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Intuition Involution Virtual Book Publicity Tour April 2012

Join Olakunbi Korostensky, ND, author of the spiritual non-fiction book, Intuition Involution: Living by Intuition for a Balanced World in 2012 and Beyond! (Clear Vision Enterprises), as she virtually tours the blogosphere April 2 – 27,2012 on her first book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Olakunbi Korostensky,ND Olakunbi (Kunbi) Korostensky, ND, is a former naturopathic doctor and psychologist with a master’s in energy psychology, who now primarily works as a spiritual and intuition coach with a multifaceted enterprise. She is an intuitive specialist who has command of many alternative, holistic disciplines and knowledge, which she integrates into her work with her varied clients Olakunbi perceives herself as
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The Grim Virtual Book Publicity Tour May and June 2012

Join Raynetta Stocks, author of the contemporary fiction novel, The Grim (Dogsear Publishing), as she virtually tours the blogosphere May 7 – June 29,2012 on her first book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Raynetta Stocks Raynetta Stocks was born in Washington D.C. in August 1981. She excelled early at reading and writing, passions that endured and thrived into adulthood. She honed her skills entering literary contests and writing plays and prose for various extracurricular groups in both high school and college. Having written since childhood, Raynetta has composed hundreds of works in a multitude of genres to include children’s books, adolescent fiction, short stories, and social essays.
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New Book for Review: Biography ‘Ordinary Wisdom’ by K. Blue

K. Blue will be touring in April with her biography, Ordinary Wisdom! This collection of short family stories is heartwarming and genuine. Each story is a lesson learned by experiencing everyday life. From childhood to adulthood there are lessons in all that we do and experience. The trick to growing as a person is to recognize their significance and continue to learn. You may find that you identify with the experiences of this wonderful family. You may even be reminded of times in your past and the lessons you have learned. Be prepared to smile, laugh and maybe even cry a little as you enjoy reading of ordinary wisdom. You
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Ordinary Wisdom Virtual Book Publicity April 2012

Join K. Blue, author of the biography, Ordinary Wisdom (Sha Noel Press), as she virtually tours the blogosphere April 2 – April 20,2012 on her first book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About K. Blue Ms. Blue was raised in a middle class American family with 3 brothers. Her father worked for a large corporation and her family moved quite a bit during her growing up years. From Indiana to New Jersey, Texas to Georgia, she has lived in many different areas of the country and had many different experiences. These experiences have given her a unique take on life which she enjoys sharing in her book Ordinary Wisdom.
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with Robert McCabe

About Robert McCabe The author has over forty years experience in Information Technology. While earning a BS in Business and a MS in Telecommunications Management his career path offered him public speaking engagements to crowds as large as 10,000 people. An avid reader he has turned his interest toward writing, while enjoying activities which include inventing and the great outdoors. His proudest accomplishments include earning a brown belt in Tae Kwon Do, and possessing a seventy-mile fastball during Little League pitching which ultimately led him to win the high school softball distance record for several years. Visit him at his website at rjmccabe.com or his blog at blog.rjmccabe.com The Interview
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with Jessica Yinka Thomas

About Jessica Yinka Thomas Jessica Yinka Thomas is a novelist with a background in toy design and social entrepreneurship. As managing director of the Center for Sustainable Enterprise at the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School, she has authored several award-winning academic articles. Jessica has worked as a designer of interactive educational toys, as the director of a social enterprise business plan competition and as a program manager for a community development nonprofit. How Not to Save the World is her first novel. Jessica’s writing highlights her twin passions for technological innovation and for creating significant social change through entrepreneurial ventures. Growing up in West Africa and traveling around
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with Jim Beck

About Jim Beck Jim Beck is a freelance writer and produced screenwriter who resides in Burbank, California with his loving wife, rambunctious son, and cute little dog named Monster. He has written for Cartoon Network’s Pink Panther & Pals, produced a short zombie film and independent feature film that was recently selected for Sundance, and is currently awaiting the release of his first direct-to-dvd creature feature. Jim’s screenplays have placed very high (and in some cases, won) in contests conducted by Cinescape Magazine, Project Greenlight, Acclaim TV, Acclaim Film, and Writer’s Boot Camp, among several others. In the case of Writer’s Boot Camp, he was awarded a one year
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New Legal Thriller Suspense Mystery Novel for Review: The Last Justice by Anthony Franze

