Archive for June, 2014:

Pump Up Your Book Presents The New Reality Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Stephen Martino’s The New Reality virtual book tour July 7-31! Title: The New Reality Author: Stephen Martino Publisher: Light Messages Pages: 333 Genre: Thriller Format: Paperback/Kindle Alex Pella, an acclaimed neuroscientist and the hero of the new medical thriller, THE NEW REALITY, finds himself racing across the globe to find a cure for a rapidly spreading illness threatening to end all of humanity. To combat this worldwide pandemic, Pella and his colleagues must use modern science in an attempt to decipher a code hidden by God within the original pages of the Bible. THE NEW REALITY is the first book
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Secrets of Hallstead House Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Amy M. Reade’s SECRETS OF HALLSTEAD HOUSE virtual book tour July 17 – August 15! Title: Secrets of Hallstead House Author: Amy M. Reade Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp. Pages: 255 Genre: Romantic Suspense Format: Kindle “You are not wanted here. Go away from Hallstead Island or you will be very sorry you stayed.” Macy Stoddard, a nurse from Manhattan, comes to Hallstead Island in the North Country of New York to escape a haunting pain.  It is here that Macy discovers secrets that were not meant to be shared – secrets that reach back into Macy’s past and that will change her future and the futures of the
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{Action/Adventure/Humor/Sci-Fi} Double Blind Blog Tour Sign Up

Tiffany Pitts will be touring August 4-29 with her action/adventure/humor/sci-fi novel, Double Blind! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback or ebook) Interviews Author Guest Posts Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 48 hours. Thank you!   Delilah Pelham’s brother, Paul, is missing. She should probably be worried about that but honestly, he’s been in trouble since the day he learned the words “trust me.” In fact, if it weren’t for his roommate, Carl, she would gladly leave him to his fate. Carl is a good guy, even if he’s a bit of a dork. Okay,
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{Fantasy} The Agben School Blog Tour Sign Up

Jo Sparkes will be returning July 24 – August 22 with her fantasy, The Agben School! We are looking for: Reviews (ARC paperback or ebook) Interviews Author Guest Posts Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 48 hours. Thank you!   Agben had stood for a thousand years. A mysterious school housing more than students, it was the seat of the powerful Women of Agben, and the center for harnessing the potency of herbs. Few knew all that transpired within the walls. And now Marra stood at its gate. Friends and support stripped from her, the
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  • June 24, 2014
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Ash to Steele Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Karen-Anne Stewart’s ASH TO STEELE virtual book tour July 7 – September 26! Title: Ash to Steele Author: Karen-Anne Stewart Publisher: Karen-Anne Stewart Pages: 342 Genre: New Adult Romance Format: Paperback/Kindle Emma Who I am and all I believe is marred with just one glance into angry, steel blue eyes. He seems to control my air, my ability to breathe. He makes me crave everything I know is a sin. Pure becomes tainted and lines are blurred. It’s my fault; I’m the one who isn’t strong enough. I’ve been damaged…broken. Breck’s words haunt me…’There’s a consequence for every choice you
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First Chapter: Ash to Steele by Karen-Anne Stewart

Title: Ash to Steele Author: Karen-Anne Stewart Publisher: Karen-Anne Stewart Pages: 342 Genre: New Adult Romance Format: Paperback/Kindle Purchase at AMAZON Emma Who I am and all I believe is marred with just one glance into angry, steel blue eyes. He seems to control my air, my ability to breathe. He makes me crave everything I know is a sin. Pure becomes tainted and lines are blurred. It’s my fault; I’m the one who isn’t strong enough. I’ve been damaged…broken. Breck’s words haunt me…’There’s a consequence for every choice you make.’ Breck I’ve had so many women I can’t even remember over half of their names, but none of
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Kaira Rouda #1 Amazon Bestseller for ‘In the Mirror’

