Archive for March, 2014:

Freddie Owens #1 Amazon Bestseller for ‘Then Like the Blind Man’!

I am so excited to announce Freddie Owens made Amazon’s #1 bestseller list for THEN LIKE THE BLIND MAN during his virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! Congratulations, Freddie! His stats today, March 29, 2014: Title: Then Like the Blind Man: Orbie’s Story Author: Freddie Owens Publisher: Blind Sight Publications Pages: 332 Language: English Genre: Historical Fiction/Coming of Age Format: Paperback & eBook A storm is brewing in the all-but-forgotten backcountry of Kentucky. And, for young Orbie Ray, the swirling heavens may just have the power to tear open his family’s darkest secrets. Then Like The Blind Man: Orbie’s Story is the enthralling debut novel by Freddie
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{Romance} Untraditional Love in the Dark Blog Tour Sign Up

Victoria Jackson will be touring May 5-30 with her romance, Untraditional Love in the Dark. We are looking for: Reviews (paperback) Interviews Author Guest Posts Book Spotlights (HTML provided for both blogger and wordpress blogs) Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 48 hours. Thank you! It has been a long time since Samantha has felt loved by a man. For now, she just wants to be left alone. She continues to live a lonely life, but an early morning visit to the beach changes everything. Her future husband, Isaiah, enters the picture. Their marriage is every woman’s
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{Self-Help Inspirational} Ritual Tea: How the 9 Secrets of Tea Can Transform Your Life Blog Tour Sign Up

Mario Zeleny will be touring May 5-30 with his self-help inspirational, Ritual Tea: How the 9 Secrets of Tea Can Transform Your Life. We are looking for: Reviews (paper & ebook) Interviews Author Guest Posts Book Spotlights (HTML provided for both blogger and wordpress blogs) Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 48 hours. Thank you! Media headlines abound these days saying, “Tea is trendy…” and we believe it until we read the first chapter of Ritual Tea: How the 9 Secrets of Tea Can Transform Your Life.   Entitled, Tea’s Sordid and Holy Exploits, chapter one is a
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Living Memories Project Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Meryl Ain, Stewart Ain and Arthur M. Fischman’s The Living Memories Project: Legacies That Last virtual book tour April 7 – June 27! Title: The Living Memories Project: Legacies That Last Authors: Meryl Ain, Stewart Ain, & Arthur M. Fischman Publisher: Little Miami Publishing Pages: 196 Genre: Nonfiction Format: Paperback Three years after the death of her mother, Meryl Ain was still unable to fill the hole that the loss had left in her life.  In talking to friends, Meryl discovered an insight shared by those who had successfully overcome grief; there simply is no closure.  It was a breakthrough for her. She
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{Religious Spirituality} Man’s Rejection of God: Who’s Responsible? Blog Tour Sign Up

RL Keller will be touring May 5-30 with his religious spirituality book, Man’s Rejection of God: Who’s Responsible? We are looking for: Reviews (softcover) Interviews Author Guest Posts Book Spotlights     Indian nationalist leader Mahatma Gandhi has been quoted as saying “I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” This is a sad indictment of the Christian community as a whole. Is it true? Are believers in Christ the reason people keep their distance from Judeo-Christian beliefs and the God we embrace? I feel there’s no question that we’re partially to blame. In this book I touch on a wide variety
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{YA Fantasy} The Stolen Herd – Book 1 of the Mandamus and Luco Series Blog Tour Sign Up

K. Madill will be touring May 5-30 with her young adult fantasy novel, The Stolen Herd – Book 1 of the Mandamus and Luco Series. We are looking for: Reviews (printed and eBook) Interviews Author Guest Posts Book Spotlights First Chapter Reveals Mandamus is only a foal when his herd is captured by the terrible Rakhana Army . Rescued and raised in secrecy, he knows nothing of his heritage until a dreadful incident in the woods brings him to the attention of the Forest council – and everyone else. Sent away for his own protection, he is determined to seek help on behalf of the many animals who have gone
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  • March 25, 2014
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Still Life with Strings Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you L.H. Cosway’s Still Life with Strings virtual book tour April 7-30! Title: Still Life with Strings Author: L.H. Cosway Publisher: L.H. Cosway Pages: 350 Genre: Contemporary Romance Format: Kindle My name is Jade Lennon and I stand still for money. The night I saw Shane Arthur watching me everything changed. A man in a suit always catches my eye, but it was the way he looked at me that was different. Like he knew me or something. He didn’t know me, especially not in my costume. My sobriety rests on staying away from men, but there was something about him
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  • March 25, 2014
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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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Pump Up Your Book Chats with Gulten Dye, author of ‘Semi-Coma’

