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Pump Up Your Book Presents Orphan’s Blade Cover Reveal!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you the cover reveal for ORPHAN’S BLADE by Aubrie Dionne on April 29!   Title: Orphan’s Blade Author: Aubrie Dionne Publisher: Lyrical Press In the battle for a kingdom, every alliance counts…   Princess Valoria only cares about her music and her destiny: to unite the Kingdom of Ebonvale with the House of Song and succeed where her father has failed. As if that weren’t challenge enough, she must contend with her marriage to a battle hungry brute of a prince…until she falls for his adopted brother, the orphaned son of a blacksmith. But with a horde of undead gathering to attack Ebonvale,
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Pump Up Your Book Presents His New Jam and His Work of Art by Shannyn Schroeder Cover Reveal!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you the cover reveal for HIS NEW JAM and HIS WORK OF ART by Shannyn Schroederon April 28!   Title: His New Jam Author: Shannyn Schroeder Publisher: Lyrical Press Sydney Peters can’t wait to finally drop the cymbals in marching band and devote time to her true love: drums. With the semester coming to a close, she’s blocking out the cacophony during practice, especially sax serenades from Hunter Reed. But when Hunter offers her a paid gig as a drummer in his band, Sydney quickly changes her tune. The two favor different styles, but they make beautiful music together…in more ways than one.
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Black Coffee Virtual Book Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you R.L. Byrd’s Black Coffee virtual book tour May 4- May 29!     Title: Black Coffee Author: R.L. Byrd Publisher: R.L. Byrd Publishing Pages: 304 There are ALWAYS two sides to every story. In R.L. Byrd’s debut novel, Looking for Sweet Love, the Love Forum Divas told their side.  Now it’s the Brothers’ turn. . . . The Love Forum is back and the relationship dilemmas continue within the infamous Dallas, Texas, urban radio station, K103.5. DK “Love” Niles, the popular Disc Jockey from the DK and Melissa Morning Show, takes over the reins of hosting the new Love Forum called The Brothers
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Ticktock to Triumph Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon GC!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Betty Wyatt’s TICKTOCK TO TRIUMPH virtual book tour April 20-May 1!     Title: Ticktock to Triumph Author: Betty Wyatt Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Religion Format: Kindle/Paperback Ticktock to Triumph presents a unique collection of prose and poetry written by author Betty Wyatt over the course of fifty years. It is her legacy of soul songs that offers her homespun wisdom captured in God moments, the love of nature and personal insights. She hopes her writing may comfort and give hope to people who are living with life’s daunting challenges, found in the pain of sorrow and loneliness. To Purchase Ticktock to Triumph Journaling
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Pump Up Your Book Presents No Crystal Stair Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon GC!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Sarah Smith Ducksworth’s NO CRYSTAL STAIR virtual book tour April 20-May 1!   Title: No Crystal Stair Author: Sarah Smith Ducksworth Publisher: Trafford Genre: Poetry Format: Kindle Each poem in this collection is a reflection upon the author’s personal life or is a response to her vicarious interactions in the lives of characters she has met in real life or in books. Through the critical lens of poetry, she has looked for deeper meanings inside those experiences. Though the writer ends with an understanding that her life has not been a “crystal stair,” alluding to the hardships the titular character in Langston
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Principium The Stone Prophecy Series Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon GC!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Alexandra Lamarre’s PRINCIPIUM The Stone Prophecy Series virtual book tour April 20-May 1!   Title: Principium: The Stone Prophecy Series Author: Alexandra Lamarre Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Fantasy Format: Kindle Ever since her mother’s death twelve years ago, fourteen-year-old Kiarra Johnson wonders if she is a good witch or if she is doomed to a lifetime of evil. Her life is anything but mundane as she lives in a rented room in her father’s home in the village of Kiamika, a magical society hidden from mortals who would persecute them for their gifts. For many years, Kiarra has lived across the lake from
