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📢 {Humor fiction} Big & Fabulous, The Life and Times of Brenda Cankles Review Campaign Sign Up

We are taking review requests for Randi Sherman’s BIG & FABULOUS, THE LIFE AND TIMES OF BRENDA CANKLES. 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 October 17, 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 & ePub. Thank you! Inside the Book Title: BIG & FABULOUS, THE LIFE AND TIMES OF BRENDA CANKLES Author: Randi Sherman Publisher: Friesen Press Pages: 282 Genre: Humor Fiction Imperfect, impervious and
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📢 {Poetry} Diary of the One Swelling Sea Review Campaign Sign Up

We are taking review requests for Jill McCabe Johnson’s DIARY OF THE SWELLING SEA. 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 17, 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: DIARY OF THE ONE SWELLING SEA Author: Jill McCabe Johnson Publisher: Moon Path Press Pages: 66 Genre: Poetry Living on Orcas Island, Jill McCabe Johnson is a close
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📢 {Adult Nonfiction} Forward Motion Review Campaign Sign Up

We are taking review requests for June R. Shrewsbury FORWARD MOTION. 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 17, 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.) & ePub. Thank you! Inside the Book Title: FORWARD MOTION Author: June R. Shrewsbury Publisher: The ABC’s of Everything, LLC Pages: 133 Genre: Adult Nonfiction Forward Motion is a book that teaches readers how to navigate profound career and
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Rik’s Book Trailer Blast!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you dhtreichler’s RIK’S book trailer blast May 10 – June 12! Inside the Book Title: RIK’S Author: dhtreichler Publisher: Independent Pages: 483 Genre: Thriller “The entire affair began with sheep brains and falafel — Saddam Hussein’s favorite dish.” It is 1990 and in Baghdad two lovers are separated by the impending First Gulf War. CIA operative Rik Bogart is desperately seeking television correspondent Ingrid Johannson — but is instead picked up by  Saddam’s Secret Police and thrown into Abu Graib — the Prison of the Dead. Ten years later, he must make a fateful decision after finally reuniting with her —
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📢 {Poetry} Revolutions We’d Hoped We’d Outgrown Review Campaign Sign Up

We are taking review requests for Jill McCabe Johnson’s REVOLUTIONS WE’D HOPED WE’D OUTGROWN. 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 14, 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: REVOLUTIONS WE’D HOPED WE’D OUTGROWN Author: Jill McCabe Johnson Publisher: Finishing Line Press Pages: 80 Genre: Poetry In one of her essays, Audre Lorde brilliantly redefines the erotic
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Secret Deaths of Arthur Lowe Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you U.L. Harper’s THE SECRET DEATHS OF ARTHUR LOWE Blog Tour June 5 – 30! Inside the Book Title: THE SECRET DEATHS OF ARTHUR LOWE Author: U.L. Harper Publisher: Independent Pages: 235 Genre: Speculative Fiction/Horror/Magical Realism While in the process of bringing his wife, Sandra, back to the living, Arthur journals about moments from his past that changed him. During the journal writing, he rediscovers how, as an orphan, his ability to animate objects and people to life may have ultimately destroyed the lives of the few who grew close to him. The old stuffed teddy bear that helped him assemble
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📢 {Children’s Picture Book} Fifo 50 States Review Campaign Sign Up