Gulten Dye was born and raised in a small town in Turkey and moved with her family to Istanbul as a small child.  It was there that she earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing, and worked as a nurse at a local hospital before moving to the Philippines with her boyfriend. After being there a little over a year, they got married and a short while after that moved to Shreveport, Louisiana where she immediately began her studies to be able to work as a Registered Nurse. While studying for her boards, she was allowed to work as a scrub technician in an operating room at a nearby surgery
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{Historical Fiction/Paranormal} The Witch’s Salvation Blog Tour Sign Up

Francesca Pelaccia will be touring May 5 – 30 with her historical fiction/paranormal, The Witch’s Salvation. We are looking for: Reviews (ebook only) Interviews Author Guest Posts Book Spotlights (HTML provided for both blogger and wordpress blogs) Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 48 hours. Thank you! A witch who demands humanity. The immortal families who denied her of it. Two mortals commanded to right the wrong. That is the fate of the urban princess Anasztasia and the renegade prince Matthias, born shockingly mortal to two immortal families. If they go back in time and restore the
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Q & A + Book Giveaway with P. Christina Greenaway, Author of ‘Written in Ruberah’

The PUYB Virtual Book Club hosts P. Christina Greenaway, author of the paranormal romance novel, Written in Ruberah, and Dream Chaser: Awakening. Visit our Virtual Book Club to ask questions of and leave comments for the author for your chance to win a digital copy of Written in Ruberah. The giveaway runs from now until March 23, 2014. ABOUT THE BOOK New York real estate broker Miriam Lewis takes off for a brief getaway to a remote inn on the rugged cliffs of Cornwall. Rest and romance with her boyfriend seem like the perfect cure for a life that appears to be going nowhere, and too fast. Entering Cornwall, Miriam crosses the River Tamar
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{Poetry} Darklight Blog Tour Sign Up

Leonard H. Roller will be touring May 5-30 with his book of poetry, Darklight. We are looking for: Reviews (paperback only) Interviews Author Guest Posts Book Spotlights (HTML provided for both blogger and wordpress blogs) Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 48 hours. Thank you! From ancient Greece to the 21st century, poets have gazed at the heavens, trying to unlock the mystery and beauty of the cosmos in verse. In his charming new collection, DARKLIGHT, Leonard H. Roller, one of those poetic seekers, leavens his fascination with the cosmos and love of writing poetry with a
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  • March 17, 2014
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Where Was God Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Sheila L. Jackson’s Where Was God (Their Hearts Burned to Be Together) virtual book tour April 7-30! Title: Where Was God? (Their Hearts Burned to be Together) Genre: Christian Fiction Romance Suspense Author: Sheila L. Jackson Publisher: Concerning Life Publishing Pages: 226 Format: Paperback/Kindle Where Was God? Fayth Angelica Hope, questioned after the death of her father. Reared by a mother who could give, Cruella Deville, a run for her money as, “The Queen of Mean,” Fayth turns her back on the church, her faith, and love. She believed, no, just and merciful God would have abandoned her to the
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{YA Dark Fiction/Horror Novella} The Landfill Blog Tour Sign Up

Kevin Hopson will be touring April 21-30 with his YA Dark Fiction/Humor novel, The Landfill. We are looking for: Reviews (ebook only) Interviews Guest Posts Book Spotlights (HTML provided for both blogger and wordpress blogs) Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 48 hours. Thank you! Billy, a high school senior, has lost a lot in the past year, including his younger sister, Sara. Billy lacks excitement and purpose in life until his curiosity takes him and his best friend, Connor, to an old, abandoned landfill along the river. Connor would rather forget the experience, but Billy can’t
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{Crime/Mystery Novella} Broken Family Blog Tour Sign Up

