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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents BABY BEAR’S SPAGHETTI MISADVENTURES Virtual Book Publicity Tour #childrenspicturebook

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Linda Karimo’s BABY BEAR’S SPAGHETTI MISADVENTURES Virtual Book Tour October 19 – November 19! Inside the Book Title: Baby Bear’s Spaghetti Misadventures Author: Linda Karimo Publisher: Independent Pages: 42 Genre: Children’s Picture Book BOOK BLURB: Meet Mama Bear and her sweet little bear child, Baby Bear. Sometimes he doesn’t do what Mama Bear says, sound familiar? This one particular day when Mama Bear was cooking spaghetti and meatballs, Baby Bear bounced his ball against the cave wall. Baby Bear knew it was on the forbidden list. He did it anyway. Mama Bear gave him the look. He did it again.
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents THE SEX DARE & THE MIS-EDUCATION OF THE CHURCH GIRL Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Christian #Nonfiction

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Tenisha Collins’ THE SEX DARE & Mavis McKnight’s THE MIS-EDUCATION OF THE CHURCH GIRL Virtual Book Tour September 1 – 30! Inside the Book Title: THE SEX DARE: A MARRIED COUPLES’ 21 DAY GUIDE TO GREAT SEX Author: Tenisha Collins Publisher: Independent Pages: 82 Genre: Christian Nonfiction BOOK BLURB:   Sex is great and feels real, real good! Societal trends advocate doing whatever feels good, including having sexual intercourse with someone you are not married to. The limelight shining on sex isn’t a good one. It’s almost impossible to find positive models of sex while married, in any medium, today.
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents TO KILL OR BE KILLED: A TRUE CRIME MEMOIR FROM PRISON Virtual Book Publicity Tour #truecrime

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Joni Ankerson’s TO KILL OR BE KILLED: A TRUE CRIME MEMOIR FROM PRISON Virtual Book Tour September 1 – 30! Inside the Book Title: TO KILL OR BE KILLED: A TRUE CRIME MEMOIR FROM PRISON Author: Joni Ankerson Publisher: WildBlue Press Pages: 212 Genre: True Crime BOOK BLURB: Obviously, I knew better than to take a life — but that was before. Before him. The day we met in October of 1997, I was working at the District Court in Traverse City, Michigan as a Deputy Clerk. It was like most other days with arraignments, sentencings, civil case hearings and
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents ‘TIL DEATH DO US..’ Virtual Book Publicity Tour #truecrime

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Patrick Gallagher’s ‘TIL DEATH DO US…’ Virtual Book Tour September 1 – 30! Inside the Book Title: ‘TIL DEATH DO US…’ Author: Patrick Gallagher Publisher: WildBlue Press Pages: 242 Genre: True Crime BOOK BLURB: In August 1945, Gladys Lincoln of Sacramento contacted prosperous Dr. W. D. Broadhurst of Caldwell, Idaho, and rekindled a romance from twenty years earlier.  After many passionate letter exchanges and several sexually-charged meetings, they were married in Reno, Nevada on May 20, 1946.  After a passion-filled three-day weekend together, the doctor returned to his home in Idaho, and Gladys returned to Sacramento … and to her
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents UNDER A FULL MOON: THE LAST LYNCHING IN KANSAS Virtual Book Publicity Tour #truecrime

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Alice Kay Hill’s UNDER A FULL MOON: THE LAST LYNCHING IN KANSAS Virtual Book Tour September 1 – 30! Inside the Book Title: UNDER A FULL MOON: THE LAST LYNCHING IN KANSAS Author: Alice Kay Hill Publisher: WildBlue Press Pages: 356 Genre: True Crime BOOK BLURB: UNDER A FULL MOON: The Last Lynching in Kansas tells of the tragic abduction and death of an eight-year-old girl at the hands of a repeat offender in 1932. This crime stands apart as the last mob lynching in Kansas. Based on true events, this account takes a deep dive into the psycho-social complexities
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents THE ANCESTOR Virtual Book Publicity Tour #thriller #mystery

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lee Matthew Goldberg’s THE ANCESTOR Virtual Book Tour September 1 – October 30! Inside the Book Title: THE ANCESTOR Author: Lee Matthew Goldberg Publisher: All Due Respect Pages: 329 Genre: Thriller / Mystery BOOK BLURB: A man wakes up in present-day Alaskan wilderness with no idea who he is, nothing on him save an empty journal with the date 1898 and a mirror. He sees another man hunting nearby, astounded that they look exactly alike. After following this other man home, he witnesses a wife and child that brings forth a rush of memories of his own wife and child,
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents SURVIVING HIROSHIMA Virtual Book Publicity Tour #biography

