Author Archive

New Book For Review: Zombie Novel “Patient Zero” by Jim Beck

Jim Beck, will be touring in February with his horror/zombie/drama novel, Patient Zero! Bob has a brain tumor. Not to worry, though. He’s the prime subject for a new procedure involving nanotechnology. Microscopic robots are introduced into his body and effectively destroy the tumor. Job well done. But there’s a catch. A virus lying dormant for years inside him is manipulated by the tiny machines and causes Bob to die and then be brought back to life as a zombie. His transformation into one of the living dead is slow, first appearing as a skin rash and advanced arthritis. And if that wasn’t bad enough, the virus has mutated
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New Book for Review: “Key of Sea” by Mary Stella

Mary Stella, will be touring January 3rd – 13th with her romance novel, Key of Sea ! In her youth, Dora Lee Hanson set her dreams on distant goals. A more exciting life waited, if not over the rainbow, then at least somewhere out of the quiet Florida Keys. The twenty-something beauty left home for a modeling career, but a wealthy magnate swept her off her ostrich-plumed mules. Unfortunately, after more than a dozen years of marriage, the wicked wretch kicked her to the curb. Facing a very uncertain future, she returns to her beloved grandfather and the home she eagerly left behind all those years before. Successful Keys
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New Book for Review: “All Keyed Up” by Mary Stella

Mary Stella will be touring January 3rd-13th with her romance novel All Keyed Up! A Man with a Plan At home in the Florida Keys on medical leave, undercover agent Jack Benton is on a mission to save his beloved aunt’s failing dolphin facility. He’s positive he can close a seven-figure land development deal, until his sassy Aunt Ruby accepts the proposal of world renowned marine mammal scientist Dr. Vic Sheffield. Against his better judgment, Jack must cooperate with the project or break Ruby’s heart. A Woman with a Dream Things aren’t what they seem. More than the Keys temperature heats up when Dr. Victoria Sheffield finesses her way
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Patient Zero Virtual Book Publicity Tour February 2012

Join Jim Beck, author of the horror/zombie/drama novel, Patient Zero(Black Rooster Creations), as he virtually tours the blogosphere February 6-29 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! 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
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All Keyed Up and Key of Sea Virtual Book Publicity Tour January 2012

Join Mary Stella, author of the romance novels, All Keyed Up and Key of Sea (Medallion Press), as she virtually tours the blogosphere January 3rd – 13th on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Mary Stella A voracious book fan since first learning to read, Mary Stella fell in love with romance novels while pursuing her English degree decades ago. A professional writer since someone first paid her to write radio commercials while she was still in college, she always dreamed of writing a book someday. Eventually, she realized that a book wouldn’t spring fully written from her brain so she’d better get cracking. All
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The Public Pretender Virtual Book Publicity Tour February 2012

Join M.D. Cliatt, author of the legal thriller, The Public Pretender (CreateSpace), as she virtually tours the blogosphere February 6 -February 17 2012 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About M.D. Cliatt M. D. Cliatt is a wife and a mother of two teenage boys. She lives in Central Pennsylvania where she is a staff attorney in a law school clinical program, and an adjunct law professor who teaches juvenile justice and legal writing. She used to be a public defender specializing in representing children, and for the most part, loved the work. She thrived in the heat of courtroom battle, but the highs
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New Book for Review: Espionage Thriller ‘Age of Intolerance’ by Peyman Pejman

Peyman Pejman will be touring January 3 – February 27, 2012 with his espionage thriller Age of Intolerance! Age of Intolerance is both an espionage thriller tackling a serious and newsworthy current affairs topic and heart-warming saga of a relationship between estranged brother and sister, each having pledged allegiance to a political master bent on defeating the other. Charles Shahin is a American journalist of Iranian descent whom the Central Intelligence Agency convinces to become a spy, skirting a long-held tradition that spy agencies not recruit reporters. Pretending to be a reporter for a US-based Internet newsgathering site, Shahin settles in sleepy Cyprus, long the center of spies and
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Age of Intolerance Virtual Book Publicity Tour January & February 2012

Join Peyman Pejman, author of the espionage thriller, Age of Intolerance (CreateSpace), as he virtually tours the blogosphere January 3 -February 27 2012 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About 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
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New Book for Review: Self-Help/Spirituality ‘Anger Mastery:Get Angry, Get Happy’ by Kevin Burk

