Archive for September, 2014:

Pump Up Your Book Presents The Magic of Friendship Virtual Book Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Subhasha and Sujata Kommuru, author of the children’s picture book, The Magic of Friendship virtual book tour Oct 6 – Oct 31.   Book Information:  Title of Book: The Magic of Friendship ISBN:  978-0-99-03178-0-7 Genre: Children’s Picture Book Publisher: Kommuru Books Publication Date: September 2014 # of Pages: 28 www.KommuruBooks.com Title is available at Amazon Pick up your copy at Barnes & Noble   Book Synopsis BABBAR is a fierce and mean tiger who cannot tolerate anyone, but he is lonely and sad. HASMUKH is a funny donkey but gets scared of everyone. When the Magic of friendship touches them
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Book of Zev Virtual Book Tour Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Marilyn Horowitz’s The Book of Zev virtual book tour, October 6 – December 12, 2014. Title: The Book of Zev Author: Marilyn Horowitz Publisher: Koehler Publishing Genre:  Thriller Format: Paperback Pre-order The Book of Zev to be released December 1, 2014 at Amazon paperback Pre-order The Book of Zev to be released December 1, 2014 at Barnes & Noble           The Book of Zev Synopsis The Book of Zev is a political thriller that tells the story of two gentle people who change the course of history. Zev Bronfman, a strapping 32-year old-virgin, angry atheist, refugee
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Winner Announced in the Unlocking Your Spiritual Greatness Book Blitz!

    Congratulations goes out to Miranda W. She is the winner of a $25 Amazon gift card during Jim Greene’s Unlocking Your Spiritual Greatness Book Blitz.  Thanks to all who participated. Visit our Authors on Tour page to find more giveaways and chances to win!


Pump Up Your Book Presents Escape Through The Wilderness Virtual Book Publicity Tour

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Gary Rodriguez’s ESCAPE THROUGH THE WILDERNESS virtual book tour October 6 – 31. Title:  Escape Through the Wilderness Author: Gary Rodrgiuez Genre: Tween/Young Adult Christian Adventure Paperback: 256 pages Publisher: Tate Publishing (June 2014) ISBN-13: 978-1-63268-201-7 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
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{Memoir} The Temple of All Knowing Blog Tour Sign Up

Lee Papa will be touring November 3 – December 19 with her memoir, THE TEMPLE OF ALL KNOWING! We are looking for: Reviews (ebook/paperback) 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!   The Temple of All Knowing (186 pp) is a memoir of one woman’s passage from personal and professional turmoil to spiritual awakening. A compelling straight forward and sometimes humorous account of the most personal of journeys as this 40-something woman finds herself in Sin City with promise of a new life, new husband and elderly mother living
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with Sujata And Subhash Kommuru Authors of the Children’s Picture Book Chatur

About Sujata & Subhash Kommuru Subhash and Sujata hail from India. They migrated to the United States along with their memories of childhood and youth. Now that they are parents, just like every immigrant they crave to introduce their child to the culture and values of their upbringing. Yet it is challenging to teach something while you are in the midst of adjusting to a different culture yourself. Subhash and Sujata both work in different disciplines and have different styles and backgrounds, but it is the upbringing of their son that brings them on the same page. That exact place where they meet is captured and reflected in their
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{Romantic Suspense/Espionage} Blamed Blog Tour Sign Up

Edie Harris will be touring October 20 – December 19 with her romantic suspense/espionage, BLAMED! We are looking for: Reviews (ebook – Net Galley) Interviews Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 72 hours. Thank you!   Born into a long line of spies, sanctioned killers and covert weapons developers, Beth Faraday carried out her first hit-for-hire when she was still a teenager. That part of her life—the American spy royalty part—ended one year ago, with a job gone wrong in Afghanistan. The collateral damage she caused with a single shot was unfathomable and, for Beth,
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Pump Up Your Book Presents K-9 Cop Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Erna Mueller’s K-9 COP: CASE #1 THE DRECK REPORT virtual book tour October 6 – December 19! Title: K-9 Cop: Case #1 The Dreck Report Author: Erna Mueller Publisher: Erna Mueller Pages: 220 Genre: YA Format: Paperback/Kindle No one thought as highly of Lieutenant Spencer Watley as he did himself. This selfish cop met 14 year-old Justin Andrews during an important stakeout. Determined to nab a group of cyber killers, he wasn’t going to let anything get in his way, especially a smart mouthed teenager like Justin. After Spencer bids him good riddance, he is killed by the hackers and
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Pump Up Your Book Presents A Wedding and a Killing Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lauren Carr’s A WEDDING AND A KILLING virtual book tour October 6-31!   Title: A Wedding and a Killing Author: Lauren Carr Publisher: Acorn Book Services Genre: Mystery Format: Kindle When Mac Faraday decides to do something, there’s no stopping him … even murder! Not wanting to wait until their big day to start their life of wedded bliss, Mac Faraday and his lady love, Archie Monday, decide to elope to the little church where his ancestors had all married—along the tranquil shore of Deep Creek Lake. However, before they can say, “I do,” the sanctuary erupts into chaos when
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{YA LGBT Paranormal Romance} The Wraith Trilogy: The Wraith (Book I) & The Huntress (Book 2) Blog Tour Sign Up