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Anthony Drago and Douglas Wellman’s SURVIVING HIROSHIMA: A YOUNG WOMAN’S STORY Virtual Book Tour September 1 – October 30! Inside the Book Title: SURVIVING HIROSHIMA Author: Anthony Drago & Douglas Wellman Publisher: Boutique of Quality Books Publishing Company Pages: 282 Genre: Biography BOOK BLURB: From Russian nobility, the Palchikoffs barely escaped death at the hands of Bolshevik revolutionaries until Kaleria’s father, a White Russian officer, hijacked a ship to take them to safety in Hiroshima. Safety was short lived. Her father, a talented musician, established a new life for the family, but the outbreak of World War II created a
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents SEED OF TAMARIS Book Blast & Book Giveaway #fantasy

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Penni Louise’s SEED OF TAMARIS: Book One of the Archipelago Series Book Blast September 1 – 30! Inside the Book Title: SEED OF TAMARIS Author: Penni Louise Publisher: Outskirts Press Pages: 314 Genre: Fantasy Fiction BOOK BLURB: In a treacherous world, is it safe to be powerful? A Brother with a tainted past. A Lord seeking a legacy for his daughters. A Queen in exhile from her ancestral home. For decades, the Lords and Ladies in the land of Tamaris have known peace among their Houses, unlike the Outlanders who face death everyday outside the kingdom’s borders. But when the
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents MISLEADING A DUKE Virtual Book Publicity Tour #historicalromance

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you A.S. Fenichel’s MISLEADING A DUKE Virtual Book Tour September 29 – October 30! Inside the Book Title: MISLEADING A DUKE Author: A.S. Fenichel Publisher: Kensington/Lyrical Press Pages: 304 Genre: Historical Romance BOOK BLURB: Finishing school failed to turn them into proper society ladies. Now these four friends vow to remain single until they find suitors worthy of their love and devotion… Betrothed to a man she has barely met, Lady Faith Landon calls upon her three best friends—the self-proclaimed Wallflowers of West Lane—to help uncover the secrets of her mysterious fiancé. Her suspicions are aroused when she learns that he
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents WEEKS Book One Virtual Book Publicity Tour 2 #scifi #apocalyptic #zombie

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jasyn Turley’s WEEKS Virtual Book Tour 2 September 1 – 30! Inside the Book Title: WEEKS (Book One) Author: Jasyn T. Turley Publisher: Independent Pages: 400 Genre: Science Fiction (post-apocalyptic-zombie) Phil, Tim, and Dakota are three survivors taking refuge in Atlanta, Georgia. The year is 2027, ten years after a nuclear fallout decimated the known world and left it in shambles. With hordes of the undead flooding their once safe home and a city now depleted of all resources and supplies the three must make a daring gamble. To trek across the States and Canada, looking for a new place
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Lord Shallow Virtual Book Tour #HistoricalRomance #RegencyRomance

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Eileen Putman’s LORD SHALLOW Virtual Book Tour September 1 – 30! Inside the book Title: LORD SHALLOW (Maitland’s Rogues Book 2) Author: Eileen Putman Publisher: Anglesey Press Pages: 364 Genre: Regency Historical Romance BOOK BLURB: To all of London, Sebastian Traherne is a pretentious fop who prizes his tailor over his dukedom. In truth, he’s an obsessively rational fellow protecting a secret marriage. When a prickly Welsh miss arrives at his crumbling castle one gloomy night, she upends his world—and every principle he holds dear. Worse, she believes in a silly fairy tale known as True Love. Gwynna Owen might
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First Chapter: MAGNOLIA by James S. Kelly

Title: MAGNOLIA Author: James S. Kelly Publisher: Outskirts Press Pages: 432 Genre: Historical Fiction/Civil War Love Story BOOK BLURB: Two young men grow up in the south, become great friends and love the same woman. One moves north as the civil war nears and becomes Administrative Asst to Abraham Lincoln The one who remained in the south vacates his office of US Senator to become the south’s chief spy. Both men are pitted against each other during the war. As the war ends, they try to renew their friendship but will the presence of the one they both love be an impediment.   CHAPTER 1             The Bureau of
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Reckless in Red Virtual Book Tour #RegencyRomance

