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New Horror/Fantasy Novel for Review: The Difference by Alessandro Tesio

Alessandro Tesio will be touring August 6 – August 26,2012 with his fiction novel, The Difference. It’s the beginning of the new millennium. The Delta team is a team of professional soldiers in charge of guarding and protecting against paranormal activities that are spreading throughout the world. Werewolves, vampires, demons, and other mutants are running rampant, and when The Delta team is mysteriously rescued by three strangers, they learn of a society known as The Assembly of Hidden Truth. Contact with this secret organization will bring the members of the U.S. Department of the Paranormal section to discover the fate of humanity and ancient prophecies about the end of
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Difference Virtual Book Tour 2012

Join Alessandro Tesio, author of the horror/fantasy novel, The Difference, as he tours the blogosphere August 6 – August 24, 2012 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT ALESSANDRO TESIO Alessandro Tesio was born in Turin (Italy) on May 5, 1975. A writer, blogger and thinker he has written many fantasy short stories. In the 2009 he made his debut with The Difference, his first horror/christian novel. He has visited the USA many times with New York City and the East Coast being his favorite. Throughout his visits he has met many people and explores what each person has absorbed from living here. Today Alessandro still
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New Fiction Novel For Review: Twelve Months by Steven Manchester

Steven Manchester will be touring August 13 – October 11,2012 with his fiction novel, Twelve Months. Don DiMarco has a very good life – a family 
he loves, a comfortable lifestyle, passions and interests that keep him amused. He also thought he had time, but that turned out not to be the case. Faced with news that might have immediately felled most, Don now wonders if he has time enough. Time enough to show his wife the romance he didn’t always lavish on her. Time enough to live out his most ambitious fantasies. Time enough to close the circle on some of his most aching unresolved relationships. Summoning an
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  • June 19, 2012
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Twelve Months Virtual Book Tour 2012

Join Steven Manchester, author of the fiction novel, Twelve Months, as he tours the blogosphere August 13 – October 12, 2012 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT STEVEN MANCHESTER Steven Manchester is the author of Pressed Pennies, The Unexpected Storm: The Gulf War Legacy and Jacob Evans, as well as several books under the pseudonym, Steven Herberts. His work has appeared on NBC’s Today Show, CBS’s The Early Show, CNN’s American Morning and BET’s Nightly News. Recently, three of Steven’s short stories were selected “101 Best” for the Chicken Soup for the Soul series. When not spending time with his beautiful wife, Paula,
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New Horror Novel For Review: Bottled Abyss by Benjamin Ethridge

Benjamin Ethridge will be touring August 6 – October 26, 2012 with his horror novel, Bottled Abyss. Herman and Janet Erikson are going through a crisis of grief and suffering after losing their daughter in a hit and run. They’ve given up on each other; they’ve given up on themselves. They are living day by day. One afternoon, to make a horrible situation worse, their dog goes missing in the coyote-infested badlands behind their property. Herman, resolved in preventing another tragedy, goes to find the dog, completely unaware he’s on a hike to the River Styx, the border between the Living world and the world of the dead. Long
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New Fantasy Novel For Review: Shadow in the Reflection by Joe Niehaus and Mary Sikora

Joe Niehaus and Mary Sikora will be touring September 2 – October 26, 2012 with their fantasy novel, Shadow in the Reflection. Can destiny be fulfilled in just one lifetime? Dr. Gregory Ambrose thinks so. Through past-life regression therapy with a young woman named Anne, he finds himself carried over the centuries to not only a different time but a different reality. Anne’s memories act like tendrils, drawing Ambrose into this most savage time with her. Frustrated and confused Dr. Ambrose reaches out to a colleague for help. During their conversations, he learns that one of this doctor’s past-life regression patients believes that he was some kind of Viking
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Shadow in the Reflection Virtual Book Tour 2012

