📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents MALL Virtual Book Publicity / Blog Tour #Dystopian

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Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Pattie Palmer-Baker’s MALL Virtual Book Tour September 2 – 27! We are looking for reviews (paperback U.S./PDF), interviews, guest posts and book features/promo. Sign up on form below!

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Title: MALL
Author: Pattie Palmer-Baker
Publisher: Del Sol Press
Pages: 272
Genre: Dystopian

BOOK BLURB:

A Novel by Pattie Palmer-Baker Winner of the Del Sol Most Promising Novel, 2017

MALL is a sparkling alternate world where everyone is beautiful, employed with enough income to consume and to experience a myriad of pleasures including drugs, gambling, theater, holographic adventures. No poverty and little or no crime. A lot of sex.

But what about the Mall Code? And what happens when Sara, a 21st century woman, accidentally finds her way into this alien yet familiar world? Nona, a MALL mental health practitioner treats Sara upon her arrival and goes against the Code to help her acclimate. Sara seems to be just what she needs, an antidote to Nona’s secret and growing boredom.

At first Sara desperately wants to get home, and, as she seeks a way out as well as answers about her new reality, Nona begins to see MALL in a new light. Is abundant gratification enough?

Things aren’t all beauty and pleasure. Sara experiences dancing in a dangerous orgiastic dance club on a lower level. She attends a gambling session where people bet on living more years when their “number’s up” and a “passing ceremony,” where Mallites are supposedly resurrected into a new life.

Junkers, outsiders lurking on the fringes of MALL, have been fighting Mall Management’s control by creating increasingly dangerous disturbances. For years they have struggled to discover an exit, based on rumors of those who made it Outside and were never heard from again. Through them Sara and Nona meet someone who might help them escape. They both must make the choice that will change their lives forever.

Who will risk leaving and who will decide to stay?

MALL by Pattie Palmer-Baker was recently published by Del Sol Press and winner of the Del Sol Press Most Promising Book, 2017.

ISBN: 978-0-9998425-5-3.

PRAISE:

What a suspenseful journey Mall was—a real “page-turner”-  imaginative with firm command of psychological expression and dialogue! Pattie Palmer-Baker captures some of the sexual contradictions, insecurities, and darker motivations of her female characters, and the complex relationships between women. The “surface” allusions to sex and violence throughout the story line work well with the superficial world she describes. Sex all the time—and yet, really, not much explicit writing about actual sexual encounters—the same for violence. This tension of content and form works well for me. What gives pleasure? What gives pain? The many hallways and mirrored rooms give the setting a creepy fun-house effect and increase the sense of a closed world and claustrophobic doom. Her descriptions of the Mallites’ physical appearances and their individual choice of costume in this strange place is creative—a breath of lightness in this frank examination of our quandary about the meaning of freedom in an existential existence. What is real? I was “on the run” with Sara for the entire read! And what a turn at the end!

— Cathy Cain, Portland poet and artist

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Meet the Author

Pattie Palmer-Baker

Pattie Palmer-Baker is a recognized award-winning artist and poet. Her artwork has been exhibited in galleries throughout the Pacific Northwest. Locally and nationally she has won numerous awards for her art and poetry.

An accomplished poet, Pattie had been nominated for the Pushcart Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in many journals including Calyx, Voicecatcher, Military Experience the Arts, Minerva Rising and Phantom Drift. In 2017 she earned first prize in the Write to Publish contest, and in 2019 she won first, second, and the Bivona prize in the Ageless Poetry contest.  She has served as the poetry co-editor for VoiceCatcher: a journal of women’s voices and visions.

Del Sol Press awarded MALL first prize for the most promising first novel in 2017.

Pattie lives in Portland, Oregon with her beloved husband and rescued dachshund.

Her website is www.pattiepalmerbaker.com/.

You can follow her at Facebook at https://tinyurl.com/yykrz36e.

 

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Blog Tour Highlights Fall

 

Monday, September 2

Book Feature & Tour Kick Off at PUYB Virtual Book Club

Tuesday, September 3

Character Guest Post at As the Page Turns

Wednesday, September 4

Book Trailer Teaser Feature at YouTube

Friday, September 6

Guest Blogging at Readeropolis

Book Review at Just Another Reader

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Monday, September 9

Interview at My Book Launch

Tuesday, September 10

Book Review at Books for Books

Wednesday, September 11

The Bookworm Lodge

Book Feature at SheWrites

Thursday, September 12

Interview at The Dark Phantom Reviews

Friday, September 13

Guest Blogging at Literarily Speaking

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Monday, September 16

Guest Blogging at Blogging Authors

Tuesday, September 17

Interview at Book Bloggin’ Princess

Wednesday, September 18

Interview at Shannon Muir, Author – Infinite House of Books

Thursday, September 19

Guest Blogging at Sybrina’s Book Blog

Friday, September 20

Book Feature at I’m Shelf-ish

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Monday, September 23

Book Review at Sefina Hawke’s Books

Tuesday, September 24

Interview at The Writer’s Life e-Magazine

Wednesday, September 25

Book Review at Jazzy Book Reviews

Thursday, September 26

Guest Blogging at Dear Reader, Love Author

Friday, September 27

Book Review at Rising Indies United

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