Kevin Burk will be touring February 13-April 13, 2012 with his self-help/spirituality book, Anger Mastery: Get Angry, Get Happy! Author Kevin B. Burk wants to make you angry. Burk believes that getting angry is the first step to happiness, and his newest book, Anger Mastery: Get Angry, Get Happy shows you how. “Anger is like fire,” says Burk. “When you master it, it’s a powerful source of energy. If you don’t master it, however, it can be dangerous and destructive.” More importantly, Burk asserts, until you master your anger, other people will steal your energy, your power, and your ability to be happy. The Anger Mastery Process has three
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How to Grow Apples in the Southern U.S. Virtual Book Publicity Tour January 2012

Join Trey Watson, author of the gardening book, How to Grow Apples in the Southern U.S. (CreateSpace), as he virtually tours the blogosphere January 3- 13 2012 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Trey Watson Trey Watson is a small businessman living in eastern Texas. For almost two decades he has gardened (sometimes successfully) in a region with hot summers and winters that are either too cold or not cold enough. In 2006 he began a nursery operation that specializes in fruit trees for warm climates. During that same year, he began marketing apple trees to southern gardeners and was met with incredulous
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Nuclear Romance Virtual Book Publicity Tour February and March 2012

Join Abby Luby, author of the literal fiction novel, Nuclear Romance (CreateSpace), as she virtually tours the blogosphere February 6 -March 30 2012 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! 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
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with Author J.S. Dunn

About J.S. Dunn J.S. Dunn resided in Ireland during the past decade, and from there pursued early Bronze Age culture along the Atlantic coasts of Spain, France, Wales, and Ireland. In 2006, the author attended the Dover Boat symposium (UK) regarding the earliest known Atlantic plank boat. The research for BENDING THE BOYNE yielded many friends in diverse fields including archaeology, geology, and Bronze Age tool-making. This is a debut novel and won the 2011 Next Generation Indie Award for historical fiction. Find out more about the author visit http://www.jsdunnbooks.com or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bending-The-Boyne/192198197473429 About Bending the Boyne The great Boyne passage mounds are older than the Pyramids,
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Little Did I Know Virtual Book Publicity Tour February & March 2012

Join Mitchell Maxwell, author of the historical fiction coming of age novel, Little Did I Know (Prospecta Press), as he virtually tours the blogosphere February 6th to March 30, 2012 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Mitchell Maxwell Mitchell Maxwell is an accomplished producer, director and 35-year veteran of the entertainment industry, known for his ability to spot the next theatrical innovation. He is the visionary producer behind the percussive theatricality of Stomp!, the rollicking Broadway revival of Damn Yankees featuring the legendary Jerry Lewis – which was nominated for multiple Tony Awards including Best Revival of a Musical – and the Pulitzer
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New Book for Review: Contemporary Fiction/Drama ‘Family Rules’

Vincent Tuckwood will be touring January 2nd through the 27th ’12 with his contemporary fiction/drama novel, Family Rules: A Novel (iUniverse). New York. In this city that never sleeps, anyone could make a brand new start of it. Or so the song goes. For some people, starting again is no option. Kenny is adrift in the city, tormented by the scars and memories of his unique upbringing as a child star in the UK, chasing any addiction that can fill the void he carries at his core. Increasingly unable to paper over the cracks, to numb himself with street corner narcotics, or build an abiding relationship with his junkie
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New Book For Review: Christian Non-Fiction/Women’s Issues ‘Mission Possible: Spiritual Covering’ by Deborah McCarragher

Deborah McCarragher will be touring December 5th through December 16th with her Christian Non-fiction/Women’s Issues book, Mission Possible: Spiritual Covering(Alabaster Box Publishing). Women, are you in an unequally-yoked marriage? Are you tired of attending church alone? Do you yearn for a relationship with your husband that’s spiritually satisfying? You can influence your home for Christ even within a spiritually mismatched marriage. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to stand in the gap for your mate’s soul. This small book is a powerful tool for any woman who is married to a man who does not share her passion for Jesus. It will encourage and challenge the
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Mission Possible Spiritual Covering Virtual Book Publicity Tour December 2011