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Rachael Miles’ RECKLESS IN RED Virtual Book Tour September 1 – 30! Inside the book Title: RECKLESS IN RED Author: Rachael Miles Publisher: Kensington Zebra Pages: 360 Genre: Regency Romance BOOK BLURB: Lena Frost is a force to be reckoned with. A woman who has made her way in society without family or fortune, she’s about to realize her first big success as an artist. . . . Until her business partner makes off with her money, leaving her with little more than her hopes—and a dead body in her studio. Now Lena is at the mercy of a strikingly
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents My Father’s Voice Virtual Book Tour #Devotional

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Janice Elizabeth Duval’s MY FATHER’S VOICE Virtual Book Tour September 1 – 30! Inside the book Title: MY FATHER’S VOICE Author: Janice Elizabeth Duval Publisher: Higgins Publishing Pages: 222 Genre: Devotional BOOK BLURB: Many years ago when I became a Christian, I was like many people who did not really know God as he is-a loving and gracious father. When my family and I moved to Kansas and then to Oklahoma, it was right in the midst of the Charismatic Renewal. It was at the point in my life I began to see God in a totally different way. I
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Brazen in Blue Virtual Book Tour #HistoricalRomance

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Rachael Miles’ BRAZEN IN BLUE Virtual Book Tour August 25 – September 25! Inside the book Title: BRAZEN IN BLUE Author: Rachael Miles Publisher: Kensington Zebra Pages: 360 Genre: Regency Romance BOOK BLURB: Lady Emmeline Hartley has overcome every obstacle life has thrown her way. A spinster, disappointed in love, Em is on the brink of a marriage of convenience, when the man who rejected her heart reappears in need of her help. It gives Em a chance to escape, put to use one of her most unusual talents–and perhaps convince him once and for all to risk his heart…
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Sleeping With The Enemy Virtual Book Tour #HistoricalRomance #Regency

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jackie Barbosa’s SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY Virtual Book Tour September 1 – 30! Inside the book Title: SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY Author: Jackie Barbosa Publisher: Circle Press Pages: 244 Genre: Historical Romance (Regency Era) BOOK BLURB: When Mrs. Laura Farnsworth discovers the blood-stained body of a man wearing the distinctive red coat of the British army, her first instinct is to let dead dogs lie. It has, after all, been just two days since the Battle of Plattsburgh, and the disposition of enemy corpses is hardly her purview. But then the man proves himself to be very much alive by
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Road Not Taken Pre-Pub Blitz & Giveaway #fantasy #timetravel

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Susan Rubin’s THE ROAD NOT TAKEN Pre-Pub Blitz August 3 – 28! Inside the book Title: THE ROAD NOT TAKEN Author: Susan Rubin Publisher: Harvard Square Editions Pages: 290 Genre: Fantasy/Time Travel BOOK BLURB: The debut novel from Los Angeles-based playwright and filmmaker Susan Rubin is a trippy fantasy that uses time travel to explore the inner drives of a woman in midlife. In The Road Not Taken, a simple trip to the lipstick counter becomes an opportunity to unravel the mystery of self. Widowed suddenly at age 50, Deborah is left with plenty of money but no direction to
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Tropical Doubts Virtual Book Tour #thriller

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you David Myles Robinson’s TROPICAL DOUBTS Virtual Book Tour August 17 – September 17! Inside the book Title: TROPICAL DOUBTS Author: David Myles Robinson Publisher: Terra Nova Books Pages: 282 Genre: Legal Thriller BOOK BLURB: When Honolulu’s flamboyant and quirky attorney, Pancho McMartin, agrees to step out of his normal role as a criminal defense lawyer, he thinks it will be a challenging but welcome change from his daily dose of criminal clients. His old friend and father-figure, Manny Delacruz, has beseeched Pancho to handle a medical malpractice claim against the physicians who botched what should have been a routine surgery,
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Christian Authors Self-Publishing Secrets to What Bestselling Authors Use To Sell More Books Free eBook Publicity Tour #Nonfiction

