Author Archive

📚 {Women’s Contemporary Fiction} Split Rock Review Campaign Sign Up

We are taking review requests for Holly Hodder Eger’s SPLIT ROCK. 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 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.) or PDF. Thank you! Inside the Book: Title: SPLIT ROCK Author: Holly Hodder Eger Publisher: Conzett Verlag Pages: 368 Genre: Women’s Contemporary Fiction After inheriting a house on Martha’s Vineyard and finding herself alone there with three young children,
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📚 {Medieval Historical Romance} Sense of Touch Review Campaign Sign Up

  We are taking review requests for Rozsa Gaston’s SENSE OF TOUCH. 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 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.) or PDF. Thank you! Inside the Book: Title: SENSE OF TOUCH Author: Rozsa Gaston Publisher: Renaissance Editions Pages: 299 Genre: Medieval Historical Romance “A romance and an interesting novel about a little-known French queen…a striking story of heartache
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📚 {Thriller} Dead Lawyers Don’t Lie Review Campaign

We are taking review requests for Mark Nolan’s DEAD LAWYERS DON’T LIE. 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 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 mobi and ePub. Thank you! Inside the Book: Title: DEAD LAWYERS DON’T LIE Author: Mark Nolan Publisher: Independent Pages: 636 Genre: Thriller A mysterious killer who calls himself The Artist is assassinating wealthy lawyers in San Francisco. When war veteran
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Where Do Dreams Come From? Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Kim Delgado’s WHERE DO DREAMS COME FROM? virtual book tour February 6 – 28! Inside the Book Title: WHERE DO DREAMS COME FROM? Author: Kim Delgado Publisher: KDNovelties Pages: 44 Genre: Personalized Children’s Picture Book A magical story that will satisfy even the most curious child and expand their imagination about Dream Land, the place where dreams are made. After all, what child wouldn’t love to know “Where Do Dreams Come From?” In this magical adventure, your child’s imagination takes them on a visit to Dream Land where they see how dreams are made. They learn about the “Dream Machine”
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents A Highland Ruby Virtual Book Publicity Tour

We invite you to Brenda B. Taylor’s A HIGHLAND RUBY Virtual Book Tour February 6 – 28! Inside the Book: Title: A HIGHLAND RUBY Author: Brenda B. Taylor Publisher: Bethabara Press Pages: 207 Genre: Historical Romance She must choose between a life of adventure with the man she loves or a settled, secure life with her betrothed. Flora Vass forced Gavin Munro out of her heart and mind until he returned to Scotland after an adventurous five years in the New World. Gavin leaves no doubt he returned to make the bonnie Flora his own and intends to fight for her. Flora’s betrothed, Iain MacKay, and Gavin’s brother, Chief
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Twilight Tsunami Virtual Book Publicity Tour

We invite you to Shelby Londyn-Heath’s THE TWILIGHT TSUNAMI Virtual Book Tour February 13 – 17! Inside the Book: Title: THE TWILIGHT TSUNAMI Author: Shelby Londyn-Heath Publisher: Harvard Square Editions Pages: 320 Genre: Psychological Thriller Grey is a hard-hitting foster care social worker who removes babies and children from dangerous drugged parents, violent homes, and families joined with criminal gangs.  He is unstoppable until a new social worker enters his department.  She is hungry for power and position, as she challenges Grey in malevolent and unexpected ways. As Grey yanks newborns from mothers, confronts irate parents, and lives through suicides of foster children aging out of the system, nothing
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📚 {Nonfiction/Small Business} The Joyful Business Planner Review Campaign Sign Up

We are taking review requests for Kate Martin’s THE JOYFUL BUSINESS PLANNER. 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 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: THE JOYFUL BUSINESS PLANNER Author: Kate Martin Publisher: Independent Pages: 92 Genre: Nonfiction/Small Business This business planner is special. It is for small business owners like you. People that need better organization, a
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📚 {Western Historical Romance} Tarnished – Hearts Ablaze Review Campaign Sign Up

We are taking review requests for Willa George Williams’ TARNISHED – HEARTS ABLAZE. 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 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: TARNISHED – HEARTS ABLAZE Author: Willa George Williams Publisher: Independent Pages: 63 Genre: Western Historical Romance EVERYONE IN THIS NOVEL IS TARNISHED, BUT THEIR HEARTS ARE ABLAZE WITH PASSION, HURT AND LOVE.
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Squirrel Superhighway: It’s Good To Be A Dog Virtual Book Publicity Tour