Join Deborah McCarragher, author of the Christian Non-fiction/Women’s Issues book, Mission Possible: Spiritual Covering(Alabaster Box Publishing), as she virtually tours the blogosphere December 5-16 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Deborah McCarragher Author Deborah McCarragher began her journey of creative writing soon after coming to know Jesus as her personal Savior in 1989. She enjoys using her spiritual gifts of encouragement and teaching. Deborah served on the board of a local intercessory prayer ministry, and has been active in her home church and various women’s bible studies for several years. Her primary goal is to share her personal testimony with others while bringing
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Family Rules Virtual Book Publicity Tour January 2012

Join Vincent Tuckwood, author of the contemporary fiction/drama novel, Family Rules: A Novel (View Beyond LLC), as he virtually tours the blogosphere January 2-27 2012 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About 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
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with author Rachel Greer

About Rachel Greer Rachel Greer was born in Milwaukeee, Wisconsin on October 25th, 1992.  In her teen years, she loved to recite Maya Angelou poems in the after school activity of Forensics. Her favorite poem to recite was, Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou. She loved the confidence Ms. Angelou had. Rachel strives everyday to be the phenomenal young woman that she is. Rachel attended a suburban school in the state of Wisconsin. She managed to graduate 1 year early from high school and pushed on to college. She currently attends a technical school in her area with desires to earn a Associate’s Degree is Business Management. While being an
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Queen Vernitas Visits the Islands of Enchantment Virtual Book Publicity Tour December 2011

Join Dawn Menge, author of the children’s book, Queen Vernitas Visits the Islands of Enchantment (Outskirts Press), as she virtually tours the blogosphere December 5 – 16 2011 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Dawn Menge Dawn Menge is the mother of three children and three grandchildren. She has a Masters and clear Credential in special Education from California State University San Bernardino. She is currently a PHD candidate in Curriculum and Instruction through Capella University. She has been working in the education field for fifteen years. She is currently the director of the Snowline Young Adult Center for the San Bernardino County
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with David Rocklin, author of “The Luminist”

David Rocklin is an attorney and a mediator.  He graduated from Indiana University with a BA in Literature.  He lives in California with his wife and children.  The Luminist is his first novel. You can visit his website at http://www.davidrocklin.com Connect with him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/#!/drocklin or Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Luminist/197726206912766 The Interview Thank you for this interview, David. Do you remember writing stories as a child or did the writing bug come later? Do you remember your first published piece? I’ve been writing since I was a kid. It’s how I’ve always made sense of the world, and my place in it. I think my first ‘published’ piece was a
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Blue by Lou Aronica Virtual Book Publicity Tour March 2012

Join Lou Aronica, author of the fantasy novel, Blue (The Fiction Studio), as he virtually tours the blogosphere in March ’12 on his second virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Lou Aronica Lou Aronica is the author of several novels and works of nonfiction, including the New York Times bestseller, The Element (written with Ken Robinson) and the national bestseller, The Culture Code (written with Clotaire Rapaille). He lives in Southern Connecticut with his wife and four children. To find out more about Lou or to learn more about Blue visit The Fiction Studio About Blue Chris Astor is a man in his early forties who
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Murder on the Down Low Virtual Book Publicity Tour January & February 2012

Join Pamela Samuels Young, author of the legal thriller, Murder on the Down Low (Goldman House Publishing), as she virtually tours the blogosphere in January and February on her 13th virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Pamela Samuels Young Corporate attorney Pamela Samuels Young has always abided by the philosophy that you create the change you want to see. Fed up with never seeing women or people of color depicted as savvy, hot shot attorneys in the legal thrillers she read, Pamela decided to create her own characters. Despite the demands of a busy legal career, Pamela accomplished her ambitious goal by rising at four in
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with Marta Perry, author of “Katie’s Way”

A lifetime spent in rural Pennsylvania, where she still lives, and her own Pennsylvania Dutch roots led Marta Perry to write about the Plain People and their rich heritage in her current novels. The author of more than forty novels, with over five million copies of her books in print, Marta is active in her church and community. She is a member of Romance Writers of America, American Christian Fiction Writers, and Pennwriters. When she’s not writing, she and her husband enjoy traveling, gardening, and visiting their six beautiful grandchildren. For more information, visit Marta on the web at www.martaperry.com, on Facebook at Marta Perry Books, and check out
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Pump Up Chats with Robert Nelson, author of “Realize Real Eyez Real Liez”

