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Join Gabriella Bradley & Diana Kemp at Books Books and More Books + Win Kindle Fire!

Gabriella Bradley and Diana Kemp, authors of The Samsara Chronicles, are stopping off today at Books Books and More Books, as part of their colossal 3 month virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book where they are giving away a Kindle Fire! Visit today’s stop at http://www.dream-reader-dreamer2229.blogspot.com/2012/06/review-of-covenant-and-kindle-giveaway.html. Enter every day at a different blog for more entries! This contest begins June 4 and ends on August 31 2012. An extra bonus prize: $50 goes to the person who visits the most tour stops and leaves a comment. If there is a tie, we will choose a winner at Random.org. This contest is open to U.S. and Canadian citizens
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Join eXtasy Books at Inside BJ’s Head & win Kindle Fire!

eXtasy Books & Devine Destinies are stopping off today at Inside BJ’s Head as part of their colossal 3 month virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book where they are giving away a Kindle Fire! Enter every day at a different blog for more entries! If you’d like to enter this fantastic giveaway, visit http://www.insidebjshead.blogspot.com/2012/06/extasy-books-devine-destinies-kindle.html. This contest begins June 4 and ends on August 31 2012. An extra bonus prize: $50 goes to the person who visits the most tour stops and leaves a comment. If there is a tie, we will choose a winner at Random.org. This contest is open to U.S. and Canadian citizens only. Sorry
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Join eXtasy Books at Waiting on Sunday to Drown & Win Kindle Fire!

eXtasy Books & Devine Destinies are stopping off today at Waiting on Sunday to Drown as part of their colossal 3 month virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book where they are giving away a Kindle Fire! Enter every day at a different blog for more entries! If you’d like to enter this fantastic giveaway, visit http://www.engelsigh.blogspot.com/2012/06/extasy-books-devine-destinies-kindle.html. This contest begins June 4 and ends on August 31 2012. An extra bonus prize: $50 goes to the person who visits the most tour stops and leaves a comment. If there is a tie, we will choose a winner at Random.org. This contest is open to U.S. and Canadian citizens
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Win a Kindle Fire! eXtasy Books at Moonlight, Lace & Mayhem Today!

eXtasy Books & Devine Destinies are stopping off today at Moonlight Lace & Mayhem as part of their colossal 3 month virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book where they are giving away a Kindle Fire! Enter every day at a different blog for more entries! If you’d like to enter this fantastic giveaway, visit http://moonlightlacemayhem.blogspot.com/2012/06/extasy-books-and-devine-destinies.html. This contest begins June 4 and ends on August 31 2012. An extra bonus prize: $50 goes to the person who visits the most tour stops and leaves a comment. If there is a tie, we will choose a winner at Random.org. This contest is open to U.S. and Canadian citizens only.
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Kinde Fire Giveaway: Gabriella Bradley & Diana Kemp at I Am a Reader Not a Writer

Gabriella Bradley and Diana Kemp, authors of The Samsara Chronicles, are stopping off today at I Am a Reader, Not a Writer as part of their colossal 3 month virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book where they are giving away a Kindle Fire! Enter every day at a different blog for more entries! If you’d like to enter this fantastic giveaway, visit http://www.iamareadernotawriter.blogspot.com/2012/06/rafflecopter-giveaway.html. This contest begins June 4 and ends on August 31 2012. An extra bonus prize: $50 goes to the person who visits the most tour stops and leaves a comment.  If there is a tie, we will choose a winner at Random.org. This contest
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‘Visions of You’ C.Y. Bourgeois on A Book and a Chat Blog Talk Radio Show

C.Y. Bourgeois, author of the suspense thriller, Visions of You, appeared on Blog Talk Radio’s A Book and a Chat today! C.Y. is a freshman author and an avid reader. After having spent countless enjoyable hours over the years reading other people’s narratives, she realized that she too has stories to tell. She considers herself a native of Alaska, having lived there since the age of two. She and her husband recently moved to northern Idaho where they now reside with their two dogs and three cats and where she is currently working on her second Shelby Leight novel, Visions of Mortality. Click here to listen!


