Author Archive

📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents WIDOW’S RUN Virtual Book Publicity / Blog Tour #Thriller

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you TG Wolff’s WIDOWS RUN Virtual Book Tour November 4 – December 27! Inside the Book Title: WIDOW’S RUN Author: TG Wolff Publisher: Down & Out Books Pages: 236 Genre: Mystery/Thriller BOOK BLURB: One night in Rome. One car. One dead scientist. Italian police investigate, but in the end, all they have are kind words for the new widow. Months later, a video emerges challenging the facts. Had he stepped into traffic, or was he pushed? The widow returns to the police, where there are more kind words but no answers. Exit the widow. Enter Diamond. One name for a woman
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents My Billionaire Fake Fiance Virtual Book Publicity / Blog Tour #ContemporaryRomance #HolidayRomance

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Linda West’s MY BILLIONAIRE FAKE FIANCE Virtual Book Tour November 4 – 29! inside the book Title: MY BILLIONAIRE FAKE FIANCE Author: Linda West Publisher: Morning Mayan Publishing Pages: 300 Genre: Contemporary Romance/Holiday Romance He needs a fiance to seal the deal. She needs a Christmas miracle to save her home. When tree activist Allie Archer is forced to strike up a deal with her nemesis the heir to Somerset Industries, the flurries of fate have a completely different plan than the one she counted on… order your copy below Amazon → https://tinyurl.com/y4ujbn2c _____________________ Teaser _____________________ meet the author Linda
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Devil and Dayna Dalton Virtual Book Publicity / Blog Tour #Fantasy #Romance

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Brit Lunden’s THE DEVIL AND DAYNA DALTON Virtual Book Tour November 4 – 29! INSIDE THE BOOK Title: THE DEVIL AND DAYNA DALTON Author: Brit Lunden Publisher: Chelshire, Inc. Pages: 128 Genre: Fantasy/Romance Reporter Dayna Dalton’s reputation has been ruined since birth. The daughter of wild child, Becky Dalton, is expected to follow her mother’s footsteps; never given a chance to prove she’s different. Dana’s been in love with Clay Finnes since she was a teenager. Her unrequited love for Sheriff Finnes leaves her empty. He’s happily married and unavailable. Instead, Dayna finds herself stuck in the revolving door of
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Witchwood and Seabound Virtual Book Publicity / Blog Tour #Fantasy

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Ethan Proud’s WITCHWOOD AND SEABOARD Virtual Book Tour November 4 – 29! Inside the book Title: WITCHWOOD AND SEABOUND Author: Ethan Proud Publisher: Proud Brothers Publishing Pages: 492 Genre: Fantasy Gripping and tense, Witchwood tells the tale of a witch and sheriff turned unlikely allies to stop the town of Northgate from being destroyed by dark forces. Sheriff Ruckstead reluctantly asks his nemesis Artemisia Corax, the woodwitch, for help when a string of murders unsolvable by mundane means occurs in one night.  As he cooperates with the witch, his reputation is called into question and he faces conflict with one
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Pump Up Your Book Presents October 2019 Virtual Book Tours!

Pump Up Your Book is proud to announce… OCTOBER 2019 AUTHORS ON VIRTUAL BOOK TOURS CHRISTMAS FROM THE HEART by Sheila Roberts DARK JUSTICE by Angela Smith DEAD RECKONING by Caitlin Rother DREAD PIRATE ARCANIST by Shami Stovall PATRICK TURNS HIS PLAY INTO PAY by Shani & Patrick Muhammad SAVE HIM by William M. Hayes THE NINTH SESSION by Deborah Serani THE WITCH PORT VIDEO GAME by Leonard Bassed UNBRAIDED by Karla Monterrosa WITCHES PROTECTION PROGRAM by Michael Okon Pump Up Your Book is an award-winning virtual book tour company bringing new books to new heights. For more information and to follow these tours in October, visit www.PumpUpYourBook! See
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents A Lady’s Past Virtual Book Publicity / Blog Tour #Historical #Romance

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you A.S. Fenichel’s A LADY’S PAST Virtual Book Tour November 19 – December 20! Inside the Book Title: A LADY’S PAST Author: A.S. Fenichel Publisher: Kensington Books/Lyrical Press Pages: 223 Genre: Historical Romance BOOK BLURB: The greatest risk—for the sweetest reward… His fiancée’s betrayal nearly cost Jacques Laurent everything. Despite his resolve not to trust anyone again, he can’t abandon the young woman he finds alone on the road to London. In the brief hours they spend together, the enigmatic Diana touches his heart in a way he can’t explain. Even after bringing her to the Everton Domestic Society for safekeeping,
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents EmpowerEd Virtual Book Publicity / Blog Tour #Nonfiction

