First Chapter: On Top of the World (Until the Bell Chimes) by David Lamb

Title: ON TOP OF THE WORLD (UNTIL THE BELL CHIMES) Author: David Lamb Publisher: Woolly Mammoth Books Pages: 240 Genre: Contemporary Fiction/Contemporary Romance/Multicultural/Humor/Satire 2016 BEST FICTION-Pacific Book Awards. FROM THE FUNNY AND NATURALLY BRILLIANT DAVID LAMB, award-winning playwright of the New York Times celebrated play, Platanos Y Collard Greens, comes a modern spin on Dickens’ classic tale that perfectly combines humor and romance in a story re-imagined for our digital, consumerist age.  This version of Scrooge and Belle is familiar, yet unlike any you’ve come across before. Scrooge, or rather Scrooje, is music’s biggest superstar, with one hundred million albums sold, fifteen million devoted YouTube subscribers, two and a half million Facebook
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First Chapter: One-Way Ticket Home by K.C. Hardy

Title: One-Way Ticket Home Author: K.C. Hardy Publisher: Casbury Lane Press Pages: 262 Genre: Christian Inspirational Fiction Days before boarding the plane to Italy for her daughter’s wedding, Julie Whitaker receives an unexpected phone call from her past. The memory of Mark Jennings, a handsome and charming Top Gun pilot, had haunted her for decades. Their fairy tale wedding was everything she’d ever dreamed of, but it quickly turned into her worst nightmare. Starting a new a life without Mark proved to be much harder than Julie had imagined. But in her darkest hour, God revealed Himself in a miraculous way, giving her the strength she needed not only
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Pump Up Your Book Presents One of Windsor: The Untold Story of America’s First Witch Hanging Book Blast!

We invite you to Beth M. Caruso’s ONE OF WINDSOR: THE UNTOLD STORY OF AMERICA’S FIRST WITCH HANGING Book Blast October 3 – 28! Leave a comment on each of her tour stops to let her know you stopped by! Inside the Book: Title: One of Windsor: The Untold Story of America’s First Witch Hanging Author:  Beth M. Caruso Publisher: Ladyslipper Press Pages: 358 Genre:  Historical Fiction Alice, a young woman prone to intuitive insights and loyalty to the only family she has ever known, leaves England for the rigid colony of the Massachusetts Bay in 1635 in hopes of reuniting with them again. Finally settling in Windsor, Connecticut,
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Pump Up Your Book Chaste Virtual Book Tour

     Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jesse Teller’s CHASTE virtual book tour October 10 – November 4! Inside the Book:   Title: Chaste Author: Jesse Teller Release Date: October 5, 2016 Publisher: Amazon Digital Genre: Dark Fantasy/Horror Format: Ebook/Paperback   When her devout parents died, Cheryl turned her back on her god. Years of denial and self-loathing have defeated her. Her life consists of taking orders and succumbing to abuse. A group of strangers stops in Chaste for the night, but an unnamed threat is preying on the town. Tragic deaths have become more and more frequent. Cheryl wants to protect these travelers, expose the evil force,
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Of the Abyss Virtual Book Tour!

     Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Amelia Atwater-Rhodes’ OF THE ABYSS virtual book tour October 3 – 28! Inside the Book:   Title: Of the Abyss Author: Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Release Date: September 27, 2016 Publisher: Harper Voyager Impulse Genre: Dark Fantasy/Horror Format: Ebook   After decades of strife, peace has finally been achieved in Kavet—but at a dark cost.  Sorcery is outlawed, and anyone convicted of consorting with the beings of the other realms—the Abyssi and the Numini—is put to death. The only people who can even discuss such topics legally are the scholars of the Order of the Napthol, who give counsel when questions regarding the
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Chasing Love Cover Reveal

  Pump Up Your Book Presents Melissa West’s CHASING LOVE Cover Reveal September 29, 2016 Inside the Book: Title: Chasing Love Author: Melissa West Publisher: Lyrical Shine Genre: Women’s Fiction Format: Ecopy    Farming family land on sunny Crestler’s Key, the sweet, sexy Littleton brothers are notorious bachelors. But all that will change when the right woman comes along . . . There aren’t many things Charlie Littleton values more than his lifelong friendship with his buddy Lucas, currently home from a tour in Iraq. But when he discovers that Lucas’s younger sister, Lila, is back to assist the town’s overburdened veterinarian, Charlie is torn. She’s no longer the skinny,
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Journey To The Cross Book Blast Event

