📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents I Am Number 13 Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Paranormal #Historical #Fantasy #Thriller #VBT @AndraWatkins

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Andra Watkins’ I AM NUMBER 13 Virtual Book Tour November 12 – December 21! Inside the Book Title: I AM NUMBER 13 Author: Andra Watkins Publisher: Word Hermit Press Pages: 275 Genre: Paranormal Historical Fantasy Thriller Speculative Fiction   BOOK BLURB: When Emmaline Cagney’s father dies on her graduation day, she foregoes college and heads to Honduras to volunteer with Nicaraguan refugees. It’s 1986. The Sandinista-Contra war rages in the jungles all around her. But when General James Wilkinson reenters her life during a hurricane, can she trust him? Or should she flee? Because of his unsolved death, Wilkinson is
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Author Interview: Preston Howard, Author of ‘The Sheltering Palms’ #historical #satire #vbt

ā€œI USED TO BE SOMEBODY—when Preston Howard walked down the street, kings and queens would move off to the curb. Okay, so that bit of paraphrased hyperbole, courtesy of George Thorogood, might qualify as excessive, but for sure, when I rode into town, mayors, city managers, and police chiefs became more than a little queasy over what kind of wrath I might bring down on their community.ā€ –From The Sheltering Palms by Preston Howard Preston Howard spent his entire career working on behalf of police officers, representing them under adverse circumstances, negotiating contracts to improve officers’ benefits and working conditions, and training police union officials in the art of
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Interview with Juliet Huck, Author of 50 Ways To Get Your Way @JulietHuck #Interview #VBT

ā€œPersuasion in NOT a call to action – it is a directed action. It is time to break up the myth that persuasion is a call to action. To ā€œcallā€ is to ā€œinvite.ā€ This puts all the power in someone else’s hands. While to ā€œdirectā€ is to ā€œcontrol.ā€ This is the ultimate way to give you the power you need to get what you want. Inviting someone to do something allows them to say no. You must lead or direct them to what you want in simple words, statistics and/or visuals proportional to the magnitude of your need. Think of a traffic cop. They are not inviting you to
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Sheltering Palms Virtual Book Publicity Tour #historical #fiction #satire #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Preston Howard’s THE SHELTERING PALMS Virtual Book Tour November 5 – December 28! Inside the Book Title: THE SHELTERING PALMS Author: Preston Howard Publisher: Preston Howard Press Pages: 519 Genre: Fictional Autobiography/Historical Fiction/Satire   BOOK BLURB: Renowned police labor lawyer, Preston Howard, reached a watershed in his life—a forced retirement from the firm he built from the ground up and a cancer diagnosis. These two events made him take a step back and reflect over a life that had at times been hilarious, irreverent, self-mocking, eerie and even a bit, make that, quite lewd. A family of unique characters guided
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Die Back Virtual Book Publicity Tour #fantasy #thriller #VBT @Richard_Hacker

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Richard Hacker’s DIE BACK Virtual Book Tour December 3 – January 31! Inside the Book Title: DIE BACK (Book One of the Alchimeia) Author: Richard Hacker Publisher: Del Sol Press Pages: 332 Genre: Fantasy/Thriller BOOK BLURB: In 272 AD Egypt, an enemy thwarts an attempt by League Inkers, Thomas Shaw and Nikki Babineaux, to obtain the AlchÄÆmeia, a document holding alchemical secrets. Sensing his impending death, Thomas secures Nikki’s promise to keep his son, Addison, from the League, an organization defending the time continuum. After his father’s death, Addison inherits a mysterious pen, accidentally inking himself into the consciousness of
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Song of the Boricua Book Excerpt Publicity Tour #Fiction #BookExcerpt #VBT @OliviaCAuthor