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Correcting Misconceptions Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Rev. Dr. Hazel Ann Gibbs Depeza’s CORRECTING MISCONCEPTIONS virtual book tour April 20-May 1!   Title: Correcting Misconceptions Author: Rev. Dr. Hazel Ann Gibbs De Peza Publisher: Partridge Publishing Genre: Education Format: Kindle The book, a research paper, reveals and analyzes misconceptions about the Spiritual Baptist Faith, an indigenous religious expression of Christianity in Trinidad and Tobago. It highlights the academic bias to the Faith, which is maligned and misunderstood because of its humble beginnings amidst ex-plantation slaves of African descent and its history of persecution and prosecution by the colonial authorities of the early 20th century.The research provided answers to some
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Bookwright Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you George R. Dasher’s BOOKWRIGHT virtual book tour April 20-May 1! Title: Bookwright Author: George R. Dasher Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Science Fiction Format: Kindle/Paperback/Hardcover With his ship crippled and his crew dead, Jarl Hawkins fights for survival in space as his dying spaceship, the Cassiopeia, drifts out of control. But there is nothing he can do, and his own death is certain. Oddly enough, rescue comes in the form of an old wizard named Kvasir, who offers Jarl his chance at a new life on Vanir, a planet unlike anything Jarl has ever encountered. There, the King fights his rivals for control of his
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Day Before Virtual Book Publicity Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Liana Brooks’ THE DAY BEFORE virtual book tour April 28 – May 15!   Title: The Day Before Author: Liana Brooks Publisher: Harper Voyage Impulse Pages: 304 Genre: Thriller Format: Kindle A body is found in the Alabama wilderness. The question is: Is it a human corpse … or is it just a piece of discarded property? Agent Samantha Rose has been exiled to a backwater assignment for the Commonwealth Bureau of Investigation, a death knell for her career. But then Sam catches a break—a murder—that could give her the boost she needs to get her life back on track. There’s a snag,
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Lady Who Lived Again Cover Reveal!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you the cover reveal for THE LADY WHO LIVED AGAIN by Thomasine Rappold on April 8! Title: The Lady Who Lived Again Author: Thomasine Rappold Publisher: Lyrical Press In THE LADY WHO LIVED AGAIN, the first book in the new Soul Survivor series, Madeline Sutter and her four gorgeous friends rule the Gilded Age resort town of Glass Lake, NY with silk-covered fists—until the day the entire clique is killed in a devastating accident.  Although Maddie is declared dead at the scene, she later awakens to find herself shunned by once adoring neighbors who now fear she has been touched by the
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Sacred Relationships Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon GC!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Dr. Kate Pola Brooks’ SACRED RELATIONSHIPS PSYCHOLOGY FOR THE SOUL virtual book tour April 20-May 1!     Title: Sacred Relationships Author: Dr. Kate Pola Brooks Publisher: Xlibris Genre: Psychology/Relationship Format: Kindle/Paperback/Hardcover Everything You Want To Understand About Relationships “Sacred Relationships: Psychology for the Soul”, is designed to define the inter-relatedness of everything and everyone. It gives clarity to the functioning of the mind, the psyche and the heart. “Sacred Relationships” defines the patterns of our thinking, understanding, ‘knowing’ and loving capacities. This book clears up misunderstandings and misinterpretations around our connection to this world, our Selves, and others, within the Universal
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Pump Up Your Book Presents An Oath Sworn Cover Reveal!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you the cover reveal for AN OATH SWORN by Diana Cosby on April 13! Title: An Oath Sworn Author: Diana Cosby Publisher: Lyrical Press A man of honor. A woman of spirit. As the new castellan, Sir Nicholas Beringar has the daunting task of rebuilding Ravenmoor Castle on the Scottish border and gaining the trust of the locals—one of whom wastes no time in trying to rob him. Instead of punishing the boy, Nicholas decides to make him his squire. Little does he know the thieving young lad is really…a lady. Lady Elizabet Armstrong had donned a disguise in an attempt to free