Anthony Franze will be touring in april with her legal thriller/suspense/mystery novel, The Last Justice. CHAOS ERUPTS at the U.S. Supreme Court when an assassin guns down six justices as they are hearing a case. Solicitor General Jefferson McKenna, the government’s top lawyer in the Supreme Court, is appointed to the multiagency commission investigating the murders. As Congress draws battle lines over who will replace the slain justices, the commission follows clue after clue, each one pointing to an unlikely suspect: McKenna himself. In a desperate bid to prove his innocence, McKenna, on the run with his deputy, Kate Porter, must track down a disgraced law clerk with ties
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The Last Justice Virtual Book Publicity Tour April 2012

Join Anthony Franze, author of the legal thriller/suspense/mystery novel, The Last Justice (Sterling and Ross Publishers), as he virtually tours the blogosphere April 2 – April 20,2012 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Anthony Franze Anthony J. Franze is a lawyer in the Appellate and Supreme Court practice at a large Washington, D.C. law firm and author of the debut legal thriller, THE LAST JUSTICE. In addition to his law practice, he is an adjunct professor of law, teaching courses in Federal Courts and Appellate Practice. Franze is a graduate of Notre Dame Law School and the author of numerous scholarly works. He
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New Middle Grade Fantasy Novel for Review: Alexander Drake’s Extraordinary Pursuit by Elizabeth Parkinson-Bellows

Elizabeth Parkinson-Bellows will be touring in April with her Middle Grade fantasy novel, Alexander Drake’s Extraordinary Pursuit. Alexander Drake is not a typical “story book” hero. He’s awkward, insecure and introverted. His struggle to make friends has made him a bit of a loner. He is terribly fearful of not living up to his conservative father’s expectations of him, and always puts forth every effort to make him proud. At the same time, Alexander is a curious and wildly imaginative boy, who constantly craves adventure. Up to this point, Alexander led a very sheltered life. He was raised solely by his father, a reserved distinguished gentleman with a rarely
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Alexander Drake’s Extraordinary Pursuits Virtual Book Publicity Tour April 2012

Join Elizabeth Parkinson-Bellows, author of the Middle Grade fantasy novel, Alexander Drake’s Extraordinary Pursuit (Wild Child Publishing), as she virtually tours the blogosphere April 2 – April 20,2012 on her second virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Elizabeth Parkinson-Bellows Being the frizzy-haired tomboy with buck teeth gave Elizabeth Parkinson-Bellows a slight case of shyness as a kid. A colorful imagination meant escape and adventure at the drop of a hat. Over the years she learned that the insecurities she carried around were a waste of time. Elizabeth still prefers a football game to a manicure any day of the week. That indispensable imagination has found its
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New Children’s Fiction Book for Review: Cree and Scooter Hit the Slopes in British Columbia by Tammy Sutton-Brown

Tammy Sutton-Brown will be touring in March with her children’s fiction picture book, Cree and Scooter Hit the Slopes in British Columbia. The Adventures of Cree and Scooter is a series geared toward children aged 4 to 8, and it exposes readers to various cultures in an age appropriate manner. Oscillating between the spheres of reality and fantasy, this book connects readers to the two main characters, Cree and Scooter, as they navigate their way through many countries across the globe while Cree dreams in her bed at night. Together Cree and Scooter travel to countries such as China, Egypt, Canada, Kenya, New Zealand, India, Japan and many more
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Cree and Scooter Hit the Slopes in British Columbia Virtual Book Publicity Tour March 2012

Join Tammy Sutton-Brown, author of the children’s fiction picture book, Cree and Scooter Hit the Slopes in British Columbia, as she virtually tours the blogosphere March 5 – 23,2012 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Tammy Sutton-Brown WNBA veteran and two-time All Star, Tammy Sutton-Brown was born and raised in Ontario, Canada. However, she has spent more time living abroad than in her home town. Tammy believes that exposure to various cultures, languages, traditions, and values enhance the quality of one’s life. This philosophy has motivated Tammy to travel extensively. She has visited more than forty countries across five continents. Tammy’s motivation for
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with Jeanette Baker

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 ancient city gates, ‘From the wrath of the O’Flahertys, may the good Lord deliver us.’ Lauded as an author who has created a niche in the world of the time-travel paranormal, Jeanette’s previous stories have all
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with Abby Luby