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Olivia Castillo’s SONG OF THE BORICUA Virtual Book Excerpt Tour December 3 – 28! Inside the Book Title: SONG OF THE BORICUA Author: Olivia Castillo Publisher: Independent Pages: 335 Genre: Fiction BOOK BLURB: Puerto Rico an island of contradiction, serves as an enchanting backdrop following three generations of women. Elena:Ā  Resilient and ambitious, but trapped by duty to her children. Maria:Ā  Passionate and headstrong, but married to a man she does not love. Josephina: Optimistic and romantic, but in love with an alcoholic. Isabella: Clairvoyant and spiritual, but denies her heritage and roots. Like the land these women are held
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Shelter Island Virtual Book Publicity Tour #middlegrade #fantasy #adventure #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you John Paul Tucker’s SHELTER ISLAND Virtual Book Tour November 5 – December 28! Inside the Book Title: SHELTER ISLAND Author: John Paul Tucker Publisher: Brownridge Publishing Pages: 224 Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy Adventure BOOK BLURB: Thirteen-year-old Cary and his sister Clarisse must return home every day after school to mind their eight year old brother, Gregory. ā€œIt’s a non-negotiable,ā€ insist their work-obsessed parents. There is another problem. Clarisse and Gregory don’t like Cary much, and Cary doesn’t much like anything, especially being tagged with his gummy-fingered little brother. But their troubles are about to grow talons. While bickering over the
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Where Wishes Grow… Virtual Book Publicity Tour @Chris_Sarracini #children #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Chris Sarracini’s WHERE WISHES GROW… Virtual Book Tour November 5 – December 28! Inside the Book Title: WHERE WISHES GROW Author: Chris Sarracini Publisher: Brownridge Publishing Pages: 56 Genre: Children’s Picture Book BOOK BLURB: Where Wishes Grow… is theĀ story of eight-year-old Maggie, a pensive and courageous dreamer, whose big heart starts to break when her grandmother becomes bedridden and sick with no recovery in sight. Fortunately Maggie has some wishes in mind to breathe life into Nana and is about to learn the secret for making them come true. Watching Nana’s health fail has been difficult for Maggie and so now
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Interview with Sheila Roberts, Author of ‘Winter at the Beach’ #womensfiction #interview @_sheila_roberts

ā€œSomeplace good, she realized as she crawled into bed. A holiday festival was bound to lure people to town. Who didn’t like fairs and festivals, especially holiday ones? She could see it now—the storefronts all lit up with multicolored lights, trees in the restaurants decorated with glittery shells and little lighthouses and mermaids, amusement rides and cotton candy and hot chocolate down at the pier, a live Nativity scene in front of one of the churches. And a Christmas parade with Santa bringing up the rear for a grand finale. You had to include Santa. In fact, the jolly old guy was such a draw, maybe they could include
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Wild Heart, Peaceful Soul Virtual Book Publicity Tour @LoveAutherine #Poetry #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you J. Autherine’s WILD HEART, PEACEFUL SOUL: POEMS AND INSPIRATION TO LIVE AND LOVE HARMONIOUSLY Virtual Book Tour November 5 – 30! Inside the Book Title: WILD HEART, PEACEFUL SOUL: POEMS AND INSPIRATION TO LIVE AND LOVE HARMONIOUSLY Author: J. Autherine Publisher: Autherine Publishing Pages: 158 Genre: Poetry BOOK BLURB: Wild Heart, Peaceful Soul, is a beautiful collection of poems that provide inspiration to strong, vulnerable, badass women who love deeply, sometimes fall hard but always lead with their hearts. It is a deep and gritty, fresh and robust look at the thrill of loving unconditionally, as well as the mental
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Bargaining With The Billionaire Bodyguard Virtual Book Publicity Tour @Dreamweavings #RomanticSuspense #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lisa Weaver’s BARGAINING WITH THE BILLIONAIRE BODYGUARD Virtual Book Tour December 3 – 31! Inside the Book Title: BARGAINING WITH THE MILLIONAIRE BODYGUARD Author: Lisa Weaver Publisher: Independent Pages: 244 Genre: Romantic Suspense BOOK BLURB: Having miraculously survived the bombing that blasted his private jet out of the sky, billionaire Donovan White has dedicated his life to the pursuit of justice. Now a covert operative for the Sentinels Agency, he is closing in on the man responsible for the crash. When his mission is nearly botched by a spunky reporter with a score of her own to settle, he reluctantly
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Interview with Laura Vosika, Author of ‘The Water is Wide’

ā€œNiall, he’s cold.ā€ Niall’s knife remained pointed at the boy. ā€œWhich soldiers?ā€ ā€œThey were English, Milord. Meaning no offense, Milord.ā€ His teeth clattered again. ā€œIf you’re English.ā€ ā€œNiall!ā€ Shawn stepped forward, his anger growing. ā€œHe’s just a kid! He’s about to….ā€ Before he finished, the boy collapsed. Shawn was under him, catching his sagging body before it hit the ground. From The Water is Wide by Laura Vosika Laura Vosika is a writer, poet, and musician. Her time travel series, The Blue Bells Chronicles, set in modern and medieval Scotland, has garnered praise and comparisons to writers as diverse as Diana Gabaldon and Dostoevsky. Her poetry has been published
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents You Can’t Force Love Pre-Order Blitz @MarieDrake72 #Fiction #Blitz

