DON’T KNOW ME Title: XGeneration: You Don’t Know Me Genre: YA Science Fiction/Coming of Age Author: Brad Magnarella Publisher: Brad Magnarella Language: English In the fall of 1984, Cold War tensions between Washington and Moscow are close to breaking.
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with Joe Sergi, Author of ‘Sky Girl and the Superheroic Adventures’

Joe Sergi lives outside of Washington, DC with his wife and daughter. Joe is an attorney and a Haller Award winning author who has written articles, novels, short stories, and comic books in the horror, scifi, and young adult genres. Joe is the creator of the Sky Girl series of novels and the editor of Great Zombies in History. His first novel, Sky Girl and the Superheroic Legacy was selected Best of 2010 by the New PODler Review. Joe is a life-long comic fan who regularly writes on the history of comics and censorship for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. A complete list of Joe’s titles is available
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Sky Girl And the Superheroic Adventures Virtual Book Publicity Tours

    Join Joe Sergi, author of the young adult superhero fantasy novel, Sky Girl And the Superheroic Adventures, as he tours the blogosphere September 3 – November 29, 2013 on his second virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ————————————————————— ABOUT SKY GIRL AND THE SUPERHEROIC ADVENTURES   Being a teenage girl is hard enough, but for DeDe Christopher, it is proving impossible. In addition to cliques, books, and boys, she has to worry about capes, apes, and aliens. Last year, DeDe discovered that she possessed fantastic abilities that were strangely similar to those of a comic book character named SkyBoy. With the help of her best friend Jason,
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  • November 10, 2012
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Sydney West Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Rebecca McKinsey, author of the young adult suspense fiction novel,  Sydney West, as she tours the blogosphere December 3 through January 18, 2013 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT REBECCA MCKINSEY www.BlackbirdBooks.net is the website for Rebecca McKinsey, a 21-year-old novelist who learned to drive a library cart before she learned to drive a car, and still prefers the library cart, if it would only get her to appointments on time. She was born in a town, raised in the country, and now lives in the city, but spends most of her time in places that don’t exist. She is a lover
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  • October 28, 2012
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Sweetest Taboo Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Eva Marquez, author of the YA/adult fiction, Sweetest Taboo, as she tours the blogosphere November 5 – 30 2012 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book!   ABOUT EVA MARQUEZ Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, daughter of European immigrants, Eva Márquez has spent most of her life outside of her home country. At the age of five, Eva accompanied her parents to the United States, where the family settled permanently. After graduating from university, she went on to complete graduate studies in International Relations in Spain. Eva received her Master of International Studies degree from the University of Sydney and went on to work
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Pump Up Your Book Presents An Italian Obsession Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Kfir Luzzatto, author of the general fiction/drama novel, An Italian Obsession, as he tours the blogosphere from October 1 – 26, 2012, on his second virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT KFIR LUZZATTO Kfir Luzzatto was born and raised in Italy, and moved to Israel as a teenager. He acquired the love for the English language from his father, a former U.S. soldier, a voracious reader and a prolific writer. Kfir has a PhD in chemical engineering and works as a patent attorney. He lives in Omer, Israel, with his full-time partner, Esther, their four children, Michal, Lilach, Tamar and Yonatan, and the dog Elvis.
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New Young Adult Novel for Review: The Doorknob Society by MJ Fletcher

MJ Fletcher will be touring May 7-25 with his young adult novel, The Doorknob Society! Chloe Masters’s world changes in a heartbeat and all she did was touch a doorknob. Illusions are part of Chloe’s everyday life, her father being a renowned magician, but how do you make sense of traveling through dimensions with the touch of a doorknob? There’s much for her to learn at the Paladin Academy, a school for her kind. What her kind is she would like to know. And who better to teach her then some of the characters that go there and belong to the various Societies. She makes a select group of friends
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A Boy Called Duct Tape Book Review by Vicki Vaughn

Pablo Perez is a 12-year-old poor kid without much going for him. His classmates have dubbed him “Duct Tape” because his tattered discount-store sneakers are held together with…you guessed it, duct tape. He can’t escape the bullying. Pablo’s luck, however, changes after he finds a $20 gold coin while swimming in a river near his home. Pablo later buys a $1 treasure map at the county fair. The map shows the route to the “lost treasure” of Jesse James. Pablo can’t help but wonder: Is there a link between the map and the gold coin? He is determined to find out, and he, his 9-year-old sister and 13-year-old cousin
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Isabella: Protector of the Last Dragon Virtual Book Publicity Tour May and June 2012

Join M. Anthony Phillips, author of the Young Adult Fantasy Adventure novel, Isabella: Protector of the Last Dragon (Xlibris), as he virtually tours the blogosphere  May 7 – June 22,2012 on his first book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About M. Anthony Phillips M. Anthony Phillips is a native of St. Louis and studied writing and history at Harris Stowe University. M. Anthony is an avid historian and reader of fine literature of fiction and non-fictional books. This is M. Anthony’s third novel with a sequel to follow with hopes of becoming a full time novelist. M. Anthony resides in St. Louis and Los Angeles where he loves acting
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New Book for Review: Young Adult Science Fiction ‘The Star-Crossed Saga: Protostar’ by Braxton A. Cosby

Braxton A. Cosby (Bill Cosby’s nephew!!!) will be touring December 5 – January 13 with his science fiction young adult novel, The Star-Crossed Saga: Protostar! It Starts With Choice! What would you choose: love or irrefutable duty? On the brink of Civil War, the Torrian Alliance continues with its mission to obliterate Star-children across the universe in order to suppress an intergalactic evil. Following the recommendations of his Council, King Gregorio Derry has agreed to send his only son on a mission to restore honor to his family. Bounty Hunter Prince William Derry has crossed thousands of light-years to planet Earth, in order to fulfill this age old prophetic
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