Pump Up Your Book Presents Two Empty Thrones Virtual Book Publicity Tour

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Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you C.H. Maclean’s Two Empty Thrones virtual book tour August 4 – October 31!

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PUYB Inside the Book

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Two Empty Thrones 2 Title: Two Empty Thrones
Author: C.H. MacLean
Publisher: CNH Publishing
Pages: 242
Genre: YA Fantasy
Format: Paperback; Kindle

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 work?

Haylwen and her brother must unmask this mysterious enemy before they can fight it off. But even if all their enemies are destroyed, the King of the magic users will stop at nothing to ensure he’s still in power when the dragons take over the world. And he’s hidden an enemy where Haylwen would never think to look.

If no one is what they seem, who can she trust?

For More Information

  • Two Empty Thrones is available at Amazon.
  • Pick up your copy at Barnes & Noble.
  • Discuss this book at PUYB Virtual Book Club at Goodreads.
  • Read first three chapters here.

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PUYB Meet the Author

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C.H. MacLean To young C. H. MacLean, books were everything: mind-food, friends, and fun. They gave the shy middle child’s life color and energy. Amazingly, not everyone saw them that way. Seeing a laundry hamper full of books approach her, the librarian scolded C. H. for trying to check them all out. “You’ll never read that many before they expire!” C. H. was surprised, having shown great restraint only by keeping a list of books to check out next time. Thoroughly abashed, C. H. waited three whole days after finishing that lot before going back for more.

With an internal world more vivid than the real one, C. H. was chastised for reading in the library instead of going to class. “Neurotic, needs medical help,” the teacher diagnosed. C. H.’s father, a psychologist, just laughed when he heard. “She’s just upset because those books are more challenging than her class.” C. H. realized making up stories was just as fun as reading, and harder to get caught doing. So for a while, C. H. crafted stories and characters out of wisps and trinkets, with every toy growing an elaborate personality.

But toys were not mature, and stories weren’t respectable for a family of doctors. So C. H. grew up and learned to read serious books and study hard, shelving foolish fantasies for serious work.

Years passed in a black and white blur. Then, unpredictably falling in love all the way to a magical marriage rattled C. H.’s orderly world. A crazy idea slipped in a resulting crack and wouldn’t leave. “Write the book you want to read,” it said. “Write? As in, a fantasy novel? But I’m not creative,” C. H. protested. The idea, and C. H.’s spouse, rolled their eyes.

So one day, C. H. started writing. Just to try it, not that it would go anywhere. Big mistake. Decades of pent-up passion started pouring out, making a mess of an orderly life. It only got worse. Soon, stories popped up everywhere- in dreams, while exercising, or out of spite, in the middle of a work meeting. “But it’s not important work,” C. H. pleaded weakly. “They are not food, or friends, or…” But it was too late. C. H. had re-discovered that, like books, life should be fun too. Now, writing is a compulsion, and a calling.

C. H. lives in a Pacific Northwest forest with five cats, two kids, one spouse, and absolutely no dragons or elves, faeries, or demons… that are willing to be named, at least.

His latest book is the YA fantasy, Two Empty Thrones.

For More Information

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Divider 9 Monday, August 4

Interview at PUYB Virtual Book Club

Tuesday, August 5

Interview at As the Page Turns

Wednesday, August 6

Book Featured at What Is That Book About

Friday, August 8

Book Featured at Laurie’s Thoughts and Reviews

Monday, August 11

First Chapter Reveal at The Writer’s Life

Tuesday, August 12

Guest Blogging at I’m Shelf-ish

Wednesday, August 13

Interview at Lori’s Reading Corner

Thursday, August 14

Book Featured at Mom With a Kindle

Monday, August 18

First Chapter Reveal at Literarily Speaking

Wednesday, August 20

Interview at The Dark Phantom

Thursday, August 21

Book Featured at My Guilty Obsession

Monday, August 25

First Chapter Reveal at The Book Rack

Tuesday, August 26

Guest Blogging at The Book Faery Reviews

Friday, August 29

Book Review at Deal Sharing Aunt

Tuesday, September 2

Book Featured at Fallen Over Book Reviews

Wednesday, September 3

Character Guest Post at As the Pages Turn

Thursday, September 4

Interview at Children’s and Teens’ Book Connection

Monday, September 8

First Chapter Reveal at Read My First Chapter

Tuesday, September 9

Interview at Beyond the Books

Wednesday, September 10

Interview at Review From Here

Thursday, September 11

Interview at Keep Calm and Write On

Monday, September 15

Interview at Straight From the Author’s Mouth

Wednesday, September 17

Guest Blogging at Bea’s Book Nook

Book Review at My Life, Loves and Passions

Thursday, September 18

Book Review at Blooming with Books

Monday, September 22

Interview at Digital Pubbing

Tuesday, September 23

Book Review at Ashley’s Bookshelf

Wednesday, September 24

Book Review at Mary’s Cup of Tea

Thursday, September 25

Book Review at Books, Reviews, ETC

Friday, September 26

Character Interview at The Literary Nook

Monday, October 6

Guest Blogging at The Story Behind the Book

Tuesday, October 7

Book Featured at CBY Book Club

Wednesday, October 8

Book Review at Our Families Adventure

Thursday, October 9

Book Review at Emeraldfire’s Bookmark

Monday, October 13

Interview at The Writer’s Life

Wednesday, October 15

Book Review at Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers

Thursday, October 16

Interview at The Book Rack

Wednesday, October 22

Book Featured at Between the Covers

Thursday, October 23

Interview at Blogcritics

Monday, October 27

Interview at Literarily Speaking

Tuesday, October 28

Book Review at Brooke Blogs

Wednesday, October 29

First Chapter Reveal at She Writes

Thursday, October 30

Guest Blogging at Literal Exposure

Friday, October 31

Book Tour Highlights at PUYB Virtual Book Club

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