Join Joe Niehaus and Mary Sikora, authors of the fantasy novel, Shadow in the Reflection, as they tour the blogosphere September 3 – October 26 2012 on their first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT JOE NIEHAUS Joe Niehaus, a veteran police officer in Ohio, is the author of six books and numerous articles in police and martial arts magazines.  He holds certificates in fraud examination and clinical and forensic hypnosis.  A graduate of Tiffin University, he is an adjunct professor at his alma mater, Ashford University and Sinclair Community College. Purchase this book through:  Amazon and Barnes and Noble ABOUT MARY SIKORA Mary Sikora is
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Finding Home-Breaking Free From Limits Virtual Book Publicity Tour 2012+ $50 Amazon Gift Card Giveaway

Join Joleen Bridges, author of the self-help spiritual book, Finding Home – Breaking Free From Limits, as she tours the blogosphere July 16 – August 17, 2012 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT JOLEEN BRIDGES Joleen is a life-long Missouri resident and currently resides in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. Besides writing, Joleen’s favorite things to do are; hang out with family, travel, read, and pretty much anything related to nature. Joleen is passionate about the topics of consciousness, enlightenment, spirituality and personal empowerment. Her debut book,Finding Home, Breaking Free from Limits, available at Amazon.com and on the book’s website, represents over 10 years of research
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with author Judy Byington

About Judy Byington Judy Byington, M.S.W., L.C.S.W., ret, has dedicated her life to humanizing and raising public awareness about the little known effects of ritual abuse and mind-control programming that tragically cause formation of multiple personalities in children. The retired CEO, therapist, author and mental health supervisor is founder and leader of Trauma Research Center, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing information through CEU accredited seminars and lectures on Dissociation and coordinating ritual abuse survivor group, therapeutic and legal resources. The former mental health supervisor spent twenty years in research with Jenny Hill while interviewing hundreds of ritual abuse survivors, legal entities, therapists, families of missing children and religious,
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with Political/Medical Thriller Author

J. Thomas Shaw was born in Quincy, Illinois, and attended the University of Oklahoma and Illinois State University. Following graduation, he moved to Chicago and had a highly successful professional career. He now resides in Southern California with his wife and their two children. Prior to his relocation to California, Mr. Shaw lived for six years in Durham, North Carolina and two years on a ranch outside of Cotopaxi, Colorado. He has traveled extensively throughout the Bahamas’, Caribbean and Mexico. The scenes throughout The RX Factor takes place in the various locations that the author has lived or experienced in his travels. Throughout the process of writing The RX
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New Contemporary Women’s Fiction Novel: Behind God’s Back: Secrets, Shadows, and Sex by Anna O’Moss

Anna O’Moss will be touring July 2-27, 2012 with her contemporary women’s fiction novel, Behind God’s Back: Secrets, Shadows, and Sex! When six old friends meet for lunch… they discover things about each other… they never knew existed… Sandra, a writer, excited to have a book deal, which is based on her story of FORBIDDEN LUST, now must tell her friends what really happened on their last church camping trip. They swore they would never speak of it again and now it is going to be exposed to the world.Now in her forties, Darlene is outraged, until she lets them in on her secret. As their day turns into
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Behind God’s Back Virtual Book Tour 2012

Join Anna O’Moss, author of the contemporary women’s fiction novel, Behind God’s Back: Secrets, Shadows, and Sex (Lighten-Up Books), as she virtually tours the blogosphere July 2 – July 27, 2012 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT ANNA O’MOSS You can find out more about this fascinating book at http://behindgodsbacknovel.com. You can find the author on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/anna.omoss You can purchase the book for Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/Behind-Gods-Back-Secrets-ebook/dp/B0087B5EBE/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1338398088&sr=1-1 or on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Behind-Gods-Back-Secrets-Shadows/dp/0981813461/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1338398263&sr=8-1 ABOUT BEHIND GOD’S BACK: SECRETS, SHADOWS, AND SEX When six old friends meet for lunch… they discover things about each other… they never knew existed… Sandra, a writer, excited to have a
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New Psychological Thriller for Review: White Lies by Jeremy Bates

