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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents A WHISKERED PERSPECTIVE Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Fiction

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you M.G. Spear’s A WHISKERED PERSPECTIVE Virtual Book Tour July 13 – August 14! Inside the Book Title: A WHISKERED PERSPECTIVE Author: M.G. Spear Publisher: Independent Pages: 30 Genre: Fiction BOOK BLURB: Meet the cutest new black kitty in fiction, Pumpkin! Like cats? Relationships? Then A Whiskered Perspective is for you. Relationships are hard, but they are worth the effort. You should try your best, no matter what, to work things out, right? Not always. Miller thinks she has found love but her cat, Pumpkin, tells a darker story. Not all love is equal, even if you desperately want it to be. It’s a
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents SHADOW STITCHER Virtual Book Publicity Tour #UrbanFantasy #Mystery

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Misha Handman’s SHADOW STITCHER: AN EVERLAND MYSTERY Virtual Book Tour July 1 – 31! Inside the Book Title: SHADOW STITCHER: AN EVERLAND MYSTERY Author: Misha Handman Publisher: EDGE Science Fiction & Fantasy Publishing Pages: 268 Genre: Urban Fantasy / Mystery BOOK BLURB: Basil Stark isn’t the man he once was. A reformed pirate and private detective, he walks the line between criminal and hero, living in the corners of what was once the island of Neverland, its magic slowly fading into the new world of the 1950s. When a routine missing-persons case turns into a murder investigation, Basil finds himself
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents THE SECRETS TO LIVING A FANTASTIC LIFE Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Nonfiction #Motivational #SelfHelp

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Dr. Allen Lycka and Harriet Tinka’s THE SECRETS TO LIVING A FANTASTIC LIFE Virtual Book Tour July 1 – August 28! Inside the Book Title: THE SECRETS TO LIVING A FANTASTIC LIFE: TWO SURVIVORS REVEAL THE 13 GOLDEN PEARLS THEY’VE DISCOVERED Author: Dr. Allen Lycka & Harriet Tinka Publisher: Independent Pages: 164 Genre: Nonfiction / Motivational / Self-Help BOOK BLURB: Each author suffered near-death experiences and sought renewal through the wisdom of human virtues that refocused them on a life of richness, appreciation, joy and service. Offered in the format of an enchanting and charming dialogue between the two authors,
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents ANNA INCOGNITO Virtual Book Publicity Tour #WomensFiction

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Laura Preble’s ANNA INCOGNITO Virtual Book Tour July 1 – 31! Inside the Book Title: ANNA INCOGNITO Author: Laura Preble Publisher: Mascot Books Pages: 271 Genre: Women’s Fiction BOOK BLURB: Lots of narrative pull…wonderfully complicated. – Jincy Willett, author of The Writing Class, and anthologized by David Sedaris in Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules. Anna Colin Beck knows all too well what can happen when things go wrong really wrong. So, she’s spent the last several years living an extremely regimented life at home, doing everything she can to avoid subjecting herself to the torments of a germ-infested world. Everything must
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents HOW THE DEER MOON HUNGERS Virtual Book Publicity Tour #YA #ComingofAge

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Susan Wingate’s HOW THE DEER MOON HUNGERS Virtual Book Tour July 1 – 31! Inside the Book Title: HOW THE DEER MOON HUNGERS Author: Susan Wingate Publisher: Roberts Press Pages: 384 Genre: YA / Coming of Age / Contemporary Fiction BOOK BLURB: For those who enjoy reading books like Where the Crawdads Sing and My Sister’s Keeper MACKENZIE FRASER witnesses a drunk driver mow down her seven-year-old sister and her mother blames her. Then she ends up in juvie on a trumped-up drug charge. Now she’s in the fight of her life…on the inside! And she’s losing. HOW THE DEER
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents THE CHRISTIAN CHRISTMAS CONDITION Virtual Book Publicity Tour #ChristianNonfiction

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Scott Rankin’s THE CHRISTIAN CHRISTMAS CONDITION Virtual Book Tour June 15 – July 17! Inside the Book Title: THE CHRISTIAN CHRISTMAS CONDITION Author: Scott Rankin Publisher: Scott Rankin Publishing Pages: 196 Genre: Christian Nonfiction BOOK BLURB: Our Lord desires that we become more Christ-like every day (1 Corinthians 11:1). To accomplish this goal, He tells us to renew our minds (Romans 12:2).  But how do the Christmas holidays help accomplish this goal when all the busyness and stress makes it hard to focus all our attention on Christ and rest in His peace?  In an easy-to-read format, The Christian Christmas
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents WHAT DID JESUS SAY Virtual Book Publicity Tour #ChristianNonfiction

