Author Archive

📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Dark Spiral Down Virtual Book Publicity Tour @MichaelHoutz #Thriller #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Michael Houtz’s DARK SPIRAL DOWN Virtual Book Tour May 6 – July 31! Inside the Book Title: DARK SPIRAL DOWN Author: Michael Houtz Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Pages: 377 Genre: Thriller/International/Action BOOK BLURB: COLE HAUFNER is a reluctant superstar in the professional mixed martial arts world. After his latest fight, his wife and child perish in a car crash. His grief deepens when his brother, BUTCH, a Delta Force operator, is absent from the funeral and reported missing by two furtive strangers who show up unannounced at the burial. Despairing, and acting on a tip, Cole travels to his
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Guns, Drugs, or Wealth Virtual Book Publicity Tour @RealJerryFord #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jerry Ford’s GUNS, DRUGS, OR WEALTH: THE THREE-INCOME SECRET TO SUCCESS THAT TOOK ME FROM THE STREETS OF DETROIT TO THE TOP OF MY GAME Virtual Book Tour May 6 – 31! Inside the Book Title: GUNS, DRUGS, OR WEALTH: THE THREE-INCOME SECRET TO SUCCESS THAT TOOK ME FROM THE STREETS OF DETROIT TO THE TOP OF MY GAME Author: Jerry Ford Publisher: Beast Publications Pages: 164 Genre: Nonfiction/Motivational BOOK BLURB: Author and Celebrity Personal Trainer Jerry Ford has authored a powerful, painfully honest book entitled GUNS, DRUGS, OR WEALTH as a help and inspiration to others who also seek
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Featured Interview: A.S. Finechel, Author of ‘A Lady’s Virtue’ #interview #regency #romance @asfenichel

“A masculine, ungloved hand reached toward her. “I’m terribly sorry, miss. Entirely my fault. Are you hurt?” His accent was strange, American perhaps. Having no gloves on, she was hesitant to touch him, but there was no help for it. She couldn’t remain on her back like a turtle. The warmth of his skin traveled up her arm, and her cheeks heated. His fingers were strong and rough. This was no gentleman’s hand. She stood as he eased her to her feet. “Not at all,” she said. “I was distracted.”” –From A LADY’S VIRTUE by A.S. Fenichel A.S. Fenichel gave up a successful career in New York City to
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Shrapnel in the San Fernando Valley Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Memoir #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Carol Es’ SHRAPNEL IN THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY Virtual Book Tour May 6 – 31! Inside the Book Title: SHRAPNEL IN THE SAN FERNANDO VALLEY Author: Carol Es Publisher: Desert Dog Books Pages: 356 Genre: Memoir/Biography BOOK BLURB: Shrapnel in the San Fernando Valley is a guided tour through a Tilt-A-Whirl life that takes so many turns that you may find yourself looking up from the pages and wondering how the hell one person managed to fit them all into 40-odd years. And many of them are odd years indeed. From a rootless, abusive childhood and mental illness through serious
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📢 {Historical Fiction} New Book Review Campaign! MIGHTY MARY by Max Divine

Sorry, this review campaign has ended. We are taking review requests for Max Devine’s historical fiction, MIGHTY MARY. This is a review campaign and not a blog tour. If requesting review copies, we ask that you post your review at Amazon no later than July 5, please. When you are ready to submit your review, come back and click below to take you directly to the book’s Amazon link. Review copies will be sent via PDF. Thank you! Inside the Book Title: MIGHTY MARY Author: Max Divine Publisher: Tamarind Hill Press Pages: 438 Genre: Historical Fiction BOOK BLURB: Mary was a circus elephant. The Star of the West. She
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📢 {Mystery/Women Sleuth} New Book Review Campaign! DEAD RINGERS by Wayne Kerr