We are taking review requests for Hayley Rose’s FIFO 50 STATES. 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 11, 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. while supplies last) & PDF. Thank you! Inside the Book Title: FIFO 50 STATES Author: Hayley Rose Publisher: Flowered Press Pages: 112 Genre: Children’s Picture Book Fifo’s been bitten by the travel bug! Digging up diamonds in Arkansas, looking
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Lord of Shadows Virtual Book Publicity Tour & Giveaway!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Shania Tyler’s LORD OF SHADOWS blog tour May 1 – 31! Inside the Book Title: LORD OF SHADOWS Author: Shania Tyler Publisher: ColleenNorman Publishing House Pages: 330 Genre: Paranormal Romance The Power of Love and Darkness How strong you need to be to face your sealed fate? Kelly Green had plans for her senior year of college. Graduate. Get a job. And hopefully find love. What she didn’t include was: Getting kidnapped by an arrogant vampire Getting swept into his world of eternal darkness And she certainly didn’t plan on falling for him… Mason is the leader of the Rebels,
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Forever King: Surviving the Loss of My Unborn Child Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Diana Sims’ FOREVER KING: SURVIVING THE LOSS OF MY UNBORN CHILD blog tour June 5 – 30! Inside the Book Title: FOREVER KING: SURVIVING THE LOSS OF MY UNBORN CHILD Author: Diana Sims Publisher: Forever King Publishing Pages: 78 Genre: Inspirational/Self-Help Sims life has been one of a survivor… a survivor of grief and distraught after having lost a child. Today, she is using the journey, to help other women, who have had similar experience of losing a child, whether through early pregnancy, miscarriage or stillbirth, to have hope. Watch the book trailer at YouTube. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Amazon |
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Playing With Fire Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you R.J. Blain’s PLAYING WITH FIRE blog tour May 1 – 31! Inside the Book Title: PLAYING WITH FIRE Author: R.J. Blain Publisher: Pen & Page Publishing Pages: 323 Genre: Fantasy/Romantic Comedy Warning: This novel contains excessive humor, action, excitement, adventure, magic, romance, and bodies. Proceed with caution. What do you get when you mix gorgons, an incubus, and the Calamity Queen? Trouble, and lots of it. Working as the only human barista at a coffee shop catering to the magical is a tough gig on a good day. Bailey Gardener has few options. She can either keep spiking drinks with
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Surgeon’s Story Virtual Book Publicity Tour & Giveaway!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mark Oristano’s SURGEON’S STORY blog tour May 1 – July 28! Inside the Book Title: SURGEON’S STORY Author: Mark Oristano Publisher: Authority Publishing Pages: 190 Genre: Nonfiction Medical What is it like to hold the beating heart of a two-day old child in your hand?  What is it like to counsel distraught parents as they make some of the most difficult decisions of their lives? Noted pediatric heart surgeon Dr. Kristine Guleserian has opened up her OR, and her career, to author Mark Oristano to create Surgeon’s Story – Inside OR-6 With a top Pediatric Heart Surgeon.  Dr. Guleserian’s life,
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Witch Cake Murders Virtual Book Publicity Tour & Giveaway!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Zoe Arden’s WITCH CAKE MURDERS blog tour May 1 – 31! Inside the Book Title: Witch Cake Murders Author: Zoe Arden Publisher: Independent Pages: 330 Genre: Cozy Mystery Witches and humans have always existed peacefully in Sweetland Cove… until now. Someone is killing humans and drawing unwanted attention to the supernatural residents of Sweetland Cove. Ava Rose just turned twenty-one, and with her birthday came a few surprises. One: she’s a witch. Two: she’s part owner of a magical bakery she never knew existed. Three: Someone wants her dead. The day Ava arrives in Sweetland Cove, murders begin occurring… Witches
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  • April 3, 2017
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📢 {Epic Fantasy} Gossamer: The Chronicles of Eledon Review Campaign Sign Up

We are taking review requests for Joni Parker’s GOSSAMER: THE CHRONICLES OF ELEDON. 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 October 3, 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, Mobi & ePub. Thank you! Inside the Book Title: GOSSAMER: THE CHRONICLES OF ELEDON BOOK 3 Author: Joni Parker Publisher: Village Green LLC Pages: 316 Genre: Epic Fantasy Lady Alexin, Eledon’s Keeper of the Keys must
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  • April 3, 2017
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First Chapter: Chasing Hindy by Darin Gibby

Title: Chasing Hindy Author: Darin Gabby Publisher: Koehler Books Pages: 284 Genre: Thriller ADDY’S DREAM AS a patent attorney is to help bring a ground breaking energy technology to the world. Addy’s hopes soar when she is wooed by Quinn, an entrepreneur, to join his company that has purportedly invented a car that can run on water using an innovative catalyst. After resigning her partnership to join Quinn, Addy discovers things aren’t as they seem. The patent office suppresses the company’s patent applications and her life is threatened by unknown assailants if she doesn’t resign. When she is arrested for stealing US technology from the patent office she realizes
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First Chapter: The Feet Say Run by Daniel A. Blum

Title: THE FEET SAY RUN Author: Daniel A. Blum Publisher: Gabriel’s Horn Press Pages: 349 Genre: Literary Fiction At the age of eighty-five, Hans Jaeger finds himself a castaway among a group of survivors on a deserted island.  What is my particular crime?  he asks.   Why have I been chosen  for this fate?  And so he begns his extraordinary chronicle. It would be an understatement to say he has lived a full life.  He has grown up in Nazi Germany and falls in love with Jewish girl.  He fights for the Germans on two continents, watches the Reich collapse spectacularly into occupation and starvation, and marries his former governess.  After the war he
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Press Release: Pump Up Your Book Announces Daniel A. Blum’s The Feet Say Run Virtual Book Tour

