Posts Tagged ‘young adult’

{Young Adult} Believers: Truth in Deception Blog Tour Sign Up

Tamara D. Taylor will be touring March 2 – 27 with her young adult novel, BELIEVERS: TRUTH IN DECEPTION! 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: Believers: Truth in Deception Author: Tamara D. Taylor Publisher: Tamara D. Taylor Pages: 330 Genre: Young Adult Format: Paperback/Kindle Mary lives in a world of the future where an anti aging drug has torn society apart, creating an insurmountable divide between the wealthy and the poor. Her life is thrown
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Pump Up Your Book Presents P.O.W.E.R. Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lisa A. Kramer’s P.O.W.E.R. virtual book tour January 5 – 30! Title: P.O.W.ER Author: Lisa A. Kremer Publisher: Word Hermit Press Pages: 291 Genre: YA Speculative Feminist Fiction Format: Paperback/Kindle What would happen if women and girls joined their unique abilities together to change the world? In a world where access to the written word is reserved to men, Andra BetScrivener has been able to read and write ever since she was a little girl without anyone teaching her. She must keep her abilities a secret in the country of New North, or she could lose her hands, her eyes
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Rarity Virtual Book Publicity Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you D.A. Roach’s Rarity virtual book tour January 5 – January 30! Title: Rarity Author: D.A. Roach Publisher: Amazon Digital Pages: 197 Genre: Young Adult Format: Paperback/Kindle It’s her junior year at Stanton High. Brogen, an empathic teen, is looking forward to another uneventful year with her buddy Meg at her side. Meg and Brogen are not in the in-crowd, actually, they aren’t in any crowd. They are content keeping a low profile and doing their own thing. But the first day of school brings Becca, the blonde babe, and Jay, the charismatic guy who doesn’t fit any stereotype. These two new students
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Letters to Loretta from the Radio Shack: A True WWII Teenage Love Story Virtual Book Publicity Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Laura Lynn Ashworth’s LETTERS TO LORETTA FROM THE RADIOSHACK virtual book tour January 5 – January 30!   Title: Letters to Loretta from the Radio Shack: A True WWII Teenage Love Story Author: Laura Lynn Ashworth Publisher: Laura Lynn Ashworth Pages: 239 Genre: Non-fiction Romance Format: Paperback/E-copy Read the rare and recently discovered real time letters between Sal, age 19, and Loretta, age 15, during the final terrifying three years of World War II, 1943-1945. Both from the Douglas Park neighborhood in Chicago, the two adolescents discuss with humor and candor, the Navy, war, politics, hit music, life back home and their relationship. Sal nicknamed Slabby for
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{Fiction/Comedy/Action/YA} Kato and the Fountain of Wrinkles Blog Tour Sign Up

Rhys Ella will be touring January 5 – 30 with her fiction/comedy/Action/YA, FOUNTAIN OF WRINKLES! 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!   Title: Kato and the Fountain of Wrinkles Author: Rhys Ella Publisher: Tate Publishing Enterprises, LLC Pages: 284 Genre: Comedy/Action/Adventure/Young Adult Format: Paperback For famous animal actor Kato Rhyan, being named “Cutest Pug Alive” by Pooch Magazine was cool (all right, really cool).  But for him, acting isn’t about fame, it’s a part of him buried
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Wave Links Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Randall Boleyn’s Wave Links virtual book tour October 20 – November 14! Title: Wave Links: Powers Meant For Gods Author: Randall Boleyn Publisher: Last Keg Publishing Pages: 408 Genre: Young Adult Fantasy Format: Paperback/Kindle They feared how the truth might alter Llad Fleck. No one ever told him about his talented ancestors, their extraordinary heritage, or how they died. He never learned that a powerful research institute in England considered him a lethal threat. Other than the need to move on to the safety of a different city every few months, the only thing Llad knew for sure was that the men
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(Young Adult Fantasy) Wave Links – Powers Meant For Gods by Randall Boleyn Blog Tour Sign Up

Randall Boleyn will be touring October 20 – November 14 with his young adult fantasy, Wave Links – Powers Meant For Gods! We are looking for: Reviews (hard copy or PDF) 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!   They feared how the truth might alter Llad Fleck. No one told him about his talented ancestors, their extraordinary heritage, or how they died. He never learned that a powerful research institute in London considered him a lethal threat. Other than the need to move on
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{YA} K-9 Cop Blog Tour Sign Up