Arielle Strauss will be touring November 3 – 28 with her YA LGBT paranormal romances, The Wraith Trilogy: The Wraith (Book 1) and The Huntress (Book 2)! 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! The Wraith – Ophelia Weller never believed in ghosts until the night she became one. But when the aftermath of a frat party on the most haunted campus in America leaves her face to face with her own naked corpse, she really has no other
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Married One Night Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Amber Leigh William’s MARRIED ONE NIGHT virtual book tour October 6-31! Title: Married One Night Author: Amber Leigh Williams Publisher: Harlequin Superromance Pages: 384 Genre: Contemporary Romance Format: Paperback/Kindle What happened in Vegas…followed her home!  Olivia Lewis is not the marrying type. So when a wild weekend in Vegas leaves her with a surprise husband, she’s happy to sign anything to erase her mistake—even if that mistake is handsome, charming and comes with an English accent. Fortunately, her groom has other plans. Bestselling author Gerald Leighton knows he can make his new bride fall in love with him—he just needs
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Bad Taste in Men Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lana Cooper’s BAD TASTE IN MEN virtual book tour October 6-31! Title: Bad Taste in Men Author: Lana Cooper Publisher: Delightfully Dysfunctional Books Pages: 352 Genre: Humorous Nonfiction Format: Paperback/Kindle Have you ever felt like even Mother Theresa has got more game than you? If you have, you’d be in the same boat as geeky, awkward metalhead Nova Porter. Bad Taste In Men follows Nova from her prepubescent years through young adulthood and her attempts at getting dudes to dig her. Juggling self-esteem issues, small town outsider status, and questionable taste in guys, Nova is looking for love in all
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Scent of Humanity Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Margay Leah Justice’s THE SCENT OF HUMANITY virtual book tour October 6 – 31!   Title: The Scent of Humanity Author: Margay Leah Justice Publisher: Margay Leah Justice Pages: 552 Genre: Romantic Suspense/Women’s Fiction Format: Kindle Lightning doesn’t strike the same place twice. In theory. But in one small town, in one family, that theory is put to the test. Growing up in a rural town in Massachusetts was supposed to be safe, but for SILVIE CHILDS, that safety was shattered by a kidnapping attempt that forever changed her life. Now, nearly twenty years later, that sense of safety is
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Deadly Dozen Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you the DEADLY DOZEN Virtual Book Tour October 6 – 31! Title: Deadly Dozen: 12 Mystery/Thriller Novels by Bestselling Imajin Books Authors Authors: Cheryl Kaye Tardif, Catherine Astolfo, Alison Bruce, Melodie Campbell/Cynthia St-Pierre, Gloria Ferris, Donna Galanti, Kat Flannery, Jesse Giles Christiansen, Rosemary McCracken, Susan J. McLeod, C. S. Lakin and Linda Merlino Publisher: Imajin Books Genre: Mystery/Thriller Format: Kindle The DEADLY DOZEN Book Bundle contains 12 complete mystery/thriller novels by award-winning and international bestselling authors: Cheryl Kaye Tardif, Catherine Astolfo, Alison Bruce, Melodie Campbell/Cynthia St-Pierre, Gloria Ferris, Donna Galanti, Kat Flannery, Jesse Giles Christiansen, Rosemary McCracken, Susan J. McLeod, C.
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Chatur Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Kommuru Books’ Chatur Virtual Book Tour September 15 – Oct 10, 2014. Book Information:  Title of Book: Chatur (Hindi) ISBN:  978-0-99-03178-0-7 Genre: Children’s Picture Book Publisher: Kommuru Books Publication Date: September 2014 # of Pages: 28 www.KommuruBooks.com CHATUR is a wise laundry man. MAND is a loyal, reliable, albeit sluggish, partner in Chatur’s trade. He is a lazy donkey whose mantra is “Na Na Na hum to aaram karenge!” Chatur’s ambition and Mand’s attitude doesn’t blend well. So Chatur comes up with a wise plan to reverse his fortune. He brings ATAL the elephant to do Mand’s job. The plan
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Her Ghost Wears Kilts Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Kathleen Shaputis’ HER GHOST WEARS KILTS virtual book tour October 6 – 31! Title: Her Ghost Wears Kilts Author: Kathleen Shaputis Publisher: Crimson Romance Pages: 240 Genre: Romantic Comedy Paranormal Format: Paperback/Kindle “He’s… he’s trying to warn you… ” Baillie pulled her hands from the psychic wiping out the meat-locker cold. Baillie thought life content, successful in the Pacific Northwest until her bookshop became haunted. Murder, mayhem and maleficent merriment create a perfect tempest for Baillie between her bookstore in Olympia and the highlands of Scotland. Drag queens, divas and ghosts, conjure up a delicious adventure until jealousy and abandonment
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{Self-Help/Inspiration} Open Your Heart for Happy Relationships Blog Tour Sign Up

