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First Chapter: Sister Surrendered by Darla M. Grese

Title: Sister Surrendered Author: Darla M. Grese Publisher: Darla M. Grese Pages: 210 Genre: Memoir Format: Paperback / Kindle Purchase at AMAZON 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. I know the bond that Kelli and I shared is impossible for anyone to replace. This memoir has become something so much more than initially intended.
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{Paranormal Mystery} Divine Sanctuary Blog Tour Sign Up

Cheryl Kaye Tardif will be touring August 4-29 with her paranormal mystery/crime/thriller/romance, Divine Sanctuary! 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! There’s no place like home… In the Divine trilogy finale, the heat is tripled when CFBI Agent Jasi McLellan must rescue Emily, the ghost girl that haunts her dreams; expose her own mother’s killer; and uncover a murderer that preys on the weak at Sanctuary, a controversial cult nestled in the woods near Mission, BC. Something insidious lurks behind the
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Devil Made Me Do It Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Colette Harrell’s THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT virtual book tour July 7-31! Title: The Devil Made Me Do It Author: Colette Harrell Publisher: Urban Books/Kensington Pages: 288 Genre: Inspirational fiction Format: Paperback The voluptuous Esther Wiley has always known that she is special. She’s a tiara-wearing, wand-carrying kind of Cinderella princess in disguise. The problem that her very own Fairy Godmother, the Prophetess Mother Reed, struggles with is getting her to live like it. Briggs Stokes is the reluctant heir to his father’s worldwide, multimillion-dollar televangelist ministry, yet he yearns to be his own man. His past mistakes have
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First Chapter: The Devil Made Me Do It by Colette Harrell

Title: The Devil Made Me Do It Author: Colette Harrell Publisher: Urban Books/Kensington Pages: 288 Genre: Inspirational fiction Format: Paperback Purchase at AMAZON The voluptuous Esther Wiley has always known that she is special. She’s a tiara-wearing, wand-carrying kind of Cinderella princess in disguise. The problem that her very own Fairy Godmother, the Prophetess Mother Reed, struggles with is getting her to live like it. Briggs Stokes is the reluctant heir to his father’s worldwide, multimillion-dollar televangelist ministry, yet he yearns to be his own man. His past mistakes have caused him a private life of hurt and loneliness. Esther and Briggs meet and develop a deep soul connection,
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{Health/Wellness/Cookbook} Renewal “Anytime” 10 Day Detox Blog Tour Sign Up

Lisa Consiglio Ryan will be touring July 7-31 with her health/wellness/cookbook, Renewal “Anytime” 10 Day Detox! We are looking for: Reviews (ebook only – 118 pp) Interviews 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!   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. Lisa Consiglio Ryan is the founder of Whole Health
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{Inspirational Fiction} The Devil Made Me Do It Blog Tour Sign Up

Colette Harrell will be touring July 7-31 with her inspirational fiction, The Devil Made Me Do It! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback) Interviews 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!   The voluptuous Esther Wiley has always known that she is special. She’s a tiara-wearing, wand-carrying kind of Cinderella princess in disguise. The problem that her very own Fairy Godmother, the Prophetess Mother Reed, struggles with is getting her to live like it. Briggs Stokes is the reluctant heir to his father’s worldwide, multimillion-dollar televangelist ministry, yet he yearns
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{Short Story Anthology} 41 Strange Blog Tour Sign Up

Diane Doniol-Valcroze and Arthur K. Flam will be touring July 7-31 with their short story collection, 41 Strange! We are looking for: Reviews (ebook only) Interviews 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!   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
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Hunting Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Kerry Peresta’s THE HUNTING virtual book tour July 7-31! Title: The Hunting Author: Kerry Peresta Publisher: Pen-L Publishing Pages: 247 Genre: Contemporary Women’s Fiction/Inspirational Format: Paperback/Kindle Isabelle Lewis, top advertising salesperson at the Chatbrook Springs Sentinel newspaper, has a habit of falling in and out of marriage. After her last divorce, she shoved the emotional pain into a compartment in her brain to deal with later. With three teenagers to raise, bills to pay, and sales quotas to meet, introspection was a luxury she could not afford. Her mind needed a happy place. When Isabelle (Izzy) discovered online dating, it
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{Tween/YA Christian Adventure} Escape Through the Wilderness Blog Tour Sign Up