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Once Beloved Cover Reveal!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you the cover reveal for ONCE BELOVED by Amara Royce on April 7! Title: Once Beloved Author: Amara Royce Publisher: Lyrical Press Once, Helena led a charmed life. After eloping with the charismatic Captain Chase Martin, she left behind her childhood country home for a blissful life in London. Devastated by the death of her husband during a labor riot, she has spiraled into depression and agoraphobia, which she now combats solely for the sake of her children. When her grandmother summons Helena to her deathbed, terror at the thought of such a trip clashes with her sense of duty and affection toward
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Brass Giant Virtual Book Publicity Tour – Win a $25 Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Brooke Johnson’s THE BRASS GIANT virtual book tour April 27-May 15!   Title: The Brass Giant Author: Brooke Johnson Publisher: Harper Voyager Impulse Genre: Steampunk Format: Kindle Sometimes, even the most unlikely person can change the world Seventeen-year-old Petra Wade, self-taught clockwork engineer, wants nothing more than to become a certified member of the Guild, an impossible dream for a lowly shop girl. Still, she refuses to give up, tinkering with any machine she can get her hands on, in between working and babysitting her foster siblings. When Emmerich Goss–handsome, privileged, and newly recruited into the Guild–needs help designing a new clockwork
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Desert Rising Virtual Book Publicity Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Kelley Grant’s DESERT RISING virtual book tour April 13-30!   Title: Desert Rising Author: Kelley Grant Publisher: Harper Voyage Impulse Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy Format: Kindle “It frightens me, knowing the One has called up two such strong individuals. It means that there are troubled times in our future, and you must prepare yourselves.” The Temple at Illian is the crown jewel of life in the Northern Territory. There, pledges are paired with feli, the giant sacred cats of the One god, and are instructed to serve the One’s four capricious deities. Yet Sulis, a young woman from the Southern Desert, has
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Apex Virtual Book Publicity Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Aer-ki Jyr’s APEX virtual book tour April 6-30! Title: Apex Author: Aer-ki Jyr Publisher: Harper Voyage Impulse Pages: 368 Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy Format: Kindle A new dawn is coming. It’s been eons since Humans controlled the universe, after their defeat by a mysterious enemy. With their downfall came a virtual dark age in which culture and technology stagnated. But now trade is once again flourishing as Human artifacts resurface throughout the galaxy, resurrecting long-forgotten advancements. And one such discovery may very well alter the course of the future forever. An epic space adventure, Aer-ki Jyr’s Apex is a breathless race to the ultimate
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Schade of Night by J.P. Wilder Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Schade of Night by J.P. Wilder’s  book blitz April 6 – April 17!     Title: Schade of Night Author: J.P. Wilder Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 356 Genre: Fantasy Format: Paperback/Kindle Purchase at AMAZON Schade Lee, ex-FBI agent turned PI, is on a mission to prove her dreams wrong. While on a case to find runaway Kylie Berson, Schade follows a gruesome path where she learns Kylie is in love with a serial killer with animalistic instincts. But what she does not know is that the killer is of supernatural origins, that she will inherit a demonic bloodline on her thirty-third
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Two Brothers Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Two Brothers’s C. (Mike) Dunaway book blitz April 6 – April 17!     Title: Two Brothers Author: C. (Mike) Dunaway Publisher: Trafford Pages: 296 Genre: Romance Format: Paperback/Kindle/Hardcover Purchase at AMAZON The story is about two brothers, fraternal twins. They move to California from Oklahoma with their parents in 1871 in an exchange of properties with a friend in Oklahoma and settle in on a three-hundred-acre ranch. They are attacked by three escapees from Yuma state prison who murdered their parents. For the next fifteen years, they would attempt to hunt down these killers and seek revenge. The boys are not
