Archive for July, 2013:

How to Promote Your Book Without Breaking the Bank

Authors are doing it every day – finding ways to promote their books without breaking the bank.  Money doesn’t grow on trees as we all know but at Pump Up Your Book, we offer different ways to promote your book that won’t send you to the poor house. In order to promote your book, the author does everything in his or her power to get the word out about their book but sometimes it’s just not enough.  That’s why they come to us.  Some of them have an unlimited budget and others are watching their pennies and that’s fine.  We let authors know the different ways you can promote
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  • July 26, 2013
  • Authors on Tour, Featured
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{Virtual Book Tour} Lion’s Head Deception Virtual Book Publicity Tour & Kindle Fire HD Giveaway

Join Chuck Waldron, author of the dystopian thriller, Lion’s Head Deception, as he tours the blogosphere August 5 – October 31 on his second virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book!  Chuck’s tour is part of a huge Kindle Fire Giveaway.  See details below on how to enter! {ABOUT LION’S HEAD DECEPTION} In the prologue, the backdrop for Lion’s Head Deception is set, amongst rioting and unrest in a destabilized city. Matt Tremain is a shy, private person who discovers a passion for writing blogs—a mission that propels him into investigative reporting. A tipster warns him of a diabolical scheme Matt simply can’t ignore. After the tipster is
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with Alana Terry, author of ‘The Beloved Daughter’

Alana Terry is a homeschooling mother of three. “The Beloved Daughter” is her debut Christian novel and won second place in the Women of Faith writing contest. Alana is also the author of “A Boy Named Silas,” the story of her son’s complicated medical history and “What, No Sushi?” a children’s chapter book about the Japanese-American internment. Visit her website at www.alanaterry.com or connect with her on Twitter at www.twitter.com/aboynamedsilas. Q: Thank you so much for this interview, Alana! Can you tell us where you are from? I was born in California, in the Bay Area. I went to college on the East Coast and moved back to California
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Designed for Relationship Virtual Book Publicity Tour

  Join T.J. MacLeslie, author of the Christian living/spiritual relationship book, Designed for Relationship, as he tours the blogosphere August 2 – 30, 2013 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ————————————————————— ABOUT DESIGNED FOR RELATIONSHIP Mankind has always struggled with the big questions: Why are we here? What is life all about? The search for answers has led in many directions, not all of them helpful. In this age, we are inundated with information, but this flood of knowledge has not necessarily produced wisdom. We find answers to the really important questions as elusive as ever. It really is all about relationship! This is the
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  • July 14, 2013
  • Book Blasts, Featured
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{Book Blast} Pump Up Your Book Presents KD Pryor’s The Portal’s Choice Book Blast – Win $25 Amazon GC/Paypal Cash

Join KD Pryor, author of the YA paranormal, The Portal’s Choice, as she tours the blogosphere August 5 – 30 on her first Book Blast with Pump Up Your Book! KD 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 and good luck! If you would like to host KD, please email Dorothy at thewriterslife (at) gmail.com. ABOUT THE PORTAL’S CHOICE Journal, just in case . . . I didn’t ask to meet ghosts. Shoot, I was fine without them in my life. Uncle Craig and Hannah were nasty to me, but at
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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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{FEATURED AUTHOR} Elizabeth Fountain, author of ‘An Alien’s Guide to World Domination’ + Win $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Elizabeth Fountain left a demanding job as a university administrator in Seattle to move to the small town of Ellensburg, Washington, and pursue her dream of writing novels.  She started writing in grade school; fortunately, most of her tortured high school poetry and song lyrics are lost to posterity. Her first book was five years in the making, and offered lots of opportunities to give up along the way; that might be why it’s a tale of people, aliens, and dogs who face the impossible, and do it anyway.  An independent publishing house in Calgary, Champagne Book Group, released the novel in April. Now Liz has three more novels
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  • July 7, 2013
  • Authors on Tour, Featured
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents The Lost Heir Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Andi O’Connor, author of the fantasy novel, The Lost Heir, as she tours the blogosphere August 5 – 30 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT THE LOST HEIR Always a meticulous planner, Darrak Hunter leads a dull life until his dreams become plagued with visions of a peculiar and distant world.  Waking up to a brilliant purple sun looming ominously in the sky, Darrak is met by a mysterious violet-eyed sorcerer who whisks him away from the struggling Earth. Thrown into the clutches of a foreign world where magic is reality and not all is as it seems, Darrak embarks on a journey
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  • July 7, 2013
  • Authors on Tour, Featured
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents Brimstone and Water Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Sharon House, author of the historical romance, Brimstone and Water, as she tours the blogosphere August 5 – 30 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT BRIMSTONE AND WATER Orphaned as a toddler, Caralynn Davidson grieves the loss of her grandfather as she takes over the reins of the family estate near a small Swiss village, but the Brimstone and Water from millennia ago that destroyed an ancient civilization is about to change Caralynn’s life. She receives a letter from her grandfather, charging her with the mission of bringing an ancient soul to rest. “But I thought only God could bring a soul
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents Deviltry Afoot Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Carol Pritt, author of the paranormal novel, Deviltry Afoot, as she tours the blogosphere August 5 – 27 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT DEVILTRY AFOOT A mother’s love is a powerful force of nature. Tina’s daughter is savagely murdered.  Tina comes to know the police won’t be able to solve the crime because the answers are to be found in the supernatural realm and sets out determined to find answers herself. Donald chose evil when he was a living being. Brought back to spirit he continues spreading terror. As Tina explores, others come to know that something outside the norm is
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  • July 4, 2013
  • Authors on Tour, Featured
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents The Enchanted Virtual Book Publicity Tour & Win $100 Amazon Gift Card!