Erna Mueller will be touring October 6 – December 19 with her new young adult novel, K-9 Cop: Case #1 The Dreck Report! We are looking for: Reviews (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!   No one thought as highly of Lieutenant Spencer Watley as he did himself. This selfish cop met 14 year-old Justin Andrews during an important stakeout. Determined to nab a group of cyber killers, he wasn’t going to let anything get in his way, especially a smart mouthed teenager
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Afternoons with Grandma Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Laxmi Jagadish’s Afternoons with Grandma book blitz September 15 – September 26! Title: Afternoons with Grandma Author: Laxmi Jagadish Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 62 Genre: YA Fiction/Fantasy Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON Children often learn a lot about life from stories, and Grandma knows it. That’s why she’s sharing these six stories she’s collected from all over the world with her grandchildren, the twins Josh and Tamara. These tales of self-confidence, honesty, and bravery expose children to the lives of people unlike themselves, guiding them to build good, strong characters. Milo’s perseverance as she tries to get to the Magic Lake, Lee’s determination to
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Parker Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Stephanie Macniel’s Parker virtual book tour August 4 – 29! ABOUT PARKER Title: Parker Genre: Young Adult Author: Stephanie Macneil Publisher: iUniverse EBook: 226 pages Release Date: November 20, 2012 ISBN: 978-1-47596-038-9 The secret came out a few years ago: Parker Knight is gay. Now Parker is sixteen, and everyone has either embraced it, does not care, or has forgotten—everyone except for Dylan Baker. He is determined to make Parker’s life miserable. Parker really thought killing himself would make everything better. If he was dead, he would not have to get kicked around by Dylan and his friends anymore. He would be free. Now, after a failed
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(Young Adult) Appaloosa Summer by Tudor Robins – Blog Tour Sign Up

  Tudor Robins will be touring September 2 – 30 with her young adult novel, Appaloosa Summer! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback / eBook) Interviews Author Guest Posts Book Excerpts Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 48 hours. Thank you!   Sixteen-year-old Meg Traherne has never known loss. Until the beautiful, talented horse she trained herself, drops dead underneath her in the show ring. Jared Strickland has been living with loss ever since his father died in a tragic farming accident. Meg escapes from her grief by changing everything about her life; moving away from
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Pump Up Your Book Presents There Be Goblins in the Wood Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Christopher Gray’s There Be Goblins in the Wood  Book Blast March 3 – 14! ABOUT THERE BE GOBLINS IN THE WOOD   Title: There Be Goblins in the Wood Genre: Young Adult Author: Christopher Gray Publisher: AuthorHouse Pages: 112 Language: English Format: Ebook Combe Dingle Wood can be found (if you look really hard) in the heart of the Somerset countryside. It exists in that twilight time between myth and reality. It belongs to the era when walkabout scarecrows and Aunt Sallies wandered the hills and vales of the English West country. The local folk can tell you stories of their experiences when
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Gods of War Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Storm Kesocascay’s Gods of War Book Blast March 3 – 14! ABOUT GODS OF WAR Title: Gods of War Genre: YA/Action Adventure Author: Storm Kesocascay Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 112 Language: English Format: Ebook A long time ago, an ancient god sought to pool the powers of his brethren in order to create beauty out of chaos. He created the Divine Covenants, or Accords, which bound the gods’ powers together. They could have lived forever, peaceably and surrounded by paradise. However, one ancient god soon used the pooled powers for evil and was banished by his own son to eternal confinement. Years later, in
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First Chapter: The Flight of the Griffin by C.M. Gray

Title: The Flight of the Griffin Genre: Young Adult Fantasy Author: C.M. Gray Publisher: C.M. Gray Pages: 219 Language: English ISBN: 9781471750359 Purchase at AMAZON The Kingdom is dying… The Darkness is coming… the balance between Order and Chaos is rapidly shifting and the world is falling towards evil and horror, and all misery that Chaos will bring. But there is hope… Pardigan’s had enough, he’s only 12, but he’s breaking into the home of one of Freya’s richest merchants… and he’s doing it tonight… A burglary that will change their lives forever sets four friends upon a quest, a race against time, to locate three magical objects and
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Save Magic City Book Blast & Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is proud to announce Rocsanne Shield’s children fantasy novel, Save Magic City Book Blast December 2 – December 13! Rocsanne 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. ABOUT SAVE MAGIC CITY   Title: Save Magic City Genre: Children’s Fantasy Author: Rocsanne Shield Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 304 Language: English ISBN – 978-1-45026-484-6 Hurled into the time flow by a banishing spell, 13th century Edmund lands into the USA, 2007, in answer to Leona’s fervent prayers for help to save
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{Young Adult/Teen/Dystopian/Science Fiction for Review} The Cloud Seeders by James Zerndt