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Marie Drake’s YOU CAN’T FORCE LOVE Pre-Order Blitz November 5 – 30! Inside the Book   Title: YOU CAN’T FORCE LOVE Author: Marie Drake Publisher: RedBird Books Pages: 286 Genre: Realistic Fiction BOOK BLURB: “A battered butterfly, he’d build Kimberly up, nurture her strength and watch her return to flight. He repressed the visions dancing in the back of his mind; her naked body brandished red flags and spurred him to stampede. Bulls and butterflies did not mix.” Jordan Fry’s obsession is born in “You Can’t Force Love” by Marie Drake, Book I in the Locked Hearts Series. From different
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Fatal Agreements Virtual Book Publicity Tour @AshleyFontainne #mystery #suspense #thriller #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Ashley Fontainne’s FATAL AGREEMENTS Virtual Book Tour November 5 – 30! Inside the Book Title: FATAL AGREEMENTS Author: Ashley Fontainne Publisher: RMSW Press Pages: 449 Genre: Mystery/Suspense/Thriller BOOK BLURB: Whispered rumors tickled the ears of the residents of an entire town for decades about the disturbing secrets of the old Halstead House, dating all the way back to the early 1920s. Most people didn’t believe them. Several people will soon discover they should have listened. Three years after struggling to cope with the death of her beloved father and escaping an abusive relationship, Samantha Chapman decides it’s time to return
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Radio Underground Virtual Book Publicity Tour @AliMcShpiel #historicalfiction #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Alison Littman’s RADIO UNDERGROUND Virtual Book Tour November 26 – December 26 2018! Inside the Book Title: RADIO UNDERGROUND Author: Alison Littman Publisher: Last Syllable Books Pages: 354 Genre: Historical Fiction   BOOK BLURB: After years of suffering under the communist regime in Cold War Hungary,Ā Eszter TurjĆ”n—fanatical underground journalist—would sacrifice anything, and anyone, to see the government fall.Ā When she manipulates news broadcasts on Radio Free Europe,Ā she ignites a vicious revolution, commits a calamitous murder, and is dragged away screaming to a secret underground prison. Her daughterĀ Dora, then a teenager,Ā cowers in her bedroom as the secret police arrest her mother.Ā Haunted and
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Love, Loss and Lagniappe Virtual Book Publicity Tour @RRobbinsbooks #literaryfiction #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Richard Robbins’ LOVE, LOSS AND LAGNIAPPE Virtual Book Tour October 30 – November 30 2018! Inside the Book Title: LOVE, LOSS AND LAGNIAPPE Author: Richard Robbins Publisher: Evolved Publishing Pages: 186 Genre: Literary Fiction   BOOK BLURB: Life is good for Dr. Drew Coleman, a successful young eye surgeonĀ living in Uptown New Orleans, and he knows it. Having met and married his beautiful medical school classmate, Kate, the two settle happily into the routine of raising their two young daughters. Drew’s charmed life is soon shattered by devastating news, causing him to go on a ten-year transcontinental journey of self-discovery,
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents 50 Ways To Get Your Way Virtual Book Publicity Tour @JulietHuck #nonfiction #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Juliet Huck’s 50 WAYS TO GET YOUR WAY Virtual Book Tour November 5 – 30 2018! Inside the Book Title: 50 WAYS TO GET YOUR WAY Author: Juliet Huck Publisher: The Huck Group Pages: 120 Genre: Motivational/Nonfiction   BOOK BLURB: 50 Ways to Get Your Way by Juliet Huck Promotes the Art of Persuading Others Using the Simple Power of Commonsense Values In 50 WAYS TO GET YOUR WAY, Juliet Huck shares the lessons she learned while growing up on her family’s farm in rural Ohio—values such as being grateful, nurturing relationships, and listening intently, which she used to build
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Interview with Mike Martin, Author of ‘Darkest Before the Dawn’ @mike54martin