Jeremy Bates will be touring July 2 thru August 24, 2012 with his psychological thriller, White Lies! ABOUT WHITE LIES While driving to a charming village tucked away deep in the Cascade Mountains of eastern Washington, where she is to begin a new job teaching high school English, Katrina Burton picks up a young hitchhiker who turns out to be drunk and predatory. Fearful for her safety, she lies about her destination in order to get him out of the car. But when she later discovers that he is a teacher at the same school, she finds herself feeding that initial lie with more lies. Then Katrina meets a
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Pump Up Your Book Presents White Lies Virtual Book Tour 2012

Join Jeremy Bates, author of the psychological thriller, White Lies (Oceanview Publishing), as he virtually tours the blogosphere July 2 – August 24, 2012 on his 1st virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT JEREMY BATES Jeremy Bates has spent the last ten years traveling the world, visiting more than thirty countries. He has lived in Canada, the United States, Australia, Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines. Bates is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario with a degree in English literature and philosophy. He is a member of Mystery Writers of America, International Thriller Writers, Inc, and Crime Writers of Canada. His frightening debut novel,
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New Historical Fiction Novel for Review: The Katyn Order by Douglas Jacobson

Douglas W. Jacobson will be touring July 2-27 ’12 with his historical fiction novel,The Katyn Order.  The German War Machine is in retreat as the Russians advance. In Warsaw, Resistance fighters rise up against their Nazi occupiers, but the Germans retaliate, ruthlessly leveling the city. American Adam Nowak has been dropped into Poland by British intelligence as an assassin and Resistance fighter. During the Warsaw Rising he meets Natalia, a covert operative who has lost everything—just as he has. Amid the Allied power struggle left by Germany’s defeat, Adam and Natalia join in a desperate hunt for the 1940 Soviet order authorizing the murders of 20,000 Polish army officers
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Katyn Order Virtual Book Tour 2012

Join Douglas W. Jacobson, author of the historical fiction novel, The Katyn Order, as he virtually tours the blogosphere  July 2 – July 27, 2012 on his third virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Douglas W. Jacobson Douglas W. Jacobson is an engineer, business owner and World War Two history enthusiast. Doug has traveled extensively in Europe researching stories of the courage of common people caught up in extraordinary circumstances. His debut novel, Night of Flames: A Novel of World War Two was published in 2007 by McBooks Press, and was released in paperback in 2008. Night of Flames won the “2007 Outstanding Achievement Award” from
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  • June 4, 2012
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Attorney-Client Privilege Virtual Book Tour 2012 – Win a Free Kindle Fire HD!

Join Pamela Samuels Young, author of the legal thriller, Attorney-Client Privilege (Goldman House Publishing), as she virtually tours the blogosphere September 3 – November 30 2012 on her 14th virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT PAMELA SAMUELS YOUNG PAMELA SAMUELS YOUNG is a practicing attorney, whose fast-paced legal thrillers tackle law and crime. Her novels include Attorney-Client Privilege, Murder on the Down Low and Buying Time. A former television news writer, Pamela is a graduate of USC, Northwestern University and UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law. Pamela currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Chapter of Sisters in Crime, an organization
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Great Sphinx of Amun-Ra Book Publicity Tour 2012

Join Herbert Smith, author of the historical fantasy novel, The Great Sphinx of Amun-Ra, as he tours the blogosphere June 4 – 22 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT HERBERT SMITH Herbert L. Smith has lived and taught in many different countries of the world, from Africa to South America, and has written about some of his posts in three books published since 2008: Cairo: The Mother Of The World, Crossing Borders, and his most recent, The Great Sphinx Of Amun-Ra. All these books are based in Egypt, where he lived in the 1990’s, and he has followed the evolution of Egypt continually
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  • May 21, 2012
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Tuesday’s Child Book Publicity Tour ’12