James Zerndt will be touring January 6 – 31 with his young adult, teen/dystopian/science fiction, The Cloud Seeders. We are looking for reviews and first chapter reveals.  This book is available in ebook and paperback.  Download your free copy at Amazon until Friday by clicking here. Thanks to all who signed up!  We’re full! Book Description: Serve Your Country, Conserve Your Water, Observe Your Neighbor This is the slogan of the Sustainability Unit and of a country gone eco-hysterical. After nearly twelve months without rain and the hinges of the world barely still oiled, Thomas and his younger brother, Dustin, set out across a drought-ridden landscape in search of
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents Master of Plagues Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join D.B. Reynolds, author of the young adult fantasy novel, Master of Plagues, as he tours the blogosphere  September 2 – November 29, 2013 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT MASTER OF PLAGUES Mystical powers. Cosmic adventure. Universally dynamic forces. A gifted individual has been commissioned to take part in of all these phenomenal occurrences. Stuart Duffelmeyer is an NYU student who is targeted by eight of his egomaniacal college classmates once they learn he wants to find a beautiful date for the night. His classmates lure him to a sleazy motel where they play out a heinous prank. His night ends in
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents Keeper of Reign Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Emma Right, author of the young adult fantasy novel, Keeper of Reign, as she tours the blogosphere  August 11 – August 30, 2013 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT KEEPER OF REIGN Books written in blood. Most are lost, their Keepers with them. A curse that befell a people. A Kingdom with no King. Life couldn’t get more harrowing for the Elfies, a blend of Elves and Fairies. Or for sixteen-year-old Jules Blaze. Or could it? For Jules, the heir of a Keeper, no less, suspects his family hides a forgotten secret. It was bad enough that his people, the Elfies of
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents Children of the Knight Virtual Publicity Book Tour

Join Michael Bowler, author of the edgy YA, Children of the Knight, as he tours the blogosphere August 5 – 30 on his second virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! {ABOUT CHILDREN OF THE KNIGHT} According to legend, King Arthur is supposed to return when Britain needs him most. So why does a man claiming to be the once and future king suddenly appear in Los Angeles? This charismatic young Arthur creates a new Camelot within the City of Angels to lead a crusade of unwanted kids against an adult society that discards and ignores them. Under his banner of equality, every needy child is welcome, regardless
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  • June 13, 2013
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents Keeper of the Black Stones Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join PT McHugh, author of the YA fantasy/time travel, Keeper of the Black Stones, as he tours the blogosphere July 1 – August 30 2013 on his second virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ————————————————-   ABOUT PT MCHUGH PT McHugh didn’t start out as a storyteller. He was, however, born into a family of that encouraged imagination. He became a fan of history in school and then went to college to become a construction engineer, to build a world of straight lines, angles, and equations. He was just as surprised as everyone else when he realized that he believed in magic, and might just know the
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  • May 11, 2013
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents OCD, the Dude & Me Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Lauren Roedy Vaughn, author of the contemporary humorous young adult, OCD, the Dude & Me, as she tours the blogosphere June 3 – July 26 2013 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT OCD, THE DUDE & ME Seventeen-year-old Danielle Levine is your typical high school teenager – if you count having OCD and ADHD as typical. Danielle’s “special” conditions lead her to a school for students with learning disabilities, and, even here, she struggles to fit in. How Danielle navigates her status as a “learning-challenged” teen pariah is told, with equal parts pain and hilarity, in Lauren Roedy Vaughn’s debut Young Adult
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New YA/Fantasy/Romance for Review: Ancient Guardians: The Legacy of the Key by S. L. Morgan

  S. L. Morgan will be touring July 1 – 26 with her YA/Fantasy/Romance, Ancient Guardians: The Legacy of the Key. We are looking for reviews, interviews, guest post spots, character guest post spots, book trailer reveals and book spotlights with book giveaways. Please mention how you want to host this author and which date would work for you when inquiring. Ancient Guardians: The Legacy of the Key No matter where you are, facing your reality with passion and purpose will always lead down the path you were intended to go. While Reece Bryant is making her way through this world on her own, she is suddenly confronted with
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Untimed Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Andy Gavin, author of the Young Adult Time Travel/Adventure novel, Untimed, as he tours the blogosphere July 1 – July 26, 2013 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT UNTIMED Charlie’s the kind of boy that no one notices. Hell, his own mother can’t remember his name. So when a mysterious clockwork man tries to kill him in modern day Philadelphia, and they tumble through a hole into 1725 London, Charlie realizes even the laws of time don’t take him seriously. Still, this isn’t all bad. Who needs school when you can learn about history first hand, like from Ben Franklin himself. And
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New Young Adult (YA) Paranormal for Review: The Sixth Power by Carol Nicolas

