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{Adventure Travel} Round the Bend Blog Tour Sign Up

Alistair McGuiness will be touring September 4 – 29 with his adventure travel book, Round the Bend: From Luton to Peru to Ningaloo, a Search for Life After Redundancy! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback & ebook) Interviews Author Guest Posts Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 48 hours. Thank you!   From the Amazon to the Andes and Kilimanjaro to Cape Town. This adventure story captures the reality and exhilaration of leaving home to undertake Gap Year travel in South America, Africa, Fiji and Australia. Three things happened simultaneously. The lioness charged, Alistair fled
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{Mystery} Behind You Blog Tour Sign Up

Carly M. Duncan will be returning September 4 – 29 with her mystery, Behind You! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback) Interviews Author Guest Posts Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 48 hours. Thank you!   When a mysterious attack lands Heather in the hospital on the brink of death, her family rushes to her side. Through an inconvenient maze of shadowed memory and family secrets, Heather can trust only herself to discover if her husband, parents, sister or aunt tried to kill her. During the course of their own narratives, each character confesses to their
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First Chapter: I Wish by E.B. Tatby

Title: I Wish Author: E.B. Tatby Publisher: Dream Tag Pages: 329 Genre: YA/Fantasy Format: Kindle Purchase at AMAZON All her life, sixteen-year-old Kenza Atlas has heard the stories, but she never believed them. She never expected the allure of power or, worse, how far the dark shadows could cast. Genies and wishing are for fairy tales, not teenage girls, and especially not in Omaha. But when a Moroccan jinn with undulating tattoos and mysterious black eyes whisks her 500 years back in time, she witnesses the death of her powerful ancestor and the gorgeous slave she loved. They sacrificed themselves to escape the Caliph, a tyrant named Mazin. And
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{Southern Women’s Fiction} Palmetto Moon Blog Tour Sign Up

Kim Boykin will be touring August 4 – October 31 with her southern women’s fiction, Palmetto Moon! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback) Interviews Author Guest Posts Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 48 hours. Thank you!   June, 1947. Charleston is poised to celebrate the biggest wedding in high-society history, the joining of two of the oldest families in the city. Except the bride is nowhere to be found…Unlike the rest of the debs she grew up with, Vada Hadley doesn’t see marrying Justin McLeod as a blessing—she sees it as a life sentence.
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{YA Fantasy} I Wish Blog Tour Sign Up

E.B. Tatby will be touring August 4-29 with her YA fantasy, I Wish! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback or ebook) Interviews Author Guest Posts Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 48 hours. Thank you!   All her life, sixteen-year-old Kenza Atlas has heard the stories, but she never believed them. She never expected the allure of power or, worse, how far the dark shadows could cast. Genies and wishing are for fairy tales, not teenage girls, and especially not in Omaha. But when a Moroccan jinn with undulating tattoos and mysterious black eyes whisks
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Double Blind Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Tiffany Pitts‘ Double Blind virtual book tour August 4-29! Title: Double Blind Author: Tiffany Pitts Publisher: Booktrope Editions Pages: 280 Genre: Action/Adventure/Humor/Sci-fi Format: Paperback/Kindle Delilah Pelham’s brother, Paul, is missing. She should probably be worried about that but honestly, he’s been in trouble since the day he learned the words “trust me.” In fact, if it weren’t for his roommate, Carl, she would gladly leave him to his fate. Carl is a good guy, even if he’s a bit of a dork. Okay, a large slice of a dork. Possibly the entire cake. But he wants to help, as do
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{Memoir} Moonflower: A Memoir of Healing Blog Tour Sign Up

Tara Edin will be touring August 4-29 with her memoir, Moonflower: A Memoir of Healing! We are looking for: Reviews (ebook) Interviews Author Guest Posts Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 48 hours. Thank you!   Moonflower is Part Memoir, Part Self-Help and Part Spiritual Odyssey. Tara is an incest, rape and sexual abuse survivor, who suffered from PTSD for many years but was misdiagnosed with mental illnesses instead. This took her down a near-fatal path ultimately ending in an accident, which nearly claimed her life at age 29. Most only know the abridged version of
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Agben School Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jo Sparkes’ The Agben School virtual book tour July 24 – August 22! Title: The Agben School Author: Jo Sparkes Publisher: Oscar Press Pages: 384 Genre: Fantasy Format: Paperback Agben had stood for a thousand years. A mysterious school housing more than students, it was the seat of the powerful Women of Agben, and the center for harnessing the potency of herbs. Few knew all that transpired within the walls. And now Marra stood at its gate. Friends and support stripped from her, the fragile life she’d built for herself now lay in tatters. And the source of this evil
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First Chapter: The Agben School by Jo Sparkes