Pump Up Your Book to give away 2 10-day blog tours + $25 gift card on last day of celebration

It’s the last day of our month long 5th anniversary hoedown! Today the staff of Pump Up Your Book will be stopping off at Goodreads all day long and answer your book promotion and publicity questions and that’s not all! You can win one of  TWO  10 DAY VIRTUAL BOOK TOURS or A $25 GIFT CERTIFICATE!! To enter, head over to our Goodreads chat page and ask a question or leave a comment.  Easy peasy!  The winners will be selected by Random.org and announced on our tour page on Monday, April 30.  Not only can you ask us anything about book publicity, you have a chance to win a
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Pump Up Your Book Announces May 2012 Authors on Virtual Book Tour *watch video!*

Pump Up Your Book is proud to announce the May 2012 authors on virtual book tour! May 2012 Authors on Virtual Book Tour Caroline Alethia – Plant Teacher A.K. Alexander – Daddy’s Home Jennifer Allee – The Mother Road Carl Alves – Two For Eternity David Ankrah – Seeds Jim Beck – Virgil: A Superhero Tale C.Y. Bourgeois – Visions of You Bo Briar – Morgan Hall Judy Byington – 22 Faces Judy Christie – Hurry Less Worry Less for Moms Dr. Jackie C. Cogswell – Super Luke Faces His Bully Donna Fletcher Crow – A Darkly Hidden Truth MJ Fletcher – The Doorknob Society Marisa Garau – Dear
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PUMP UP YOUR BOOK TO GIVE AWAY FREE 10-DAY VIRTUAL BLOG TOUR

It’s day17 of our month long 5th anniversary hoedown where we give YOU the presents! Today Dorothy Thompson is stopping off at NY Times Bestselling Author Caridad Pineiro’s blog with a great giveaway! Win a FREE 10 DAY VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR!! To win, click on the image below and good luck! Click on image at left to enter the other giveaways we have this month!


Pump Up Your Book 5th Anniversary Hoedown: Win a free virtual book tour!

It’s day 11 of our month long 5th anniversary hoedown where we give YOU the presents! Today Tracee Gleichner is stopping off at Literal Exposure with a great giveaway! Win a free 10 day virtual book tour!! To win, click on the image below and good luck! Click on image at left to enter the other giveaways we have this month!


Win a copy of Kim Antieau’s ‘Her Frozen Wild’ at The Book Faery Reviews!

Win a copy of Kim Antieau’s Her Frozen Wild at The Book Faery Reviews today! Scientists in the Altai in Siberia uncover the 2,500 year old frozen mummy of a tattooed priestess or shaman. This mummy has the same mtDNA (mitochondrial DNA) as American archaeologist Ursula Smith whose mother disappeared in Siberia 30 years earlier. Ursula travels from the U.S. to Siberia to unravel the mystery of the “lady” and meets Sergei Ivanovich Polyakov, a Russian doctor who graciously invites her into his home. After they become lovers, she discovers he has the same tattoos on his body as the tattooed lady. He tells a disbelieving Ursula that they
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Pump Up Your Book 5th Anniversary Hoedown: Win PUYB Mousepad, Magnet & $10 Amazon GC!

It’s day 7 of our month long 5th anniversary hoedown where we give YOU the presents! Today Dorothy Thompson is stopping off at I Am a Reader Not a Writer with a great giveaway! Win a Pump Up Your Book Mouse Pad, Magnet & $10 Amazon Gift Card!! To win, click on the image below and good luck! Click on image at left to enter the other giveaways we have this month!


Win a copy of Lisa April Smith’s ‘Exceeding Expectations’ at Sincerely Stacie today!