We are taking review requests for Wayne Kerr’s DEAD RINGERS: A BLACK SWANN INVESTIGATION. This is a review campaign and not a blog tour. If requesting review copies, we ask that you post your review at Amazon no later than July 5, please. When you are ready to submit your review, come back and click below to take you directly to the book’s Amazon link. Review copies will be sent via paperback / PDF. Thank you! Inside the Book Title: DEAD RINGERS Author: Wayne Kerr Publisher: Canusa Books Pages: 230 Genre: Mystery/Women Sleuths BOOK BLURB: Reggie Swann had the perfect husband, perfect house and the career she’d always wanted.
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Restless Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Romance #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Michelle Bellon’s RESTLESS Virtual Book Tour May 6 – 31! Inside the Book Title: Restless Author: Michelle Bellon Publisher: Booktrope Editions Pages: 204 Genre:  Contemporary Romance BOOK BLURB: You grow up. You get married. You have a family. At least, that’s what Malea Winters believes she’s supposed to do. So why is it that every time she comes close to finding that happily ever after, she runs? When she meets Garrett Taylor, she warns him that she’s not the marrying type because history has shown that long-term relationships are not her forte. She has a tendency to leave when things
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Featured Interview: John Joseph Doody, Author of The Guild Saga Series @JohnJosephDoody #Interview

“He knew there was no sense in trying to get away, or in trying to fight with this droid. She was too fast, too strong. He had no weapon to use against her, and worst of all, he was in his underwear.” –From The Guild Saga by John Joseph Doody John Joseph Doody earned a B.A. in Biblical Studies from Coral Ridge University and Seminary, as well as an M.A. in Political Science from George Wythe College. His first publication was a short story, TELEPIO 690, which appeared in Sidetrekked Magazine, Issue #48. His other publications are, his first novel (actually a novella), THE WONK DECELERATOR, his second novel,
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Interview with ‘The ‘Real’ American Diet’ Author Kevin C. Alston @kcasrkev1 #interview

“IF YOU’VE BEEN dieting forever with very mixed results, then you’ve finally come to the right place. These lifestyle changes that I am recommending will be like no diet that you have ever attempted, so if you combine what I’m about to teach you with the proven methods that Dr. Joel Fuhrman teaches you in his books—Eat to Live is the best one to start off with—you will be well on your way to attaining your goal of losing the dreaded weight that you have been desperately seeking to get rid of for so long.” –From The ‘Real’ American Diet by Kevin C. Alston Born & raised in the
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Moments That Made America Virtual Book Publicity Tour #History #Nonfiction #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Geoff Armstrong’s MOMENTS THAT MADE AMERICA: FROM THE ICE AGE TO THE ALAMO Virtual Book Tour April 15 – May 14! Inside the Book   Title: MOMENTS THAT MADE AMERICA: FROM THE ICE AGE TO THE ALAMO Author: Geoff Armstrong Publisher: History Publishing Company Pages: 254 Genre: American History BOOK BLURB: From its geological birth during the breakup of the Pangaea supercontinent millions of years ago, through the nation-shaping key events that led to its political independence from the British superpower, and other crucial, sometimes miraculous events that worked to create the nation, Moments That Made America: From the Ice
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Featured Interview: The Brave Art of Motherhood by Rachel Marie Marting @Finding_Joy #Interview #Mom

  “One November day, I stood at my bedroom window watching as a sharp wind stripped the remaining leaves from the trees. Seeing those limbs laid bare, I felt similarly exposed. I realized I’d been lost in my own life, waiting for something to change. But I couldn’t wait any longer. So I started fighting. Reclaiming the lifeless spaces, unearthing joy in motherhood, and finding hope and purpose. No longer did I hide behind the words “When the kids are grown, I will. . . ” I changed one thing: my mind. Now my kids are happier than they have ever been. And so am I.” From The Brave
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📢 {Middle Grade Fantasy} New Book Review Campaign! THE FRIGHTS OF FIJI by Sunayna Prasad #reviews

Sorry, this review campaign has ended. We are taking review requests for Sunayna Prasad’s THE FRIGHTS OF FIJI. This is a review campaign and not a blog tour. If requesting review copies, we ask that you post your review at Amazon no later than August 26, please. When you are ready to submit your review, come back and click below to take you directly to the book’s Amazon link. Review copies will be sent via PDF. Thank you! Inside the Book Title: THE FRIGHTS OF FIJI Author: Sunayna Prasad Publisher: Independent Pages: 136 Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy BOOK BLURB: A world of magic and adventure awaits… Sent to live
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Misfits and Supermen Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Memoir #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Steve Starger’s MISFITS AND SUPERMEN: TWO BROTHERS’ JOURNEY ALONG THE SPECTRUM Virtual Book Tour May 6 – 31! Inside the Book Title: MISFITS AND SUPERMEN: TWO BROTHERS’ JOURNEY ALONG THE SPECTRUM. Author: Steve Starger Publisher: Friesen Press Pages: 178 Genre: Memoir BOOK BLURB: The bond of brotherhood is hard to break, but a lifetime of dealing with familial expectation, bitterness, and psychological disorders can bend and warp it into something nearly unrecognizable. This story tells the tale of two brothers: Melvyn, the elder, whose amalgamation of disorders leave him completely unable to function within society; and Stephen, the younger, whose
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Fid’s Crusade Virtual Book Publicity Tour #SciFi #Fantasy #VBT @DavidHReiss