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Rev. Terry Allan Christian’s WHAT DID JESUS SAY: THE SEVEN MESSAGES FROM THE MASTER Virtual Book Tour June 8 – July 10! Inside the Book Title: WHAT DID JESUS SAY: THE SEVEN MESSAGES FROM THE MASTER Author: Rev. Terry Allan Christian Publisher: WDJS Publications Pages: 157 Genre: Christian Nonfiction BOOK BLURB: This incredible book organizes the teachings of Jesus using only the words spoken by Jesus and nothing more. The book puts readers into an imagined walk with Jesus on the beach, allowing readers to hear over 500 passages spoken by Him as recorded in the 4 Gospels. “I was
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents THE SUMMONED ONES Virtual Book Publicity Tour #AdultEpicFantasy

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Darryl A. Woods’ THE SUMMONED ONES: BOOK 1 OF FLIGHT TO BERICEA SERIES Virtual Book Tour July 1 – 31! Inside the Book Title: The Summoned Ones, Book 1 of Flight to Bericea Author: Darryl A. Woods Publisher: Brelsford Ridge Publishing Pages: 336 Genre: Adult Epic Fantasy BOOK BLURB: Can a group of college-aged friends from a small Kentucky town actually be the Summoned Ones of prophecy, called to a strange world filled with magic and devastated by war? Can they save the lives of the desperate inhabitants and help them defeat a wicked tyrant? Their epic journey will push
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📢 PUYB’s Pre-Pub Blurb Campaign: THE ADDICTED CHILD by Richard Capriola

What is a Pre-Pub Blurb Campaign? Blurbs from readers are found on the front or back of book covers (and inside the front matter). Authors value blurbs because much like a review – only shorter – it gives authors the opportunity to share others’ opinions of their book while it is in the pre-publication stage and to add to their book when it is published. They are also called endorsements or testimonials. If you are an author in need of blurbs for your yet-to-be-published book, email Dorothy at thewriterslife(at)gmail.com and add “Pre-Pub Blurb Campaign” in the subject line for more information. We are taking blurb requests for Richard Capriola’s
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents SLOW DOWN Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Thriller #Noir

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lee Matthew Goldberg’s SLOW DOWN Virtual Book Tour June 1 – August 28! Inside the Book Title: SLOW DOWN Author: Lee Matthew Goldberg Publisher: All Due Respect Pages: 270 Genre: Thriller/Noir BOOK BLURB: How far would you go to make your dreams come true? For budding writer and filmmaker Noah Spaeth, being a Production Assistant in director Dominick’s Bambach’s new avant-garde film isn’t enough. Neither is watching Dominick have an affair with the lead actress, the gorgeous but troubled Nevie Wyeth. For Noah’s dream is to get both the film and Nevie in the end, whatever the cost. And this
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents GRAVE CONSEQUENCES Virtual Book Publicity Tour #CozyMystery

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lena Gregory’s GRAVE CONSEQUENCES Virtual Book Tour May 21 – June 19! Inside the Book Title: GRAVE CONSEQUENCES Author: Lena Gregory Publisher: Beyond the Page Publishing Pages: 310 Genre: Cozy Mystery BOOK BLURB: Cass Donovan is reminded that you can’t believe everything you hear, especially when it comes from the dead . . . When stories begin circulating of a centuries-old ghost haunting the Bay Island lighthouse, Cass is caught up in mystical happenings of her own, with countless voices from the beyond all clamoring for her attention with dire warnings. But before she has a chance to learn whether
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents HOME Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Children

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Alison Neuman’s HOME Virtual Book Tour May 4 – 29! Inside the Book Title: HOME Author: Alison Neuman Publisher: DreamWrite Publishing Pages: 28 Genre: Children BOOK BLURB: Fluffy, the cat, knew the minute she met Levi that he would become fast friends with the friendly mouse using a special wheelchair. In the third installment of their adventures, join Fluffy, Levi, and his family on their final leg of adventure to find their forever homes together. ORDER YOUR COPY Amazon → https://amzn.to/2Va96Ox Smashwords → https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1015552 _____________________ Meet The Author Alison Neuman is a writer, author, choreographer, and dance artist, who is
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents PANORAMA Virtual Book Publicity Tour #RealLifeStories