Kevin Hopson will be touring April 7-18 with his crime/mystery novella, Broken Family. We are looking for: Reviews (ebook only) Interviews Guest Posts Book Spotlights (HTML provided for both blogger and wordpress blogs) Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 48 hours. Thank you! Sheriff Joseph Mauro is summoned to a local lake in Stone County, having received a report of a dead woman along the water’s shore. With foul play a possibility, he utilizes the help of his two female deputies in questioning family members and friends. As the three of them search for clues and possible
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Pump Up Your Book Presents White Girl in La Casa Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is proud to announce Christa Jeanne’s White Girl in La Casa Virtual Book Tour April 7 – 30! Title: White Girl in La Casa Author: Christa Jeanne Publisher: Christa Jeanne Pages: 222 Genre: Romantic Comedy Format: Paperback; eBook Purchase at AMAZON After being dumped by the last bad boy she’s ever going to date, Calliope meets her Hispanic prince charming.  Peter Delgadillo is the perfect gentleman, sure, but he’s also extremely easy to look at with a flirtatious grin, naturally tanned skin that just radiates over gorgeous muscle, and the potential to be Calliope’s passionate Latin lover who whispers sweet Spanish nothings into her ear. 
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First Chapter: To Live Forever: An Afterlife Journey of Meriwether Lewis by Andra Watson

Title: To Live Forever: An Afterlife Journey of Meriwether Lewis Author: Andra Watkins Publisher: Word Hermit Press Pages: 300 Language: English Genre: Historical fiction/Paranormal/Suspense Format: Paperback, Kindle Purchase at Amazon Is remembrance immortality? Nobody wants to be forgotten, least of all the famous. Meriwether Lewis lived a memorable life. He and William Clark were the first white men to reach the Pacific in their failed attempt to discover a Northwest Passage. Much celebrated upon their return, Lewis was appointed governor of the vast Upper Louisiana Territory and began preparing his eagerly-anticipated journals for publication. But his re-entry into society proved as challenging as his journey. Battling financial and psychological
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Kevin Bohacz #1 Amazon Techno-Thriller Bestseller for ‘Immortality’

I am so excited to announce Kevin Bohacz just made Amazon’s #1 bestseller list for techno-thrillers for IMMORTALITY one week into his virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book!  Congratulations, Kevin! Title: Immortality Genre: Techno-Thriller Author: Kevin Bohacz Publisher: CPrompt Pages: 389 Format: Paperback/Kindle Without warning, something has gone terribly awry. In the remote and unnoticed places of the world, small pockets of death begin occurring. As the initially isolated extinctions spread, the world’s eyes focus on this unimaginable horror and chaos. Out of the ecological imbalance, something new and extraordinary is evolving and surviving to fill the voids left by these extinctions. Evolution is operating in ways
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{YA Paranormal} Of Dreams and Shadow: Forget Me Not Blog Tour Sign Up

DS McKnight will be touring May 5 – 30 with her YA paranormal, Of Dreams and Shadow: Forget Me Not. We are looking for: Reviews (paperback only 5 available; ebooks) Interviews Guest Posts Book Spotlights (HTML provided for both blogger and wordpress blogs) Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 48 hours. Thank you! We live.  We die.  Is there anything more?  Jenna Barton is about to find out.  After moving to the coastal North Carolina town of Parson’s Cove, Jenna has unwittingly stepped into the middle of a mystery involving a missing child.  Unfortunately, the predator is
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  • March 10, 2014
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Sylvie and the Spark Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is proud to announce Gianna Day’s Sylvie and the Spark Virtual Book Tour April 7 – 30! Title: Sylvie and the Spark Author: Gianna Day Publisher: AKA Press Pages: 88 Language: English Genre: Erotica Format: Kindle ($2.99) One night of phenomenal sex isn’t enough to convince Sylvie that she should stay with Dave, her long-time boyfriend who borders on dull when not in the bedroom. When a set of twins moves in across the hall, Sylvie’s horizons broaden, though this pair might not turn out to be exactly what they seem. With a backdrop of inappropriate coworkers, a humping-addicted mutt, and a set of sexy
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{Christian Fiction Romance Suspense} Where Was God: Their Hearts Burned To Be Together Blog Tour Sign Up

Sheila Jackson will be touring April 7-30 with her Christian fiction romance suspense novel, Where Was God: Their Hearts Burned To Be Together. We are looking for: Reviews (paperback only) Interviews Guest Posts Book Spotlights (HTML provided for both blogger and wordpress blogs) Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 48 hours. Thank you! Where Was God? Fayth Angelica Hope, questioned after the death of her father. Reared by a mother who could give, Cruella Deville, a run for her money as, “The Queen of Mean,” Fayth turns her back on the church, her faith, and love. She
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  • March 8, 2014
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The First Series Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is proud to announce Dawne Dominique’s The First Series Virtual Book Tour April 7 – 30! Eden‘s Hell, I: The First In the beginning… God created man and called him Adam, a fine specimen replicated in his own image. He then created woman to ease Adam’s loneliness and named her Lillith. Unfortunately, God realized his mistake too late in giving woman free will, for she would rule her domain-not man. When Lillith left Adam, God created another for his first-born son, and gave her the name Eve and a kingdom called Eden, but by then it was too late, for he’d unleashed Hell into the
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Author Training Manual Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is proud to announce Nina Amir’s The Author Training Manual Virtual Book Tour April 7 – 30! Title: The Author Training Manual Author: Nina Amir Publisher: Writer’s Digest Books Pages: 256 Genre: Nonfiction Format: Paperback/Kindle Anyone can publish a book and become an “author,” but if you want to become a successful author with a profitable publishing career, you need a clear, step-by-step guide to help you develop book ideas that sell. In The Author Training Manual, expert editor and book coach Nina Amir reveals the exact process successful authors have used to create business plans and proposals for their books and teaches you how
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{Short Story Collection – Literary Fiction} The Sense of Touch Blog Tour Sign Up