Join Jeannette Baker, author of the historical romance novel, Tuesday’s Child (Valley Publishing), as she virtually tours the blogosphere June 18 – July 13 2012 on her third virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Jeanette Baker Jeanette Baker is the award-winning author of fifteen novels, published by Pocket, Kensington and Mira Books, many of them set in the lush countryside of historical and contemporary Ireland where she lives and writes during the summer months. Her ancestors, the O’Flahertys, hail from Inishmore, the largest of the Aran Islands located off the coast of Galway. She takes great pride in the prayer posted by the English over the
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Murder Takes Time Virtual Book Publicity Tour ’12 + Win a Free iPad 3 or Kindle Fire

Join Giacomo Giammatteo as he tours the blogosphere June 18 – August 31,2012 with his mystery/suspense novel Murder Takes Time! Giacomo has agreed to give away an iPad 3, a Kindle Fire, and a $50 Gift Certificate (payable by Paypal). The iPad3 and Kindle Fire winners will be determined by Rafflecopter and the gift certificate will go to the person who comments the most during his 2 month tour.  If there is a tie, the winner will be chosen through Random.org!     About Giacomo Giammatteo I live in Texas now, but I grew up in Cleland Heights, a mixed ethnic neighborhood in Wilmington, Delaware that sat on the
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Will a Man Rob God? Virtual Book Publicity Tour 2012

Join M. Finley-Sabir, author of the religious-spiritual book, Will a Man Rob God? (WestBow Press), as she virtually tours the blogosphere June 18 -July 13 2012 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT M. FINLEY-SABIR M. Finley-Sabir has an AA Degree in Psychology and is a Licensed Evangelist. Her father was a Pentecostal preacher and her mother was an evangelist. She was taught that tithing meant a tenth of her earnings. She learned that God would not bless her unless she tithed. She watched so many Christians give their rent money to the church. She teaches Bible Study once a week, and occasions she
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with author Kelly McClymer

ABOUT KELLY McCLYMER Kelly McClymer started her writing career in short science fiction, moved to novel length historical romance and then shifted over to fantasy YA. Who knows what she’ll write next. You can visit Kelly at her website, http://kellymcclymer.com. Thank you for this interview, Kelly.  Do you remember writing stories as a child or did the writing bug come later?  Do you remember your first published piece? A: I remember writing plays for my sisters to perform for our parents, and I remember an essay on baking bread that my sixth grade teacher really liked (it chronicled my disastrous attempt to make bread from scratch…I think there was
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with James Ross, author of “Pabby’s Score”

ABOUT JAMES ROSS Known best for living life to the fullest James Ross decided early on that he was going to work to live, rather than live to work. With a persuasive demeanor and a “don’t-take-no-for-an-answer” attitude he embarked on a journey that allowed for him to live life along the way. Born in Central Illinois in the early 1950’s James Ross grew up wanting to be a professional athlete. He was the oldest son of a high school basketball coach and a homemaker. Early in his life his dad took a job as a textbook salesman for a division of Doubleday. Soon thereafter the family relocated from the
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New Horror/Gothic Fiction Book for Review: Morgan Hall by Bo Briar

Bo Briar will be touring July 16-September 14, 2012 with her horror/gothic fiction novel, Morgan Hall! Love never dies, and revenge never sleeps in Morgan Hall… Morgan Hall, a desolate country estate, has been in Lady Christie Morgan’s family for almost 400 years. A family cursed by eternal tragedy, and now Christie is the last Morgan. Apparitions appear, sparking a chain of horrifying occurrences involving Christie and the two men who love her: Anthony Longfield-Lothian and Tristan Ely. A saga of mystery and sordid family history weaves intrigue for the passionate love triangle. Past and present war as the secrets of three aristocratic families unfold – resurfacing in a
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Morgan Hall Virtual Book Publicity Tour 2012