I am so excited to announce Kaira Rouda made Amazon’s #1 bestseller list for IN THE MIRROR during her virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! Congratulations, Kaira! Title: In the Mirror Author: Kaira Rouda Publisher: Real You Publishing Group Pages: 214 Genre: Women’s Fiction Format: Paperback/Kindle What choices would you make if you knew you might die soon? From the multi award-winning, best-selling author of four books, including Here, Home, Hope, a gripping and heart wrenching novel about a young mother who has it all. The only problem is she may be dying. In her previous works including All the Difference, Rouda’s characters “sparkle with humor and
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Pump Up Your Book Presents When Shmack Happens Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Amner Nebeen’s When Shmack Happens virtual book tour July 7 -31! Title:  When Shmack Happens: The Making of a Spiritual Champion Author: Amber Neben Genre: Christian nonfiction/inspirational stories/sports autobiography Paperback: 172 pages Publisher: Neben Px4 (March 18, 2014) ISBN-10: 0991303008 ISBN-13: 978-0991303007 Have you ever been through a hard time in life? Ever wondered why bad things happen? Amber Neben has you covered. The 2x Olympic cyclist for Team USA knows a thing or two about shmack- her word for describing adversity that comes our way in life. Follow Amber’s journey as she overcomes major obstacles both on and off the bike-and
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{Contemporary Fiction} Meet Me in Barcelona Blog Tour Sign Up

Mary Carter will be returning August 4 – October 31 with her contemporary fiction, Meet Me in Barcelona!  Mary will be giving away a 3 book set (My Sister’s Voice, Three Months in Florence and Sunnyside Blues) at the end of her tour.  All bloggers who host the book tour are eligible to enter and win.  This tour also comes with a one day book blitz on July 29. We are looking for: Reviews (paperback) Interviews Author Guest Posts Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 48 hours. Thank you!   A surprise trip to Barcelona
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with Jermaine Gadson, author of ‘Tactics, Trends, and Traits of the Enemy’

Jermaine Gadson is the Senior Pastor of Faith Ministries, Inc., a non-traditional church located in Birmingham, AL. Prior to starting Faith Ministries, he served as an associate minister, youth minister, and pastor for local churches and ministries in the greater Birmingham area. While, growing up in the Baptist church, he gave his life to Christ at an early age, and is a third generation minister of the Gospel. He holds a B.A. in Religion with a Concentration in Congregational Studies and a Minor in Classics from Samford University, and a Master of Divinity from Beeson Divinity School of Samford University. He is currently a Doctor of Ministry student at
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First Chapter: Palmetto Moon by Kim Boykin

Title: Palmetto Moon Author: Kim Boykin Publisher: Berkely Trade Pages: 320 Genre: Southern Women’s Fiction Format: Paperback/Kindle Purchase at AMAZON June, 1947. Charleston is poised to celebrate the biggest wedding in high-society history, the joining of two of the oldest families in the city. Except the bride is nowhere to be found…Unlike the rest of the debs she grew up with, Vada Hadley doesn’t see marrying Justin McLeod as a blessing—she sees it as a life sentence. So when she finds herself one day away from a wedding she doesn’t want, she’s left with no choice but to run away from the future her parents have so carefully planned
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First Chapter: Meet Me in Barcelona by Mary Carter

Title: Meet Me in Barcelona Author: Mary Carter Publisher: Kensington Pages: 352 Genre: Mainstream fiction Format: Paperback/Kindle/MP3 CD, Audiobook, MP3 Audo, Unabridged Purchase at AMAZON A surprise trip to Barcelona with her boyfriend, Jake, seems like the perfect antidote to Grace Sawyer’s current woes. The city is dazzling and unpredictable, but the biggest surprise for Grace is discovering who arranged and paid for the vacation. Carrie Ann wasn’t just Grace’s foster sister. Clever, pretty, and mercurial, she was her best friend—until everything went terribly wrong. Now, as she flees an abusive marriage, Carrie Ann has turned to the one person she hopes will come through for her. Despite her
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{Paranormal Romance Time Travel} Rowena and the Viking Warlord Blog Tour Sign Up

Melodie Campbell will be touring August 4-29 with her paranormal romance time travel, Rowena and the Viking Warlord! We are looking for: Reviews (ebook only) Interviews Author Guest Posts Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 48 hours. Thank you!   He was her enemy and her lover…   As Cedric fights battles down south, Rowena unwittingly rides into an enemy war camp and is taken prisoner by her old friend Lars, who is not what he seems. Yet Rowena is not helpless. After all, she is a hereditary half-witch with a whole lot of magic
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{Memoir} Sister Surrendered Blog Tour Sign Up

Darla M. Grese will be touring August 4-29 with her memoir, Sister Surrendered! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback) Interviews Author Guest Posts Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 48 hours. Thank you!   When you’re a twin, loneliness is somewhat unfamiliar because you’ve always had each other. So when a twin passes, the other is left unprepared. Our loyalty was steadfast and our devotion to one another, solid. Our love was unconditional no matter what the circumstances. I’m so grateful every day for the memories of the joy and laughter that we shared together.
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First Chapter: Sister Surrendered by Darla M. Grese