Win a copy of Lisa April Smith’s Exceeding Expectations at Sincerely Stacie today! It’s 1961 and Palm Beach socialite, irresistible rascal and devoted father Jack Morgan encounters genuine danger while staging his suicide to shield his beloved daughters from disgrace. Next, meet his daughter Charlotte (Charlie), an over-indulged 23 year-old struggling to cope with the traumatizing loss of her beloved father, her sister’s resulting mental breakdown and the discovery that she’s suddenly penniless. Fortunately Raul, an admiring young attorney, appears to offer assistance. As terrified as she is about daily survival, Charlie soon realizes that she has to learn what drove her father to kill himself. With Raul’s much
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Win a copy of Jessica Chambers’ ‘Dark Is The Sky’ at Darlene’s Book Nook today!

Win a copy of Jessica Chambers’ DARK IS THE SKY at Darlene’s Book Nook today! Twelve years earlier, Olivia and Joel Cameron invited the family to spend the weekend at their new country home. Olivia hoped to provide them all with a much-needed escape from their anxiety over the recession crippling the nation; instead, the visit ended in tragedy when Scott, Joel’s wild and outrageously sexy youngest brother, was found dead. The repercussions tore the family apart. Now, Olivia’s sister Violet has persuaded her to host a reunion. She claims it’s time they finally put the past behind them and laid their ghosts to rest. However, some wounds run
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Win a copy of Barbara Lampert’s ‘Charlie: A Love Story’ at Through Squirrel’s Eyes today!

Win a copy of  Barbara Lampert’s Charlie: A Love Story at Through Squirrel’s Eyes today! Charlie: A Love Story tells of the beautiful love between Charlie, a Golden Retriever, and the author, Barbara Lampert. It takes place in Malibu, California. When Charlie turned eleven years old and started having some health problems, a journal Barbara was keeping about her garden quickly became mostly about Charlie. Charlie: A Love Story is an intimate look at an incredible connection between a canine and a human. And as a psychotherapist who specializes in relationships, Barbara brings that sensibility and understanding to Charlie’s story as well. Charlie was Barbara’s loyal confidante and best
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Win a Kindle Gift Basket from Ashley Mackler-Paternostro at The Writer’s Life!

Win a Kindle Gift Basket from Ashley Mackler-Paternostro at The Writer’s Life today! Jenna Chamberland never wanted anything more than to be a wife and mother. That is, until she realized that her life was ending after a three-year battle against breast cancer. Now, all she really wants is more time. With 4,320 hours left to live, Jenna worries for her loved ones and what she knows awaits them on the other side: Gabe will have to make the slip from husband to widower, left alone to raise their seven-year-old daughter; Mia will be forced to cope with life without her mother by her side. In a moment of
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Win a copy of Caroline Alethia’s Plant Teacher at Literarily Speaking!

Win a copy of Caroline Alethia’s Plant Teacher at Literarily Speaking today! Hailed by Huffington Post contributor Joel Hirst as a compelling and powerful story, Plant Teacher begins in 1972 when a hippie in Oakland, California flushes a syringe of LSD down a toilet. Thirty-five years later, the wayward drug paraphernalia has found its final resting place in Los Yungas, Bolivia, the umbilical cord between the Andes and Amazonia. Enter into this picture two young Americans, Cheryl Lewis, trying to forge her future in La Paz and Martin Banzer, trying to come to terms with his past in the same city. The two form an unlikely friendship against the
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Win a copy of Lisa April Smith’s Exceeding Expectations at Cocktails and Books!

Win a copy of Lisa April Smith’s Exceeding Expectations at Cocktails and Books today! It’s 1961 and Palm Beach socialite, irresistible rascal and devoted father Jack Morgan encounters genuine danger while staging his suicide to shield his beloved daughters from disgrace. Next, meet his daughter Charlotte (Charlie), an over-indulged 23 year-old struggling to cope with the traumatizing loss of her beloved father, her sister’s resulting mental breakdown and the discovery that she’s suddenly penniless. Fortunately Raul, an admiring young attorney, appears to offer assistance. As terrified as she is about daily survival, Charlie soon realizes that she has to learn what drove her father to kill himself. With Raul’s
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Win a copy of Jill Muehrcke’s Waking Up Happy at The Writer’s Life!