Join Bo Briar, author of the horror/gothic fiction novel, Morgan Hall, as she virtually tours the blogosphere July 16 – September 14,2012 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT BO BRIAR Bo Briar nursed a love of art, music and architecture from childhood as well as all things ghostly. Her years at a British boarding school secluded in an ancient English county of majestic stately homes, historical towns and quaint medieval villages, nestled among mysterious forests and chocolate-box landscapes formed many of her lifelong impressions, beliefs and ideas. Although having a natural affinity for the countryside Bo lived most of her life between the
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New Fantasy/Science Fiction Book for Review: Drowning Mermaids by Nadia Scrieva

Nadia Scrieva will be touring May 14-July 13, 2012 with her fantasy/science fiction novel Drowning Mermaids! Deep under Arctic waters lies an ice kingdom carved into a glacier. Those who dwell within it possess magnificent biological secrets. Due to the dangers of impending war, the Princess of Adlivun is forced to flee her undersea utopia and regroup with her sisters in Alaska. Captain Trevain Murphy is a successful king crab fisherman who has spent his life building his empire above the sea, and knows nothing of the empire beneath it. When he meets a mysterious dancer whose father has just died, he extends kindness towards her, unaware of her
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New Fantasy/Science Fiction Book for Review: Fathoms of Forgiveness by Nadia Scrieva

Nadia Scrieva will be touring May 14-July 13, 2012 with her fantasy/science fiction novel, Fathoms of Forgiveness! There is no divorce in the undersea kingdom of Adlivun. Marriage is a bond that lasts until death—even if death comes in several centuries, and in that time your spouse happens to become your sworn enemy. This is the conflict that General Visola Ramaris faces when she learns that the mighty Vachlan is behind the attacks on her kingdom. She has sworn to protect Adlivun with her life, but long ago, she also swore to love and honor her husband… Visola must choose whether she will destroy Vachlan once and for all, or
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  • April 23, 2012
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Drowning Mermaids and Fathoms of Forgiveness Virtual Book Publicity Tour 2012

Join Nadia Scrieva, author of the fantasy/science fiction novel, Drowning Mermaids and Fathoms of Forgiveness, as she virtually tours the blogosphere May 14 – July 13,2012 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT NADIA SCRIEVA Nadia Scrieva was born in 1988 in Toronto, Canada. She studied English and Anthropology, graduating with a B.A. from the University of Toronto in 2011. Writing has been the most meaningful part of her life since she was a child. She was employed as a model for several years, and she has a fondness for knives. Nadia loves receiving feedback from readers, so do not hesitate to contact her
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New Zombie Horror Novella for Review: Carnage Road by Gregory Lamberson

Gregory Lamberson will be touring May 7-25 with his zombie horror novella, Carnage Road! About Carnage Road Boone and Walker, the last two members of the Floating Dragons motorcycle gang in Buffalo, set out to re-discover America during the zombie apocalypse. Their odyssey takes them to Ohio, Kansas, Hollywood, and a last stand in Texas. Along the way they learn just what happens when the federal government ceases to exist, and it isn’t pretty. A tale of friendship and loyalty, Carnage Road is author Gregory Lamberson’s unforgettable ode to westerns, biker pictures, and the cinema of the living dead. If you would like to review Carnage Road by Gregory
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Carnage Road Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Gregory Lamberson, author of the zombie horror novella, Carnage Road (Creeping Hemlock Press), as he virtually tours the blogosphere May 7-May 25 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Gregory Lamberson Gregory Lamberson is the author of five published horror novels and one nonfiction book on independent filmmaking. A two-time winner of the IPPY Gold Medal for Horror for his novels Johnny Gruesome and Personal Demons, and a three-time Bram Stoker Award finalist, he has three books scheduled for 2012: his zombie novella Carnage Road, from Creeping Hemlock Press; The Frenzy War, Book Two in his werewolf series “The Frenzy Cycle” from Medallion
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