Eve Picquette will be touring November 3 – February 27 with her self-help/inspirational book, Open Your Heart for Happy Relationships: 10 Shift Keys – What Your Angels Have Been Trying to Tell You for Centuries! 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 72 hours. Thank you! How many times have you read or seen something that made you want to change your life and relationships – but you didn’t know how? Introduced by two angels, Hope and Impatience, Open Your Heart for Happy Relationships: 10 Shift
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Pump Up Your Book Presents A Dead End in Vegas Book Blitz!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Irene Woodbury’s A Dead End in Vegas book blitz November 3 – 28! Title: A Dead End in Vegas Author: Irene Woodbury Publisher: SynergEbooks Pages: 248 Genre: Women’s Fiction Format: Paperback/Kindle As Dave Sloan is leaving for the Denver airport to pick up his wife, Tricia, the phone rings. It’s the cops in Las Vegas.  His wife is dead.  Her nude body was found that morning in a hotel room at the Bellagio. Dave is stunned and devastated.  He thought she was in Phoenix at a week-long teachers’ conference.  A lie, of course, concocted by Tricia, who flew to Phoenix,
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{Graphic Memoir/Nonfiction} Welcome to Nursing HELLo Blog Tour Sign Up

Joel Craig will be touring November 3 – 28 with his graphic memoir/nonfiction, Welcome to Nursing HELLo! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback) Interviews Author Guest Posts Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 72 hours. Thank you! A MUST HAVE FOR ANY NURSING STUDENT! This nurse is not out to save the world. He’s too busy dodging bed pans and urine containers. What happens when all the jobs for movie star have been filled. The next best thing is to become a registered nurse and that is exactly what Joel Craig did. Here is Joel’s journey through the
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Mastering Negative Impulsive Thoughts Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you John & Elizabeth McIntosh’s Mastering Negative Impulsive Thoughts virtual book tour October 6 – 31! Title: Mastering Negative Impulse Thoughts Author: John & Elizabeth McIntosh Publisher: GP Mx Solutions P/L Pages: 283 Genre: Nonfiction/Self-Help Format: Paperback Doctor John McIntosh and Rev. Elizabeth McIntosh, authors of an important new book, MASTERING NEGATIVE IMPULSIVE THOUGHTS, use “nits” as both an acronym for their book’s title and as an analogy for the clearly unhealthy effects of negative thinking. “Negative thoughts occur impulsively, so that is why they are Negative Impulsive Thoughts, or NITs, for short,” the authors say. “The nice analogy is that
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Fallen Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Leslie Tenter’s Fallen virtual book tour October 6 – 31! Title: Fallen Author: Leslie Tentler Publisher: Left Field Press Pages: 396 Genre: Romantic Suspense Format: Paperback/Kindle “If it wasn’t an armed robbery, it was a hit. An execution.” Amid a sultry Atlanta summer, someone is targeting police… The investigation becomes personal for APD Detective Ryan Winter when a colleague and friend is shot dead, the second victim in just weeks. But even as he finds himself being drawn into the tense hunt for a serial cop killer, he is forced to re-examine his own shattering personal tragedy. An ER physician
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Pump Up Your Book Presents To the Breaking Pointe Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Cindy McDonald’s To the Breaking Pointe virtual book tour October 6 – 31! Title: To the Breaking Pointe Author: Cindy McDonald Publisher: Acorn Book Services Pages: 250 Genre: Romantic Suspense Format: Paperback/Kindle Pushed to the breaking pointe! Five years ago First Force operative, Grant Ketchum, let the ballerina of his dreams dance right of his life. Silja Ramsay returned to her birthplace, Russia, to take the position of principal dancer for the Novikov Ballet Company. The owner and director of the ballet company, Natalia Novikov, has a dark secret: her beloved ballet company is almost broke. Natalia forces her dancers