We invite you to Anna C. Morrison’s SQUIRREL SUPERHIGHWAY: IT’S GOOD TO BE A DOG Virtual Book Tour February 6 – 28! Inside the Book: Title: SQUIRREL SUPERHIGHWAY: IT’S GOOD TO BE A DOG Author: Anna C. Morrison Publisher: Guardian Angel Publishing Pages: 16 Genre: Children’s Picture Book Squirrel Superhighway features a dog on a self-discovery mission who is surrounded by many graceful squirrels. This is a vocabulary booster in a series of feel-good stories for children of all ages and those who read with and to them. The story includes squirrels, more squirrels, even more squirrels, and a dog who wants to be a squirrel! Amazon | Barnes
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents When Wars Were Won Virtual Book Publicity Tour

We invite you to Hugh Aaron’s WHEN WARS WERE WON Virtual Book Tour February 6 – 28! Inside the Book: Title: WHEN WARS WERE WON Author: Hugh Aaron Publisher: Stones Point Press Pages: 269 Genre: Fiction  Hal Arnold, a professor of English, returns to the Philippines after forty years yearning for the unity, spirit and optimism he knew as a 19- year-old member of a Seabee battalion in the South Pacific theater during World War II. Trying to recapture that experience, he writes this story, vividly portraying members of the battalion who impacted his life. Searching for his own identity, he finds it in the warm, rich culture of
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  • January 3, 2017
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First Chapter: Dominion by Doug Hewitt

Title: DOMINION: FIRE AND ICE Author: D.A. Hewitt Publisher: Double Dragon eBooks Pages: 372 Genre: Science Fiction It’s the year 2075. Lunar mining and processing facilities have prospered near the lunar south pole, where the Moon’s largest city, Valhalla, rests on the rim of the Shackleton Crater. Dominion Off-Earth Resources has beaten the competition into space and is ready to establish its monopoly with the opening of the orbiting space resort Dominion. But Pettit Space Industries has a secret plan to emerge as a major contender in the commercialization of space. The upstart company is training the first space rescue squad at a secluded off-grid site in Barrow, Alaska.
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First Chapter: The Heatstroke Line by Edward L. Rubin

Title: THE HEATSTROKE LINE Author: Edward L. Rubin Publisher: Sunbury Press Pages: 223 Genre: Scifi/Cli-Fi (Climate Change Science Fiction) Nothing has been done to prevent climate change, and the United States has spun into decline.   Storm surges have made coastal cities uninhabitable, blistering heat waves afflict the interior and, in the South (below the Heatstroke Line), life is barely possible.  Under the stress of these events and an ensuing civil war, the nation has broken up into three smaller successor states and tens of tiny principalities.  When the flesh-eating bugs that inhabit the South show up in one of the successor states, Daniel Danten is assigned to venture below
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First Chapter: Sealed Up by Steve Dunn Hanson

Title: Sealed Up Author: Steve Dunn Hanson Publisher: Independent Pages: 402 Genre: Action/Adventure/Suspense The Da Vinci Code unsettles. SEALED UP shakes to the core! UCLA anthropologist Nathan Hill, in a funk since his young wife’s death, learns of staggering millennia-old chronicles sealed up somewhere in a Mesoamerica cliff. This bombshell rocks him out of his gloom, and he leads a clandestine expedition to uncover them. What are they? Who put them there? No one knows. But, self-absorbed televangelist Brother Luke, who funds the expedition, thinks he does. If he’s right, his power-hunger will have off-the-charts gratification. Striking Audra Chang joins Nathan in his pursuit and brings her own shocking secret. As they
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Announces The Heatstroke Line Virtual Book Tour

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Pump Up Your Book! is proud to announce Edward L. Rubin’s THE HEATSTROKE LINE (Sunbury Press) virtual book tour starting January 3 and ending March 31.  Edward will be guest appearing at blogs throughout the U.S. and international regions talking about his phenomenal new scifi/cli-fi new novel that critics are comparing to Mad Max, The Hunger Games, Waterworld, and The Walking Dead.  THE HEATSTROKE LINE is Pump Up Your Book’s Top Scifi Pick of the Month. Edward Rubin is University Professor of Law and Political Science at Vanderbilt University.  He specializes in administrative law, constitutional law and legal theory. He is the author of Soul, Self
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Lord of the Infield Flies Virtual Book Publicity Tour

We invite you to Steven Reilly’s THE LORD OF THE INFIELD FLIES Virtual Book Tour March 6 – 31! Inside the Book: Title: THE LORD OF THE INFIELD FLIES Author: Steve Reilly Publisher: Strong Books Pages: 126 Genre: Sports Memoir The Lord of the Infield Flies will thrill readers with Coach Steve Reilly’s harrowing, challenging, and adventuresome baseball team’s trek from Connecticut to play in Maine. As a prequel to his award winning memoir, The Fat Lady Never Sings, Reilly, a high school baseball coach, narrates the true story from the beginning of his coaching career at the age of 20. In summer 1977, Reilly plans to take his
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Super Simple Quick Start Guide to Self-Publishing Release Day Blitz!