Carol Nicolas will be touring May 6 – 31 with her young adult (YA) paranormal, The Sixth Power. We are looking for reviews (EBOOK ONLY), interviews, guest post spots, first chapter reveals, book trailer reveals, book spotlights with giveaways. Please mention how you want to host this author and which date would work for you when inquiring. The Sixth Power Tania Westing, a high school senior, is one of the Gifted Ones, descendants of an ancient family with seven special powers. Some of the powers are common, and some are rare. Until her geneticist brother Tom was murdered, Tania lived an ordinary life. Now hidden in her mind is
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New YA Fantasy for Review: Wondertown by Mac Fallows

Mac Fallows will be touring March 4 – 27 with his young adult fantasy novel, Wondertown. We are looking for reviews, interviews, guest post spots, first chapter reveals, book spotlights with giveaways. Please mention how you want to host this author when inquiring. REVIEWERS PLEASE NOTE: THIS BOOK IS ONLY AVAILABLE IN EBOOK FORMAT.  IF YOU AGREE TO REVIEW, YOU ARE GIVEN THE OPTION OF HAVING A FREE SOUNDTRACK CD SENT TO YOU WHICH ONLY INCLUDES THE MUSIC THAT WAS ESPECIALLY COMPOSED FOR THIS BOOK.  WONDERTOWN IS A NEW KIND OF BOOK FOR ADVENTUROUS READERS 12 AND UP.  IT INCLUDES A FULL-LENGTH FANTASY NOVEL, TWELVE ORIGINAL SONGS – EACH
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New Young Adult Fantasy/Time Travel for Review: Keeper of the Black Stones by P.T. McHugh

P.T. McHugh will be touring February 15 – March 15 with his young adult fantasy/time travel, Keeper of the Black Stones. Jason Evans, a shy, introverted high school freshman, thought that his mundane life was all there was – girls, golf, physics, and the occasional bully. Until he found out about the secrets his grandfather had been keeping from him … a set of stones that allowed them to jump through time … a maniacal madman who used the stones to shape history to his liking … and Jason’s role as one of the few people in the world who could stop that man. Against impossible odds, a fourteen-year-old
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New Young Adult Paranormal Romance for Review: Soul Control by C. Elizabeth

C. Elizabeth will be touring February 4 – 28 with her young adult paranormal romance, Soul Control. “Lead us not into temptation, deliver us from evil.” Words that ring true for seventeen-year-old Saydi Gardiner upon discovering her ancestry.  But if she has doubts, further confirmation is forthcoming and it comes in the form of a wickedly gorgeous Nathanael Braxton, when he steals her heart and cuddles into her sole – the last place the boy should be. Nineteen-year-old Nathanael’s unrelenting good looks aren’t the only thing that make him dangerous – and he knows it!  However, his caring human side struggles with a loyalty – a loyalty that binds him to the
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with Fumi Hancock

ABOUT FUMI HANCOCK Ah, yes…. A Grateful Heart for all the awesome people that’s crossed my path, an Author of Inspirational Books and Fantasy & Paranormal Romance Young Adult Novels… an avid Book Lover who resides in Spring Hill, Tennessee! ​ Oh, I said it- absolutely crazy about these authors: Stephenie Meyer, Amanda Hocking, Samantha Young…and a Self Proclaimed Writer of the Year (Ok, perhaps a stretch but I’m on my way!). ​ Alright so I’m not in my twenties… probably starting my writing career just a tad-bit late… but I’m determined to be a success story too! I heard 40’s s the next twenties in this century… If
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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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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Loved and the Lost Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Lory Kaufman, author of the Young Adult Fantasy novel, The Loved and the Lost, as he tours the blogosphere January 14 through April 12, 2013 on his third virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT LORY KAUFMAN “I write Post-Dystopian fiction. After society’s collapse, which is imagined in so many great dystopian stories, humans will either fade into history, with the dinosaurs, or, if it learns the right lessons, society will go on to construct a civilization to last tens of thousands of years. History Camp stories are the exciting adventures of young people doing the latter.” -Lory Kaufman On the artistic side of Lory’s career,
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