Gary Rodriguez will be touring August 4 – 29 with his tween/young adult Christian adventure novel, Escape Through the Wilderness. We are looking for: Reviews Interviews Author Guest Posts Book Spotlights with Giveaways First Chapter Reveals Video Trailer Reveals Sixteen-year-old Savannah Evans walks with a slight limp thanks to a gymnastics’ accident that dashed her Olympic dreams, but didn’t stop her from attending an adventure camp in Idaho. At Camp Arrowhead, she quickly befriends Jade Chang and Rico Cruz, but Conner Swift taunts Savi because of her injury. When the four are teamed together for an overnight white-water river rafting adventure, Savi refuses to get in the same raft with Conner.
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First Chapter: The Unholy by Paul DeBlassie

Title: The Unholy Author: Paul DeBlassie III Publisher: Sunstone Press Pages: 200 Language: English Genre: Psychological/Paranormal Thriller Format: Paperback/Kindle Purchase at AMAZON A young curandera, a medicine woman, intent on uncovering the secrets of her past is forced into a life-and-death battle against an evil Archbishop. Set in the mystic land of Aztlan, The Unholy is a novel of destiny as healer and slayer. Native lore of dreams and visions, shape changing, and natural magic work to spin a neo-gothic web in which sadness and mystery lure the unsuspecting into a twilight realm of discovery and decision.  First Chapter: A chilly autumn morning wind swept over the grounds of the Ecclesia
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{Romance} Return to Love Blog Tour Sign Up

Kathleen Shoop will be touring July 7-31 with her romance, Return to Love! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback) Interviews Guest Posts Book Spotlights (on romance blogs only) Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 48 hours. Thank you!   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
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First Chapter: The Last Ancient by Eliot Baker

Title: The Last Ancient Author: Eliot Baker Publisher: Burst Books, imprint of Champagne Books Pages: 316 Genre: Supernatural Thriller, Historical Mystery Format: Paperback/Kindle Purchase at AMAZON Around Nantucket Island, brutal crime scenes are peppered with ancient coins, found by the one man who can unlock their meaning. But what do the coins have to do with the crimes? Or the sudden disease epidemic? Even the creature? And who–or what–left them? The answer leads reporter Simon Stephenson on a journey through ancient mythology, numismatics, and the occult. Not to mention his own past, which turns out to be even darker than he’d realized; his murdered father was a feared arms
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First Chapter: The Gifted: How to Live the Life of Your Dreams by Daphne Michaels

Title: The Gifted: How to Live the Life of Your Dreams Author: Daphne Michaels Publisher: Daphne Michaels Books Pages: 130 Genre: Personal Development/Spirituality Format: Paperback / Kindle Purchase at AMAZON In The Gifted: How to Live the Life of Your Dreams author, speaker and licensed psychotherapist Daphne Michaels celebrates the nine gifts that are our birthright, guiding readers in how to recognize and use them to transform their lives.  In her author’s preface, Michaels reveals how her own journey of life transformation began when she was young and realized that human existence wore two conflicting faces–one of love and joy, and one of fear and despair. She decided then
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Boy in a Band Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lisa Loomis’ BOY IN THE BAND virtual book tour July 7-31! Morgan Mallory meets beautiful, sexy, bond haired, blue eyed, Mathew O’Conner, a singer in a rock band, when she’s just a teen. Her instant physical attraction to him completely unnerves her. Their convoluted relationship transcends years, and even when she knows it would be best to stay away from him she can’t seem to stop herself. What is it about the bad boy she seems to love? An edgy coming of age novel that is erotic, entertaining, and deeply moving. The characters will seize you and stay with you
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Gifted Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Daphne Michaels’ The Gifted: How to Live the Life of Your Dreams virtual book tour June 2 – August 29! Title: The Gifted: How to Live the Life of Your Dreams Author: Daphne Michaels Publisher: Daphne Michaels Books Pages: 130 Genre: Personal Development/Spirituality Format: Paperback / Kindle In The Gifted: How to Live the Life of Your Dreams author, speaker and licensed psychotherapist Daphne Michaels celebrates the nine gifts that are our birthright, guiding readers in how to recognize and use them to transform their lives.  In her author’s preface, Michaels reveals how her own journey of life transformation began
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Anvil of God Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you J. Boyce Gleason’s Anvil of God virtual book tour June 2 – July 31! Title: Anvil of God, Book One of the Carolingian Chronicles Author: J. Boyce Gleason Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 440 Genre: Historical Fiction Format: Paperback/Kindle It is 741. After subduing the pagan religions in the east, halting the march of Islam in the west, and conquering the continent for the Merovingian kings, mayor of the palace Charles the Hammer has one final ambition—the throne. Only one thing stands in his way—he is dying. Charles cobbles together a plan to divide the kingdom among his three sons, betroth his
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Shu: The Gnostic Tao Te Ching Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Thomax Green’s The Shu: The Gnostic Tao Te Ching virtual book tour June 2 – 27! Title: The Shu: The Gnostic Tao Te Ching Author: Thomax Green Publisher: CreateSpace Pages: 110 Genre: Spiritualism Format: Paperback/Kindle Author Thomax Green has produced a compelling new book so cosmic in its scope that it has the power to change readers’ lives. THE SHU:  THE GNOSTIC TAO TE CHING is a “modern-day Gnostic work which blends all faiths and sciences into a super belief,” Green says. “With this belief system, you can be a faithful individual without the restrictions and classifications that are imposed
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Book of Dreams Virtual Book Publicity Tour