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jennifer Price’s EmpowerEd Virtual Book Tour November 4 – 29! Inside the Book Title: EMPOWERED: USING REAL CASE EXAMPLES TO LOOK DEEPER INTO IEP MANAGEMENT Author: Jennifer Oneal Price Publisher: Independent Pages: 107 Genre: Nonfiction BOOK BLURB: This book outlines the progressive steps taken to address the educational needs of an exceptional child. From the Child Find process to filing a Due Process complaint, courts have addressed many legal issues. This book goes through court cases on some key issues from 2018 with an included workbook-style composition section after the cases. Parents and educational advocates will be able to read
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Her Last Whisper Virtual Book Publicity / Blog Tour #Crime #Thriller

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jennifer Chase’s HER LAST WHISPER Virtual Book Tour November 4 – December 27! Inside the book Title: HER LAST WHISPER Author: Jennifer Chase Publisher: Bookouture Pages: 320 Genre: Crime Thriller Katie focuses her mind, trying to keep another anxiety attack at bay. The victim’s long brown hair is slick and wet, her body rigid in the grass. She looks more like a mannequin than the woman Katie had spoken with only yesterday, the woman she had promised to protect… When a cold, naked body is discovered by a couple on a jog through the lush woodlands of Pine Valley, California,
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Save Him Book Trailer Blitz #SciFi #Military #Thriller

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you William H. Hayes’ SAVE HIM Book Trailer Blitz October 1 – 31! Inside the Book Title: SAVE HIM Author: William M. Hayes Publisher: Independent Pages: 245 Genre: Military Faith-based Thriller BOOK BLURB: Rydel Scott, a brilliant scientist working at a secret military lab, accidentally discovers a form of time travel while working on a project designed to save wounded soldiers in the field. Rydel’s sister, a woman of faith, tells Rydel on her deathbed that she has received a message from God. The message—save Jesus Christ from the cross. And Rydel Scott travels back in time to do just that.
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Christmas in Newfoundland: Memories & Mysteries Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Mystery/Memoir

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mike Martin’s CHRISTMAS IN NEWFOUNDLAND: MEMORIES AND MYSTERIES Virtual Book Tour November 4 – December 27! inside the book Title: CHRISTMAS IN NEWFOUNDLAND: MEMORIES AND MYSTERIES Author: Mike Martin Publisher: Ottawa Press and Publishing Pages: 113 Genre: Mystery/Memoir From the author of the award-winning Sgt. Windflower Mysteries comes “Christmas in Newfoundland: Memories and Mysteries,” a welcome addition to the Sgt. Windflower family of books. Christmas in Newfoundland is a special time. In the depths of long winter nights memories are made and stories are told. Of Christmas by candlelight and horse and buggy rides to church. Of shopping on Water
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Pump Up Your Book Feature Interview: Leonard Bassed, Author of The Witch Port Video Game

“I begin to hear an eerie chant being recited in unison as the first three naked women make it to the dark summit. Holding long, makeshift brooms, in their right hands, they chant: “Drink the flight broth, wood in hand. Burn the root …” An elderly woman with lanky hair picks up the goblet, takes a sip of its contents, and inhales the smoke of an already burning smudge stick. The chanting continues: “Then dive from the cliff…” This is perhaps the most startling scene I’ve ever witnessed. The woman runs off the edge of the cliff, seemingly to plummet to her death, but I hear “Not by wind
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents DARK JUSTICE Virtual Book Publicity / Blog Tour #RomanticSuspense

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Angela Smith’s DARK JUSTICE Virtual Book Tour October 1 – 31! Inside the Book Title: DARK JUSTICE Author: Angela Smith Publisher: Independent Pages: 249 Genre: Romantic Suspense BOOK BLURB: She’s in love with her sister’s killer… Lauren has loved Luke since first grade. They planned to marry—until he murdered her sister. The moment he was sentenced to prison, Lauren fled with her secret baby and made a new life. Now she’ll do anything to keep their daughter safe. But her hard won peace shatters when Luke is exonerated, and it sets her on a path of mixed emotions to discover
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents DEAD RECKONING Virtual Book Publicity / Blog Tour #TrueCrime