About Abby Luby Abby Luby is a freelance journalist who, for over ten years, has covered nuclear power, particularly issues surrounding the Indian Point nuclear power plant in New York. Her articles have appeared in The New York Daily News, The Villager, The Westchester Guardian, The Real Deal, SolveClimateNews, The North County News and the Record Review. She also writes for the Poughkeepsie Journal, The Stamford Advocate/Greenwich Time, Valley Table Magazine, Roll Magazine, Hearst publications HealthyLivingCT, Living@HomeCT covering news, art, food and health. She teaches writing and literature at Marist College. To find out more about Abby visit http://www.abbylu.com To find out more about Nuclear Romance visit http://nuclearromance.wordpress.com The Interview
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Edward Wilson’s Antarctic Notebooks Virtual Book Publicity Tour March and April 2012

Join Christopher Wilson, author of the Antarctic exploration notebooks, Edward Wilson’s Antarctic Notebooks (Reardon Publishing), as he virtually tours the blogosphere March 5 – April 20 2012 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Christopher Wilson Christopher J. Wilson Dip Eco (Cork), FZS is the great nephew of Dr Edward A. Wilson, who died with Captain Scott and his party on their return from the South Pole in 1912. He is widely travelled, having spent time on all the continents of the world and has completed eight full seasons in Antarctica having first travelled to that Continent in 1999 on the Antarctic Circumnavigation. Born
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New YA Paranormal Book for Review: Fangs Rule A Girls Guide to Being a Vampire by Amy Mah

Amy Mah will be touring in March with her young adult paranormal novel Fangs Rule: A Girls Guide to Being a Vampire. FANGS RULE a girls guide to being a vampire . . . . is a young Adult book for anyone between Puberty and Senility as it takes a close up look at life as a female teenage vampire in easy to follow A to Z advice for the reader, the book is also full of manga art which helps show the human world what life is like in a vampire world . . . . . . . . . . Giving helpful advice such as how
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Fangs Rule: A Girls Guide to Being a Vampire Virtual Book Publicity Tour March 2012

Join Amy Mah, author of the young adult fantasy vampire novel, Fangs Rule: A Girls Guide to Being a Vampire (Reardon Publishing), as she virtually tours the blogosphere March 5 – 23 2012 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Amy Mah The author Amy Mah (Vampire) is a well known blogger, that writes and blogs as a cynical teenage vampire: Being a vampire sounds like it should be a cool thing to be as a teenage girl, like sleeping during the day and enjoying a night life with friends, huh, no one had warned me that it also meant having to suffer Teenage
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Terminal Value Virtual Book Publicity Tour April/May 2012

Join Thomas Waite, author of the thriller novel, Terminal Value (Marlborough Press), as he virtually tours the blogosphere April 2 – May 25 2012 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Thomas Waite Thomas Waite is an author, entrepreneur and consultant whose writings have appeared in such publications as the Harvard Business Review and The New York Times and he has been featured in a wide variety of media, including CNN Money and a number of cable news programs. As an entrepreneur, he founded and co-founded two companies, including one that was sold to an Internet firm. He has consulted to dozens of technology
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New Ebook for Review: Paranormal Time Travel ‘Witch Woman’ by Jeanette Baker

Jeanette Baker will be touring February 6-29 with her paranormal time travel novel, Witch Woman. The first time Maggie McBride set foot in contemporary Salem, Massachusetts she was two years old, completely alone and stark naked. Now, thirty years later, a clairvoyant with a gift for profiling kidnappers, she is back to fulfill a personal quest. Armed with an ancient spinning wheel inherited from Annie McBride, her adoptive mother, she intends to solve the mystery of her sudden, unexpected appearance in The Old Burying Point Cemetery. Her only clue is the recurring dream of a woman from another time, a woman with a spinning wheel, an unusual whistle, and
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Witch Woman Virtual Book Publicity Tour February 2012

Join Jeannette Baker, author of the paranormal time travel novel, Witch Woman (ePublishing Works), as she virtually tours the blogosphere February 6 – 29 2012 on her second 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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New Book For Review: Pastor Evil by Robert McCabe

Robert McCabe will be touring in February with his fiction thriller novel Pastor Evil: My Calling: Conquer Evil at All Costs. Have you ever wondered what your real purpose or calling is in life? Wouldn’t it be wonderful to be a prodigy of some type: perhaps a pianist, mathematician, scientist, gifted athlete, or even take the spiritual path of a priest or pastor? Most of us end up doing something we fell into at an early age. As we gain responsibilities, we get stuck in these professions for the rest of our lives. This is the dilemma Robert McCabe encountered in order to support his family. He didn’t hate
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Pastor Evil Virtual Book Publicity Tour February 2012