Title: The Agben School Author: Jo Sparkes Publisher: Oscar Press Pages: 384 Genre: Fantasy Format: Paperback Purchase at AMAZON Agben had stood for a thousand years. A mysterious school housing more than students, it was the seat of the powerful Women of Agben, and the center for harnessing the potency of herbs. Few knew all that transpired within the walls. And now Marra stood at its gate. Friends and support stripped from her, the fragile life she’d built for herself now lay in tatters. And the source of this evil hunted her like a deer culled from the herd. The gateway before her was her only hope. For as
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Academy Series Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Aubrey Coletti’s The Academy Series virtual book tour July 7-31! Title: Altered Author: Aubrey Coletti Publisher: Escape Artist Press Pages: 272 Genre: YA Thriller/Sci-Fi Format: Paperback/Kindle When Toni, Joseph and Charlie arrive at their new boarding school, they are glad to leave their families — and respective problems — behind. Isolated as boarders, they meet a handsome senior with a personality like iced snake’s blood, teachers with a penchant for physical punishment, and four other outcasts who reveal that their being brought to the Academy wasn’t random at all. When the arrivals discover that their new school is engaged in
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Murder at Eastern Columbia Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Christopher Geoffrey McPherson’s Murder at Eastern Columbia virtual book tour July 7-31! Title: Murder at Eastern Columbia Author: Christopher Geoffrey McPherson Publisher: Christopher Geoffrey McPherson Pages: 210 Genre: Historical Detective Format: Paperback/Kindle Los Angeles. 1931. Your name is James Murray. You are a clerk in the Junior Boy’s department at the swankest new department store in downtown. You want to be a writer, but there’s a Depression on. Suddenly, you find yourself trying to solve the murder of your best friend. Will you be able to find the murderer before it’s too late? “Murder at Eastern Columbia” is two novels
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Looks Like Trouble To Me Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Calinda B’s Looks Like Trouble To Me virtual book tour July 7-31! Title: Looks Like Trouble To Me Author: Calinda B Publisher: Calinda B Pages: 313 Genre: Erotic Romance/Romantic Suspense Format: Kindle “Last name’s Savage — it means wild and uncontrolled,” Jace, a party boy, yacht builder and skilled photographer with a quicksilver temper, tells the pretty waitress at Chica Rios. He’s desperate to get laid, but there’s something in the way of his driving, overactive libido and the girl standing before him – trouble…big trouble, and a whole lot of it, from the trustifarian prick who works by his
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Renewal “Anytime” 10 Day Detox Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lisa Consiglio Ryan’s Renewal “Anytime” 10 Day Detox virtual book tour July 7-31! Title: Renewal “Anytime” 10 Day Detox Author: Lisa Consiglio Ryan Publisher: Lisa Consiglio Ryan Pages: 118 Genre: Health/Wellness/Cookbook Format: Kindle Lose weight, energize, and glow with over 50 recipes and complete 10 day detox plan. This whole foods cleanse includes detailed menu plan, shopping list, and bonus recipes to make after your cleanse. Renewal “Anytime” also includes pre-detox plan, daily instructions, FAQ’s, and post-detox next steps. For More Information Renewal “Anytime” 10 Day Detox is available at Amazon. Download your copy at iTunes. Discuss this book at
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Pump Up Your Book Presents 41 Strange Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Diane Doniol-Valcroze & Arthur K. Flam’s 41 Strange virtual book tour July 7-31! Title: 41 Strange Author: Diane Doniol-Valcroze & Arthur K. Flam Publisher: Diane Doniol-Valcroze & Arthur K. Flam Pages: 150 Genre: Short Story Anthology Format: Kindle 41 STRANGE, a first-of-its-kind e-book anthology devoted exclusively to “short-short stories of the strange and horrifying,” awaits just a couple of clicks away for Kindle readers who enjoy a good shiver up their spines. 41 STRANGE is the bizarre debut collection of authors/screenwriters Diane Doniol-Valcroze and Arthur K. Flam, who deliver a reading experience in the spirit of such masters of the
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Return to Love Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Kathleen Shoop’s Return to Love virtual book tour July 7-31! Title: Return to Love Author: Kathleen Shoop Publisher: Oakglen Press Pages: 261 Genre: Romance Format: Paperback/Kindle April and Hale Abercrombie’s love is tender and sweet. While he serves in Vietnam, their marriage is marked by trust and the belief that they will grow old together with a gaggle of grandchildren at their feet. But, their charmed marriage changes in the face of losing their newborn daughter. On leave from his tour, Hale can barely wait to hold his wife and her help her heal. When he arrives, his embrace, his
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First Chapter: Return to Love by Kathleen Shoop