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Yell and Shout, Cry and Pout: A Kid’s Guide to Feelings Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Peggy Krugert Tietz’s YELL AND SHOUT, CRY AND POUT: A KID’S GUIDE TO FEELINGS virtual book tour October 6 – 31! Title: Yell and Shout, Cry and Pout: A Kid’s Guide to Feelings Author: Peggy Kruger Tietz Publisher: Peggy Kruger Tietz Pages: 40 Genre: Nonfiction/Psychoeducational Format: Paperback/Kindle Yell and Shout, Cry and Pout: A Kid’s Guide to Feelings is an essential guidebook for adults in steering children through the confusing behaviors that emotions evoke.  When you understand the purpose of emotions, behavior becomes understandable.  Each of the eight emotions is clearly defined thorough vignettes and illustrations, keeping both adult and
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{Memoir} Searching for Normal: A Memoir Blog Tour Sign Up

Alison Neuman will be touring November 3 – 28 with her memoir, Searching for Normal: A Memoir! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback – only 3 available/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 72 hours. Thank you! They thought she was going to die. At three-and-a-half years old, bed-ridden shivering in a cold sweat, Alison Neuman’s tiny fingers wrap around her mother’s for strength.  But even at this age, Alison is determined to beat the odds. When years of hospitalization robs her of most of her childhood, she finds joy. When
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{Nonfiction/Psychoeducational} Yell and Shout, Cry and Pout: A Kid’s Guide to Feelings Blog Tour Sign Up

Peggy Kruger Tietz will be touring October 6 – 31 with her nonfiction/psychoeducational book, Yell and Shout, Cry and Pout: A Kid’s Guide to Feelings! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback/ebook) Interviews Author Guest Posts Book Spotlights Please only G rated blogs Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 72 hours. Thank you! Yell and Shout, Cry and Pout: A Kid’s Guide to Feelings is an essential guidebook for adults in steering children through the confusing behaviors that emotions evoke.  When you understand the purpose of emotions, behavior becomes understandable.  Each of the eight emotions is clearly defined
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Murders at Astaire Castle Book Blitz – Win books!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lauren Carr’s The Murders at Astaire Castle book blitz October 6 – 31! Title: The Murders at Astaire Castle Author: Lauren Carr Publisher: Acorn Book Services Pages: 286 Genre: Mystery Format: Paperback/Kindle Never tell Mac Faraday not to do something. In The Murders at Astaire Castle, Spencer’s police chief, David O’Callaghan, learns this lesson the hard way when he orders Mac Faraday to stay away from the south end of Spencer’s mountaintop—even though he owns the property. It doesn’t take long for Mac to find out what lies on the other side of the stone wall and locked gate, on
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Adelita’s Secret Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Christopher Cloud’s Adelita’s Secret virtual book tour September 2-26, 2014.   Title: Adelita’s Secret Author: Christopher Cloud Publisher: Create Space Independent Publishing Platform Genre: young adult fantasy romance Format: paperback copy, kindle,   Lost in a superficial world of materialism and social status—and ashamed of her Latino heritage—seventeen-year-old Adelita Noé is loved by two men, two men separated by a hundred years and vastly different stations in life. One man owns little more than the shirt on his back. The other, a poet at heart, is heir to a vast fortune. Their love for Adelita serves as the backdrop for
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