Pump Up Your Book Presents ’89 Walls Virtual Book Publicity Tour

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Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Katie Pierson’s ’89 WALLS virtual book tour June 1 – July 31!

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PUYB Inside the Book

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'89 Walls 3 Title: ’89 Walls
Author: Katie Pierson
Publisher: Wise Ink Creative Publishing
Pages: 264
Genre: Young Adult
Format: Paperback

College is not in the cards for Seth. He spends his minimum wage on groceries and fakes happiness to distract his mom from the MS they both know will kill her. It’s agony to carry around a frayed love note for a girl who’s both out of his league and beneath his dignity.

Quinn’s finishing high school on top. But that cynical, liberal guy in her social studies class makes her doubt her old assumptions. Challenging the rules now, though, would a) squander her last summer at home, b) antagonize her conservative dad, and c) make her a hypocrite.

Seth and Quinn’s passionate new romance takes them both by surprise. They keep it a secret: it’s too early to make plans and too late not to care. But it’s 1989. As politics suddenly get personal, they find themselves fighting bare-fisted for their beliefs—and each other—in the clear light of day.

Praise for ’89 Walls

“As with the political discussions, issues of sex and sexuality in ’89 Walls are rich and complex, a mix of desire, consequences, awkward embarrassment and intensely delightful exploration.”

—Carrie Mesrobian, Minnesota Book Award winning author of Sex & Violence and Perfectly Good White Boy

“Katie Pierson has written a book that is important as it is impossible to put down. ’89 Walls is a smart, frank, and courageous novel that brings us back to a strange and important era, all the while shedding new light on the issues and taboos that haunt us till this day.” –Nina De Gramont, author of Every Little Thing in the World, Meet Me at the River, and The Boy I Love

“This lively and well-turned novel has serious value. It’s stealth-history of a crucial year, 1989, when walls of all kinds come crashing down. ”

Will Weaver, Minnesota Book Award-winning author of Full Service, Defect, and “A Gravestone Made of Wheat,” (adapted for the film, Sweetland)

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PUYB Meet the Author

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Katie Pierson Katie Pierson freelances for local non-profits, using her background in public policy and grassroots organizing to overthrow the patriarchy one introverted step at a time. When she’s not writing fiction, she returns library books, makes soup, and tries to be cooler than she really is by hip-hopping at the YMCA. She earned a Bachelor’s Degree in American History from the University of Pennsylvania (where she dabbled briefly in being a College Republican) and a Master’s in American History from the University of Minnesota. She grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska, and now lives with her family in a suburb of Minneapolis. ’89 Walls is her first novel.

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PUYB Tour Schedule A

Monday, June 1

First Chapter Reveal at Pump Up Your Book

Tuesday, June 2

Interview at The Writer’s Life

Wednesday, June 3

Guest Blogging at What Is That Book About

Thursday, June 4

Book Featured at Undercover Book Reviews

Friday, June 5

Book Featured at Bookingly Yours

Monday, June 8

Book Review at Our Family’s Adventure

Tuesday, June 9

Book Featured at Bound 2 Escape

Wednesday, June 10

Book Featured at Confessions of a Reader

Thursday, June 11

Book Review at Confessions of a Bookaholic

Monday, June 15

Book Review at Books, Reviews, ETC.

Tuesday, June 16

Book Featured at CBY Book Club

Wednesday, June 17

Book Review at Mommy Adventures

Friday, June 19

Book Review at Deal Sharing Aunt

Monday, June 22

Book Review & Interview at Becky on Books

Tuesday, June 23

Guest Blogging at Terrible Minds

Wednesday, June 24

Guest Blogging at Lori’s Reading Corner

Friday, June 26

Book Review at Queen of All She Reads

Monday, July 6

Guest Blogging at The Story Behind the Book

Tuesday, July 7

Interview at A Little Bit of R&R

Interview at C.A. Milson’s Blog

Wednesday, July 8

Book Review at Svetlana’s Reads and Views

Friday, July 10

Interview at Literarily Speaking

Monday, July 13

Interview for PUYB Virtual Book Club

Tuesday, July 14

Book Featured at My Book Addiction and More

Wednesday, July 15

Book Featured at Confessions of Carlisa

Thursday, July 16

Book Review at Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers

Monday, July 20

Book Featured at My Life Loves and Passion

Tuesday, July 21

Book Review at Must Read Faster

Wednesday, July 22

Book Featured at The Children’s and Teens’ Book Connection

Friday, July 24

Book Reviewed at The Children’s and Teens’ Book Connection

Monday, July 27

First Chapter Reveal at Beyond the Books

Tuesday, July 28

Interview at As the Page Turns

Wednesday, July 29

First Chapter Reveal at I’m Shelf-ish

Friday, July 31

Interview at Examiner

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