Robert Nelson was born and raised in Garner, North Carolina where he earned the connections and street credibility needed to bring a sense of authenticity to his work. Consequentially, this lead to his stay in the luxurious NC-DOC where through a lot of retrospection he developed a strategy to defeat what he had become. Through the guidance of the Aryan Brotherhood and the variety of other hardened criminals he  played cards with he focused his energy into developing his skills as a writer to keep the youth from making the same mistakes he did. If he can open just one pair of eyes through his writing, everything he’s put
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with KJ Steele, author of “No Story to Tell”

About KJ Steele KJ Steele is an emerging writer who has learned that the process is not so much about choosing what to write as it is about having the courage to write what chooses to be written. Having spent the first half of her life creating an amazing family with her husband, Victor, she intends to spend the rest of it creating equally amazing fiction. You can find out more about her and her book by visiting her website at http://kjsteele.com, on Twitter at http://twitter.com/KJSteele4 and on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/No-Story-to-Tell/122592254511039 About No Story to Tell Victoria Lackey, a once extraordinarily promising dancer, now finds herself mired down in a joyless
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Rise of the Vampire Virtual Book Publicity Tour December ’11 and January ’12

Join Joann Harris, author of the horror novel Rise of the Vampire (Esquire Publications), as she virtually tours the blogosphere December 5 -16, 2011 and January 2-13, 2012 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Joann Harris Joann was born in Durham, North Carolina. She has three wonderful children. She started writing at the age of nine years old, just little stories, and really got into horror at the age of nineteen. It was at that point that she knew she was meant to be a horror writer, even though she tried to write other genres. Rise of the Vampire is her first book.
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New Book for Review: Light Under the House

Aaron L will be touring December 5 – 16 with his Christian fantasy historical suspense novel Light Under the House. Light Under the House is the saga of an American family—the Levis, a family of secrets. None greater than the secret of what lies under their house, a secret that could destroy them. A secret that an ancient evil will stop at nothing to uncover. The novel follows the Levi family line for a generation, creating a story that explores lives lived in the aftermath of the cultural rebellion of the late 1960’s. It is a historical fiction novel that shows the power of consequence and the hope of
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New Book for Review: CyberLife

W.H. Buxton will be touring December 5, 2011-February 17, 2012 with his fantasy science fiction novel CyberLife. The year is 2069 and Jim Murphy thinks he has the world pretty much figured out, as a Knowledge Management Consultant (whatever that is!) muddling through various technology consulting jobs. That is, until his company, SciPop Inc., assigns him to work a particularly unusual project involving the acquisition of a small backpacking and hiking services business owned by techno-hater Laura Meyers. Jim, however, never works alone. He, like everyone else in the world, is armed with the ultimate technology super-support tool: a personalized, artificially intelligent, holographic Virtual Life form, more commonly known
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Light Under the House Virtual Book Publicity Tour December 2011

Join Aaron L, author of the Christian fantasy historical suspense novel Light Under the House (Ravensbrook Press), as he virtually tours the blogosphere December 5 -16 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Aaron L Aaron L might be a newcomer to the creation of Christian fiction but is not one when it comes to the arts and all things creative. He spent a lot of his time drawing as a kid, growing up in many places, from Seattle to South Africa. Aaron always knew that his future lay in this field. In 2010, he graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree
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CyberLife Virtual Book Publicity Tour December, January and February

Join W.H. Buxton, author of the fantasy science fiction novel CyberLife (Bennett and Hastings Publishing), as he virtually tours the blogosphere December 5, 2011 – February 14, 2012 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About W.H. Buxton Winslow Buxton is a retired Navy Commander and helicopter pilot who received his Masters of Science in Information Technology and Management from the Navy Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. After retiring from the Navy, he worked as a Knowledge Systems Architect Consultant, helping multiple Navy and Air Force Commands initiate and develop their Knowledge Management Programs. He currently resides in Gulf Breeze, Florida with his wife, Bonnie.
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