We invite you to E.J. Stevens’ SUPER SIMPLE QUICK START GUIDE TO SELF-PUBLISHING Book Release Day Blitz on January 10! Inside the Book: Title: SUPER SINGLE QUICK START GUIDE TO SELF-PUBLISHING Author: E.J. Stevens Publisher: Sacred Oaks Press Pages: 105 Genre: Nonfiction This simple introductory guide will give you the basic information you need to begin self-publishing. Whether you are writing your first novel or looking to breathe new life into your backlist, this guide will give you the tools you need to successfully self-publish. Useful information, direct links to resources, checklists, and step-by-step tutorials will help you create a professional quality book. Simple tips will save you time
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Press Release: Pump Up Your Book! Announces Steve Dunn Hanson’s Sealed Up Virtual Book Tour

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Pump Up Your Book! is proud to announce Steve Dunn Hanson’s Sealed Up: The Course of Fate: Book One virtual book tour January 3 – March 31.  Steve will be guest appearing at blogs throughout the U.S. and international regions talking about his phenomenal new action/adventure/suspense novel that critics are calling “Fascinating. Intricate. Intelligent.” Hanson has lived in places that grew him – from a small Idaho farm town, a run-down neighborhood in St. Louis, and a middle-class southern California community to Sydney, Australia and Bucharest, Romania. His experiences are as varied as the places he’s lived.  He says, “I have a hopper of ‘reality’ including
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Fighter Pilot’s Daughter: Growing Up in the Sixties and the Cold War Virtual Book Publicity Tour

We invite you to Mary Lawlor’s FIGHTER PILOT’S DAUGHTER: GROWING UP IN THE SIXTIES AND THE COLD WAR Virtual Book Tour January 3 – 27! Leave a comment on each of her tour stops to let her know you stopped by! Inside the Book: Title: Fighter Pilot’s Daughter: Growing Up in the Sixties and the Cold War Author: Mary Lawlor Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield Pages: 336 Genre: Memoir Format: Hardcover/Kindle FIGHTER PILOT’S DAUGHTER: GROWING UP IN THE SIXTIES AND THE COLD WAR tells the story of the author as a young woman coming of age in an Irish Catholic, military family during the Cold War. Her father, an aviator
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{Children’s Fiction} The Adventures of Fawn: Book 2: The Ona Pendulum Review Campaign Sign Up

We are taking review requests for Al E. Boy’s THE ADVENTURES OF FAWN: BOOK 2. 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 March 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. If you would like the first book in the series, click here. Thank you! Inside the Book: Title: THE ADVENTURES OF FAWN: BOOK 2: THE ONA PENDULUM Author: Al E. Boy Publisher: Amazon Kindle Pages: 798
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{Spirituality/Memoir} If Truth Be Told: A Monk’s Memoir Review Campaign Sign Up

THIS REVIEW CAMPAIGN IS OVER We are taking review requests for Om Swami’s IF TRUTH BE TOLD: A MONK’S MEMOIR. 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 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 Mobi or ePub. Thank you! Inside the Book: Title: IF TRUTH BE TOLD: A MONK’S MEMOIR Author: Om Swami Publisher: Black Lotus Pages: 264 Genre: Spirituality/Memoir If Truth Be Told: A Monk’s
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Tigress and the Yogi Book Blast!

We invite you to Shelley Schanfield’s THE TIGRESS AND THE YOGI Book Blast January 3 – 27! Shelley will be giving away one autographed copy of The Tigress and the Yogi, PLUS 5 ebooks!  Follow her tour and fill out the rafflecopter at each site for more entries to win! Inside the Book: Title: THE TIGRESS AND THE YOGI Author: Shelley Schanfield Publisher: Lake House Books Pages: 382 Genre: Historical Fantasy A talking tigress. A wandering yogi. A young woman’s harrowing journey through an ancient land where chaos threatens gods and mortals alike. A tigress speaks to the outcaste girl Mala, and as she flees in terror, she encounters
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{Scifi/Fantasy} Service Goat Review Campaign Sign Up

We are taking review requests for Piers Anthony’s SERVICE GOAT. 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 March 13, 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 or PDF. Thank you! Inside the Book: Title: SERVICE GOAT Author: Piers Anthony Publisher: Dreaming Big Publications Pages: 154 Genre: Scifi/Fantasy Orphaned and blind seven-year-old Callie has a service animal – a goat with extraordinary powers. Ben Hemoth
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Never Go Alone Virtual Book Publicity Tour

We invite you to Denison Latch’s NEVER GO ALONE Virtual Book Tour January 3 – 27! Leave a comment on each of his tour stops to let him know you stopped by! Inside the Book: Title: Never Go Alone Author: Denison Hatch Publisher: Lookout Press Pages: 300 Genre: Thriller/Mystery/Police Procedural A rash of elaborate cat burglaries of luxury buildings in Manhattan has the police and mayor panicked. When a group of social media obsessed millennials—a loosely organized crew that call themselves “urban explorers”—are suspected in the heists, NYPD detective Jake Rivett is assigned the case. Already undercover with one foot on each side of the blue line, Rivett is
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Sword and Sorcery Series Book Blast!