ā€œā€œHe started to stroke her when his cell phone rang. ā€œBoss, it’s Jones. We’ve got a situation. We got a call about a shooting up near the seniors’ club.ā€ ā€œInjuries?ā€ asked Windflower. ā€œA teenager,ā€ said Jones. ā€œI’m on my way.ā€ ā€œI’ll be over in a sec,ā€ said Windflower. ā€œBad news?ā€ asked Sheila. ā€œI’ll call you,ā€ was all he said back. Sheila didn’t ask any more questions. They liked a layer of insulation between his police work and their personal lives. He gave her a peck on the cheek and patted Lady as he left to drive to the seniors’ club, hoping for the best and fearing the worst. The
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Interview with Terje Gerotti Simonsen, Author of ‘Our Secret Powers’

ā€œThe majority of the considerations in this book are based on strange incidents reported by scientists of one kind or another—archaeologists, anthropologists, psychologists, physicists and philosophers. Such people are more often than not very resourceful with well-developed skills in observation as well as in thinking. It therefore seems reasonable to take their reports seriously, even when—or especially when—they dare to speak against the consensus and vouch for the paranormal. It is not unusual to think that those scientists who report having experienced paranormal phenomena are misinterpreting their experiences at best or are fraudulent at worst. I suggest we take ā€˜the road less travelled,’ and regard ā€˜the defendants innocent until
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  • October 1, 2018
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Interview with Marian L. Thomas, Author of ‘The Caged Butterfly’ @marianlthomas01 #VBT #Interview

ā€œI want you to laugh a lot. I believe that laughing is like a sweet-smelling aroma for the soul and the heart. I used to laugh all the time. Back when life was good and innocent, and I was good and innocent. Don’t prove my dream a lie. Don’t be a caged butterfly. Become something and someone that is even better than what I could see. I don’t know what your new parents will call you, but in my heart, I whispered Thomas Gray Livingston III in your ears, if you be a boy. Mama thinks that you are and like I said before, she ain’t never wrong. If
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Interview with Daniel Kenner, Co-Author of ‘Room for Grace’ #memoir @alwysroom4grace

ā€œDr. David Sanfred, our family practitioner, walked into my room at 6:45 a.m. and stood at the end of my hospital bed. ā€œMaureen, we’re getting ready to send you home soon,ā€ he said. And then, ā€œIt’s time to talk.ā€ It was time to face what I’d avoided all week. ā€œI’m sorry to tell you, but it’s very serious.ā€ Though by our family’s side for many difficult situations, I’d never heard Dr. Sanfred’s tone this methodical. ā€œWe thought it was Stage 1 but the cancer metastasized from the colon to your umbilicus and has advanced to Stage 4.ā€ā€ –From Room for Grace by Daniel and Maureen Kenner Daniel Kenner rocked
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Interview with Jamell Crouthers, Author of Code Blue @aquariamind1

ā€œPolice Chief Bulletin #1 My fellow police officers, thank you for your hard work, Putting your life in the line of duty every day. This will be the first of many bulletins that I will be sending, Your supervising officer will be having meetings about my bulletins. I want to address an issue that’s been going on in our community, There have been too many minorities driving in our neighborhoods. I’ve been told by residents that they’re scared and afraid of them, I don’t know exactly why as I am not in the streets everyday. In order to get control of our community again we must pull over cars,
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Code Blue Virtual Book Publicity Tour @aquarianmind1 #poetryprose #literaryfiction #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jamell Crouthers’ CODE BLUE Series Virtual Book Tour October 1 – 31 2018! Inside the Series The Code Blue: An Oath to the Badge and Gun series chronicles a police officer named Gary who has been on the force for a few years. He soon is entrenched in a lot of lies, corruption, racism and agendas being pushed by his superiors. The question throughout this series is whether he as a good cop becomes part of the corruption or does he report it? Part of this series features his son Gary, Jr who is a young teenager wanting to be
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Winter at the Beach Virtual Book Publicity Tour @_Sheila_Roberts #womensfiction #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Sheila Roberts’ WINTER AT THE BEACH Virtual Book Tour October 22 – December 21 2018! Inside the Book Title: WINTER AT THE BEACH Author: Sheila Roberts Publisher: Harlequin/Mira Pages: 384 Genre: Women’s Fiction   BOOK BLURB: Jenna Jones, manager of the Driftwood Inn, a vintage motel in the Washington beach town of Moonlight Harbor, is convinced that a winter festival would be a great way to draw visitors (and tourist business) to town during those off-season months. Everyone in the local chamber of commerce is on board with her Seaside with Santa festival idea except one naysayer, local sour lemon,
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Going For Broke: How to Suffer Well Virtual Book Publicity Tour @ShannonMedisky #Christian #Devotional #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Shannon Medisky’s GOING FOR BROKE: HOW TO SUFFER WELL Virtual Book Tour October 1 – November 30 2018! Inside the Book Title: GOING FOR BROKE: HOW TO SUFFER WELL Author: Shannon Medisky Publisher: Independent Pages: 61 Genre: Christian Nonfiction/Devotional BOOK BLURB: Hardship hurts and suffering sucks. But there’s very important work—and rewards—we need to be occupied with in the middle of it all. Suffering has a way of stretching us beyond ourselves. It prompts us to stretch outside of our current comfort zones. But no matter how we feel, we don’t have to be buried by our challenges and circumstances.
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  • September 17, 2018
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Interview with Nancy Gray, Author of ‘Spine Chillers: Big Bad Wolf’

