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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Heart of the Matter Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you P Nelson’s THE HEART OF THE MATTER Virtual Book Tour December 4 – 31! Inside the Book Title: THE HEART OF THE MATTER Author: P Nelson Publisher: Independent Pages: 205 Genre: Erotic Romance/BDSM BOOK BLURB: Eric Danvers thought he had found the perfect submissive before she was swept right out of his arms. Now pining after the one woman he can’t have, Master Eric finds himself stuck in a gruelling cycle of emotional torture that has nothing to do with his BDSM lifestyle. Just as he was about to take a hiatus from The Cage and the lifestyle altogether, Master
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Double Take Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Abby Bardi’s DOUBLE TAKE Virtual Book Tour January 2 – 31! Inside the Book Title: Double Take Author: Abby Bardi Publisher: Harper Collins Impulse Pages: 186 Genre: Mystery/Women’s Fiction Set in Chicago, 1975, Double Take is the story of artsy Rachel Cochrane, who returns from college with no job and confronts the recent death of Bando, one of her best friends. When she runs into Joey, a mutual friend, their conversations take them back into their shared past and to the revelation that Bando may have been murdered. To find out who murdered him, Rachel is forced to revisit her
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📢 {Women’s Fiction} iDentity Review Campaign Sign Up

We are taking review requests for IDENTITY. 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 February 8, 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 (U.S. 5 copies first come first serve),  & PDF . Thank you! Inside the Book Title: IDENTITY Author: Cynthia Kumanchik Publisher: Independent Pages: 230 Genre: Women’s Fiction BOOK BLURB: Twenty years after the great drought of 2020, citizens in California and across the United
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents It’s Never Game Over Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Cristina G.’s IT’S NEVER GAME OVER Virtual Book Tour December 4 – 29! Inside the Book Title: IT’S NEVER GAME OVER Author: Cristina G. Publisher: Independent Pages: 145 ebook/268 paperback Genre: Nonfiction/Self-Help BOOK BLURB: It’s the end of the year but you have the impression it’s the end of your life? Start the New Year with a plan. Don’t make a resolution, make a habit! Whatever your situation might be now, you have the power to change it. Depression can be overcome. You can lose weight and find love. You can heal and transform your life. Believe you’re happy, and you’re
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents How Not to Succeed in Hollywood Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Marissa Thomas’ HOW NOT TO SUCCEED IN HOLLYWOOD Virtual Book Tour December 4 – 29! Inside the Book Title: HOW NOT TO SUCCEED IN HOLLYWOOD Author: Marissa Thompson Publisher: Harlequin Pages: 436 Genre: Humor/Fiction BOOK BLURB: In HOW NOT TO SUCCEED IN HOLLYWOOD, Marissa Thomas offers readers an inside view of one young woman’s journey to fulfill her dream of becoming an actor. The personal and humorous story of Lisa reveals the often difficult and inspiring process of navigating the entertainment industry. The acting bug bit Lisa during her first elementary school talent show. After receiving positive reviews for her
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📢 {Harlequin Superromance} Navy SEAL Promise Review Campaign Sign Up

We are taking review requests for NAVY SEAL PROMISE. 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 February 4, 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 (U.S. 5 copies first come first serve), ePub & PDF . Thank you! Inside the Book Title: NAVY SEAL PROMISE Author: Amber Leigh Williams Publisher: Harlequin Superromance Pages: 384 Genre: Romance BOOK BLURB: He made a promise he intends to keep. Harmony
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Secret Baby, Second Chance Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jane Godman’s SECRET BABY, SECOND CHANCE Virtual Book Tour January 3 – 31! Inside the Book Title: SECRET BABY, SECOND CHANCE Author: Jane Godman Publisher: Harlequin Pages: 288 Genre: Romantic Suspense BOOK BLURB: She’s alive! Vincente Delaney has finally found his girlfriend, Beth Wade, who disappeared a year and a half ago, alive. But he’s shocked to discover someone with her: their child, a little girl he never knew about! Once upon a time, lone wolf Vincente never expected forever with Beth, but now he must put everything on the line to protect her and their family. Beth was forced
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Circumvent Cover Reveal Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you S.K. Derban’s CIRCUMVENT Cover Reveal November 9! Inside the Book Title: CIRCUMVENT Author: S.K. Derban Publisher: Touchpoint Press Genre: Mystery BOOK BLURB: Imagine living in a quaint, beach front cottage on the Hawaiian island of Maui. You have an amazing job, combined with the pleasure of working from home. Lunch breaks become a daily picnic on the sand. Dessert is always included because of your marriage to a famous pastry chef. Life could not be any better. Or so it seems… When French born, Nikki Sabine Moueix travels to Hawaii for a special work assignment, her job of writing an
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Along Came Jones Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Victoria Bernadine’s ALONG CAME JONES Virtual Book Tour January 3 – 31! Inside the Book Title: ALONG CAME JONES Author: Victoria Bernadine Publisher: Love of Words Publishing Pages: 324 Genre: Chick Lit/Contemporary Fiction BOOK BLURB: Benjamin Ferrin Macon-Jones has it all: a luxurious lifestyle in Toronto and the love of an intelligent, ambitious woman…until that same woman refuses his marriage proposal, tells him he’s a detriment to her career, and leaves him. Unable to deal with his cantankerous family trying to be supportive, he quietly slips away into the Canadian countryside. Lou Upjohn has problems of her own. She’s a
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Abuse of Discretion Virtual Book Publicity Tour @authorPSY