Title: Sister Surrendered Author: Darla M. Grese Publisher: Darla M. Grese Pages: 210 Genre: Memoir Format: Paperback / Kindle Purchase at AMAZON When you’re a twin, loneliness is somewhat unfamiliar because you’ve always had each other. So when a twin passes, the other is left unprepared. Our loyalty was steadfast and our devotion to one another, solid. Our love was unconditional no matter what the circumstances. I’m so grateful every day for the memories of the joy and laughter that we shared together. I know the bond that Kelli and I shared is impossible for anyone to replace. This memoir has become something so much more than initially intended.
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{Paranormal Mystery} Divine Sanctuary Blog Tour Sign Up

Cheryl Kaye Tardif will be touring August 4-29 with her paranormal mystery/crime/thriller/romance, Divine Sanctuary! We are looking for: Reviews (ebook only) Interviews Author Guest Posts Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 48 hours. Thank you! There’s no place like home… In the Divine trilogy finale, the heat is tripled when CFBI Agent Jasi McLellan must rescue Emily, the ghost girl that haunts her dreams; expose her own mother’s killer; and uncover a murderer that preys on the weak at Sanctuary, a controversial cult nestled in the woods near Mission, BC. Something insidious lurks behind the
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Devil Made Me Do It Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Colette Harrell’s THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT virtual book tour July 7-31! Title: The Devil Made Me Do It Author: Colette Harrell Publisher: Urban Books/Kensington Pages: 288 Genre: Inspirational fiction Format: Paperback The voluptuous Esther Wiley has always known that she is special. She’s a tiara-wearing, wand-carrying kind of Cinderella princess in disguise. The problem that her very own Fairy Godmother, the Prophetess Mother Reed, struggles with is getting her to live like it. Briggs Stokes is the reluctant heir to his father’s worldwide, multimillion-dollar televangelist ministry, yet he yearns to be his own man. His past mistakes have
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First Chapter: The Devil Made Me Do It by Colette Harrell

Title: The Devil Made Me Do It Author: Colette Harrell Publisher: Urban Books/Kensington Pages: 288 Genre: Inspirational fiction Format: Paperback Purchase at AMAZON The voluptuous Esther Wiley has always known that she is special. She’s a tiara-wearing, wand-carrying kind of Cinderella princess in disguise. The problem that her very own Fairy Godmother, the Prophetess Mother Reed, struggles with is getting her to live like it. Briggs Stokes is the reluctant heir to his father’s worldwide, multimillion-dollar televangelist ministry, yet he yearns to be his own man. His past mistakes have caused him a private life of hurt and loneliness. Esther and Briggs meet and develop a deep soul connection,
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{Health/Wellness/Cookbook} Renewal “Anytime” 10 Day Detox Blog Tour Sign Up

Lisa Consiglio Ryan will be touring July 7-31 with her health/wellness/cookbook, Renewal “Anytime” 10 Day Detox! We are looking for: Reviews (ebook only – 118 pp) Interviews Guest Posts Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 48 hours. Thank you!   Lose weight, energize, and glow with over 50 recipes and complete 10 day detox plan. This whole foods cleanse includes detailed menu plan, shopping list, and bonus recipes to make after your cleanse. Renewal “Anytime” also includes pre-detox plan, daily instructions, FAQ’s, and post-detox next steps. Lisa Consiglio Ryan is the founder of Whole Health
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{Inspirational Fiction} The Devil Made Me Do It Blog Tour Sign Up

Colette Harrell will be touring July 7-31 with her inspirational fiction, The Devil Made Me Do It! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback) Interviews Guest Posts Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 48 hours. Thank you!   The voluptuous Esther Wiley has always known that she is special. She’s a tiara-wearing, wand-carrying kind of Cinderella princess in disguise. The problem that her very own Fairy Godmother, the Prophetess Mother Reed, struggles with is getting her to live like it. Briggs Stokes is the reluctant heir to his father’s worldwide, multimillion-dollar televangelist ministry, yet he yearns
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{Short Story Anthology} 41 Strange Blog Tour Sign Up