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Sylvie Michaud’s Book of Dreams virtual book tour June  16-27! Title:  Book of Dreams Author: Sylvie Michaud Genre: Children’s bedtime stories Paperback: 24 pages Publisher: Crafty Canuck, Inc. (March 28, 2012) ISBN-13: 978-0-9782955-8-5 (Print Soft Cover) Kindle: B00BTPBX0Q Book of Dreams sees Baby Raccoon’s parents use clouds to share their dreams of a better future. In the story, Mama and Papa use clouds to share their dreams about a healthy planet and vibrant future for Baby Ringtail. In the book, Baby Ringtail asks Mama and Papa, “Why is every cloud a different shape?” “Clouds are pictures in the sky that help
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  • May 28, 2014
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Burdened Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Peiri Ann’s Burdened virtual book tour June 2 – 27! Title: Burdened Author: Peiri Ann Publisher: Peiri Ann Pages: 246 Genre: Paranormal Romance New Adult Format: Paperback/Kindle Tracey Warren has everything an eighteen year old girl should. She lives a life of expectancies; go to school, please her parents, party with friends, and revel in life as a young adult. That is until she experiences an unexpected life changing accident caused by Nathan Newcomb; an illegally attractive yet perplexed guy who has her fumbling over her words and cracking her head on the concrete. In being enthralled by his overwhelming
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First Chapter: Burdened by Peiri Ann

Title: Burdened Author: Peiri Ann Publisher: Peiri Ann Pages: 246 Genre: Paranormal Romance New Adult Format: Paperback/Kindle Purchase at AMAZON Tracey Warren has everything an eighteen year old girl should. She lives a life of expectancies; go to school, please her parents, party with friends, and revel in life as a young adult. That is until she experiences an unexpected life changing accident caused by Nathan Newcomb; an illegally attractive yet perplexed guy who has her fumbling over her words and cracking her head on the concrete. In being enthralled by his overwhelming existence, Tracey neglects his promise of death (which never falls short of Nathan) and in ignoring
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  • May 28, 2014
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Pump Up Your Book Presents In the Mirror Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Kaira Rouda’s In the Mirror virtual book tour June 2 – August 29! 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 heart,” and the stories are “told with
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First Chapter: In the Mirror by Kaira Rouda

Title: In the Mirror Author: Kaira Rouda Publisher: Real You Publishing Group Pages: 214 Genre: Women’s Fiction Format: Paperback/Kindle Purchase at AMAZON 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 heart,” and the stories are “told with honest insight and humor” (Booklist). “Inspirational and engaging” (ForeWord), these are the novels you’ll turn to for strong female
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{Historical Detective} Murder at Eastern Columbia Blog Tour Sign Up