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to present Shane Cloonan’s Children’s Christian Fiction novel, Journey to the Cross Book Blast Event: October 3 – 31, 2016. Inside the Book: Title: Journey to the Cross Author: Shane Cloonan Publisher: State Street Publishing Publication Date: September 11, 2015 Pages: 35 Genre: Children’s Christian Fiction This is the story of the Jesus donkey, a fictional tale that takes readers on a journey from our Lord’s birth to his ultimate crucifixion. Though written and illustrated for young readers, this book is perfect for people of all ages who want a fresh, youthful perspective on the life of Jesus. The book’s message is imbued in the strength and simplicity
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The October Testament Book Blast Event

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to present Ruth Magnusson Davis’ The October Testament Book Blast Event: October 3-31! Inside the Book: Title: The October Testament Author: Ruth Magnusson Davis Publisher: Baruch House Publishing Pages: 434 Genre: Christian / Bible / Religion & Spirituality   The primary author of the October Testament is the English martyr William Tyndale. This is his final New Testament translation of 1535. Two years later, his friend John Rogers first published these scriptures in a little-known but very important Reformation Bible called the Matthew Bible, which became the first authorized English Bible under King Henry VIII. A second edition was published in 1549, from which
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{Children’s Picture Book} How To Eat Your ABC’s Review Campaign Sign Up

We are taking review requests for Theresa A. McKeown’s, HOW TO EAT YOUR ABC’S. This is a review campaign and not a blog tour. If requesting review copies, we ask that you post your review at Amazon no later than December 28, please. When you are ready to submit your review, come back and click below to take you directly to the book’s Amazon link. Review copies will be sent via PDF only. Thank you! Inside the Book: Title: HOW TO EAT YOUR ABC’S Author: Theresa A. McKeown Publisher: The ABC’s of Everything, LLC Pages: 30 Genre: Children’s Picture Book How to Eat your ABC’s” is a cleverly written and
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Beethoven In Love; Opus 139 Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Howard J. Smith’s BEETHOVEN IN LOVE; OPUS 139 virtual book tour November 1 – April 28! Inside the Book Title: BEETHOVEN IN LOVE; OPUS 139 Author: Howard Jay Smith Publisher: SYQ Pages: 385 Genre: Literary Fiction/Biographical Fiction At the moment of his death, Ludwig van Beethoven pleads with Providence to grant him a final wish—one day, just a single day of pure joy. But first he must confront the many failings in his life, so the great composer and exceedingly complex man begins an odyssey into the netherworld of his past life led by a spirit guide who certainly seems to be
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Ghost Hampton Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Ken McGorry’s GHOST HAMPTON virtual book tour October 3 – November 30! Inside the Book Title: GHOST HAMPTON Author: Ken McGorry Publisher: Independent Pages: 450 Genre: Paranormal Thriller Lyle Hall is a new man since his car accident and spinal injury. The notoriously insensitive Bridgehampton lawyer is now afflicted with an odd sensitivity to other people’s pain. Especially that of a mysterious young girl he encounters outside a long-abandoned Victorian house late one October night. “Jewel” looks about 12. But Lyle knows she’s been dead a hundred years. Jewel wants his help, but it’s unclear how. As if in return,
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First Chapter: Girl Within Girl by S.P. Aruna

Title: Girl Within Girl: An Erotic Thriller (Book 1: Unraveling) Author: S.P. Aruna Publisher: BookBaby Pages: 170 Genre: Erotic Thriller Katrina is never alone. She is bound to others inside her, tighter than any Siamese twins could ever be: Cherry, the freewheeling photojournalist, Anisa, the covert spy-assassin, and others as yet unknown, all sharing her body and mind as she goes about her work in a psychiatric hospital. But she is starting to unravel, and her sole hope is the handsome Dr. Sean Paisley, the only one who can make her whole again. Girl Within Girl is a dark erotic thriller that wanders through a sensual maze of mind
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Pump Up Your Book Presents How to Save the World Virtual Book Tour!

     Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lexie Dunne’s HOW TO SAVE THE WORLD virtual book tour October 3 to October 14! Inside the Book:   Title: How to Save the World Author: Lexie Dunne Release Date: October 4, 2016 Publisher: Harper Voyage Impulse Genre: Paranormal/Urban Format: Ebook/Paperback In the third book of Lexie Dunne’s action-packed Superheroes Anonymous series, Hostage Girl returns once again to save the world. Gail Godwin—once so famous for being kidnapped by supervillains, the media still calls her Hostage Girl—is done with superheroes and their shadowy schemes. She’s got a cute boyfriend, a great roommate, and she’s even returned to her old job. For
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Rejoicing Through The Tears Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Brenda George’s Rejoicing Through The Tears virtual book tour September 26 – October 31! Inside the Book Title: Rejoicing Through The Tears Author: Brenda George Publisher: WestBow Press Pages: 240 Genre: Inspirational Have you or someone you know been diagnosed with cancer? Rejoicing through the Tears has been written with you in mind. You can learn not only to survive, but to thrive. You can come through your wilderness journey of cancer and let God turn your mourning into dancing. No matter what challenges you may be facing, you can learn to embrace the hand of a loving God. He will
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Murder at the Fortune Teller’s Table Cover Reveal!

  Pump Up Your Book Presents Janet Finsilver’s MURDER AT THE FORTUNE TELLER’S TABLE Cover Reveal September 30, 2016 Inside the Book: Title: Murder at the Fortune Teller’s Table Author: Janet Finsilver Publisher: Lyrical Underground Genre: Mystery/Thriller Format: Ecopy    Poisons, prophecies—and a peculiar past . . . When a local woman begins searching for a couple she hasn’t seen since the 1960s, Redwood Cove Bed and Breakfast manager Kelly Jackson and the crime-solving group, the “Silver Sentinels,” are quick to help out. They’re also quick to guess that they’re in over their heads after the woman is found dead beside the body of a Greek fortune teller—and a fellow
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Golden Age of Charlie Book Tour!

  Inside the Book: Title: The Golden Age of Charli Author: Jena C. Henry Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Fiction Format: Ebook/Paperback Charlotte McAntic spent her thirties, forties, and even fifties in peace and harmony aligning her marriage, mortgage, careers, and children. As she stumbles into a new phase of life—also known as the Golden Years—Charli cannot help but wonder where the gold and her husband, Pud, are hiding. Pud is happily cruising down the retirement path that, for him, leads straight to the golf course. While Charli spends her days at home cleaning out closets and the basement, she yearns to gaze deeply into Pud’s blue eyes and remember all the
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Pump Up Your Book Presents A Vampire’s Honor Virtual Book Tour

     Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Carla Susan Smiths’ A VAMPIRE’S HONOR virtual book tour September 27 to October 21! Inside the Book:   Title: A Vampire’s Honor Author: Carla Susan Smith Release Date: September 27, 2016 Publisher: Lyrical Press Genre: Fantasy Format: Ebook/Paperback Sins Of The Past … Rowan Harper thought being with a vampire would keep her out of harm’s way. But true evil lurks in the darkness, and not even her lover, Gabriel, knows all of its tricks. Rowan may be his Promise, the one woman who can save Gabriel’s soul, but the two of them have a long and complicated history that Rowan
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Uniformly Dead Cover Reveal!

  Pump Up Your Book Presents Greta McKennan’s UNIFORMLY DEAD Cover Reveal September 28, 2016 Inside the Book: Title: Uniformly Dead Author: Greta McKennan Publisher: Lyrical Underground Genre: Thriller/Suspense Format: Ecopy    Historical seamstress Daria Dembrowski has her work cut out for her as she searches for a killer’s pattern . . . Daria has come up with a brilliant new plan to expand her seamstress business beyond stitching wedding gowns—historical sewing. And with Civil War re-enactors setting up camp in her hometown of Laurel Springs, Pennsylvania, she has plenty of opportunities, including one client playing a Confederate colonel who’s a particular stickler for authenticity. But soon the small-town peace
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Mixed Signals Virtual Book Tour!

     Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Diane Barnes’ MIXED SIGNALS virtual book tour September 27 to October 21! Inside the Book:   Title: Mixed Signals Author: Diane Barnes Release Date: September 27, 2016 Publisher: Lyrical Shine Genre: Women’s Fiction Format: Ebook/Paperback Getting dumped is never easy, but there’s a special bonus sting if your ex-fiancé is a producer for a popular morning radio show. Jillian Atwood’s breakup with Nico has become the hosts’ number-one topic. They’re even running a competition to find him a new girlfriend. The entire population of Boston, it seems, is tuning in with an opinion about who Nico should date next—and what Jillian
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Sweetheart Kiss Cover Reveal

  Pump Up Your Book Presents Cheryl Ann Smith’s THE SWEETHEART KISS Cover Reveal September 27, 2016 Inside the Book: Title: The Sweetheart Kiss Author: Cheryl Ann Smith Publisher: Lyrical Shine Genre: Mystery/Suspense Format: Ecopy    Jess Lucas works hard at the all-female PI firm Brash & Brazen, and after a brush with death, she’s determined to play hard too—preferably with a certain detective on the Ann Arbor police force . . . Jess was stuck at a frenemy’s wedding, playing bridesmaid in a mustard-yellow monstrosity, when chaos erupted. First the bride’s ex tried to stop the wedding. Then someone really put a damper on the big day by sending
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Dusk Until Dawn Cover Reveal!

  Pump Up Your Book Presents Andie J. Christopher’s DUSK UNTIL DAWN Cover Reveal September 23, 2016 Inside the Book: Title: Dusk Until Dawn Author: Andie J. Christopher Publisher: Lyrical Shine Genre: Women’s Fiction Format: Ecopy    No boundaries. Bartender and aspiring painter Maya Pascual loves turning up the heat. And dumping a vodka-and-karma chaser on the man who broke her heart is perfect Bronx girl payback. But how can she resist when Miami playboy prince Javier Hernandez begs to make it up to her. . . No regrets. Between his disastrous personal life and his wealthy family’s meddling, Javi needs to get back on track. The only thing that’s
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Pump Up Your Book Presents For the Love of Meat Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jenny Jaeckel’s FOR THE LOVE OF MEAT virtual book tour October 3- 28! Inside the Book Title: For the Love of Meat Author: Jenny Jaekel Publisher: Raincloud Press Pages: 162 Genre: Short Stories/Light Romance/Historical For the Love of Meat combines whimsical and surreal illustrations with engaging, intimate encounters that explore the depths of human experience. Unique and diverse in setting, and with touches of magical-realism, these nine stories will tug at the strings of the wandering, romantic heart, setting it delightfully ablaze. In Wander the Desert, Sister Aurelia, a nun from the early 20th century, finds herself stranded in the Mexican desert with
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{Thriller} The Key to Cabo Review Campaign Sign Up

We are taking review requests for Dave Harrold’s thriller, THE KEY TO CABO: A ROCK POUNDER NOVEL. This is a review campaign and not a tour. If requesting review copies, we ask that you post your review at Amazon no later than December 20, please. When you are ready to submit your review, come back and click below to take you directly to the book’s Amazon link. Review copies will be sent via paperback (U.S.), PDF, mobi or ePub format. Thank you! Inside the Book: Title: THE KEY TO CABO: A ROCK POUNDER NOVEL Author: Dave Harrold Publisher: Viveca Smith Publishing Pages: 287 Genre: Thriller Danger is a way
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Pump Up Your Book Presents On Top of the World (Until the Bell Chimes) Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you David Lamb’s ON TOP OF THE WORLD (UNTIL THE BELL CHIMES) virtual book tour October 3- December 16! Inside the Book Title: ON TOP OF THE WORLD (UNTIL THE BELL CHIMES) Author: David Lamb Publisher: Woolly Mammoth Books Pages: 240 Genre: Contemporary Romance Fiction/Multicultural/Humor/Satire 2016 BEST FICTION-Pacific Book Awards. FROM THE FUNNY AND NATURALLY BRILLIANT DAVID LAMB, award-winning playwright of the New York Times celebrated play, Platanos Y Collard Greens, comes a modern spin on Dickens’ classic tale that perfectly combines humor and romance in a story re-imagined for our digital, consumerist age.  This version of Scrooge and Belle is familiar, yet unlike
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Brainwalker Virtual Book Tour!

     Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Robyn Mundell and Stephan Lacast’s BRAINWALKER virtual book tour October 3 to November 25! Inside the Book:   Title: Brainwalker Author: Robyn Mundell & Stephan Lacast Release Date: September 26, 2016 Publisher: DualMind Publishing Genre: Science Fiction Format: Ebook/Paperback Fourteen year-old Bernard is full of out of the box ideas—ideas that nobody appreciates. Not his ultra-rational father, not his classmates, and definitely not his teacher, who’s fed up waiting for Bernard’s overdue science project. You’d think with a hotshot quantum physicist for a dad, the assignment would be easy as “pi”, but with his relationship with his father on rocky ground,
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Pump Up Your Book Presents A Bolt From the Blue Cover Reveal!

  Pump Up Your Book Presents Maggie Wells’ A BOLT FROM THE BLUE Cover Reveal September 21, 2016 Inside the Book: Title: A Bolt From the Blue Author: Maggie Wells Publisher: Lyrical Press Genre: Contemporary Romance Format: Ecopy    True love, like lightning, never strikes twice—or does it? As a free-spirited young woman, Hope Elliot was desperate to escape her snobbish high society family. So she ran off to Paris, where she lived for twenty-five years. Now widowed, she’s come home to settle her family’s massive lakefront estate. But before she can put her mother’s house on the market, it needs a major renovation. Enter master electrician Mick McInnes, a
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Puppy Love Cover Reveal!

  Pump Up Your Book Presents Kelly Moran’s PUPPY LOVE Cover Reveal September 20, 2016 Inside the Book: Title: Puppy Love Author: Kelly Moran Publisher: Lyrical Shine Genre: Women’s Fiction Format: Ecopy    This playboy has met his match, and she’s organized… After a passionless marriage under the scrutiny of high society, Avery Stowe is taking back her life. All she wants is a little privacy and a quiet place to raise her autistic daughter, Hailey. Redwood Ridge, Oregon, seems to offer all the right ingredients. Except for the problem of the local sexy veterinarian. The last thing she needs in her life is to fall for his irresistible allure,
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Sick to Death Virtual Book Tour!

     Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Greg Levin’s SICK TO DEATH virtual book tour September 26 to October 31! Inside the Book:   Title: Sick to Death Author: Greg Levin Release Date: September 3, 2016 Publisher: White Rock Press Genre: Thriller/Suspense/Dark Humor Format: Ebook/Paperback KNOWING YOU’RE DYING CAN BE MURDER. When Gage Adder finds out he has inoperable pancreatic cancer, things really start to look up for him. He leaves his soul-crushing job, joins a nice terminal illness support group, and takes up an exciting new hobby: Beating the hell out of bad guys. Gage’s support group friends Jenna and Ellison don’t approve of his vigilante activities.
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{Historical Romance} I, Mary Review Campaign Sign Up

We are taking review requests for Mike Hartner’s historical romance, I, MARY. This is a review campaign and not a tour. If requesting review copies, we ask that you post your review at Amazon no later than February 16, please. When you are ready to submit your review, come back and click below to take you directly to the book’s Amazon link. Review copies will be sent via paperback (U.S.), PDF, mobi or ePub format. Thank you! Inside the Book: Title: I, Mary Author: Mike Hartner Publisher: Eternity 4 Popsickle Publishing Pages: 266 Genre: Historical Romance A girl with something to prove. A ship with endless challenges. Will a
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Pump Up Your Book Presents To the Studs Cover Reveal!

  Pump Up Your Book Presents Roxanne Smith’s TO THE STUDS Cover Reveal September 19, 2016 Inside the Book: Title: To the Studs Author: Roxanne Smith Publisher: Lyrical Shine Genre: Romance Format: Ecopy    Designed for love… No one says no to fiery but talented home designer Neve Harper—which is how she convinces her elusive neighbor, Duke Kennicot, to help out with her latest renovation job. Not only is Duke a design aficionado, he’s got the inside scoop on the cabin’s owner. And since Neve’s ulterior motive is a romance with the boss, Duke is her ideal wingman. Except from the moment they’re alone in the remote Ozark mountain location,
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