Celtic Run Virtual Book Tour June and July 2012

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Join Sean Vogel, author of the middle-grade novel Celtic Run as he virtually tours the blogosphere on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book.

Vogel About Sean Vogel

Growing up in a small town in Michigan during the 1980s, Sean was provided with an excellent garden for cultivating his writing career. With only a few simplistic video games and three television channels, he became an accomplished daydreamer and a creative outside adventurer.

A son of a garbage truck driver, Sean often received “gently used” items from his father’s route. With a bit of imagination and a little tinkering, these items were reborn as tools for battles against backyard bandits. These childhood experiences would later serve as the foundation and inspiration for Jake McGreevy’s gadgetry expertise.
Seeking his own adventures, Sean joined the Army via an ROTC scholarship at Colorado State University. Living in Germany for several years gave him the opportunity to travel extensively in Europe. During his time in the Army, he served in the Field Artillery and Signal Corp, rising to the rank of Captain and receiving the Bronze Star Medal for his service in Iraq.

Sean started drafting novels out of boredom during long deployments in the military; a pen is easier to carry than a guitar. But he soon fell in love with the frustrating, yet satisfying science called writing and has been hard at work ever since.

When he’s not helping his main character Jake get out of tangles, Sean is a department manager for a large aerospace company. He lives in Denver with his wife and their two dachshunds.

Celtic Run Book Tour

Celtic Run Book Tour

About Celtic Run

Jake, a 14-year-old gadget whiz, didn’t plan on a summer full of treasure, thieves, and danger. He just got lucky.
While in Ireland on a class trip, Jake stumbles upon the first clue to a treasure missing from the Spanish Armada. Jake sees the riches as his chance to buy back the family sailboat and restore a piece of the life he enjoyed before his father was critically injured in an accident. Desperate to find the treasure, Jake teams up with Zach, his nemesis and class bully, and two girls in a clue-hunting chase across the Dingle Peninsula.

Dodging would-be thieves, exchanging wisecracks with Zach, and concocting ingenious devices to get them out of scrapes, Jake leads the team as they connect piece after piece to the 400-year-old mystery.

Read What Reviewers Have to Say

A new teen adventure series opens with the involving Celtic Run, telling of Jake’s summer visit to Ireland which opens up a Pandora’s Box of mystery, a treasure hunt, involvement with different classmates including a bully and two girls, and an encounter with thieves.
The novel opens with a bang:
“Jake clenched his fists. Zach was sauntering down the airplane aisle as if he were the best thing since the iPod.Everyone has an archenemy, Jake thought. Luke Skywalker has Darth Vader. Harry Potter has Voldemort. Me? I have Zach.”
Readers quickly find out that Jake is a techno-whiz kid bound for Ireland on a school trip that his father believes will help him understand his family’s roots. His encounters with bullies and classmates on the plane set the foundation for a story that continues to prove exciting when he’s called upon to rescue a child who falls off a cliff.
Visits to Irish towns and encounters with the Irish come to life in a series of descriptions that include Jake’s growing friendship with Maggie and his involvement with the promise of Spanish treasure, artifacts, and a journey that will lead him on adventure.

Hidden treasure and pieces of a puzzle bind him to his friends as his encounters with the Irish teach him about culture, family and values: “His humble, generous host family might be some of the poorest people on the peninsula, but they possessed the most valuable of commodities: family unity. Better to have family than money.”
Jake helps his friend Maggie in a dance competition. (“He clasped her hands and his eyes met hers. Since the day I met you, I haven’t seen you back down from anything. Just let the music flow through you. Don’t worry about the stakes. Dance because you love dancing.”) And a host of different elements become interconnected in the progress of the tale as Jake’s sailing background and personality become part of the skills he brings to solving the puzzle.
Romance, danger, intrigue, and personality clashes between peers—all make Celtic Run a vivid coming-of-age novel, drawing direct connections between life’s changes, opportunities, strife, and the process of maturity.
Teens—and many an adult—will find Celtic Run a vivid, memorable adventure story.
Diane Donovan, eBook Reviewer, Midwest Book Review.

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Sean Vogel will be on virtual book tour June 4 – 27, 2012. Contact Rebecca at Rebecca.camarena@yahoo.com if you would like to have this author at your blog with either a guest post, Q&A or book review.

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June 4

Book Spotlighted at Giveaways and Glitter

June 5

Book Spotlighted at Paperback Writer

June 6

Interviewed at Pump Up Your Book

June 7

Interviewed at The Children and Teens Book Connection

June 8

Book Spotlighted at Bluebell Books

June 11

Interviewed at Book Marketing Buzz

June 14

Guest Post at Writing Daze

June 18

Strands of Thought, Children’s author Kai Strand

June 19

Guest Post at The Book Bug-Hogan

June 20

Book Reviewed at Geo Librarian

June 21

Book Reviewed at 4 the Love of Books

June 22

Book Spotlighted at The Book Connection

July Tour Schedule

July 2

Book Reviewed at Young Adult Book Mark

July 3

Guest Post at Fire Star Books

July 5

Interviewed at Litearily Speaking

July 6

Chapter Excerpt at WV Stitcher

July 9

Book Reviewed at Books, Books, and More Books

July 11

Chapter Excerpt at Pump Up Your Book

July 12

Guest Posting at From Sarah with Joy

July 13

Chapter Excerpt at Young Adult Book Mark

July 16

Guest Post at the Once and Future Librarian

July 17

Book Reviewed at A Dream within a Dream

July 19

Book Reviewed at The Musings of a Book Addict

July 23

Book Spotlighted at Sher A Hart: My Written Art

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July 25

Book Reviewed at Reviews by Molly


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