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Caitlin Rother’s DEAD RECKONING Virtual Book Tour October 1 – 31! Inside the Book Title: DEAD RECKONING Author: Caitlin Rother Publisher: WildBlue Press Pages: 504 Genre: True Crime BOOK BLURB: Tom and Jackie Hawks loved their life in retirement, sailing on their yacht, the Well Deserved. But when the birth of a new grandson called them back to Arizona, they put the boat up for sale. Skylar Deleon and his pregnant wife Jennifer showed up as prospective buyers, with their baby in a stroller, and the Hawkses thought they had a deal. Soon after a sea trial and an alleged
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents THE NINTH SESSION Virtual Book Publicity / Blog Tour #PsychologicalSuspense #Thriller

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Deborah Serani’s THE NINTH SESSION: A PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE NOVEL Virtual Book Tour October 1 – November 29! Inside the Book Title: THE NINTH SESSION: A PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE NOVEL Author: Deborah Serani Publisher: TouchPoint Press Pages: 190 Genre: Psychological Suspense/Thriller BOOK BLURB: Dr. Alicia Reese, a recent widow and a CODA – a child of Deaf Adults, takes on a new patient. Lucas Ferro reveals the reason for his consultation is that he wasn’t really open with his previous therapist. After gaining Reese’s trust, he shares aspects of his life that are clearly disturbing – experiences that create anxiety and panic,
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents WITCHES PROTECTION PROGRAM Virtual Book Publicity / Blog Tour #Fantasy

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Michael Okon’s WITCHES PROTECTION PROGRAM Virtual Book Tour September 23 – October 25! Inside the Book Title: WITCHES PROTECTION PROGRAM Author: Michael Okon Publisher: WordFire Press Pages: 200 Genre: Fantasy/Urban Fantasy BOOK BLURB: Wes Rockville, a disgraced law-enforcement agent, gets one last chance to prove himself and save his career when he’s reassigned to a 232-year-old secret government organization. The Witches Protection Program. His first assignment: uncover a billion-dollar cosmetics company’s diabolical plan to use witchcraft for global domination, while protecting its heiress Morgan Pendragon from her aunt’s evil deeds. Reluctantly paired with veteran witch protector, Alastair Verne, Wes must
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Christmas From the Heart Virtual Book Publicity / Blog Tour #Women’s Fiction

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Sheila Roberts’ CHRISTMAS FROM THE HEART Virtual Book Tour October 1 – 31! Inside the Book Title: CHRISTMAS FROM THE HEART Author: Sheila Roberts Publisher: MIRA Pages: 304 Genre: Women’s Fiction BOOK BLURB: Olivia Berg’s charity, Christmas from the Heart, has helped generations of families in need in Pine River, Washington, but this year might be the end of the road. Hightower Enterprises, one of their biggest donors since way back when Olivia’s grandmother ran the charity, has been taken over by Ebenezer Scrooge the Second, aka CFO Guy Hightower, and he’s declared there will be no more money coming
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents VIEWS FROM THE COCKPIT: THE JOURNEY OF A SON Virtual Book Publicity / Blog Tour #Memoir

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Ross Victory’s VIEWS FROM THE COCKPIT: THE JOURNEY OF A SON Virtual Book Tour September 2 – 27! Inside the Book Title: VIEWS FROM THE COCKPIT: THE JOURNEY OF A SON Author: Ross Victory Publisher: Independent Pages: 268 Genre: Memoir BOOK BLURB: Views from the Cockpit: The Journey of a Son by Ross Victory is a memoir born from pain. Intimate journal entries morph into a phenomenal dialogue of tender father-son memories, loss, strength and turbulence in a young boy’s life on his journey into manhood. When the author discovers that his father is terminally ill and a victim of elder abuse,
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents UNBRAIDED: TRANSFORM YOUR PAIN TO POWER AND PURPOSE Virtual Book Publicity / Blog Tour #nonfiction