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Yeral Ogando’s CHRISTIAN AUTHORS SELF-PUBLISHING SECRETS TO WHAT BESTSELLING AUTHORS USE TO SELL MORE BOOKS Free eBook Tour August 3 – 28! Inside the book Title: CHRISTIAN AUTHORS SELF-PUBLISHING SECRETS TO WHAT BESTSELLING AUTHORS USE TO SELL MORE BOOKS Author: Yeral E. Ogando Publisher: Christian Translation LLC Pages: 53 Genre: Marketing / Online Marketing / Publishing / Self-Publishing BOOK BLURB: Have you been struggling to get your book (s) published? You have written a masterpiece, but you have been struggling to get is published. Have you thought about self-publishing? Well, now is the correct time to start thinking about self-publishing
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Pump Up Your Book Presents FIVE MINUTES, MR. BYNER! A LIFETIME OF LAUGHTER Virtual Book Publicity Tour #CelebrityMemoir

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you John Byner’s  FIVE MINUTES, MR. BYNER! A LIFETIME OF LAUGHTER Virtual Book Tour August 3 – 28! Inside the Book Title: FIVE MINUTES, MR. BYNER! A LIFETIME OF LAUGHTER Author: John Byner with Douglas Wellman Publisher: WriteLife Publishing Pages: 244 Genre: Celebrity Memoir BOOK BLURB: Veteran entertainer John Byner, a man of many voices and characters, from impersonating the slow, rolling gait and speech of John Wayne, to lending his voice to The Ant and the Aardvark cartoons has penned (with Douglas Wellman) his biography FIVE MINUTES, MR. BYNER! published by Boutique of Quality Books. His dead-on impersonations, as well
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Pump Up Your Book Presents MAGNOLIA Virtual Book Publicity Tour #histfic

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you James Kelly’s MAGNOLIA Virtual Book Tour August 3 – September 30! Inside the Book Title: MAGNOLIA Author: James S. Kelly Publisher: Outskirts Press Pages: 432 Genre: Historical Fiction/Civil War Love Story BOOK BLURB: Two young men grow up in the south, become great friends and love the same woman. One moves north as the civil war nears and becomes Administrative Asst to Abraham Lincoln The one who remained in the south vacates his office of US Senator to become the south’s chief spy. Both men are pitted against each other during the war. As the war ends, they try to
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Pump Up Your Book Presents CRYING, LEARNING, AND LAUGHING Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Nonfiction

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Tamika M. Murray’s CRYING, LEARNING, AND LAUGHING: WHY STUDENTS VISIT THE TEEN CENTER Virtual Book Tour August 19 – September 18! Inside the Book Title: CRYING, LEARNING, AND LAUGHING: WHY STUDENTS VISIT THE TEEN CENTER Author: Tamika M. Murray Publisher: Celestial Publishing LLC Pages: 138 Genre: Nonfiction Social Work and Parenting (Adolescents) BOOK BLURB: The struggle is real, but the help is sincere for adolescent students In Crying, Learning, and Laughing: Why Students Visit the Teen Center. The author recounts the stressful, but the often fun position as a case manager in a Teen Center. Students’ daily interactions in a
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents THE HERO WITHIN: AWARENESS Virtual Book Publicity Tour #ChristianScienceFiction

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Yeral E. Ogando’s THE HERO WITHIN: AWARENESS Virtual Book Tour August 3 – 28! Inside the Book Title: THE HERO WITHIN: AWARENESS Author: Yeral Ogando Publisher: Christian Translation LLC Pages: 323 Genre: Christian Science Fiction BOOK BLURB: Have you ever wondered about the power we possess as Christians? Do you love reading about superheroes and their powers? From The Hero Within Series – Awareness A Story that will excite your imagination, and inspire you to ask yourself “Who am I”… It will remind you that the Gifts of the spirit manifest in spiritual warfare and through the battles we face
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents THE PRUSSIAN MEMORANDUM Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Histfic

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Michael McMenamin & Kathleen McMenamin’s THE PRUSSIAN MEMORANDUM: A MATTIE MCGARY & WINSTON CHURCHILL 1930s ADVENTURE Virtual Book Tour August 3 – 28! Inside the Book Title: THE PRUSSIAN MEMORANDUM Author: Michael McMenamin & Kathleen McMenamin Publisher: First Edition Design Publishing Pages: 474 Genre: 1930s Historical Adventure BOOK BLURB: Winston Churchill’s adventure-seeking goddaughter, the intrepid Hearst journalist Mattie McGary, sets out in 1934 to expose a major political scandal—a conspiracy between the US Army’s Military Intelligence Division (MID) and Hitler’s Praetorian, the SS, to help the Nazis persecute German Jews. Churchill alerts Mattie to what he learns from a confidential
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents ALL VISIBLE THINGS Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Histfic