Join Robert McCabe, author of the fiction thriller novel, Pastor Evil: My Calling: Conquer Evil at All Costs (AuthorHouse) , as he virtually tours the blogosphere February 6 -February 24, 2012 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Robert McCabe The author has over forty years experience in Information Technology. While earning a BS in Business and a MS in Telecommunications Management his career path offered him public speaking engagements to crowds as large as 10,000 people. An avid reader he has turned his interest toward writing, while enjoying activities which include inventing and the great outdoors. His proudest accomplishments include earning a brown
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New Book for Review: Sex and the Single Church Sister by Sha’ Givens

Sha’ Givens will be touring in February with her self-help relationship book, Sex and the Single Church Sister. SEX AND THE SINGLE CHURCH SISTER explores the real life challenges facing single, contemporary women in the new millennium. This faith-based relationship and wellness guide offers insight on key issues few dare to speak candidly about. What happens after the church lights go out? We’ll talk about it. Desiring intimacy, battling loneliness and overcoming emotional hurdles while in pursuit of Mr. Right remain at the forefront of the struggle. This uncut, non-fiction masterpiece includes practical tips on how to avoid sexual pitfalls, as well as discuss The most common mistakes women
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Sex and the Single Church Sister Virtual Book Publicity Tour February 2012

Join Sha’ Givens, author of the self-help relationship book, Sex and the Single Church Sister (I CAN FLY Publishing) , as she virtually tours the blogosphere February 6 -February 24, 2012 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Sha’ Givens Shá Givens is a world renown inspirational speaker, minister and trainer on women’s issues that affect the lives of women and girls globally. She has been featured in ESSENCE Magazine and Gospel Today Magazine, as well as appear on a host of television shows and news programs around the country. She is the author of three books, which include: THROUGH THE STORM, I AM
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New Book For Review: How Not to Save the World by J. Yinka Thomas

J. Yinka Thomas will be touring in February with her suspense adventure novel, How Not to Save the World. Remi Austin is a fundraiser for the African Peace Collaborative (APC), a conflict resolution nonprofit founded by her late mother. Frustrated by her inability to raise funds and faced with the imminent closure of the APC, Remi turns to a life of crime to keep her nonprofit afloat. From Sydney, to Tokyo, Geneva and Cape Town, Remi transforms from a fundraiser too shy to speak during staff meetings into a daring international art thief who must stop a war from breaking out and figure out how to save herself from
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How Not to Save the World Virtual Book Publicity Tour February 2012

Join Jessica Yinka Thomas, author of the suspense adventure novel, How Not to Save the World , as she virtually tours the blogosphere February 6 -February 24, 2012 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Jessica Yinka Thomas Jessica Yinka Thomas is a novelist with a background in toy design and social entrepreneurship. As managing director of the Center for Sustainable Enterprise at the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School, she has authored several award-winning academic articles. Jessica has worked as a designer of interactive educational toys, as the director of a social enterprise business plan competition and as a program manager for a
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with Vincent Tuckwood

Vincent Tuckwood is a story-teller working in fiction, song and verse. At any given point in time, he’s proud to be a father, husband, son, brother, cousin and friend to the people who mean the world to him. He is the author of the novels Escalation, Family Rules, Karaoke Criminals and Do Sparrows Eat Butterflies? as well as the 2010 poetry collection, Garbled Glittering Glamours. His screenplays are Team Building and the screen adaptation of Family Rules, Inventing Kenny. Vince regularly connects with his audience at VinceT.net and at his story-teller page on Facebook, often writing poetry in response to their prompts, and encourages everyone to get in touch
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Pump Up Chats with Peyman Pejman

Peyman Pejman is an award-winning journalist with over 20 years of experience. He has worked with respected newspapers, news agencies and radio stations such as The Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Cox Newspapers, The Associated Press, United Press International, Reuters, Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Pejman has extensive experience in the Middle East and the Arab world. His tenure in the Middle East has corresponded with important timelines in the region: the Iranian revolution, the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the Gulf Wars and the 2003 invasion of Iraq. In addition to his journalistic career, he has been a media and communications professor and a media consultant/advisor/trainer.
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The Lens and the Looker and The Bronze and the Brimstone Virtual Book Tour January,February and March ’12

Join Lory Kaufman, author of the Young Adult Fantasy books, The Lens and the Looker and The Bronze and The Brimstone (The Fiction Studio), as he virtually tours the blogosphere in January, February and March on his second virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Lory Kaufman “I write Post-Dystopian fiction. After society’s collapse, which is imagined in so many great dystopian stories, humans will either fade into history, with the dinosaurs, or, if it learns the right lessons, society will go on to construct a civilization to last tens of thousands of years. History Camp stories are the exciting adventures of young people doing the latter.”
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