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Karla Monterrosa’s  UNBRAIDED: TRANSFORM YOUR PAIN TO POWER AND PURPOSE Virtual Book Tour September 15 – October 15! Inside the Book Title: UNBRAIDED: TRANSFORM YOUR PAIN TO POWER AND PURPOSE Author: Karla Monterrosa Publisher: Inspire Books Pages: 250 Genre: Non-fiction/self-help/overcoming abuse/Christian BOOK BLURB: Vulnerable, courageous, and deeply personal, Unbraided: Transform Your Pain Into Power and Purpose, will help you to identify the areas of your life that are being affected by abuse and provide a path for you to experience breakthrough and healing. Karla Monterrosa experienced physical, emotional, and sexual abuses early in her life. She was able to take those
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Dread Pirate Arcanist Virtual Book Publicity / Blog Tour #YA #fantasy

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Shami Stovall’s DREAD PIRATE ARCANIST Virtual Book Tour September 18 – October 18! Inside the Book Title: DREAD PIRATE ARCANIST Author: Shami Stovall Publisher: Capital Station Books Pages: #437 Genre: YA Fantasy BOOK BLURB: While protecting the newborn griffins on the Isle of Landin, Volke Savan and his adopted sister, Illia, run afoul of the Dread Pirate Calisto, the same cutthroat who carved out Illia’s right eye. As a master manticore arcanist, Calisto’s strength and brutality are unrivaled. When Illia suggests they bring him to justice, Volke wonders if they’ll have what it takes to fight the corsairs on the
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Love Map: Reignite, Reconnect and Repair Your Relationship Book Blast #selfhelp

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jeannie Daly-Gunter’s THE LOVE MAP: REIGNITE, RECONNECT AND REPAIR TOUR RELATIONSHIP Book Blast on September 17!  Sign up on form below! Inside the Book Title: THE LOVE MAP: REIGNITE, RECONNECT AND REPAIR YOUR RELATIONSHIP Author: Jeannie Daly-Gunter Publisher: Phoenix Rising Press Pages: 232 Genre: Self-Help BOOK BLURB: If you aren’t growing together in your relationship, you are likely growing apart. The Love Map: Reignite, Reconnect and Repair Your Relationship, gives couples a blueprint to help navigate the inevitable ups and downs of love. This book is a practical guide, an engaging story, and a workbook. Unlike many of the psychological
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Patrick Turns His Play Into Pay Virtual Book Publicity / Blog Tour #children

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Patrick & Shani Muhammad’s PATRICK TURNS HIS PLAY INTO PAY! Virtual Book Tour September 2 – October 31! Inside the Book Title: PATRICK TURNS HIS PLAY INTO PAY Author: Patrick Muhammad & Shani Muhammad Publisher: 5 Star Publishing Pages: 40 Genre: Children’s Book Inside the Book The first book in a series, “Patrick Turns His Play Into Pay”, details the journey of an entrepreneur, through the eyes of a child. The book uses vivid illustrations and lively words, to explain the road little Patrick took into the world of entrepreneurship.  It demonstrates the benefits of tapping into your passion early
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents A Twist of Oleander Virtual Book Publicity / Blog Tour #CozyMystery #RomanticSuspense

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Raven McKray’s A TWIST OF OLEANDER Virtual Book Tour September 2 – 27! Inside the Book Title: A TWIST OF OLEANDER Author: Raven McKray Publisher: Keystone, Imprint of Brownridge Publishing Pages: 204 Genre: Cozy Mystery / Romantic Suspense / Detective Fiction BOOK BLURB: An escape from madness leads to murder … After suffering a manic episode, twenty-six-year old Maddie Malone retreats to small-town Kenowa and her aunt and uncle’s cattle ranch for peace and restoration. But things are never quiet for long in Maddie’s world: She finds her heart torn between her childhood sweetheart and a suave older man. Then
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Wolf Queen: The Hope of Aferi: Book One Virtual Book Publicity / Blog Tour #YA #Fantasy @cerecermurphy

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Cerece Rennie Murphy’s THE WOLF KING: THE HOPE OF AFERI (Book One) Virtual Book Tour September 2 – 27! Inside the Book Title: THE WOLF QUEEN: THE HOPE OF AFERI (Book 1) Author: Cerece Rennie Murphy Publisher: LionSky Publishing Pages: 242 Genre: YA Fantasy BOOK BLURB: Once great and powerful sorcerers, the Amasiti were hunted to the brink of extinction by the Hir and his followers. For four hundred years, their legacy faded from memory waiting for the hope of Aferi to be renewed… In the Land of Yet At the edge of the Forbidden Forest A young woman lives alone. Forced
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Witch Port Video Game Virtual Book Publicity / Blog Tour #YA

