Archive for July, 2014:

  • July 29, 2014
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Moonflower: A Memoir of Healing Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Tara Edin’s Moonflower: A Memoir of Healing virtual book tour August 4-29! Title: Moonflower: A Memoir of Healing Author: Tara Edin Publisher: Tara Edin Pages: 156 Genre: Memoir Format: Kindle Blooming was her Birthright. Darkness the Unexpected Catalyst. Tara is an incest, rape and sexual abuse survivor, who suffered from PTSD for many years but was misdiagnosed with mental illnesses instead. This took her down a near-fatal path ultimately ending in an accident, which nearly claimed her life at age 29. Most only know the abridged version of the story, yet the real story holds many truths and miracles that
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  • July 29, 2014
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Pump Up Your Book Presents I Wish Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you E.B. Tatby’s I Wish virtual book tour August 4-29! Title: I Wish Author: E.B. Tatby Publisher: Dream Tag Pages: 329 Genre: YA/Fantasy Format: Kindle Purchase at AMAZON All her life, sixteen-year-old Kenza Atlas has heard the stories, but she never believed them. She never expected the allure of power or, worse, how far the dark shadows could cast. Genies and wishing are for fairy tales, not teenage girls, and especially not in Omaha. But when a Moroccan jinn with undulating tattoos and mysterious black eyes whisks her 500 years back in time, she witnesses the death of her powerful ancestor
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Palmetto Moon Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Kim Boykin’s Palmetto Moon virtual book tour August 4 – October 31! 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
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{Mystery} Real Murder Blog Tour Sign Up

Lauren Carr will be returning September 2 – 26 with her mystery, Real Murder! 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! When Homicide Detective Cameron Gates befriends Dolly, the little old lady who lives across the street, she is warned not to get lured into helping the elderly woman by investigating the unsolved murder of one of her girls. “She’s senile,” Cameron is warned. “It’s not a real murder.” Such is not the case. After Dolly is brutally murdered,
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Rowena and the Viking Warlord Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Melodie Campbell’s Rowena and the Viking Warlord (Book 3 in the Land’s End series) virtual book tour August 4-29! Title: Rowena and the Viking Warlord Author: Melodie Campbell Publisher: Imajin Books Pages: 252 Genre: Paranormal Romance Time Travel Format: Paperback/Kindle 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 in her.  Too bad she doesn’t
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{Poetry} Lust Blog Tour Sign Up

Diana Raab will be returning September 2 – 26 with her book of poetry, Lust! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback & 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! A passionate journey through private emotional moments, Diana Raab’s LUST voices the pain of loneliness and the heart’s yearning for love while transcending the depths of human desire. In her fourth book of poetry, Raab employs narrative verse that is alive, titillating, and seductive. LUST examines the emotional and physical complexity of love, helping readers navigate the risks of
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{YA Fantasy} Metatron: The Mystical Blade Blog Tour Sign Up

Laurence St. John will be touring September 2 – 26 with his YA fantasy, Metatron: The Mystical Blade! We are looking for: Reviews (ebook only) 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! Thirteen-year-old Tyler Thompson is on the verge of becoming a superhero, but he must prove himself so he can earn the remainder of his superpowers and fulfill his destiny. When his grandfather, Benjamin, is held prisoner at AREA 51, where the eternal powers are presumed to be hidden, Tyler attempts to penetrate the
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  • July 22, 2014
  • Authors on Tour, Featured
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Meet Me in Barcelona Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mary Carter’s Meet Me in Barcelona virtual book tour August 4 – October 31! Title: Meet Me in Barcelona Author: Mary Carter Publisher: Kensington Pages: 352 Genre: Mainstream fiction Format: Paperback/Kindle/MP3 CD, Audiobook, MP3 Audo, Unabridged 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
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Sister Surrendered Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Darla M. Grese’s Sister Surrendered virtual book tour August 4-29! Title: Sister Surrendered Author: Darla M. Grese Publisher: Darla M. Grese Pages: 210 Genre: Memoir Format: Paperback / Kindle 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
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{Science Fiction Space Opera} Lieutenant Henry Gallant Blog Tour Sign Up

H. Peter Alesso will be touring September 2 – 26 with his science fiction space opera, Lieutenant Henry Gallant! We are looking for: Reviews (ebook only) 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! In an era of genetic engineering, Lieutenant Henry Gallant is the only Natural (non-genetically enhanced) officer left in the fleet. Many of his superiors, including rival Anton Neumann, have expressed concern he is not up to the challenge. However, his unique mental abilities have proven essential to the defense of the United
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{Christian Fiction} Song From the Ashes Blog Tour Sign Up