Diane Doniol-Valcroze and Arthur K. Flam will be touring July 7-31 with their short story collection, 41 Strange! We are looking for: Reviews (ebook only) Interviews Guest Posts Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 48 hours. Thank you!   41 STRANGE, a first-of-its-kind e-book anthology devoted exclusively to “short-short stories of the strange and horrifying,” awaits just a couple of clicks away for Kindle readers who enjoy a good shiver up their spines. 41 STRANGE is the bizarre debut collection of authors/screenwriters Diane Doniol-Valcroze and Arthur K. Flam, who deliver a reading experience in the
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Hunting Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Kerry Peresta’s THE HUNTING virtual book tour July 7-31! Title: The Hunting Author: Kerry Peresta Publisher: Pen-L Publishing Pages: 247 Genre: Contemporary Women’s Fiction/Inspirational Format: Paperback/Kindle Isabelle Lewis, top advertising salesperson at the Chatbrook Springs Sentinel newspaper, has a habit of falling in and out of marriage. After her last divorce, she shoved the emotional pain into a compartment in her brain to deal with later. With three teenagers to raise, bills to pay, and sales quotas to meet, introspection was a luxury she could not afford. Her mind needed a happy place. When Isabelle (Izzy) discovered online dating, it
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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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First Chapter: The Unholy by Paul DeBlassie

Title: The Unholy Author: Paul DeBlassie III Publisher: Sunstone Press Pages: 200 Language: English Genre: Psychological/Paranormal Thriller Format: Paperback/Kindle Purchase at AMAZON A young curandera, a medicine woman, intent on uncovering the secrets of her past is forced into a life-and-death battle against an evil Archbishop. Set in the mystic land of Aztlan, The Unholy is a novel of destiny as healer and slayer. Native lore of dreams and visions, shape changing, and natural magic work to spin a neo-gothic web in which sadness and mystery lure the unsuspecting into a twilight realm of discovery and decision.  First Chapter: A chilly autumn morning wind swept over the grounds of the Ecclesia
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{Romance} Return to Love Blog Tour Sign Up

Kathleen Shoop will be touring July 7-31 with her romance, Return to Love! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback) Interviews Guest Posts Book Spotlights (on romance blogs only) Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 48 hours. Thank you!   April and Hale Abercrombie’s love is tender and sweet. While he serves in Vietnam, their marriage is marked by trust and the belief that they will grow old together with a gaggle of grandchildren at their feet. But, their charmed marriage changes in the face of losing their newborn daughter. On leave from his tour, Hale can barely
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First Chapter: The Last Ancient by Eliot Baker

Title: The Last Ancient Author: Eliot Baker Publisher: Burst Books, imprint of Champagne Books Pages: 316 Genre: Supernatural Thriller, Historical Mystery Format: Paperback/Kindle Purchase at AMAZON Around Nantucket Island, brutal crime scenes are peppered with ancient coins, found by the one man who can unlock their meaning. But what do the coins have to do with the crimes? Or the sudden disease epidemic? Even the creature? And who–or what–left them? The answer leads reporter Simon Stephenson on a journey through ancient mythology, numismatics, and the occult. Not to mention his own past, which turns out to be even darker than he’d realized; his murdered father was a feared arms
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First Chapter: The Gifted: How to Live the Life of Your Dreams by Daphne Michaels

Title: The Gifted: How to Live the Life of Your Dreams Author: Daphne Michaels Publisher: Daphne Michaels Books Pages: 130 Genre: Personal Development/Spirituality Format: Paperback / Kindle Purchase at AMAZON In The Gifted: How to Live the Life of Your Dreams author, speaker and licensed psychotherapist Daphne Michaels celebrates the nine gifts that are our birthright, guiding readers in how to recognize and use them to transform their lives.  In her author’s preface, Michaels reveals how her own journey of life transformation began when she was young and realized that human existence wore two conflicting faces–one of love and joy, and one of fear and despair. She decided then
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Boy in a Band Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lisa Loomis’ BOY IN THE BAND virtual book tour July 7-31! Morgan Mallory meets beautiful, sexy, bond haired, blue eyed, Mathew O’Conner, a singer in a rock band, when she’s just a teen. Her instant physical attraction to him completely unnerves her. Their convoluted relationship transcends years, and even when she knows it would be best to stay away from him she can’t seem to stop herself. What is it about the bad boy she seems to love? An edgy coming of age novel that is erotic, entertaining, and deeply moving. The characters will seize you and stay with you
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