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Berceuse: The Song Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Trynia Merin’s BERCEUSE: THE SONG book blitz April 6 – April 17!   Title: Berceuse: The Song Author: Trynia Merin Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 350 Genre: Science Fiction Format: Paperback Purchase at AMAZON Now that Trisha Maypierce is safely back on Earth, she has forgotten much of her last adventure, or has she? Everyday life on earth suddenly becomes far more surreal when she invents a new polymer, and her life is possibly in danger. Her protection, Temporal Anthropologist Professor Esmentaur, who must study the link between his charge and the being Berceuse they encountered on Avious. More questions are generated then answered, as
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Starting Over Cover Reveal!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you the cover reveal for STARTING OVER by Stacy Finz on April 6! Title: Starting Over Author: Stacy Finz Publisher: Lyrical Press The mountain town of Nugget, California, may be tiny, but with its breathtaking scenery, fresh air, and lovable locals, it has everything. Not to mention it’s the perfect setting for firsts—and seconds—of all kinds… On the day of her glitzy New York City wedding, society girl Samantha Dunsbury ditches her Wall Street groom, and hops in her convertible. Her only plan is to head west. But when a pit stop lands her at a lovely Victorian inn in Nugget, she doesn’t
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Wedding Matilda Cover Reveal!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you the cover reveal for WEDDING MATILDA by Heather Hiestad on March 30! Title: Wedding Matilda Author: Heather Hiestand Publisher: Lyrical Press Sugared violets, buttercream…but he craves her kiss most of all…    Orphaned as a boy, Ewan Hales is proud to make his living as secretary to the manager at Redcake’s Tea Shop. But the startling news that he’s heir to the Earl of Fitzwalter changes everything. While tendering his resignation to lovely Matilda Redcake, however, Ewan is struck by her spirit, the luscious bow of her lips—and a realization. Matilda might not marry a working man—but will she wed a future
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Two Family Home Cover Reveal!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you the cover reveal for TWO FAMILY HOME by Sarah Title on March 30! Title: Two Family Home Author: Sarah Title Publisher: Lyrical Press Lindsey Alford moved to Willow Springs, Kentucky, to prove to all doubters (mostly her parents) that she’s all grown up. Something her neighbor Walker Smith never questioned—those short shorts of hers! Put a cute single girl with an overactive imagination next door to a reclusive hot guy, add in a decadent blue velvet sofa, a locked garage and a nursing home full of busybodies, and trouble is bound to pop up. Literally, in the form of an adorably naughty
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Welcome to Fat Chance, Texas Cover Reveal!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you the cover reveal for WELCOME TO FAT CHANCE, TEXAS by Celia Bonaduce on March 27! Title: Welcome to Fat Chance, Texas Author: Celia Bonaduce Publisher: Lyrical Press “A fresh, heartwarming voice.”  —Jodi Thomas, New York Times bestselling author For champion professional knitter Dymphna Pearl, inheriting part of a sun-blasted ghost town in the Texas hill country isn’t just unexpected, it’s a little daunting. To earn a cash bequest that could change her life, she’ll have to leave California to live in tiny, run-down Fat Chance for six months—with seven strangers. Impossible! Or is it? Trading her sandals for cowboy boots, Dymphna dives into her new life with equal parts anxiety and
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with Sands Hetherington, author of Night Buddies Go Sky High

Sands Hetherington, creator of the Night Buddies series of chapter books, credits his son John for being his principal motivator. Sands and young John developed the Crosley crocodile character in the series during months of bedtime story give-and-take. They collaborated many nights on escapades starring John and Crosley, until eventually it occurred to Sands why it was that Crosley was bright red. That was when the first book came together. Sands raised his son as a single parent from the time John was six. He read to him every night during those formative years: all of the classic children’s stories from Aesop through the Grimms, Lewis Carroll, Frank Baum, Tolkien and