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Pump Up Your Book! is proud to announce Daniel A. Blum’s THE FEET SAY RUN (Gabriel’s Horn Press) virtual book tour April 3 – June 30. Daniel will be guest appearing at blogs throughout the U.S. and international regions talking about his phenomenal new literary fiction that critics are saying is ‘eccentric, hilarious and, in the end, very moving’! Daniel A. Blum grew up in New York, attended Brandeis University and currently lives outside of Boston with his family. His first novel Lisa33 was published by Viking in 2003. He has been featured in Poets and Writers magazine, Publisher’s Weekly and most recently, interviewed in Psychology
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Press Release: Pump Up Your Book Announces Darin Gibby’s Chasing Hindy Virtual Book Tour

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Pump Up Your Book! is proud to announce Darin Gibby’s CHASING HINDY (Koehler Books) virtual book tour April 3 – June 30. Darin will be guest appearing at blogs throughout the U.S. and international regions talking about his phenomenal new thriller that critics are saying is a well written face pace novel! In addition to a thriving career as a novelist, author Darin Gibby is also one of the country’s premiere patent attorneys and a partner at the prestigious firm of Kilpatrick Townsend (www.kilpatricktownsend.com). With over twenty years of experience in obtaining patents on hundreds of inventions from the latest drug delivery systems to life-saving cardiac
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Sisters: A Mystery of Good and Evil, Horror and Suspense Book Trailer Blast & Win $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Don Sloan’s THE SISTERS Book Trailer Blast April 24! Inside the Book Title: THE SISTERS: A MYSTERY OF GOOD AND EVIL, HORROR AND SUSPENSE Author: Don Sloan Publisher: Independent Pages: 239 Genre: Supernatural/Mystery/Horror/Thriller In this book, written in the style of Stephen King, two young people on vacation in a small New England seacoast town battle unspeakable horror and solve a hundred-year-old mystery. Fourteen Victorian mansions whisper dark secrets among themselves, and a dangerous shadow roams up and down the wide, wintry boulevard in search of new prey. The Sisters: A Mystery of Good and Evil, Horror and Suspense is
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Desert Melody Virtual Book Publicity Tour

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Laura Evans Serna’s DESERT MELODY blog tour May 1 – 31! Inside the Book Title: DESERT MELODY Author: Laura Evans Serna Publisher: New Land Publishing Pages: 219 Genre: Sci-Fi Romance For generations the Ahn, Voyan, and Humans have thrived living side by side. The ambitious Ahn need solitude.  The communal Voyan thought share and hear the voices of the sacred dead around them.  Now Humans are becoming more like the Ahn, and the Voyan are struggling. Teagan is a single Voyan mother and wet nurse. She lost the ability to thought share.  Though she spends hours walking in the
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Silk: The Complete Trilogy Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Daryl-Jarod’s SILK: THE COMPLETE TRILOGY blog tour May 1 – 31! Inside the Book Title: SILK: THE COMPLETE TRILOGY Author: Daryl-Jarod Publisher: Daryl-Jarod Entertainment Pages: 270 Genre: Erotica From the vivid imagination of Daryl-Jarod, comes the long-awaited collection of the Amazon Best-Selling erotic series, Silk. Included are all 24 original jaw-dropping erotic stories, along with the brand-new tale, Pink Fortress, which reveals just how outrageously wild things become when an Uber driver falls for a sultry passenger. Sit back, relax, grab a lover and unwind, as Daryl-Jarod takes you on a wild erotic ride filled with unfaithful lovers, lustful thrills
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Mystery at Manatee Key Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Nancy Stewart’s MYSTERY AT MANATEE KEY blog tour May 1 – 31! Inside the Book Title: MYSTERY AT MANATEE KEY Author: Nancy Stewart Publisher: Guardian Angel Publishing Pages: 36 Genre: Children’s Picture Book Bella and Britt love to explore along the beach and at more remote places like Manatee Key as well.  It is there that they discover a manatee smuggling ring. The manatees have already been netted, so the girls must act fast!  But a kidnapper snatches Bella, hustling her into their hideout.  When Britt sneaks a look in the window, she discovers that the ranger is being held,
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Storm Winds: An Outer Banks Mystery Book Blast!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you K.S. David’s STORM WINDS: AN OUTER BANKS MYSTERY book blast April 3-28! Inside the Book Title: STORM WINDS: AN OUTER BANKS MYSTERY Author: K.S. David Publisher: Independent Pages: 180 Genre: Romantic Suspense Moving to the North Carolina Outer Banks was a chance for Leah Kymes to put her life back together, after her marriage went sour. But peace and quiet evade her, when her father is discovered murdered in his fish and tackle shop. Not willing to wait for authorities to solve the crime, she begins to delve into recent events involving her Dad. What she uncovers shatters her understanding
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  • March 22, 2017
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{Memoir} The Strange Ways of Providence In My Life Review Campaign Sign Up

