📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Getaway Virtual Book Publicity Tour

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Sensitive, sensual, and stirring...GETAWAY by Maureen Brady #puyb #newrelease #amreading #women #fiction Share on X

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Maureen Brady’s GETAWAY Blog Tour May 15 – June 15!

Getaway

Inside the Book

Title: GETAWAY
Author: Maureen Brady
Publisher: Bacon Press Books
Pages: 230
Genre: Women’s Fiction

BOOK BLURB:

After stabbing her abusive husband and leaving him dying on the kitchen floor, Cookie Wagner flees to remote Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. For a moment, she seems to have gotten away with murder. But, consigned to a secretive life with a new name and the need to be on constant alert, she faces all she has not gotten away with. She is helped by the recently widowed Mrs. Biddle, who offers her a place to stay, and the lobster fisherman Butch, who gives her a job and later falls in love with her. Walking the cliffs and beaches, taking in the scruffy windblown plants that survive the buffeting wind by growing at an angle, she begins to heal.

Yet, there is no leaving behind the notion that Warren is dead as the result of her action.

Or is he? And if not, will he one day come to find her?

Sexual harassment and abuse are all over the news these days, often involving celebrites and other well-known figures, but Cookie, the protagonist of Getaway, is no celebrity. She’s an ordinary woman married to a working class guy who drinks too much and resorts to violence. Their story reveals how endemic the phenomenon of abuse is, and the quandary Cookie lands in when she fights back.

Praise for Getaway:

“Sensitive, sensual, and stirring. “Getaway” is a true page-turner, but one with heart and with context. I couldn’t put it down until I got to the end, not just to find out what happened, but also to discover who these intriguing and complex characters would develop into. An extremely satisfying read!”

Danielle Ofri, author of What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear, Editor-in-Chief, Bellevue Literary Review.

Getaway is available at Amazon.

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Meet the Author

Maureen Brady

Though Maureen Brady wrote the humor column of her junior high school newspaper, she didn’t actually comprehend that she was a writer until after she had moved to New York City in her twenties, where she began taking writing workshops at The New School and then fell headlong into the consciousness raising groups of the early 1970’s.

She published her first novel, Give Me Your Good Ear, in 1979, and it was published by The Women’s Press in England in 1981. Her novel, Folly, was excerpted in Southern Exposure, received wide critical acclaim, was nominated by Adrienne Rich for an ALA Gay Book Award and was reprinted as a classic by The Feminist Press. She published a collection of short stories, The Question She Put to Herself, in 1987, then turned to writing nonfiction in the ’90’s, publishing Daybreak: Meditations for Women Survivors of Sexual Abuse and Midlife: Meditations for Women. She returned to fiction with the novel, Ginger’s Fire, and her most recent novel, Getaway.

Her recent work has appeared in Sinister Wisdom, Bellevue Literary Review; Just Like A Girl; Cabbage and Bones: Irish American Women’s Fiction, Mom, In the Family, and Intersections: An Anthology of Banff Writers. Brady’s essays and stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and were finalists for the Katherine Anne Porter Fiction Prize and the Nelsen Algren Short Story contest.

An Adjunct Assistant Professor, she teaches creative writing at New York University and New York Writers Workshop @ the Jewish Community Center, and works as a free-lance editor and tutor, helping writers across the spectrum take their writing to the next stage.

A co-founder of Spinsters Ink, Brady edited such books as The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde and The Woman Who Breathes Fire by Kitty Tsui. She also served as a panelist for The New York State Council on the Arts Literature Program and as a fiction judge for Oregon Literary Arts. She is a founding member of The New York Writers Workshop and has long served as Board President of Money for Women Barbara Deming Memorial Fund.

She has received grants from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation; New York State Council on the Arts Writer-in-Residence; New York State Council on the Arts CAPS grant; Holding Our Own; Briarcombe Foundation; and The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship to The Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Ireland. She was the winner of the Saints and Sinners short story contest for 2015 and is also a Saints and Sinners Hall of Fame winner.

She lives in New York City and Woodstock with her long term partner, Martha, and their joy dog, Bessie.

Visit Maureen’s website at www.maureenbradyny.com

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TOUR SCHEDULE

Tuesday, May 15

Book Feature & Tour Kick Off at PUYB Virtual Book Club

Book Teaser Featured at PUYB Book Teasers

Wednesday, May 16

Book Featured at What Is That Book About

Book Review at Books for Books

Thursday, May 17

Interview at Confessions of an Eccentric Bookaholic

Friday, May 18

Book Review at Sefina Hawke’s Books

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Monday, May 21

Interview at Infinite House of Books

Tuesday, May 22

Book Featured at The Bookworm Lodge

Wednesday, May 23

Interview at The Writer’s Life

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Monday, May 28

Book Featured at A Title Wave

Tuesday, May 29

Interview at My Bookish Pleasures

Thursday, May 31

Book Review at Bri’s Book Nook

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Monday, June 4

Character Interview at The Literary Nook

Book Featured at The Avid Reader

Tuesday, June 5

Book Featured at I’m Shelf-ish

Wednesday, June 6

Interview at Nuttin’ But Books

Thursday, June 7

Book Featured at Bound 2 Escape

Book Featured at Write and Take Flight

Friday, June 8

Interview at The Dark Phantom Reviews

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Monday, June 11

Guest Blogging at The Story Behind the Book

Tuesday, June 12

Interview at Literarily Speaking

Wednesday, June 13

Book Review at The Reading Addict

Thursday, June 14

Book Review at Rainy Day Reviews

Friday, June 15

Guest Blogging at Blogging Authors

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