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Ross Victory’s PANORAMA Virtual Book Tour May 18 – June 18! Inside the Book Title: Panorama – The Missing Chapter from the Memoir Views from the Cockpit Author: Ross Victory Publisher: Independent Pages: 120 Genre: Real Life Stories/ Relationships & Sex BOOK BLURB: After a friendship ignites and morphs into a curious tale of parallel souls with a Brazilian-American soldier serving in the U.S. military in South Korea, Panorama reflects on the author’s contemplations to return to a crumbling family life in Los Angeles or to endure his life in Seoul for an end-of-contract cash payout. With a thought-provoking storyline that covers
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents 35 MILES FROM SHORE Virtual Book Publicity Tour #nonfiction

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Emilio Corsetti’s 35 MILES FROM SHORE: THE DITCHING AND RESCUE OF ALM FLIGHT 980 Virtual Book Tour May 1 – 29! Inside the Book Title: 35 Miles From Shore: The Ditching and Rescue of ALM Flight 980 Author: Emilio Corsetti III Publisher: Odyssey Publishing, LLC Pages: 320 Genre: Nonfiction BOOK BLURB: On May 2, 1970, a DC-9 jet departed New York’s JFK international airport en route to the tropical island of St. Maarten. The flight ended four hours and thirty-four minutes later in the shark-infested waters of the Caribbean. The subsequent rescue of survivors involved the Coast Guard, Navy, and
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents THE MARVELOUS MECHANICAL MAN Virtual Book Publicity Tour #steampunk #adventure #romance

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Rie Sheridan Rose’s THE MARVELOUS MECHANICAL MAN Virtual Book Tour May 4 – June 26! Inside the Book Title: THE MARVELOUS MECHANICAL MAN Author: Rie Sheridan Rose Publisher: Independent Pages: 270 Genre: Steampunk Adventure Romance BOOK BLURB: The Marvelous Mechanical Man is the first book in a Steampunk series featuring the adventures of Josephine Mann, an independent woman in need of a way to pay her rent. She meets Professor Alistair Conn, in need of a lab assistant, and a partnership is created that proves exciting adventure for both of them. Alistair’s prize invention is an automaton standing nine feet
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents FLOWERS ON HER GRAVE Virtual Book Publicity Tour #CrimeThriller

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jennifer Chase’s FLOWERS ON HER GRAVE Virtual Book Tour April 13 – June 12! Inside the Book Title: FLOWERS ON HER GRAVE Author: Jennifer Chase Publisher: Bookouture Pages: 328 Genre: Crime Thriller BOOK BLURB: On the floor, amongst the piles of freshly pressed laundry, lay the woman’s lifeless body, her pale yellow nightdress soaked in blood. “I didn’t do it…” came a whisper from the corner of the room. Detective Katie Scott has never seen two people more in love than her aunt and uncle as they danced on the decking the night of their wedding anniversary party. But the
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Whispers on a String Virtual Book Publicity Tour #contemporarylit

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Kathleen Stone’s WHISPERS ON A STRING Virtual Book Tour April 1 – 30! Inside the Book Title: WHISPERS ON A STRING: THE STORY OF LONNY AND ROO Author: Kathleen Stone Publisher: Independent Pages: 552 Genre: Contemporary Lit BOOK BLURB: What happens when your soul is bound to another before you were ever born? Lonny and Roo have been best friends since they met in high school in 1975 at the age of fourteen. Same last name, same birthdate, they were attached at the hip; rarely was one seen without the other. Together they navigate through their emotional high school years,
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Penitent Pt. III Virtual Book Publicity Tour #fantasy

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you A. Keith Carreiro’s THE PENITENT – PART III Virtual Book Tour April 1 – 30! Inside the Book Title: THE PENITNENT – PART III Author: A. Keith Carreiro Publisher: Stillwater River Publications Pages: 275 Genre: Fantasy BOOK BLURB: THE PENITENT—PART III Completes the First Trilogy in The Immortality Wars Series as the Battle between Good and Evil Explodes onto Urban Terrain THE PENITENT—PART III, the third installment in author A. Keith Carreiro’s Immortality Wars series, brings Pall Warren, an elite warrior touched by the hand of God, into a new battle that pits the forces of good against those derived
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Alexandra Forever: Beginnings Virtual Book Publicity Tour #urbanfantasy #scifi