We are taking review requests for Krystyna Carmi’s THE STRANGE WAYS OF PROVIDENCE. 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 June 22, 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 STRANGE WAYS OF PROVIDENCE IN MY LIFE: AN AMAZING HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR RESCUE STORY Author: Krystyna Carmi Publisher: eBookPro Pages: 220 Genre: Memoir Krystyna Carmi’s childhood was full of happy moments in
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  • March 20, 2017
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{Contemporary Romance/Romantic Comedy} Dog Sitters Review Campaign Sign Up

We are taking review requests for Rozsa Gaston’s DOG SITTERS. 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 June 20, 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: DOG SITTERS Author: Rozsa Gaston Publisher: Renaissance Editions Pages: 272 Genre: Contemporary Romance/Romantic Comedy When their friends take a cruise to Bermuda, strangers Hint Daniels and Jack Whitby are charged with looking after their friends’
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents No More Magic Wands Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you George Finney’s NO MORE MAGIC WANDS Virtual Book Tour May 1 – 31! Inside the Book Title: NO MORE MAGIC WANDS Author: George Finney Publisher: Independent Pages: 130 Genre: Business/Leadership/Management/Cybersecurity/Technology Once upon a time there was a company that made magic wands, but when they were hacked all the magic in the world couldn’t prevent their data from being stolen. If that company had a chance for a clean start, what would they have done differently? The unlikely hero isn’t a security guy. She’s a business elf who makes it her mission to change the way her company does business
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{Cybersecurity/Technology} No More Magic Wands Review Campaign Sign Up

We are taking review requests for George Finney’s NO MORE MAGIC WANDS. 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 September 20, 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.) and PDF. Thank you! Inside the Book Title: NO MORE MAGIC WANDS Author: George Finney Publisher: Independent Pages: 130 Genre: Business/Leadership/Management/Cybersecurity/Technology Once upon a time there was a company that made magic wands, but when they were hacked
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Mystery at Manatee Key Book Blast!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Nancy Stewart’s MYSTERY AT MANATEE KEY book blast April 3-28! Inside the Book Title: MYSTERY AT MANATEE KEY Author: Nancy Stewart Publisher: Guardian Angel Publishing Pages: 36 Genre: Children’s Picture Book Bella and Britt love to explore along the beach and at more remote places like Manatee Key as well.  It is there that they discover a manatee smuggling ring. The manatees have already been netted, so the girls must act fast!  But a kidnapper snatches Bella, hustling her into their hideout.  When Britt sneaks a look in the window, she discovers that the ranger is being held, too.  Now
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{Romantic Cozy Mystery} Ava Moss Review Campaign Sign Up

We are taking review requests for Joss Landry’s AVA MOSS. 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 September 11, 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.), Mobi, ePub and PDF. Thank you! Inside the Book: Title: AVA MOSS Author: Joss Landry Publisher: Book Beatles Publishing Ltd. Pages: 300 Genre: Romantic Cozy Mystery The story takes place in New York and is a romance and cozy mystery.
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents I Would, But My Damn Mind Won’t Let Me! Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jacqui Letran’s I WOULD, BUT MY DAMN MIND WON’T LET ME Virtual Book Tour April 3 – 7! Inside the Book Title: I WOULD, BUT MY DAMN MIND WON’T LET ME! Author: Jacqui Letran Publisher: A Healed Mind Pages: 158 Genre: Youth/Nonfiction Literary Classics’ 2016 Lumen Award for Best Young-Adult Non-Fiction book of the year, “I would, but my DAMN MIND won’t Let Me! is recommended for home, school and public libraries and for use in clinical settings.” Do you believe that life is unfair or that change is impossible? Are you unhappy and frustrated with your life? If you
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Spirit of Love Virtual Book Publicity Tour

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Glen Bowyer’s THE SPIRIT OF LOVE Virtual Book Tour April 3 – 28! Inside the Book Title: THE SPIRIT OF LOVE Author: the spirit of love, known as glen Publisher: Aurora House Pages: 196 Genre: Spirituality/Poetry The Spirit of Love is a collection of short writings, poems and phrases written by a man, who took himself into some of the darkest and most destructive depths that one can go with drug and alcohol addictions back in his early twenty’s. The collection of writings contained within The Spirit of Love are the result of one man’s healing journey within himself
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