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Leonard Bassed’s THE WITCH PORT VIDEO GAME Virtual Book Tour September 2 – November 29! Inside the Book Title: THE WITCH PORT VIDEO GAME Author: Leonard Bassed Publisher: Independent Pages: 108 Genre: YA BOOK BLURB: Leonard Bassed had no plan to write a novel titled THE WITCH PORT VIDEO GAME when he set out to create a movie script with a similar name.  “I had written the pilot script first and I kept the same ending for the novel…everything from the script I wrote found its way into the finished book version of ‘The Witch Port Video Game,’ said writer-singer-actor
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents MALL Virtual Book Publicity / Blog Tour #Dystopian

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! Inside the Book 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
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Twists Turns & Truths Virtual Book Publicity / Blog Tour #Memoir

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jayne Sanders’ TWISTS TURNS & TRUTHS Virtual Book Tour September 2 – 27! Inside the Book Title: Twists Turns & Truths – The Life and Lines of a Master Scientific Hand Analyst Author: Jayne Sanders Publisher: Full Gallop Press Pages: 204 Genre: Memoir/Self-Help BOOK BLURB: A master scientific hand analyst and conversational storyteller, Jayne Sanders courageously reveals several of the more emotive high and low experiences of her life—stories about everything from love to animals to abuse, and then connects some of her characteristics involved to relevant markings in her hands. Readers will laugh, cry, cheer, and even wince as
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents A Garden on Top of the World Virtual Book Publicity / Blog Tour #YA #Ecofiction

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Virginia Aronson’s A GARDEN ON TOP OF THE WORLD Virtual Book Tour September 2 – 27! Inside the Book Title: A Garden on Top of the World Author: Virginia Aronson Publisher: Dixi Books Pages: 112 Genre: YA Ecofiction   BOOK BLURB: The year is 2066 and life in Greenland is much warmer and more crowded, and lacking in fresh food. Sixteen-year-old Jonnie lives in the Relocation city of Shamed, where hundred-story high rises house extended families from American coastal cities relocated after the Sixth Sea Rise. Work and school are conducted from overcrowded apartments, while the homeless camp out on
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Featured Interview: Soren Paul Petrek, Author of ‘Wolves At Our Door’

I’m not on holiday, she told herself, but it’s my first time out of Germany, and I’m not going to waste it. She’d wanted to help with the war effort, and now she had her chance. Even after the invasion, everyone back home still thought Germany would win—Hitler told them so, and the propaganda films left no doubt. Why wouldn’t she believe it as well? –From Wolves At Our Door by Soren Paul Petrek Soren Petrek is a practicing criminal trial attorney, admitted to the Minnesota Bar in 1991.  Married with two adult children, Soren continues to live and work in St. Paul, Minnesota. Educated in the U.S., England
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents There’s Something Your Son Needs To Tell You Virtual Book Publicity / Blog Tour @VernonEnnels #Memoir

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Vernon Ennels Jr.’s THERE’S SOMETHING YOUR SON NEEDS TO TELL YOU Virtual Book Tour August 5 – 30! We are looking for reviews (paperback U.S.), interviews, guest posts and book features/promo. Sign up on form below! Inside the Book Title: THERE’S SOMETHING YOUR SON NEEDS TO TELL YOU Author: Vernon Ennels Jr. Publisher: Xulon Press Pages: 140 Genre: Memoir BOOK BLURB: Page six of Vernon Ennels, Jr. book, THERE’S SOMETHING YOUR SON NEEDS TO TELL YOU, reads, “I still remember his face, his breath, and hear his voice demand me to lie on my stomach. He would down my pants
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Red Carpet at Cannes Virtual Book Publicity / Blog Tour @Byrge_Duane #Mystery

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Duane Byrge’s THE RED CARPET AT CANNES Virtual Book Tour August 5 – 30! Inside the Book Title: THE RED CARPET AT CANNES Author: Duane Byrge Publisher: Independent Pages: 235 Genre: Mystery BOOK BLURB: Veteran film critic Duane Byrge takes readers on a behind-the-scenes thrill ride at the legendary Cannes Film Festival in his new mystery, THE RED CARPET AT CANNES. A longtime movie writer and editor for the Hollywood Reporter, Byrge turns to the thriller genre to tell the tale of Ryan Hackbart, who, like Byrge, covers the Cannes Film Festival for the fictional Hollywood Times. Hackbart finds himself
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