Pump Up Your Book Presents The Shakespeare Conspiracy Virtual Book Publicity Tour!

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Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jeffrey Hunter McQuain’s THE SHAKESPEARE CONSPIRACY virtual book tour August 3 – August 28!

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PUYB Inside the Book

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The Shakespeare Conspiracy Title: The Shakespeare Conspiracy
Author: Jeffrey Hunter McQuain
Publisher: Telemachus Press
Genre: Fiction/Thriller
Format: Kindle 

What makes a secret worth dying for? That’s what Christopher Klewe, a brash young professor from Virginia, finds out in Jeffrey Hunter McQuain’s new thriller “The Shakespeare Conspiracy” when he stumbles upon the most shocking cover-up in literary history.

On a rainy Halloween at Washington’s Kennedy Center, a masked killer brutally stabs Klewe’s best friend. Before dying, the victim deliberately drops his raincoat across a puddle and scrawls the letters “SoN” in his own blood.

Investigating the murder scene, Klewe is joined by Zelda Hart, a married reporter for The New York Times. They learn the victim’s ear was severed and find evidence of a 400-year-old secret society. When questioned by police, Klewe reveals the surprising question he’s been researching: was Shakespeare black?

Outside Kennedy Center, they meet a drunken security guard who saw the murder and swears that “Shakespeare did it.” Klewe and Zelda grow less skeptical when a figure wearing a Shakespeare mask and wielding an Elizabethan dagger chases them into the Metro subway system toward Maryland.

After being cornered in a remote Maryland cabin by the killer, the two escape to look for answers at Shakespeare and Company, a famous Paris bookstore, as well as in London’s Globe Theater. As they solve each step of the mystery, though, they face new obstacles to overcome and more clues to unravel in their search for the truth.

Pursued across two continents by murderers, the desperate Klewe and Zelda have only three days to solve the strangest mystery of Renaissance history. The evidence mounts up, drawn from actual anagrams hidden in Shakespeare’s own words as well as historically accurate descriptions of Elizabethan paintings and observations made by the playwright’s contemporaries.

Their dangerous journey takes them ultimately to Stratford and the Bard’s final resting place. There the words of the playwright’s epitaph help thwart the deadly conspiracy.

Once hailed as “a jaw-dropping premise” by the late columnist William Safire, “The Shakespeare Conspiracy” is the first novel by a published Shakespeare expert. It offers readers the twists of a thrill ride reminiscent of “The Da Vinci Code” as well as that novel’s excitement of wondering whether its central secret just might be true. If so, this new thriller has the potential to expose the biggest literary conspiracy of all time, offering a whole new way of looking at the world’s greatest writer, William Shakespeare.

ORDER INFORMATION

The Shakespeare Conspiracy is available for purchase at  Amazon and B&N

 

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PUYB Meet the Author

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Jeffrey Hunter McQuain, who holds a Doctorate in Literary Studies from American University, is co-author of several popular books, including “Coined by Shakespeare” and “The Bard on the Brain.” For more than a dozen years, he served as the researcher for William Safire’s “On Language” column in The New York Times. A poet and dramatist, he has also taught college courses in Shakespeare and occasionally performed in the Bard’s plays. His first novel, “The Shakespeare Conspiracy,” is based on his nonfiction book “Ebony Swan: The Case for Shakespeare’s Race.” Dr. McQuain lives in Maryland and is currently adapting “Ebony Swan” as a stage play.

For More Information

Visit Jeffrey’s website.

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PUYB Tour Schedule A

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August 3

Interviewed at Review From Here

August 5

Book featured at Undercover Book Reviews

August 6

Book featured at The Literary Nook

August 7

Interviewed at I’m Shelf-ish

August 11

Book featured at Confessions of a Reader

August 12

Book featured at From Paperback to Leatherbound

August 14

Book featured at 3 Partners in Shopping

August 17

Interviewed at Literal Exposure

August 18

Book reviewed at My Life, Loves and Passions

August 19

Book featured at Chosen By You Book Club

August 20

Guest blogging at The Dark Phantom

August 21

Book featured at Celticlady’s Book Reviews

August 24

Interviewed at The Writer’s Life

August 26

Guest blogging at What Is That Book About

August 28

Book featured at Write and Take Flight

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