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you D.W. Richards’ ALEXANDRA FOREVER: BEGINNINGS Virtual Book Tour April 1 – 30! Inside the Book Title: ALEXANDRA FOREVER: BEGINNINGS Author: D.W. Richards Publisher: Solstice Publishing Pages: 189 Genre: Urban Fantasy/Scifi BOOK BLURB: Would you risk erasing yourself from ever existing to save the immortal soul of a beloved friend? Two middle-aged sisters, Nadenka and Anastasiya, travel to a remote northern mountain where they must contend with their notorious, and seemingly immortal grandmother, Alexandra, in their quest to save an aged and frail member of their coven, Terra, from demonic possession. Deep family wounds need to be addressed before they can
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Social Leads: Your Social Media Playbook To Generating More Leads In The Next 90 Days Virtual Book Publicity Tour #SocialMedia

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Shay Banks’ SOCIAL LEADS: YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA PLAYBOOK TO GENERATING MORE LEADS IN THE NEXT 90 DAYS Virtual Book Tour April 1 – 30! Inside the Book Title: SOCIAL LEADS: YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA PLAYBOOK TO GENERATING MORE LEADS IN THE NEXT 90 DAYS Author: Shay Banks Publisher: SB Digital Marketing Pages: 92 Genre: Nonfiction BOOK BLURB: Struggling To Profit From Social Media? It’s more than likely not your fault. There is a lot of misinformation (and outright lies) being told about how social media is supposed to work. In Social Leads you will discover post ideas to use on Facebook,
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents A Promise in Ash Virtual Book Publicity Tour #RomanticSuspense

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Elysia Strife’s A PROMISE IN ASH Virtual Book Tour April 1 – 30! Inside the Book Title: A PROMISE IN ASH Author: Elysia Strife Publisher: Independent Pages: 339 Genre: Romantic Suspense BOOK BLURB: A romantic-suspense novel featuring: miscarriage, hot co-workers, cybersecurity threats, and the struggle of defining family. With only an abusive mother-figure to guide her, Norah has learned everything the hard way. An unexpected pregnancy with her fiancé changed her career plans. But miscarriage and betrayal thrust everything in reverse again. Eerie things start happening at work, and Norah finds herself at the center of the investigation. Secrets tumble
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Beachside Beginnings Virtual Book Publicity Tour #WomensFiction

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Sheila Roberts’ BEACHSIDE BEGINNINGS Virtual Book Tour April 1 – May 29! Inside the Book Title: BEACHSIDE BEGINNINGS Author: Sheila Roberts Publisher: MIRA Pages: 384 Genre: Women’s Fiction BOOK BLURB: Moira Wellman has always loved makeovers—helping women find their most beautiful selves. Funny how it’s taken her five years with her abusive boyfriend, Lang, to realize she needs a life makeover. When Moira finally gets the courage to leave Lang, the beachside town of Moonlight Harbor is the perfect place to start over. Soon Moira is right at home, working as a stylist at Waves Salon, making new friends, saving
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Hollywood’s Victory Lap Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Hollywood #Nonfiction

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Anthony G. Puzzila’s HOLLYWOOD’S VICTORY LAP Virtual Book Tour March 2 – 27! Inside the Book Title: HOLLYWOOD’S VICTORY LAP: THE FILMS OF 1940 Author: Anthony G. Puzzilla Publisher: Outskirts Press Pages: 267 Genre: Nonfiction BOOK BLURB: Film historians generally agree that 1939 was a banner year for Hollywood movies during its Golden Era (1915-1963), including such classics as Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Gunga Din, Stagecoach, and many more. Author and film buff Anthony Puzzilla wouldn’t argue that point, but he has published a new book, HOLLYWOOD’S VICTORY LAP: THE FILMS OF 1940, which sets out
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Earl Not Taken Virtual Book Publicity Tour #HistFic

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you A.S. Fenichel’s THE EARL NOT TAKEN Virtual Book Tour March 17 – May 15! Inside the Book Title: THE EARL NOT TAKEN Author: A.S. Fenichel Publisher: Kensington Books Pages: 236 Genre: Historical Fiction BOOK BLURB: Left standing on the side while their contemporaries marry into society, four young ladies forge a bond to guard each other from a similar fate . . . Finishing school failed to make a proper lady of Penelope Arrington. But as a Wallflower of West Lane, Poppy has a far more vital role—she and her three best friends have made a pact to protect each
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents FLASH! The Science Behind Intuition Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Parapsychology #Esp