Christopher Geoffrey McPherson will be touring July 7 – 31 with his historical detective book, Murder at Eastern Columbia! We are looking for: Reviews (ebook only) Interviews 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!   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
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  • May 25, 2014
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Tea Shop on Lavender Lane Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Sheila Roberts’ The Tea Shop on Lavender Lane virtual book tour June 16 – July 31! Title: The Teashop on Lavender Lane Author: Sheila Roberts Publisher: Harlequin Mira Pages: 352 Genre: Women’s Fiction/Romance Format: Paperback/Kindle When it comes to men, sisters don’t share!  After a fake food poisoning incident in L.A., Bailey Sterling’s dreams of becoming a caterer to the stars collapse faster than a soufflé. Now Bailey’s face is in all the gossip rags and her business is in ruins. But the Sterling women close ranks and bring her back to Icicle Falls, where she’ll stay with her sister
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  • May 25, 2014
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First Chapter: The Tea Shop on Lavender Lane by Sheila Roberts

Title: The Tea shop on Lavender Lane Author: Sheila Roberts Publisher: Harlequin Mira Pages: 352 Genre: Women’s Fiction/Romance Format: Paperback/Kindle Purchase at AMAZON When it comes to men, sisters don’t share!  After a fake food poisoning incident in L.A., Bailey Sterling’s dreams of becoming a caterer to the stars collapse faster than a soufflé. Now Bailey’s face is in all the gossip rags and her business is in ruins. But the Sterling women close ranks and bring her back to Icicle Falls, where she’ll stay with her sister Cecily. All goes well between the sisters until Bailey comes up with a new business idea—a tea shop on a charming
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Heart Knot Mine Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lily Velden’s Heart Knot Mine virtual book tour June 2 – 27! Title: Heart Knot Mine Author: Lily Velden Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages: 218 Genre: M/M Contemporary Romance Format: Paperback/Kindle Despite a successful college teaching career, Noah Daniels has become depressed. He feels he’s leading a monochromatic life: love has eluded him. When he’s offered a chance to teach in London as part of an exchange program, he accepts, hoping a change of scenery will do him good. But once he’s there, his outlook on love and sexuality changes in ways he never expected. Robert Callinan is Noah’s English counterpart
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Divine Healing Made Simple Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Praying Medic’s Divine Healing Made Simple virtual book tour June 2 – 27! Title: Divine Healing Made Simple Author: Praying Medic Publisher: Inkity Press Pages: 252 Genre: Nonfiction/Religion Format: Paperback/Kindle Divine Healing Made Simple is a training manual for the supernatural life, providing street-proven instruction for healing the sick in any type of setting. In addition to healing, the book teaches about prophetic ministry, street evangelism and making disciples. This book takes a bold approach, addressing the difficult questions that many authors have avoided. Through dreams, online discussions and hands-on experience, the author has discovered the answers to some of the
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Four Corners Or a Book That Will Tickle Your Intellectual Nipple Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Cary Smith’s Four Corners Or a Book That Will Tickle Your Intellectual Nipple virtual book tour June 2 – 27! Title: Four Corners, Or a Book That Will Tickle Your Intellectual Nipple Author: Cary Smith Publisher: Shakespeare’s Fool Pages: 255 Genre: Fiction Format: Paperback/Kindle High school. Those two words, for some, instill fear and loathing and vivid memories of sadistic teachers, bullies, and bad lunches. For some happy few, however, high school remains a misty paradise, where a student’s budding dreams and aspirations were nurtured by brilliant, sympathetic teachers, guidance counselors and peers. Cary Smith, the nom de plume of
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First Chapter: Four Corners or A Book That Will Tickle Your Intellectual Nipple by Cary Smith

Title: Four Corners, Or a Book That Will Tickle Your Intellectual Nipple Author: Cary Smith Publisher: Shakespeare’s Fool Pages: 255 Genre: Fiction Format: Paperback/Kindle Purchase at AMAZON First Chapter: Before you read one word (oh, too late) of my story on my sentence served, I must first tell you I’m not a writer, but I’m having a go at this anyways ’cause I’ve read some (not all… some were soo dull that Sparknotes™ were my only option) high-school education books by some so-called writers, and they were some of the worst, lifeless things I’ve ever read, so I figured what the heck. I’m telling my story to show that
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{Erotic Romance/Romantic Suspense} Looks Like Trouble To Me Blog Tour Sign Up

Calinda B will be touring July 7 – 31 with her erotic romance/romantic suspense, Looks Like Trouble To Me! We are looking for: Reviews (ebook only) Interviews 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!   “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
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