Join Elaine Cantrell, author of the fantasy romance, The Enchanted, as she tours the blogosphere August 5 – September 27 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book!  Elaine will be giving away a $100 Amazon Gift Card at the end of her tour on September 27.  Enter through the Rafflecopter form below! *** Contest is over!  Congratulations to Linda Henderson for winning the $100 Amazon Gift Card!*** ABOUT THE ENCHANTED Forced by his father into a marriage he didn’t want, Prince Alan soon finds that his bride isn’t the sweet, submissive creature he expected.  Morgane has the heart of a dragon and beauty beyond compare,
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents Angel Killer Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join PJ Nunn, author of the mystery novel, Angel Killer, as she tours the blogosphere August 5 – 30 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT ANGEL KILLER The death of a child is every mother’s nightmare.  But what if the child has no mother?  What if their little bodies are discarded like garbage and no one even seems to care that they’re gone? Shari Markham, psychologist for the Dallas Police Department, knows what it feels like to be unclaimed and unwanted. She can’t turn away, even if it means demons dancing in her dreams at night.  But when her relentless pursuit of information
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents Marcie Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Carly M. Duncan, author of the chick lit novel, Marcie, as she tours the blogosphere August 5 – 30 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT MARCIE When Kate’s mother, Marcie, dies mysteriously she is forever tormented by the many questions surrounding her mother’s death. In Marcie’s absence Kate clings to her mother’s husbands, searching for solace. As family secrets are revealed Kate works to build her own life and family, but the mystery of her mother’s death sidetracks her until she finally gets the answer she’s always hoped for. Purchase your copy at AMAZON.   ABOUT CARLY M. DUNCAN Carly M. Duncan
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Faith on Earth? Book Blast Winner!

  Congratulations goes out to Stacey D. winner of a $25 Amazon gift card during the Faith on Earth? Book Blast. Thanks to all who participated. Follow our tours all month long to find more chances to win great prizes.


  • July 2, 2013
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{FEATURED AUTHOR} Mary Carter, author of ‘Three Months in Florence’ + GIVEAWAYS!

Mary Carter is a freelance writer and novelist.  Three Months in Florence is her seventh novel. Her other works include:  The Things I Do For You, The Pub Across the Pond, My Sister’s Voice, Sunnyside Blues, She’ll Take It, and Accidentally Engaged.  In addition to her novels she has written three novellas: A Kiss Before Midnight in the anthology, You’re Still the One, A Very Maui Christmas in the New York Times best selling anthology Holiday Magic, and The Honeymoon House in the New York Times best selling anthology Almost Home. Mary is working on two more novellas for winter and summer of 2014, as well as her eighth
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{First Chapter} Training Temptation by Diana Baron

Title of Book: TRAINING TEMPTATION Genre: Erotic Romance Author: Diana Baron Website: www.DianaBaron.com Publisher: Amazon Digital Services PURCHASE TRAINING TEMPTATION HERE SUMMARY: Caught in a web of deceit, Caroline must run the race of her life to save her family home. Her reputation as the high society owner of the #1 stable for Ponygirls in the world is on the line. And, there’s only one man who can help her win. Edward Hastings is steamy, passionate, and dangerous. With molten brown eyes and a rock hard body, the notorious playboy could have any woman in the world, but he only wants her. The first time he’d seen Caroline dressed
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First Chapter: Traveling for Love by Becky Due

Title: Traveling for Love: Searching for Self, Hoping for Love Author: Becky Due Publisher: Telemachus Press Pages: 178 Language: English ISBN-10: 1937698173 ISBN-13: 978-1937698171 Purchase at AMAZON Amanda’s life is suddenly turned upside down when her husband tells her he wants a divorce. She realizes she no longer knows who she is – her life revolved around her husband. At age 40, she finds herself divorced, childless, living in an apartment with a roommate, with little education and no career path. Can Amanda heal her pain and find love again? Will she find the career of her dreams? When will Amanda realize that she deserves to be happy? First
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First Chapter: A Voice in the Night by Ernestine Dail

Title of Book: A Voice in the Night Genre: Children’s Mystery Book Length: 46 pp. Author: Ernestine Dail Website: www.bookstop.wix.com/children-books Publisher: Avid Readers Publishing PURCHASE A VOICE IN THE NIGHT AT AMAZON SUMMARY: Brian, Josh, and Thomas arrived at Blackstone Cabin with great expectations of fishing and having fun. Now in the midst of a raging storm, and a hooded stranger frantically knocking at their door, the boys desperately wished for Josh’s father, Mr.Joplin, to return to the cabin. Will he return in time to save the boys from danger, or will the boys open the door to the frantic knocking of the hooded stranger outside. FIRST CHAPTER: BLACKSTONE CABIN
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