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Brian McPhee’s ALL VISIBLE THINGS Virtual Book Tour September 1 – 30! Inside the Book Title: ALL VISIBLE THINGS Author: Brian McPhee Publisher: Independent Pages: 443 Genre: Historical Fiction BOOK BLURB: All Visible Things is a dual-timeline novel moving seamlessly between modern-day and Renaissance England and Italy. When Lauren Patterson discovers the diary of a young assistant to Leonardo da Vinci, we are immediately immersed in the personalities and intrigues surrounding the archypical Renaissance man–and animal lover, vegetarian, dandy and bearer of grudges. When not executing the commissions of ungrateful clients, Leonardo juggles finances, apprentices, friends and rivals, all the
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents I DIDN’T FORGET Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Mystery

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you James S. Kelly’s I DIDN’T FORGET Virtual Book Tour August 3 – September 30! Inside the Book Title: I DIDN’T FORGET Author: James S. Kelly Publisher: Independent Pages: 430 Genre: Mystery BOOK BLURB: The double murder of two long time friends has caused hysteria in the small town of Solvang, Ca. Its up to Clay Wrens, the county’s premier detective to solve the murders and calm the townspeople. Complicating the investigation is a local politician who’s afraid the Wrens will uncover his financial transgressions, while a female reporter, with her own agenda, is suggesting that Wrens be replaced As the
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents SOMEONE’S STORY Virtual Book Publicity Tour #YA #ComingofAge

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you B.A. Bellec’s SOMEONE’S STORY Virtual Book Tour July 20 – August 21! Inside the Book Title: SOMEONE’S STORY Author: B.A. Bellec Publisher: Independent Pages: 330 Genre: YA Coming of Age BOOK BLURB: In his debut endearing coming-of-age book, B.A. Bellec writes about a group of weirdos that find and save each other from the dark depths of their minds. Someone’s Story is literally Someone’s story, as in a first-person narrative of a teenager that calls himself Someone. As he struggles to find a new footing in a new space, we encounter the many ups and downs of modern teenage life,
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Descartes Evolution Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Thriller

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you N.J. Croft’s THE DESCARTES EVOLUTION Virtual Book Tour June 22 – July 24! Inside the Book Title: THE DESCARTES EVOLUTION Author: N.J. Croft Publisher: Sideways Books Pages: 268 Genre: Thriller BOOK BLURB: A woman with a rare genetic illness must uncover her connection to a terrorist group before their next attack in this exciting new bio-thriller from the author of Disease X. Lucas Grafton has spent the last ten years hunting the Conclave, a secret organization who took everything from him, including his very identity. Now he has a lead—an imminent terrorist attack on London—code-named “Descartes”. But he can’t connect
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents PAIN IN MY HEART Virtual Book Publicity Tour #LGBTPoetry

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Daryl-Jarod’s PAIN IN MY HEART Virtual Book Tour July 1 – 31! Inside the Book Title: PAIN IN MY HEART Author: Daryl-Jarod Publisher: Independent Pages: 129 Genre: LGBT Poetry BOOK BLURB: Pain in My Heart is a candid and honest journey through the eyes of a hopeless romantic. Each poem serves as part of a puzzle that not only pieces together heartache and love, but also the vulnerable parts we fearfully conceal from the world. Poems that cover topics of self-love, depression, anxiety, and life as a gay black male in today’s society, all await you as Daryl-Jarod unlocks his
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents HER SECOND CHANCE COWBOY Virtual Book Publicity Tour #ContemporaryRomance

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Makenna Lee’s HER SECOND CHANCE COWBOY Virtual Book Tour July 20 – August 21! Inside the Book Title: HER SECOND CHANCE COWBOY Author: Makenna Lee Publisher: Entangled Amara Pages: 260 Genre: Contemporary Romance BOOK BLURB: Wealthy cowboy, James MacLachlan, is content running his massive family ranch and starting an equine therapy program for special needs children. After his mother died in childbirth, and witnessing his father’s destruction at the loss of true love, James sticks to casual affairs. Marriage and children are risks he won’t take. Reese Turner visits Cypress Creek, Texas, to complete a photo assignment for National Geographic
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