Title: Return to Love Author: Kathleen Shoop Publisher: Oakglen Press Pages: 261 Genre: Romance Format: Paperback/Kindle Purchase at AMAZON April and Hale Abercrombie’s love is tender and sweet. While he serves in Vietnam, their marriage is marked by trust and the belief that they will grow old together with a gaggle of grandchildren at their feet. But, their charmed marriage changes in the face of losing their newborn daughter. On leave from his tour, Hale can barely wait to hold his wife and her help her heal. When he arrives, his embrace, his touch, and his love are as perfect as April remembered. Their reunion is passionate and their
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The New Reality Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Stephen Martino’s The New Reality virtual book tour July 7-31! Title: The New Reality Author: Stephen Martino Publisher: Light Messages Pages: 333 Genre: Thriller Format: Paperback/Kindle Alex Pella, an acclaimed neuroscientist and the hero of the new medical thriller, THE NEW REALITY, finds himself racing across the globe to find a cure for a rapidly spreading illness threatening to end all of humanity. To combat this worldwide pandemic, Pella and his colleagues must use modern science in an attempt to decipher a code hidden by God within the original pages of the Bible. THE NEW REALITY is the first book
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Secrets of Hallstead House Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Amy M. Reade’s SECRETS OF HALLSTEAD HOUSE virtual book tour July 17 – August 15! Title: Secrets of Hallstead House Author: Amy M. Reade Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp. Pages: 255 Genre: Romantic Suspense Format: Kindle “You are not wanted here. Go away from Hallstead Island or you will be very sorry you stayed.” Macy Stoddard, a nurse from Manhattan, comes to Hallstead Island in the North Country of New York to escape a haunting pain.  It is here that Macy discovers secrets that were not meant to be shared – secrets that reach back into Macy’s past and that will change her future and the futures of the
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{Action/Adventure/Humor/Sci-Fi} Double Blind Blog Tour Sign Up

Tiffany Pitts will be touring August 4-29 with her action/adventure/humor/sci-fi novel, Double Blind! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback or ebook) Interviews Author Guest Posts Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 48 hours. Thank you!   Delilah Pelham’s brother, Paul, is missing. She should probably be worried about that but honestly, he’s been in trouble since the day he learned the words “trust me.” In fact, if it weren’t for his roommate, Carl, she would gladly leave him to his fate. Carl is a good guy, even if he’s a bit of a dork. Okay,
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{Fantasy} The Agben School Blog Tour Sign Up

Jo Sparkes will be returning July 24 – August 22 with her fantasy, The Agben School! We are looking for: Reviews (ARC paperback or ebook) Interviews Author Guest Posts Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 48 hours. Thank you!   Agben had stood for a thousand years. A mysterious school housing more than students, it was the seat of the powerful Women of Agben, and the center for harnessing the potency of herbs. Few knew all that transpired within the walls. And now Marra stood at its gate. Friends and support stripped from her, the
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Ash to Steele Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Karen-Anne Stewart’s ASH TO STEELE virtual book tour July 7 – September 26! Title: Ash to Steele Author: Karen-Anne Stewart Publisher: Karen-Anne Stewart Pages: 342 Genre: New Adult Romance Format: Paperback/Kindle Emma Who I am and all I believe is marred with just one glance into angry, steel blue eyes. He seems to control my air, my ability to breathe. He makes me crave everything I know is a sin. Pure becomes tainted and lines are blurred. It’s my fault; I’m the one who isn’t strong enough. I’ve been damaged…broken. Breck’s words haunt me…’There’s a consequence for every choice you
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First Chapter: Ash to Steele by Karen-Anne Stewart

Title: Ash to Steele Author: Karen-Anne Stewart Publisher: Karen-Anne Stewart Pages: 342 Genre: New Adult Romance Format: Paperback/Kindle Purchase at AMAZON Emma Who I am and all I believe is marred with just one glance into angry, steel blue eyes. He seems to control my air, my ability to breathe. He makes me crave everything I know is a sin. Pure becomes tainted and lines are blurred. It’s my fault; I’m the one who isn’t strong enough. I’ve been damaged…broken. Breck’s words haunt me…’There’s a consequence for every choice you make.’ Breck I’ve had so many women I can’t even remember over half of their names, but none of
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Kaira Rouda #1 Amazon Bestseller for ‘In the Mirror’