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you David H. Reiss’ FID’S CRUSADE Virtual Book Tour April 22 – June 21! Inside the Book   Title: FID’S CRUSADE Author: David H. Reiss Publisher: Atian Press Pages: 365 Genre: Scifi/Contemporary Fantasy BOOK BLURB: Consumed by grief, rage, and self-loathing, a brilliant inventor rebuilt himself to take on a new identity: the powered-armor-wearing supervillain, Doctor Fid. For twenty violent years, Fid has continued his quest to punish heroes who he considers to be unworthy of their accolades, and the Doctor has left a long trail of blood and misery in his wake. After a personal tragedy, however, Doctor Fid investigates
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Guild Saga Series Virtual Book Publicity Tour #ScienceFiction #SciFi #Fantasy #VBT @JohnJosephDoody

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you John Joseph Doody’s THE GUILD SAGA Series Virtual Book Tour April 1 – May 31! Inside the Book Title: THE GUILD SAGA: THE WONK DECELERATOR (Book 1) Author: John Joseph Doody Publisher: eTreasures Publishing LLC Pages: 131 Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy BOOK BLURB: For Earthers dwelling in Guild space, it is a one-hundred year journey back to Earth. An unimaginable voyage, until now. When Guild commander and crack pilot, Thad Cochran boards the shuttle destined for the casinos of Timmerus, finding a way back to Earth is not on his radar. He wants the five-percent finder’s fee the Guild is offering
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Consequence of Stars Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Memoir #VBT @DavidWBerner

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you David W. Berner’s THE CONSEQUENCE OF STARS Virtual Book Tour April 1 – 26! Inside the Book Title: CONSEQUENCES OF STARS: A MEMOIR Author: David W. Berner Publisher: Adelaide Books New Yotk/Lisbon Pages: 200 Genre: Memoir/Essays BOOK BLURB: THE CONSEQUENCE OF STARS is a unique and thoughtful memoir on our eternal search for home. Told in a series of essays on love, loss, travel, music, spirituality, and the joys of solitude, memoirist David W. Berner, reaches deep to discover where he belongs and ultimately where all of us belong. “Berner gives us both travelogue and memoir in living, breathing depth and
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The ‘Real’ American Diet Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Nonfiction #VBT @kcasrkev1

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Kevin C. Alston’s THE ‘REAL’ AMERICAN DIET Virtual Book Tour April 1 – May 31! Inside the Book Title: THE ‘REAL’ AMERICAN DIET Author: Kevin Alston Publisher: Xlibris Publishing Pages: 48 Genre: Memoir/Nonfiction BOOK BLURB: This book is a culmination of the author’s life, but mainly the past 10 years, where personal tragedies have led him to discover more about the correlation with food, nutrition & the diseases of today, & how it affects us all. This program is an experiment of sorts, with the author using himself as the guinea pig, with positive results having been discovered, & hopefully,
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Summer Retreat Virtual Book Publicity Tour #WomensFiction #Romance #VBT @_Sheila_Roberts

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Sheila Roberts’ THE SUMMER RETREAT Virtual Book Tour April 1 – 26! Inside the Book Title: THE SUMMER RETREAT Author: Sheila Roberts Publisher: Harlequin/MIRA Pages: 384 Genre: Women’s Fiction/Romance BOOK BLURB: Celeste Jones has plans for a perfect summer with her boyfriend (and hopefully soon-to-be fiancé)—until he dumps her to be with the woman he’s had on the side for months. Heartbroken and furious, Celeste resolves to move on. When the going gets tough, the tough…okay, the not-so-tough go to the beach. As soon as school lets out for the summer, she waves goodbye to her first-graders, packs up her
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📢 {Fantasy/Thriller} New Book Review Campaign! DIE BACK by Richard Hacker #reviews