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Dr. Anne Watson’s FLASH! THE SCIENCE BEHIND INTUITION Virtual Book Tour March 2 – April 30! Inside the Book Title: FLASH! THE SCIENCE BEHIND INTUITION Author: Dr. Anne Watson Publisher: Envision Board Books, an imprint of Post Hypnotic Press, Inc. Pages: 154 Genre: Parapsychology/ESP Books If we have intuitions (and we do) where do they come from? Where, in us, do they arrive? What, in us, allows us to receive and interpret them? And why? Why do we get them? Fourteen years of research, often waiting for the science to catch up with a vision sent to me by the
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Monsterland Virtual Book Publicity Tour #YA #Monsters

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Michael Okon’s MONSTERLAND Virtual Book Tour March 2 – 27! Inside the Book Title: MONSTERLAND Author: Michael Okon Publisher: Wordfire Press Pages: 232 Genre: Young Adult Monster Fiction BOOK BLURB: Welcome to Monsterland—the scariest place on Earth.Wyatt Baldwin’s senior year is not going well. His parents divorce, then his dad mysteriously dies. He’s not exactly comfortable with his new stepfather, Carter White, either. An ongoing debate with his best friends Melvin and Howard Drucker over which monster is superior has gotten stale. He’d much rather spend his days with beautiful and popular Jade. However, she’s dating the brash high-school quarterback
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Knowing Virtual Book Publicity Tour #fantasy #anthology #shortstories

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Brit Lunden’s THE KNOWING Virtual Book Tour March 2 – 27! Inside the Book Title: THE KNOWING: A BULWARK ANTHOLOGY VOLUME 1 Author: Brit Lunden Publisher: Chelshire, Inc. Pages: 106 Genre: Fantasy Anthology/Short Stories BOOK BLURB: Bulwark- a wall or stockade that protects or sometimes hides the truth from the outside world. Bulwark, Georgia, isolated, hidden. Who knows what strange things can happen when the rest of the world can’t see you? JB Stratton is alone in the world, and all he has left are the memories of his beloved Ellie. Dirt poor JB and wealthy Ellie feel an instant
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents A Man’s Late Night Thoughts Virtual Book Publicity Tour

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you J. Richman’s A MAN’S LATE NIGHT THOUGHTS Virtual Book Tour March 2 – May 29! Inside the Book Title: A MAN’S LATE NIGHT THOUGHTS Author: J. Richman Publisher: Dorrance Publishing Company Pages: 356 Genre: Memoir/Narrative BOOK BLURB: A MAN’S LATE NIGHT THOUGHTS by J. Richman is a creative and life-affirming collection of ponderings that expose the deep thoughts and feelings of a man who has lived a life full of diverse experiences and challenges. This uniquely constructed compilation of more than 300 reflections focuses on several areas of living, including intimate relationships and acceptance of human frailty, as well
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Turkish Affair Virtual Book Publicity Tour #romance

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you J. Arlene Culiner’s THE TURKISH AFFAIR Virtual Book Tour February 17 – March 13! Inside the Book Title: THE TURKISH AFFAIR Author: J. Arlene Culiner Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Pages: 242 Genre: Romantic Suspense BOOK BLURB: Love and Danger at the ancient Hittite site of Karakuyu Priceless artifacts are disappearing from the ancient Hittite site of Karakuyu in Turkey, and the site director has vanished. Called in to solve the mystery, archaeologist Renaud Townsend is hindered by both his inability to speak the language and the knowledge that the local police are corrupt. His attraction to translator Anne Pierson
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Mocha, Moonlight and Murder Virtual Book Publicity Tour #romance #mystery

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you MaryAnn Kempher’s MOCHA, MOONLIGHT AND MURDER Virtual Book Tour February 17 – May 15! Inside the Book Title: MOCHA, MOONLIGHT AND MURDER Author: MaryAnn Kempher Publisher: Independent Pages: 248 Genre: Romance Mystery BOOK BLURB: One night, 28-year-old, Katherine O’Brian, decides to walk to an all-night diner. The only problem? It’s midnight, but Katherine lives in Reno Nevada, a city that never sleeps; she can clearly see the diner’s lights in the distance. It’s no big deal, until she passes someone’s garage where a man is loading a dead body into the trunk of his car. And now, she’s in trouble.
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