Megan Whitson Lee will be touring September 2 – 26 with her Christian fiction novel, Song From the Ashes! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback) 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! Attorney Landon Kingsley craves order and normalcy, and aside from his well-hidden vice of smoking, he lives the life that everyone expects from him in his hometown of Kingsport, Tennessee. Recently engaged to beautiful nursing student, April May, Landon’s new fiancée is everything he could want in a wife. She is devoted to
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Divine Sanctuary Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Cheryl Kay Tardiff’s Divine Sanctuary (Book 3 in the Divine Trilogy) virtual book tour August 4-29! Title: Divine Sanctuary Author: Cheryl Kaye Tardif Publisher: Imagin Books Pages: 210 Genre: Paranormal Mystery/Crime/Thriller/Romance Format: Kindle Purchase at AMAZON 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 safe haven of Sanctuary’s
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First Chapter: Divine Sanctuary by Cheryl Kaye Tardif

Title: Divine Sanctuary Author: Cheryl Kaye Tardif Publisher: Imagin Books Pages: 210 Genre: Paranormal Mystery/Crime/Thriller/Romance Format: Kindle Purchase at AMAZON Prologue Emily emerged from the shadows of Jasi’s closet. She drifted forward, her feet barely touching the floor. Her head, with its long blonde hair, lolled at an awkward―strangled―angle. In this dream, an adult Jasi gasped in surprise. The pink skipping rope noose was gone. “You’re ready, Jasmine.” “Ready for what?” “To start looking for me.” Jasi stood still, mesmerized by the bruises around the girl’s neck. They were fading before her eyes. “The skipping rope is gone,” she said finally. “And your bruises are disappearing.” “Yours will too,”
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{Literary Fiction/Magical Realism} Captain Shelby Blog Tour Sign Up

Jesse Giles Christiansen will be touring September 2 – 26 with his literary fiction/magical realism novel, Captain Shelby! 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! There are places even the sea cannot go… In coastal Denmark, a young man named Nereus builds a longship and leaves at age eighteen to discover a new, enigmatic land. Faced with unimaginable obstacles, he crosses the North Atlantic, only to be captured by the Skraelings, the Inuit indigenous people who seek revenge on
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First Chapter: Two Empty Thrones by C.H. MacLean

Title: Two Empty Thrones Author: C.H. MacLean Publisher: CNH Publishing Pages: 242 Genre: YA Fantasy Format: Paperback; Kindle Purchase at AMAZON With her powers growing every day, fourteen-year-old Haylwen Rightad thinks she’s safe in the magical forest. And now that she finally has the friends she always wanted, what is there to be afraid of? But she’s not out of the woods yet. Old enemies rip through her beloved forest, threatening to haul Haylwen and her newfound friends away. Their safety shattered, Haylwen and her friends are suddenly at each other’s throats. Is the friendship she worked so hard for already ruined, or is there another, unseen enemy at
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{Adventure Travel} Round the Bend Blog Tour Sign Up

Alistair McGuiness will be touring September 4 – 29 with his adventure travel book, Round the Bend: From Luton to Peru to Ningaloo, a Search for Life After Redundancy! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback & 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!   From the Amazon to the Andes and Kilimanjaro to Cape Town. This adventure story captures the reality and exhilaration of leaving home to undertake Gap Year travel in South America, Africa, Fiji and Australia. Three things happened simultaneously. The lioness charged, Alistair fled
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{Mystery} Behind You Blog Tour Sign Up

Carly M. Duncan will be returning September 4 – 29 with her mystery, Behind You! 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 a mysterious attack lands Heather in the hospital on the brink of death, her family rushes to her side. Through an inconvenient maze of shadowed memory and family secrets, Heather can trust only herself to discover if her husband, parents, sister or aunt tried to kill her. During the course of their own narratives, each character confesses to their
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First Chapter: I Wish by E.B. Tatby

Title: I Wish Author: E.B. Tatby Publisher: Dream Tag Pages: 329 Genre: YA/Fantasy Format: Kindle Purchase at AMAZON All her life, sixteen-year-old Kenza Atlas has heard the stories, but she never believed them. She never expected the allure of power or, worse, how far the dark shadows could cast. Genies and wishing are for fairy tales, not teenage girls, and especially not in Omaha. But when a Moroccan jinn with undulating tattoos and mysterious black eyes whisks her 500 years back in time, she witnesses the death of her powerful ancestor and the gorgeous slave she loved. They sacrificed themselves to escape the Caliph, a tyrant named Mazin. And
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{Southern Women’s Fiction} Palmetto Moon Blog Tour Sign Up

Kim Boykin will be touring August 4 – October 31 with her southern women’s fiction, Palmetto Moon! 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!   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.
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{YA Fantasy} I Wish Blog Tour Sign Up