We are taking review requests for Richard Hacker’s DIE BACK. This is a review campaign and not a blog tour. If requesting review copies, we ask that you post your review at Amazon no later than August 6, please. When you are ready to submit your review, come back and click below to take you directly to the book’s Amazon link. Review copies will be sent via PDF, ePub or Mobi.  Thank you! Inside the Book Title: DIE BACK (Book One of the Alchimeia) Author: Richard Hacker Publisher: Del Sol Press Pages: 332 Genre: Fantasy/Thriller BOOK BLURB: In 272 AD Egypt, an enemy thwarts an attempt by League Inkers,
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Featured Interview: Lee Matthew Goldberg, Author of The Desire Card @leematthewg #interview

“A shadow passed behind a tree, bigger than any animal. He propped himself up against a rock, too exhausted to move any farther, closing his eyes and waiting to die. He could see tomorrow’s headlines declaring his death as a mugging gone wrong.” –From The Desire Card by Lee Matthew Goldberg Lee Matthew Goldberg is the author of SLOW DOWN and THE MENTOR (St. Martin’s Press), which was acquired by Macmillan Entertainment with the film in development. He has been published in multiple languages and nominated for the 2018 Prix du Polar. The first two books in a thriller series, THE DESIRE CARD and PREY NO MORE, are forthcoming
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents A Lady’s Virtue Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Regency #Romance #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you A.S. Fenichel’s A LADY’S VIRTUE Virtual Book Tour April 1 – May 31! Inside the Book Title: A LADY’S VIRTUE Author: A.S. Fenichel Publisher: Lyrical Press/Kensington Books Pages: 225 Genre: Regency Romance BOOK BLURB: Can a broken engagement ignite the spark of true love? Sylvia Dowder had almost made it to the altar when her fiancé unexpectedly became a viscount, and dropped her like a stale crumpet to make a more “suitable” match. Though Sylvia’s heart has been crushed, her spirit has not. She puts her wits and social savvy to use as a secret gossip columnist—and as the Everton
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Brave Art of Motherhood Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Self-Help #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Rachel Marie Martin’s THE BRAVE ART OF MOTHERHOOD Virtual Book Tour March 15 – May 15! Inside the Book Title: THE BRAVE ART OF MOTHERHOOD Author: Rachel Marie Martin Publisher: Random House Pages: 204 Genre: Self-Help BOOK BLURB: Full-time FindingJoy.net blogger, speaker, marketer, podcaster, and single mom of seven, Rachel Marie Martin presents a wake-up call to those of us who have found ourselves stuck in the ‘I’m just a mom’ phase of life. Yes, this book is about motherhood . . . but really, this book is about finding yourself again and following your passion WHILE being a mom.
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Drewsilla the Shelter Puppy Virtual Book Publicity Tour #children #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Karen Carew Oakes’ DREWSILLA THE SHELTER PUPPY Virtual Book Tour March 4 – April 26! Inside the Book Title: DREWSILLA THE SHELTER PUPPY Author: Karen Carew Oakes Publisher: Archway Publishing Pages: 22 Genre: Children’s Picture Book BOOK BLURB: When Drewsilla and her siblings are tiny puppies, an accident steals their mother away. A kind stranger rescues them and takes them to a shelter, where the staff works around the clock to care for the pack of newborns. Soon, her brothers and sisters begin to thrive. Drewsilla has a beautiful black coat, intelligent eyes, and ears that stand straight up. Drewsilla,
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Old Man’s Request Virtual Book Publicity Tour #historical #suspense #VBT