Ron Parsons will be on tour May 5 – July 31 with his collection of short stories, The Sense of Touch. We are looking for reviews (paperback or ebook), interviews, guest posts or book spotlights (preformatted html for both blogger and wordpress blogs). Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 48 hours. Thank you! Old friends uncomfortably reunited and lovers who cling to their distance from one another; disappearing fathers, fiercely loving grandfathers, and strangers who pass through and radically change lives…These are among the characters who populate the rugged Midwestern landscapes of the mesmerizing fiction world of
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First Chapter: Semi-Coma: Evolution of My Intermitten Consciousness by Gulten Dye

Title: Semi-Coma: Evolution of My Intermittent Consciousness Author: Gulten Dye Publisher: Gulten Dye Publishing Company Pages: 205 Language: English Genre: Self-Help Format: Paperback & eBook Purchase at AMAZON This book is about self-discovery and the journey that awakened me to the many facets of life. The road hasn’t always been easy with its tolls and junctions. It’s about my struggle to discover who I really am, what I believe in and how I’ve arrived at a place where I am able to appreciate myself and my surroundings. Most of my life I lived in a state of arrested consciousness without being aware of it. Then one day out of
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{Erotic Paranormal Romance} The First Series Blog Tour Sign Up

Dawne Dominque will be on tour April 7 – 30 with her erotic paranormal romance The First series – Eden’s Hell, Dark Dairy, Kindred Blood and Crimson Cries. We are looking for reviews (ebook), interviews, guest posts or book spotlights (preformatted html for both blogger and wordpress blogs). Deadline to sign up is March 30. Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 48 hours. Thank you! Eden‘s Hell, I: The First In the beginning… God created man and called him Adam, a fine specimen replicated in his own image. He then created woman to ease Adam’s loneliness and
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Another Heaven Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is proud to announce Annu Subramanian’s Another Heaven Virtual Book Tour April 7 – 30! Title: Another Heaven Author: Annu Subramanian Publisher: Apprentice House Pages: 332 Genre: Factu-Fiction Format: Paperback/Kindle Annu Subramanian’s new novel, ANOTHER HEAVEN, exposes with unflinching honesty and deep psychological insight the twisted relationship between terrorism and human trafficking. ANOTHER HEAVEN may be difficult to digest in part, but its frankness and refusal to turn away from the unsparing horror of its terrible premise make the book an essential addition to the literature of terrorism and its links to international human trafficking. Subramanian, a self-described “writer of conscience,” employs her considerable literary
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Announcing Pump Up Your Book March 2014 Authors on Tour

Get a head start on your spring reading with books in your favorite genres. In the month of March, Pump Up Your Book! is featuring historical fiction titles, romance novels, thrillers, books for children and tweens, autobiographies and more! Follow our tours and find chances to win fabulous prizes like gift cards and Kindles. Kevin Bohacz shares his techno-thrillers “Immortality” and “Ghost of the Gods,” while Michael Goffinet tours with his action thriller, “They Call Me Superman,” and Pamela Samuels Young talks about her mystery thriller, “Anybody’s Daughter.” Freddie Owens and Monique Roy share their historical novels, and Andra Walkins tours with the historical paranormal suspense novel, “To Live
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{YA Paranormal} The Soul of the Sun Blog Tour Sign Up

Genevieve Crownson will be on tour April 7 – June 27 with her YA paranormal, The Soul of the Sun. We are looking for reviews (paperback or ebook), interviews, guest posts or book spotlights (preformatted html for both blogger and wordpress blogs). Deadline to sign up is May 30. Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 48 hours. Thank you! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback or ebook) Interviews Guest Posts Book Spotlights (HTML provided for both blogger and wordpress blogs) Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you
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