I am so excited to announce Kaira Rouda made Amazon’s #1 bestseller list for IN THE MIRROR during her virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! Congratulations, Kaira! Title: In the Mirror Author: Kaira Rouda Publisher: Real You Publishing Group Pages: 214 Genre: Women’s Fiction Format: Paperback/Kindle What choices would you make if you knew you might die soon? From the multi award-winning, best-selling author of four books, including Here, Home, Hope, a gripping and heart wrenching novel about a young mother who has it all. The only problem is she may be dying. In her previous works including All the Difference, Rouda’s characters “sparkle with humor and
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Pump Up Your Book Presents When Shmack Happens Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Amner Nebeen’s When Shmack Happens virtual book tour July 7 -31! Title:  When Shmack Happens: The Making of a Spiritual Champion Author: Amber Neben Genre: Christian nonfiction/inspirational stories/sports autobiography Paperback: 172 pages Publisher: Neben Px4 (March 18, 2014) ISBN-10: 0991303008 ISBN-13: 978-0991303007 Have you ever been through a hard time in life? Ever wondered why bad things happen? Amber Neben has you covered. The 2x Olympic cyclist for Team USA knows a thing or two about shmack- her word for describing adversity that comes our way in life. Follow Amber’s journey as she overcomes major obstacles both on and off the bike-and
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{Contemporary Fiction} Meet Me in Barcelona Blog Tour Sign Up

Mary Carter will be returning August 4 – October 31 with her contemporary fiction, Meet Me in Barcelona!  Mary will be giving away a 3 book set (My Sister’s Voice, Three Months in Florence and Sunnyside Blues) at the end of her tour.  All bloggers who host the book tour are eligible to enter and win.  This tour also comes with a one day book blitz on July 29. We are looking for: Reviews (paperback) Interviews Author Guest Posts Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 48 hours. Thank you!   A surprise trip to Barcelona
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with Jermaine Gadson, author of ‘Tactics, Trends, and Traits of the Enemy’

Jermaine Gadson is the Senior Pastor of Faith Ministries, Inc., a non-traditional church located in Birmingham, AL. Prior to starting Faith Ministries, he served as an associate minister, youth minister, and pastor for local churches and ministries in the greater Birmingham area. While, growing up in the Baptist church, he gave his life to Christ at an early age, and is a third generation minister of the Gospel. He holds a B.A. in Religion with a Concentration in Congregational Studies and a Minor in Classics from Samford University, and a Master of Divinity from Beeson Divinity School of Samford University. He is currently a Doctor of Ministry student at
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First Chapter: Palmetto Moon by Kim Boykin

Title: Palmetto Moon Author: Kim Boykin Publisher: Berkely Trade Pages: 320 Genre: Southern Women’s Fiction Format: Paperback/Kindle Purchase at AMAZON June, 1947. Charleston is poised to celebrate the biggest wedding in high-society history, the joining of two of the oldest families in the city. Except the bride is nowhere to be found…Unlike the rest of the debs she grew up with, Vada Hadley doesn’t see marrying Justin McLeod as a blessing—she sees it as a life sentence. So when she finds herself one day away from a wedding she doesn’t want, she’s left with no choice but to run away from the future her parents have so carefully planned
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First Chapter: Meet Me in Barcelona by Mary Carter

Title: Meet Me in Barcelona Author: Mary Carter Publisher: Kensington Pages: 352 Genre: Mainstream fiction Format: Paperback/Kindle/MP3 CD, Audiobook, MP3 Audo, Unabridged Purchase at AMAZON A surprise trip to Barcelona with her boyfriend, Jake, seems like the perfect antidote to Grace Sawyer’s current woes. The city is dazzling and unpredictable, but the biggest surprise for Grace is discovering who arranged and paid for the vacation. Carrie Ann wasn’t just Grace’s foster sister. Clever, pretty, and mercurial, she was her best friend—until everything went terribly wrong. Now, as she flees an abusive marriage, Carrie Ann has turned to the one person she hopes will come through for her. Despite her
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{Paranormal Romance Time Travel} Rowena and the Viking Warlord Blog Tour Sign Up

Melodie Campbell will be touring August 4-29 with her paranormal romance time travel, Rowena and the Viking Warlord! We are looking for: Reviews (ebook only) Interviews Author Guest Posts Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 48 hours. Thank you!   He was her enemy and her lover…   As Cedric fights battles down south, Rowena unwittingly rides into an enemy war camp and is taken prisoner by her old friend Lars, who is not what he seems. Yet Rowena is not helpless. After all, she is a hereditary half-witch with a whole lot of magic
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{Memoir} Sister Surrendered Blog Tour Sign Up

Darla M. Grese will be touring August 4-29 with her memoir, Sister Surrendered! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback) Interviews Author Guest Posts Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 48 hours. Thank you!   When you’re a twin, loneliness is somewhat unfamiliar because you’ve always had each other. So when a twin passes, the other is left unprepared. Our loyalty was steadfast and our devotion to one another, solid. Our love was unconditional no matter what the circumstances. I’m so grateful every day for the memories of the joy and laughter that we shared together.
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