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Pamela Samuels Young’s ABUSE OF DISCRETION Virtual Book Tour December 4 – February 28! Inside the Book Title: ABUSE OF DISCRETION Author: Pamela Samuels Young Publisher: Goldman House Publishing Pages: 352 Genre: Mystery BOOK BLURB: A Kid’s Curiosity … A Parent’s Nightmare The award-winning author of “Anybody’s Daughter” is back with an addictive courtroom drama that gives readers a shocking look inside the juvenile criminal justice system. Graylin Alexander is a model fourteen-year-old. When his adolescent curiosity gets the best of him, Graylin finds himself embroiled in a sexting scandal that threatens to ruin his life. Jenny Ungerman, the attorney
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents You Can Change the World Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Bever-leigh Banfield’s YOU CAN CHANGE THE WORLD Virtual Book Tour December 4 – 29! Inside the Book Title: YOU CAN CHANGE THE WORLD: BE A CHANGE WIZARD AND GET IT LIKE YOU LIKE IT Author: Bever-leigh Banfield Publisher: Twinkle Entertainment Pages: 366 Genre: Nonfiction BOOK BLURB: You have an ultimate magic within you, capable of transforming yourself, your life and everything that exists. You needn’t fear change, leave it to others, or get stuck with whatever happens next. You can pull heaven right out of your hat with the alchemy of your heart and mind. You just have to know how to
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📢 {Sci-Fi} The Abduction Chronicles Review Campaign Sign Up

We are taking review requests for The Abduction Chronicles. 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 January 23, 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 ABDUCTION CHRONICLES Author: Thomas L Hay Publisher: CreateSpace Pages: 272 Genre: Sci-Fi BOOK BLURB: A curious chronicle that takes you on roller coaster ride weaving through a blend of seemly true events of the
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Navy SEAL Promise Book Blast – Win $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Amber Leigh Williams’  NAVY SEAL PROMISE December 4 – 29! Inside the Book Title: NAVY SEAL PROMISE Author: Amber Leigh Williams Publisher: Harlequin Superromance Pages: 384 Genre: Romance BOOK BLURB: He made a promise he intends to keep. Harmony Savitt is off-limits for navy SEAL Kyle Bracken. Not only is she his best friend’s little sister, she’s also a single mother and the widow of a fellow SEAL killed in action. This soldier needs to keep his distance. But something between them has changed… Despite the new complicated feelings he has for Harmony, when his family comes under attack, there’s
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Depression in Later Life Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Deborah Serani’s DEPRESSION IN LATER LIFE: AN ESSENTIAL GUIDE Virtual Book Tour November 20 – December 20! Inside the Book Title: DEPRESSION IN LATER LIFE: AN ESSENTIAL GUIDE Author: Dr. Deborah Serani Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pages: 286 Genre: Self-Help/Psychology BOOK BLURB: The geriatric population, defined as men and women 65 years and older, is the fastest growing population in the world. Little attention has been given to the mental health of the aging, and often treatable disorders are overlooked entirely. Depression is one of the leading mental disorders in any age group, but among the elderly, it is often
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Wounded Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Harlyn Bryan’s WOUNDED Virtual Book Tour November 1 – 30! Inside the Book Title: WOUNDED Author: Harlyn Bryan Publisher: RaeOv Sun Publishing Pages: 282 Genre: Urban Romance BOOK BLURB: Sometimes there is a sense of comfort in chaos that peace cannot provide. After a tragic murder on the streets of her old neighborhood Sierra Vincent left town vowing to never return to the place of her nightmares. It is by chance that she meets and falls for big time hustler Nick Maguire and from that point forward she finds herself once again entangled in the web of a war that
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Amendment Killer Book Trailer Blast!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Ronald S. Barak’s THE AMENDMENT KILLER Book Trailer Blitz November 1! Inside the Book Title: THE AMENDMENT KILLER Author: Ronald S. Barak Publisher: Gander House Publishers Pages: 320 Genre: Thriller/Mystery & Suspense/Political Thriller BOOK BLURB: “WE HAVE YOUR GRANDDAUGHTER. HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO DO.” That’s the text message Supreme Court Justice Arnold Hirschfeld receives as hearings commence in the U.S. Supreme Court to determine the fate of the 28th Amendment – enacted to criminalize abuse of power on the part of our political representatives. In court to defend the amendment, retired U.S. District Court Judge Cyrus Brooks observes his
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📢 {Legal Thriller} One Night in Amboise Review Campaign Sign Up