Win a copy of Jill Muehrcke’s Waking Up Happy at The Writer’s Life today! WAKING UP HAPPY: A HANDBOOK OF CHANGE WITH MEMOIRS OF RECOVERY AND HOPE: Powerful, absorbing, and beautifully written, this first-of-its-kind book of transformation and healing includes memoirs of people who have recovered from addictions, harmful habits, and intolerable situations, along with exercises readers can do to make the same transformations in their own lives. Half of the proceeds of this book will be donated to the Recovery Foundation helping people build new lives – so every time someone buys a book, they will be helping someone TRANSFORM THEIR LIFE! Would you like to be notified
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Win a copy of Kenny Scudero’s Comfortably Awkward at Darlene’s Book Nook!

Win a copy of Kenny Scudero’s Comfortably Awkward at Darlene’s Book Nook today! For Albert Ferenzo, life is a series of ironic events that may or may not have a reason behind them. While struggling to find a niche for himself, Albert blames the corporate world for hindering his dream of making money and living a prosperous life. After playing the good guy his entire life, Albert decides that the only way to get ahead in the world is to be the bad guy. Albert questions his own fate as he drives himself to insanity in an effort to find happiness. The destinies of Albert and everyone around him
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Pump Up Your Book 5th Anniversary Hoedown: Win Pump Up Your Book Mouse Pad + $25 Amazon Gift Card!

It’s day 4 of our month long 5th anniversary hoedown where we give YOU the presents! Today Dorothy Thompson is stopping off at SOS Aloha with a great giveaway! Win a Pump Up Your Book Mouse Pad and $25 Amazon Gift Card plus Kim has a special surprise!! To win, click on the image below and good luck! Click on image at left to enter the other giveaways we have this month!


Pump Up Your Book 5th Anniversary Hoedown: Win Pump Up Your Book T-shirt + $10 Amazon Gift Card!

It’s day 3 of our month long 5th anniversary hoedown where we give YOU the presents! Today Dorothy Thompson is stopping off at The Book Faery Reviews with a great giveaway! Win a Pump Up Your Book T-Shirt and $10 Amazon Gift Card!! To win, click on the image below and good luck! Click on image at left to enter the other giveaways we have this month!


Win a copy of Kim Antieau’s Her Frozen Wild at Workaday Reads!

Win a copy of Kim Antieau’s Her Frozen Wild at Workaday Reads today! Scientists in the Altai in Siberia uncover the 2,500 year old frozen mummy of a tattooed priestess or shaman. This mummy has the same mtDNA (mitochondrial DNA) as American archaeologist Ursula Smith whose mother disappeared in Siberia 30 years earlier. Ursula travels from the U.S. to Siberia to unravel the mystery of the “lady” and meets Sergei Ivanovich Polyakov, a Russian doctor who graciously invites her into his home. After they become lovers, she discovers he has the same tattoos on his body as the tattooed lady. He tells a disbelieving Ursula that they have met
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Win a copy of Jill Muehrcke’s Waking Up Happy at Let’s Book It!

Win a copy of Jill Muehrcke’s Waking Up Happy at Let’s Book It today! WAKING UP HAPPY: A HANDBOOK OF CHANGE WITH MEMOIRS OF RECOVERY AND HOPE: Powerful, absorbing, and beautifully written, this first-of-its-kind book of transformation and healing includes memoirs of people who have recovered from addictions, harmful habits, and intolerable situations, along with exercises readers can do to make the same transformations in their own lives. Half of the proceeds of this book will be donated to the Recovery Foundation helping people build new lives – so every time someone buys a book, they will be helping someone TRANSFORM THEIR LIFE! Would you like to be notified
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Win copy of Valerie Stocking’s The Promised Land!

