📚Pump Up Your Book Presents Tony Setley’s The Relative Unimportance of It All Virtual Book Tour

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Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Tony Setley’s The Relative Unimportance of It All Virtual Book Tour October 26 – December 23!

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The Relative Unimportance of It All: and Why Everything Matters Anyway begins with an unsettling observation: given enough time, nearly everything human beings consider important will disappear. Fame fades, accomplishments are forgotten, institutions collapse, and even the most influential people eventually become little more than names—or vanish from memory altogether. Rather than resisting that reality with promises of legacy or permanence, the book takes it seriously. It argues that the mistake of nihilism is not recognizing that everything is temporary, but assuming that something must last forever in order to have mattered while it existed.

From there, the book shifts the question of meaning away from historical importance and toward lived experience. Every human being encounters life from within a present moment, whether emperor or laborer, celebrity or stranger. That equality of experience becomes the foundation for an ethic of “attentive goodness”: taking seriously the reality of the people and circumstances directly before us. The argument is applied to ordinary life, family, work, pleasure, suffering, loss, ambition, and attention. It does not claim that every action has equal consequences or that every moral choice is equivalent; rather, it distinguishes between the equal reality of persons and the very real differences in need, responsibility, harm, and consequence.

Ultimately, the book embraces the paradox contained in its title: from the perspective of vast stretches of time, very little about our lives may be important, and yet that does not make the lives being lived now meaningless. We do not need to become historically significant before the present deserves our attention. We can love, work, create, strive, enjoy, grieve, and act with goodness precisely because these experiences are real while they occur.

The Relative Unimportance of It All: And Why Everything Matters Anyway is available at Amazon.

╰┈➤Book Details 

✦ Title: The Relative Unimportance of It All: And Why Everything Matters Anyway
✦ Author: Tony Setley
✦ Genre: Philosophy
✦ Sub-genre: Contemporary Philosophy
✦ Language: English
✦ Pages: Paperback 250, Digital 151
✦ Paperback ISBN: 979-8192127988
✦ Publisher: Independent
✦ Publication Date: August 11, 2026
✦ Price: Hardcover $19.86, Paperback $12.42, Kindle $4.99, Audiobook FREE with Membership Trial, Kindle FREE with Kindle Unlimited

About the Author books

The Rev. Tony Setley is a Lutheran pastor, author, chaplain, football coach, and public philosopher. His professional ministry has included congregational, military, campus, and federal law-enforcement chaplaincy. He holds degrees from Lebanon Valley College and the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg. He is currently pursuing a Doctor of Ministry degree with a focus on preparing chaplains to help those dealing with moral injury. His writing explores the intersection of philosophy, theology, and ordinary human experience. He lives in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, with his wife and son.

Tony’s latest book is The Relative Unimportance of It All: And Why Everything Matters Anyway.

Connect with him on social media at:

╰┈➤ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TonySetley

╰┈➤ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tonysetley/

  Blog Tour Highlights

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Monday, October 26

PUYB Virtual Book Club⭐PUYB Virtual Book Club⭐: ⭐Pump Up Your Book Virtual Book Tour Kick Off⭐The Relative Unimportance of It All by Tony Setley

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Tuesday, October 27

Watch The Relative Unimportance of It All by Tony Setley Book Teaser Trailer at YouTube (Don’t forget to share and like!)

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Wednesday, October 28

First Chapter: The Relative Unimportance of It All by Tony Setley

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Thursday, October 29

Dear Reader, Love Author: Dear Reader, Love Tony Setley

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Friday, October 30 

Book Feature Highlight at What Is That Book About

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Monday, November 2

📚 A Bookish Chat with ‘The Relative Unimportance of It All’ Tony Setley | The Writer’s Life e-Magazine

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Tuesday, November 3

5 Things You Should Know About The Relative Unimportance of It All by Tony Setley | Always Reading

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Thursday, November 5

Interview with Tony Setley, Author of The Relative Unimportance of It All | The Book Connection

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Monday, November 9

5 Things You Should Know About The Relative Unimportance of It All by Tony Setley | Literarily Speaking

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Thursday, November 12

Book Feature Highlight at Confessions of an Eccentric Bookaholic

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Monday, November 16

PUYB Trailer of the Week Highlight

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Tuesday, November 17

First Chapter Reveal at Bloggin’ Authors

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Wednesday, November 18

Book Feature Highlight at Hooked From Page One

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Thursday, November 19

Book Review at Country Mamas with Kids

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Monday, November 23

Interview at The Literary Nook

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Wednesday, November 25

Interview at Beyond the Books

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Tuesday, December 1

Interview at Literarily Speaking

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Wednesday, December 2 

First Chapter Review at Read My First Chapter

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Thursday, December 3

Guest Blogging at As the Page Turns

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Monday, December 7

Interview at My Bookish Pleasures

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Tuesday, December 8

Book Feature Highlight at Nuttin’ But Books

Page 69 Test at Book Bloggin’ Princess

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Monday, December 14

Interview at Bloggin’ Authors

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Tuesday, December 15

First Chapter Reveal at The Dark Phantom Review

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Thursday, December 17

Guest Blogging at Straight From the Author’s Mouth

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Monday, December 21

Interview at Book Cover Junkie

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Wednesday, December 23

Interview at Author Talks

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