E.B. Tatby will be touring August 4-29 with her YA fantasy, I Wish! 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!   All her life, sixteen-year-old Kenza Atlas has heard the stories, but she never believed them. She never expected the allure of power or, worse, how far the dark shadows could cast. Genies and wishing are for fairy tales, not teenage girls, and especially not in Omaha. But when a Moroccan jinn with undulating tattoos and mysterious black eyes whisks
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Double Blind Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Tiffany Pitts‘ Double Blind virtual book tour August 4-29! Title: Double Blind Author: Tiffany Pitts Publisher: Booktrope Editions Pages: 280 Genre: Action/Adventure/Humor/Sci-fi Format: Paperback/Kindle 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, a large slice of a dork. Possibly the entire cake. But he wants to help, as do
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{Memoir} Moonflower: A Memoir of Healing Blog Tour Sign Up

Tara Edin will be touring August 4-29 with her memoir, Moonflower: A Memoir of Healing! We are looking for: Reviews (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!   Moonflower is Part Memoir, Part Self-Help and Part Spiritual Odyssey. Tara is an incest, rape and sexual abuse survivor, who suffered from PTSD for many years but was misdiagnosed with mental illnesses instead. This took her down a near-fatal path ultimately ending in an accident, which nearly claimed her life at age 29. Most only know the abridged version of
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Agben School Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jo Sparkes’ The Agben School virtual book tour July 24 – August 22! Title: The Agben School Author: Jo Sparkes Publisher: Oscar Press Pages: 384 Genre: Fantasy Format: Paperback 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 fragile life she’d built for herself now lay in tatters. And the source of this evil
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First Chapter: The Agben School by Jo Sparkes

Title: The Agben School Author: Jo Sparkes Publisher: Oscar Press Pages: 384 Genre: Fantasy Format: Paperback Purchase at AMAZON 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 fragile life she’d built for herself now lay in tatters. And the source of this evil hunted her like a deer culled from the herd. The gateway before her was her only hope. For as
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Academy Series Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Aubrey Coletti’s The Academy Series virtual book tour July 7-31! Title: Altered Author: Aubrey Coletti Publisher: Escape Artist Press Pages: 272 Genre: YA Thriller/Sci-Fi Format: Paperback/Kindle When Toni, Joseph and Charlie arrive at their new boarding school, they are glad to leave their families — and respective problems — behind. Isolated as boarders, they meet a handsome senior with a personality like iced snake’s blood, teachers with a penchant for physical punishment, and four other outcasts who reveal that their being brought to the Academy wasn’t random at all. When the arrivals discover that their new school is engaged in
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Murder at Eastern Columbia Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Christopher Geoffrey McPherson’s Murder at Eastern Columbia virtual book tour July 7-31! Title: Murder at Eastern Columbia Author: Christopher Geoffrey McPherson Publisher: Christopher Geoffrey McPherson Pages: 210 Genre: Historical Detective Format: Paperback/Kindle Los Angeles. 1931. Your name is James Murray. You are a clerk in the Junior Boy’s department at the swankest new department store in downtown. You want to be a writer, but there’s a Depression on. Suddenly, you find yourself trying to solve the murder of your best friend. Will you be able to find the murderer before it’s too late? “Murder at Eastern Columbia” is two novels
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Looks Like Trouble To Me Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Calinda B’s Looks Like Trouble To Me virtual book tour July 7-31! Title: Looks Like Trouble To Me Author: Calinda B Publisher: Calinda B Pages: 313 Genre: Erotic Romance/Romantic Suspense Format: Kindle “Last name’s Savage — it means wild and uncontrolled,” Jace, a party boy, yacht builder and skilled photographer with a quicksilver temper, tells the pretty waitress at Chica Rios. He’s desperate to get laid, but there’s something in the way of his driving, overactive libido and the girl standing before him – trouble…big trouble, and a whole lot of it, from the trustifarian prick who works by his
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Renewal “Anytime” 10 Day Detox Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lisa Consiglio Ryan’s Renewal “Anytime” 10 Day Detox virtual book tour July 7-31! Title: Renewal “Anytime” 10 Day Detox Author: Lisa Consiglio Ryan Publisher: Lisa Consiglio Ryan Pages: 118 Genre: Health/Wellness/Cookbook Format: Kindle 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. For More Information Renewal “Anytime” 10 Day Detox is available at Amazon. Download your copy at iTunes. Discuss this book at
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Pump Up Your Book Presents 41 Strange Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Diane Doniol-Valcroze & Arthur K. Flam’s 41 Strange virtual book tour July 7-31! Title: 41 Strange Author: Diane Doniol-Valcroze & Arthur K. Flam Publisher: Diane Doniol-Valcroze & Arthur K. Flam Pages: 150 Genre: Short Story Anthology Format: Kindle 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 spirit of such masters of the
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Return to Love Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Kathleen Shoop’s Return to Love virtual book tour July 7-31! Title: Return to Love Author: Kathleen Shoop Publisher: Oakglen Press Pages: 261 Genre: Romance Format: Paperback/Kindle 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 wait to hold his wife and her help her heal. When he arrives, his embrace, his
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