We are taking review requests for ONE NIGHT IN AMBOISE. 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 January 10, 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 (U.S.) & PDF . Thank you! Inside the Book Title: ONE NIGHT IN AMBOISE Author: Ken Malovos Publisher: Independent Pages: 289 Genre: Legal Mystery BOOK BLURB: JIM HANSEN AND CORINNE LARSON are overseas college students at Amboise, France. After meeting at
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents One Night in Amboise Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Ken Malovos’ ONE NIGHT IN AMBOISE Virtual Book Tour November 1 – 30! Inside the Book Title: ONE NIGHT IN AMBOISE Author: Ken Malovos Publisher: Independent Pages: 289 Genre: Legal Mystery BOOK BLURB: JIM HANSEN AND CORINNE LARSON are overseas college students at Amboise, France. After meeting at a local bar they leave and encounter a drunk. JIM hits him and the man may be dead. At the manor house where they live, they kiss and make love. The next day she accuses him of rape but does not formally charge him. He denies the charge. The police investigate the
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Solicitor Virtual Book Publicity Tour

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Sean Keefer’s THE SOLICITOR Virtual Book Tour December 4 – 29! Inside the Book Title: THE SOLICITOR Author: Sean Keefer Publisher: Four Hounds Creative Pages: 386 Genre: Mystery BOOK BLURB: When you make your living fighting for justice, the last place you expect to wake up is behind bars. Attorney Noah Parks has spent his life keeping people out of jail.  When he’s charged with the murder of a candidate for Charleston County Solicitor he finds himself on the wrong side of the law for a crime he says he didn’t commit. No longer fighting for others and now
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Nadya’s War Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you C.S. Taylor’s NADYA’S WAR Blog Tour November 1 – December 29! Inside the Book Title: NADYA’S WAR Author: C.S. Taylor Publisher: Tiny Fox Press Pages: 300 Genre: Historical Fiction BOOK BLURB: Nadezdah “Little Boar” Buzina, a young pilot with the Red Army’s 586th all-female fighter regiment, dreams of becoming an ace. Those dreams shatter when a dogfight leaves her severely burned and the sole survivor from her flight. For the latter half of 1942, she struggles against crack Luftwaffe pilots, a vengeful political commissar, and a new addiction to morphine, all the while questioning her worth and purpose in a
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Lottie’s Loves Book Blast – Win $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Samie Sands’ LOTTIE LOVES Book Blast November 1 – 30! Inside the Book Title: LOTTIE LOVES Author: Samie Sands Publisher: Limitless Publishing Pages: 210 Genre: Contemporary Romance BOOK BLURB: “Will you marry me?”                          Four words I’ve waited my whole life to hear. Four words which I was sure would change my life forever, and it did. Just not in the way I thought it would. Finding out that my extremely gorgeous rock star boyfriend was about to propose, had the complete opposite effect I thought it would. Rather than catapult me into a future I’ve always wanted, it plunged me
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Nature of Entangled Hearts Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Emma Hartley’s THE NATURE OF ENTANGLED HEARTS Blog Tour November 1 – 30! Inside the Book Title: THE NATURE OF ENTANGLED HEARTS Author: Emma Hartley Publisher: Satin Romance Pages: 277 Genre: Contemporary Romance/Paranormal Romance/Thriller/Chick Lit/Women’s Fiction BOOK BLURB: The Nature of Entangled Hearts is a fast-paced, edgy, romantic thriller, with a subtly supernatural twist.  Enter the story of Elwyn and James, two strangers entangled by their past-life experiences, who are mired in an unquantifiable present.  Throughout the novel they work to understand the bonds that hold them together, just as an unforeseen danger threatens to tear them apart. Elwyn “Derrin”
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents A Tangled Web Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mike Martin’s A TANGLED WEB Blog Tour November 1 – 30!   Inside the Book Title: A TANGLED WEB Author: Mike Martin Publisher: Booklocker Pages: 338 Genre: Mystery BOOK BLURB: Life is good for Sgt. Wind­flower in Grand Bank, Newfoundland. But something’s missing from the Mountie’s life. Actually, a lot of things go missing, including a little girl and supplies from the new factory. It’s Windflower’s job to unravel the tangled web of murder, deceit and an accidental kidnapping that threatens to engulf this sleepy little town and destroy those closest to him. But there’s always good food, good friends
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Christmas in Icicle Falls Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Sheila Roberts’ CHRISTMAS IN ICICLE FALLS Blog Tour November 1 – 30! Inside the Book Title: CHRISTMAS IN ICICLE FALLS Author: Sheila Roberts Publisher: Harlequin Mira Pages: 368 Genre: Women’s Fiction BOOK BLURB: When Muriel Sterling released her new book, A Guide to Happy Holidays, she felt like the queen of Christmas. She’s thrilled when the new tree she ordered online arrives and is eager to show it off—until she gets it out of the box and realizes it’s a mangy dud. But rather than give up on the ugly tree, Muriel decides to make a project out of it.
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  • October 3, 2017
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First Chapter: Stairway to Paradise: Growing Up Gershwin by Nadia Natali