ā€œMrs. Rose walked in front of them and said, ā€œFirst of all, congratulations on all of your parts.Ā  Since this is a Halloween play, I chose the rolls based on who could portray their parts in a suitably ominous way.Ā  Remember, these are fractured fairy tales, so nothing is supposed to end well.Ā  And, the common element in all of them will be the big, bad wolf.ā€ Patrick stood up and gave a quick bow. Jane thought, ā€œShow offā€¦ā€ā€ Mrs. Rose continued, ā€œThe main theme is Little Red Riding Hood, but as you can see, there will be elements from other stories incorporated.Ā  While she’s going to grandma’s house,
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Interview with Carol Jeffers, Author of The Question of Empathy: Searching for the Essence of Humanity

ā€œStrolling among the dunes and driftwood, and the mock heather and yarrow of Moonstone Beach on California’s Central Coast, you are likely to come across a humble wooden bench made remarkable by what it declares, by the empathy it stirs, and by the stories it invites us to share. Rough and weatherworn, the bench is evocative of the salt air and wild daisies, the restless tides reshaping the continent’s rocky edge, and the wide sunset views it is meant to afford. But it has become legendary and invokes much more than a simple seascape. From its niche in the coastal ecosystem, this bench triumphs in returning us to the
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Darkest Before the Dawn Virtual Book Publicity Tour @Mike54Martin #Mystery #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mike Martin’s DARKEST BEFORE THE DAWN Virtual Book Tour October 1 – 31 2018! Inside the Book Title: DARKEST BEFORE THE DAWN Author: Mike Martin Publisher: Ottawa Press and Publishing Pages: TBA Genre: Mystery BOOK BLURB: Darkest Before the Dawn is the latest adventure of Sgt. Winston Windflower, a Mountie who finds himself surrounded by a new family and a new life in tiny Grand Bank, Newfoundland. There are signs of trouble that may disturb his pleasant life, including a series of unsolved break-ins and the lack of supports for young people in the most trying time of their lives.
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Cozy Corgi Mysteries Virtual Book Publicity Tour @MACozyMystery #CozyMystery #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mildred Abbott’s THE COZY CORGI MYSTERIES Virtual Book Tour October 1 – November 30 2018! Inside the Books Title: CRUEL CANDY (Book 1) Author: Mildred Abbott Publisher: Wings of Ink Publications LLC Pages: 282 Genre: Cozy Mystery BLURB: Estes Park, Colorado: picturesque mountains, charming shops, delightful bakeries, a cozy bookstore… and murder. Winifred Page and her corgi, Watson, move to Estes Park to hit the Reset button on life. Fred is about to open her dream bookshop, and the only challenges she anticipates are adjusting to small-town life, tourists, and living close to her loveable mother, Phyllis, and hippy stepfather,
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Aren’t the Emperor’s New Clothes Grand Virtual Book Publicity Tour @Phil_Fishman #political #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Philip M. Fishman’sĀ  AREN’T THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES GRAND Virtual Book Tour October 1 – 31 2018! Inside the Book Title: AREN’T THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES GRAND Author: Philip M. Fishman Publisher: MPS Publishing Pages: 112 Genre: Satirical Critique BOOK BLURB: If you love Trump, sorry, this book is not for you.Ā  If, on the other hand, you are horrified at what this man is doing,Ā  I think you will enjoy it.Ā Ā  I read a very interesting book recently that discussed despots and their common characteristics. What, then, are the characteristics of a despot? They attack free speech and the
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