We invite you to Dylan Doose’s SWORD AND SORCERY SERIES Book Blast on January 4! Leave a comment on each of his tour stops to let him know you stopped by! Inside the Book: Title: FIRE AND SWORD Author: Dylan Doose Publisher: Independent Pages: 332 Genre: Fantasy/Horror Condemned to hang for their crimes, they’ll march instead to perish as heroes, or live as free men. A broken nation in need of a savior – ravaged by plague, decimated by dark magic, infiltrated by a foreign evil seeking to dominate from within. Three will rise to save the beleaguered land. But will they be enough? A fantasy adventure for fans
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Roping the Cowboy Book Blast – Win $25 Amazon Gift Card!

We invite you to Marianne Stephens for authors at Romance Books ‘4’ Us’ ROPING THE COWBOY: 9 ROMANCES ON THE RANGE Book Blast January 3 – 27! Marianne and the authors will be giving away a $25 Amazon Gift Card! Leave a comment on each of their tour stops for extra entries! Inside the Book: Title: Roping the Cowboy: 9 Romances on the Range Author: Marianne Stephens for authors at Romance Books ‘4’ Us Publisher: Romance Books ‘4’ Us Pages: 306 Genre: Mixed Romance Genres Sweet through sizzling collection of love stories includes contemporary, period, and historical romance, otherworldly romance, and romance with a touch of magic.   Amazon |
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Sealed Up Virtual Book Publicity Tour & Win $25 Amazon Gift Card!

We invite you to Steve Dunn Hanson’s SEALED UP: THE COURSE OF FATE: BOOK ONE Virtual Book Tour January 3 – March 31! Steve will be giving away a $25 Amazon Gift Card & one autographed copy of his book! Leave a comment on each of his tour stops for extra entries! Inside the Book: Title: Sealed Up Author: Steve Dunn Hanson Publisher: Independent Pages: 402 Genre: Action/Adventure/Suspense The Da Vinci Code unsettles. SEALED UP shakes to the core! UCLA anthropologist Nathan Hill, in a funk since his young wife’s death, learns of staggering millennia-old chronicles sealed up somewhere in a Mesoamerica cliff. This bombshell rocks him out of his gloom, and
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Cat O’ Nine Tales Virtual Book Publicity Tour

We invite you to Krystal Lawrence’s CAT O’ NINE TALES Virtual Book Tour January 3 – 27! Leave a comment on each of her tour stops to let her know you stopped by! Inside the Book: Title: Cat O’ Nine Tales Author: Krystal Lawrence Publisher: Telemachus Press Pages: 284 Genre: Horror/Suspense What evil dwells within the pretty lady next door or the ordinary house cat? What happens when you pursue your dreams into the desert after dark? Beware the man borne of your imagination. He could seek vengeance on the one who created him. Visit a bookstore offering a most alluring and sinister service. Journey to the dark side
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Northern Waste Series Book Blast!

We invite you to Eve Silver’s NORTHERN WASTE Book Blast on January 5! Leave a comment on each of her tour stops to let her know you stopped by! Inside the Book: Title: Driven Author: Eve Silver Publisher: Independent Pages: 321 Genre: Scifi Romance “Edgy, steamy, action packed, and plotted with nail-biting tension…”–Library Journal, Starred Review In the harsh Northern Waste where human life is worth little, ice trucker Raina Bowen has learned to keep her eyes open and her knife close at hand. She’s spent her life on the run, one step ahead of the megalomaniac who hunts her. All she wants is to stay out of trouble and
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Heatstroke Line Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Edward L. Rubin’s THE HEATSTROKE LINE virtual book tour January 3 – March 31! Inside the Book Title: THE HEATSTROKE LINE Author: Edward L. Rubin Publisher: Sunbury Press Pages: 223 Genre: Scifi/Cli-Fi (Climate Change Science Fiction) Nothing has been done to prevent climate change, and the United States has spun into decline.   Storm surges have made coastal cities uninhabitable, blistering heat waves afflict the interior and, in the South (below the Heatstroke Line), life is barely possible.  Under the stress of these events and an ensuing civil war, the nation has broken up into three smaller successor states and tens
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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 3 – 27! 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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