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Joab Stieglitz’s THE OLD MAN’S REQUEST: BOOK ONE OF THE UTGARDA TRILOGY Virtual Book Tour March 4 – 29! Inside the Book Title: THE OLD MAN’S REQUEST Author: Joab Stieglitz Publisher: Rantings of a Wandering Mind Pages: 117 Genre: Historical Suspense BOOK BLURB: An Innocent Favor for a Dying Old Friend… Fifty years ago, a group of college friends dabbled in the occult and released a malign presence on the world. Now, on his deathbed, the last of the students, now a trustee of Reister University enlists the aid of three newcomers to banish the thing they summoned. Russian
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Love and the Mystery of Betrayal Virtual Book Publicity Tour #relationships #self-help #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Sandra Lee Dennis’ LOVE AND THE MYSTERY OF SURVIVAL Virtual Book Tour March 4 – 29! Inside the Book Title: LOVE AND THE MYSTERY OF BETRAYAL Author: Sandra Lee Dennis Publisher: West County Press Pages: 290 Genre: Relationships/Spiritual/Self-Help BOOK BLURB: Betrayal of love inflicts a unique, unprecedented pain you can only comprehend once you have experienced it. If you are suffering from an intimate betrayal, you know. Betrayal is stunning. It is mind-boggling. You feel paralyzed, mystified, enraged, panicked, bewildered; but, mostly, you hurt. Betrayal is a make-or-break event that marks a cataclysmic divide in your life. It changes you.
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Material Things Virtual Book Publicity Tour #fiction #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Larry Spencer’s MATERIAL THINGS Virtual Book Tour March 4 – 29! Inside the Book Title: MATERIAL THINGS Author: Larry Spencer Publisher: Independent Pages: 367 Genre: Fiction BOOK BLURB: Larry Spencer’s riveting, interlocking narratives circle the lives of Matthew Street, Jon Lewis and Christopher Styles, in a 1970s California backdrop that takes them from owning and operating a fashionable clothing boutique into the gripping world of an FBI under cover operation, drug trafficking, prostitution and a nefarious criminal element, that brings to light a Mafia contract killer, who’s out to bump off a stoolie in their midst. Material Things is based
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Chicano Homeland Virtual Book Publicity Tour #historical #nonfiction #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Louis R. Negrete’s CHICANO HOMELAND: THE MOVEMENT IN EAST LOS ANGELES FOR MEXICAN AMERICAN POWER, JUSTICE & EQUALITY Virtual Book Tour April 1 – 26 2019! Inside the Book Title: CHICANO HOMELAND Author: Louis R. Negrete Publisher: Independent Pages: 136 Genre: Historical/Nonfiction BOOK BLURB: Los Angeles author-educator Dr. Louis R. Negrete lived and now tells the compelling, dynamic story of the movement for the rights of Mexican-Americans in the USA, particularly those In California.  In his riveting, powerfully written historical book, CHICANO HOMELAND,  retired college professor Dr. Negrete vividly describes the issues that sparked the Chicano civil rights movement, that
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Desire Card Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Crime #Suspense #VBT @LeeMatthewG

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lee Matthew Goldberg’s THE DESIRE CARD Virtual Book Tour March 4 – August 30! Inside the Book Title: THE DESIRE CARD Author: Lee Matthew Goldberg Publisher: Fahrenheit Press Pages: TBA Genre: Crime/Suspense BOOK BLURB: Any wish fulfilled for the right price. That’s the promise the Desire Card gives to its elite clients. But if the Card doesn’t feel like they’ve been justly compensated, the “price” will be more menacing than the clients could ever imagine. Harrison Stockton learns this lesson all too well. Harrison has lived an adult life of privilege and excess: a high-powered job on Wall Street
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Morning Mind Virtual Book Publicity Tour @Mind_Morning #self-help #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Dr. Kirti Salwe Carter & Dr. Robert Carter III’s THE MORNING MIND: USE YOUR BRAIN TO MASTER YOUR DAY AND SUPERCHARGE YOUR LIFE Virtual Book Tour March 4 – 29! Inside the Book Title: THE MORNING MIND: USE YOUR BRAIN TO MASTER YOUR DAY AND SUPERCHARGE YOUR LIFE Author: Dr. Kirte Salwe Carter / Dr. Robert Carter III Publisher: Harper Collins Leadership Pages: 197 Genre: Self-Help BOOK BLURB: Unleash positive thinking and productive imagination, and flip negative thoughts and behaviors into a lifetime to improve every aspect of your life—each morning, one day at a time. Bad habits. Bad feelings.
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents My Last Baggage Call Aboard Air Force One @GlennWPowell1 #memoir #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Glenn W. Powell’s MY LAST BAGGAGE CALL Virtual Book Tour March 4 – 29! Inside the Book Title: MY LAST BAGGAGE CALL ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE Author: Glenn W. Powell Publisher: Independent Pages: 226 Genre: Memoir BOOK BLURB: This exciting memoir chronicles the life and memories of SFC Glenn Powell, a 20-year veteran of the U.S. Army, and 10-year veteran of the White House where he served under Presidents George HW Bush, President William J. Clinton, and President George W. Bush. SFC Powell was born and raised in Toledo, Ohio. He says his real-life journey began in 1982 when he
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