Win a copy of Valerie Stocking’s The Promised Land at Colloquium today! It’s 1966, just two years after President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law, and twelve-year-old Joy Bradford’s life is changing dramatically. Born and raised in the white suburbs of Connecticut, Joy is moving to Willets Point, Florida, to live with her mother Jessica because her parents are divorcing. Hoping it really is the Promised Land that her mother describes, she joins in Jessica’s enthusiasm only to find out how horribly wrong that vision is. Unfortunately for Joy, the move does nothing to change her mother’s emotional and mental instability, resulting in a continuation
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Pump Up Your Book 5th Anniversary Hoedown: Win Pump Up Your Book Tote Bag w/Paperback Copy of Romancing the Soul!

It’s day 2 of our month long 5th anniversary hoedown where we give YOU the presents!  Today Dorothy Thompson is stopping off at Let’s Book It with a great giveaway! Win a Pump Up Your Book tote bag with a paperback copy of Dorothy’s anthology of soul mate stories, Romancing the Soul tucked inside!  Sorry, only U.S. and Canada residents may enter (blame the postal system!).  To win, click on the image below and good luck! Click on image at left to enter the other  giveaways we have this month!


Win a copy of A.K. Alexander’s thriller DADDY’S HOME!

Win a copy of A.K. Alexander’s thriller novel, Daddy’s Home, at Literarily Speaking today! A KILLER STALKS HIS PREY… A calculating and deadly killer is in search for what he terms as his perfect family. Preying upon single mothers and their innocent children, the police have dubbed him “The Family Man.” HE WATCHES THEM…HE TAKES THEM… He plays out his role as the perfect father. When things don’t go so perfect in his insane fantasy world, the family man kills. HOLLY JENNINGS IS ON THE CASE… Crime Scene Investigator Holly Jennings of the San Diego Police Department is determined to track him down and see that justice is served.
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Pump Up Your Book 5th Anniversary: Win I Cannot Live Without Books Pendant + Pump Up Your Book Magnet!

Woot!  Today kicks off the Pump Up Your Book 5th Anniversary party!  Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Pump Up Your Book, happy birthday to you!  We are celebrating big and inviting our blogger friends to help us out give away some fantastic prizes!  Today, we’re giving away a ‘I Cannot Live Without Books’ pendant and a Pump Up Your Book magnet on our dear friend April Pohren’s blog, Cafe of Dreams! Take a look at the pendant!  Isn’t that cute?  What book lover can resist that?  So hop over to April’s blog and fill out the Rafflecopter thingee and it could be yours!
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Win a copy of Rudy Mazzocchi’s medical thriller ‘Equity of Evil’ today!

Win an e-copy of Rudy Mazzocchi’s medical thriller, Equity of Evil, at Literarily Speaking today! A Venture Capital Fund makes a risky investment to start a challenging new business that appears capable of reaching profitabililty with modest capital requirements. The real challenge: optimizing one of the most frequently performed surgical procedure in the World — Abortion. Founding Partner, Roman Citrano, a successful entrepreneur turned venture capitalist, soon struggles with what he believes is his choice to establish the controversial new company. He soon realizes that he and others are but pawns on a massive, ugly chessboard being manipulated to benefit a far larger, illicit market in human organs for
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In honor of Titanic 100th Anniversary, Yvonne Lehman gives away copy of ‘Hearts That Survive: A Novel of the Titanic’ today!

In honor of the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, Yvonne Lehman is giving away a copy of her book, Hearts That Survive: A Novel of the Titanic, at  Literarily Speaking! In April 1912, Lydia Beaumont is on her way to a new life with a boundless hope, against all that Craven Dowd desires for her and himself. Her friendship with Caroline Chadwick deepens as they plan Lydia’s wedding on board the “grandest ship ever built.” Then both women suffer tragic losses when the “unsinkable” Titanic collides with an iceberg and there are only 20 lifeboats for 2207 passengers. They struggle to keep their families and dreams
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