Title: STAIRWAY TO PARADISE: GROWING UP GERSHWIN Author: Nadia Natali Publisher: RareBird Books Pages: 304 Genre: Memoir BOOK BLURB: Growing up as Frankie Gershwin’s daughter, the sister of George and Ira Gershwin, was quite a challenge. I didn’t have the perspective to realize that so much unhappiness in a family was out of the ordinary. But I knew something was off. My mother was often depressed and my father was tyrannical and scary, one never knew when he would blow up. I learned early on that I had to be the cheery one, the one to fix the problems. Both sides of my family were famous; the Gershwin side
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First Chapter: Monsterland by Michael Okon

Title: MONSTERLAND Author: Michael Okon Publisher: Wordfire Press Pages: 232 Genre: Monsters BOOK BLURB: Welcome to Monsterland—the scariest place on Earth. The last couple years of high school have not been fun for Wyatt Baldwin. His parents divorce, then his dad mysteriously dies. He’s not exactly comfortable with his new stepfather, Carter White, either. An on-going debate with his best friends Howard Drucker and Melvin 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 Nolan, and Wyatt thinks he doesn’t stand a chance. But everything changes when Wyatt and his friends are
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📢 {Thriller} When a Stranger Comes Review Campaign Sign Up

We are taking review requests for WHEN A STRANGER COMES. 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 April 1, 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 & Mobi. Thank you! Inside the Book Title: WHEN A STRANGER COMES Author: Karen S. Bell Publisher: KSB Press Pages: 248 Genre: Thriller BOOK BLURB: Satisfying one’s greed can come at a devilishly high cost. Achieving what you crave can also
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Mirror Said You’re Be-You-Tiful Blog Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Austiage’s (with Melissa Anne Wuske) THE MIRROR SAID YOU’RE BE-YOU-TIFUL Blog Tour November 1 – 30! Inside the Book Title: THE MIRROR SAID YOU’RE BE-YOU-TIFUL Author: Austiage Publisher: Independent Pages: 212 Genre: Self-Help BOOK BLURB: In her motivational self-help book, THE MIRROR SAID, “YOU’RE BE-YOU-TIFUL,” former elite athlete Austiage offers readers a foundation for embracing their unique beauty in a world that doesn’t always value diversity and individuality. Writing in a welcoming, conversational style, Austiage outlines a plan for embracing a positive self-image that develops from the inside out. An unexpected question (“Does the mirror make you feel ugly?”) was
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Her Final Watch Blog Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Marguerite Ashton’s HER FINAL WATCH Blog Tour November 1 – 30! Inside the Book Title: HER FINAL WATCH Author: Marguerite Ashton Publisher: Endeavour Press Pages: 296 Genre: Crime BOOK BLURB: Speaking second-hand truths can be deadly … Detective Lily Blanchette will stop at nothing to solve a murder. Her current case involves the killing of an undercover cop working to bring down the mob for prostitution and drugs. But Lily’s usual laser-like focus on the case has been disrupted. Two weeks earlier, she learned she was pregnant by her murderous husband whom she’d killed in self-defense. Unsure whether to keep
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Rehabilitation of Master Dillon Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you P Nelson’s THE REHABILITATION OF MASTER DILLON Virtual Book Tour November 1 – 30! Inside the Book Title: THE REHABILITATION OF MASTER DILLON Author: P Nelson Publisher: Independent Pages: 102 Genre: Erotic Romance/BDSM BOOK BLURB: The Rehabilitation of Master Dillon is another prequel novella to my debut novel Take My Hand. It would probably be beneficial to read Take My Hand first, but honestly, I think you can enjoy it as a stand alone. Master Dillon is the resident porn star of the cage and at one time was the most famous Dom in the industry. Unfortunately, accusations of abuse
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