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Actor Virtual Book Publicity Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Douglas Gardham’s The Actor virtual book tour April 6 – April  30!   Title: The Actor Author: Douglas Gardham Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 352 Genre: Fiction Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON It is 1991 when Ethan Jones finally wins the role of his dreams in an upcoming, big screen movie. With the envelope holding the script clutched in his hand, he arrives at his California apartment where he can hardly wait to tell his girlfriend the exciting news. But when he finds the door unexpectedly ajar, he has no idea that in just a few seconds, the life he has fought so hard to
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Pump Up Your Book Presents In His Corner, Baked Fresh, Second Chances, A Taste of Sauvignon and Men Like This Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lyrical Press and Kensington Books IN HIS CORNER, BAKED FRESH, SECOND CHANCES, A TASTE OF SAUVIGNON and MEN LIKE THIS virtual book tour April 2 – 30!   Title: In His Corner Author: Vina Arno Publisher: Lyrical Press Genre: Romance Format: Kindle Work Out No sex for almost a year could kill a guy, but when you’re the boxer known as the Juggernaut, it’s the price you pay for turning pro. Tommy’s fully dedicated to his craft, until he meets the incredibly gorgeous Dr. Siena Carr. Now he’s looking forward to taking on this prim and proper lady in a wet and wild
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Pump Up Your Book Presents An Honorable Wish and An Unexpected Wish Cover Reveal!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you the cover reveal for AN HONORABLE WISH and AN UNEXPECTED WISH by Eileen Richards on March 30! Title: An Honorable Wish Author: Eileen Richards Publisher: Lyrical Press After a disastrous season in London, Juliet Townsend returns home with a new focus – to be independent. Who needs to get married anyway? While her sister, Sophia, enjoyed her popularity, Juliet was planning a life on her own, and not under the thumb of some man. After a tragic carriage accident takes his best friend after a night of debauchery, Tony Matthews comes home to settle down, get married and find an estate to
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Johnstone Thriller Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lyrical Press’ THE DEVIL’S CAT, THE DEVIL’S HEART, THE DEVIL’S KISS and THE DEVIL’S TOUCH  virtual book tour April 2 – April 30!   Title: The Devil’s Cat Author: William Johnstone Publisher: Lyrical Press Genre: Thriller/Horror Format: Kindle The Devil’s Disguise   Cats. The town was alive with them. All kinds. Black, white, fat, scrawny . . . They lived in the streets, in the back yards, in the swamps of Becancour. Sam, Nydia, and Little Sam had never seen so many cats. The cats’ eyes were glowing slits as they watched the new-comers. And their furry tails were slowly switching back and
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Finding It Cover Reveal!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you the cover reveal for FINDING IT by Leah Marie Brown on March 24! Title: Finding It Author: Leah Marie Brown Publisher: Lyrical Press Falling in love is the ultimate faux pas. Anything can happen in a year! Unemployed, homeless, and left at the altar, Vivia Perpetua Grant could see her future as a flannel pajama wearing spinster—or worse, a bag lady shuffling around Golden Gate Park. But for a girl obsessed with rock music, Chinese take-out, and the color pink, misfortune is another word for opportunity. Vivia has found her niche as an international travel writer and the long-distance lover of Jean-Luc
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Demon’s Vengeance Virtual Book Publicity Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jocelynn Drake’s DEMON’S VENGEANCE virtual book tour April 14 – May 14! Title: Demon’s Vengeance: The Complete Final Asylum Tales Author: Jocelynn Drake Publisher: Harper Voyager Impulse Genre: Paranormal Fantasy Format: Kindle The complete novel that comprises Demon’s Fury, Demon’s Vow and Inner Demon. Powerful warlock and tattoo artist Gage has managed to escape the magical Ivory Towers who terrorize the rest of humans and monsters—but at a price. Now he must join forces with his nemesis, Gideon, to stop an entity that is using forbidden Death Magic to commit gruesome murders across the nation. And if that’s not keeping him busy enough, an investigator
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