{Domestic Suspense} Sister Dear Blog Tour Sign Up

Laura McNeill will be touring April 4 – 29 with her domestic suspense, SISTER DEAR. We are looking for reviews (paperback U.S./PDFs) or interviews. Thank you! Inside the Book: Title: Sister Dear Author: Laura McNeil Publisher: HarperCollins/Thomas Nelson Pages: 336 Genre: Domestic Suspense All Allie Marshall wants is a fresh start. But when dark secrets refuse to stay buried, will her chance at a new life be shattered forever? Convicted of a crime she didn’t commit, Allie watched a decade of her life vanish. Now, out on parole, Allie is determined to clear her name and reconnect with the daughter she barely knows. But Allie’s return to Brunswick, Georgia,
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  • March 1, 2016
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First Chapter: The Bipolar Millionaire by John E. Wade

Title: The Bipolar Millionaire Author: John E. Wade II Publisher: Sunbury Press Pages: 164 Genre: Memoir John E. Wade II, retired CPA, author, investor, television producer, and philanthropist, reveals in his memoir, The Bipolar Millionaire, his personal struggle with bipolar disorder and how he has succeeded in living a balanced and blessed life, despite his mental illness. Wade takes the reader through his family experiences, political aspirations and beliefs, spiritual journey, relationship trials and errors, all while battling mental illness. Through his religious beliefs, personal perseverance, and the help of friends, family, and his mental health professionals, Wade lives an active, creative, and successful life. His memoir doesn’t end
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First Chapter: The Carrington Prophecy by R. Lawson

Title: The Carrington Prophecy (Book 5 of The CIA International Thriller Series) Author: R. Lawson Publisher: Independent Pages: 298 Genre:  Thriller/Espionage Biff Roberts, the CIA’s counterterrorism director, receives actionable intelligence that a rogue regime is planning a sneak attack with the goal of exploding a nuclear device above the United States, triggering an unnatural Carrington Event. The cosmic storm of the Carrington Event’s electromagnetic pulse waves released by the explosion would cripple all electronic systems and power grids in the U.S., leaving the homeland defenseless and vulnerable to conventional warfare. With North Korea looking to be the most likely suspect, Biff is tasked to intervene and prevent this attack
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First Chapter: Existential Threats by R. Lawson

Title: Existential Threats (Book 4 of The CIA International Thriller Series) Author: R. Lawson Publisher: Independent Pages: 345 Genre:  Thriller/Espionage The CIA’s incoming Director of Counter Terrorism, Biff Roberts, is inheriting a multitude of challenges. For starters, there is the existential threat of a nuclear Iran. Added to that, the Middle East has become enmeshed in a surge of radical religious extremism ranging from fanatical Muslims of the Islamic State to the Taliban, groups who commit unspeakable atrocities using violence to pursue their atavistic goals. Syria’s civil war could result in Assad’s weapons of mass destruction getting into the hands of the splintered groups of Islamic Jihadists fighting there.
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{Science Fiction/Political Thriller} The Hidden Reality Blog Tour Sign Up

Stephen Martino will be touring April 4 – June 30 with his science fiction/political thriller, THE HIDDEN REALITY. We are looking for reviews (paperback U.S./PDFs), interviews, guest posts and book spotlights/promo. Thank you! Inside the Book: Title: The Hidden Reality Author: Stephen Martino Publisher: Light Messages Pages: 318 Genre: Science Fiction/Political Thriller In the year 2084, the brilliant inventor, Alex Pella, finds himself at a precarious crossroad between the pursuit of justice and preservation of his own sanity. While attempting to undermine an international New World Order government created by the financial juggernaut known as The New Reality, he must also face the hidden truths about his own genetic
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Dark Transmissions Virtual Book Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Davila LeBlanc’s DARK TRANSMISSIONS virtual book tour March 7 – 31!   Inside the Book: Title: Dark Transmissions Author: Davila LeBlanc Release Date: March 1, 2016 Publisher: Harper Voyager Impulse Genre: Sci-fi/Space Opera Format: Ebook/Paperback It is the late 23rd century. For engineers Jessie Madison and her husband David, a routine maintenance contract on board the orbital mining station Moria 3 has become a nightmare. Upon awakening from cryo-stasis, they learn a horrifying truth: while they were asleep, machines rose up against humanity…and won. Marooned and at the mercy of the station’s malicious artificial intelligence, OMEX, David and Jessie rig an emergency transmission
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Pump Up Your Book Presents My Journey In and Out of Community Book Blast

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Katherine Zyczynska’s MY JOURNEY IN AND OUT OF COMMUNITY Book Blast March 14 – March 25!   Inside the Book: Title: My Journey In and Out of Community Author: Katherine Zyczynska Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Religious Format: Ebook After Kata’s father dies in a car accident when she is just eleven and a half years old, she continually searches for parental love. She makes bad choice after bad choice and looks for love in all the wrong places. When she’s eighteen years old, her family decides she needs a change. The idea of moving to California sounds exciting to Kata, but she knows
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Pump Up Your Book Presents A Sojourn Among the Avatars of Wisdom Virtual Book Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Dudley Mecum’s A SOJOURN AMONG THE AVATARS OF WISDOM Book Tour June 6 – 30!   Inside the Book: Title: A Sojourn Among the Avatars of Wisdom Author: Dudley Mecum Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Visionary and Metaphysical Format: Ebook Chris Cole enjoys aiming for the stars. After he rockets into orbit aboard the space shuttle, his mission is cut short when he is the victim of an accident aboard the International Space Station. Whisked back to earth for medical observation, Chris is eventually released. Before his return flight to Kennedy Space Center the next day, Chris decides to attend a nearby medieval fair
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Book of Forbidden Wisdom Virtual Book Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Gillian Murray Kendall’s THE BOOK OF FORBIDDEN WISDOM virtual book tour March 7 – 31!   Inside the Book: Title: The Book of Forbidden Wisdom Author: Gillian Murray Kendall Release Date: March 8, 2016 Publisher: Harper Voyager Impulse Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy Format: Ebook/Paperback In a world of blood and betrayal, love is the only redemption… But that knowledge can only be reached by means of magic and a journey, by way of a confrontation with feelings that are hard to understand—or bear. On Angel’s sixteenth birthday, her younger sister, Silky, wakes her to prepare her for a marriage to Leth, a man
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Sin and the Millionaire and Every Vow She Breaks Virtual Book Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you SIN AND THE MILLIONAIRE and EVERY VOW SHE BREAKS virtual book tour March 1 – 31!   Inside the Book: Title: Sin and the Millionaire Author: Lucy Farago Release Date: February 2, 2016 Publisher: Lyrical Press Genre: Romantic Suspense Format: Ebook What happens in Vegas might stay in Vegas, but when an innocent woman is pinned with someone else’s lethal mistake, the bright lights of Sin City threaten to dim for good… At seventeen, Lizzy’s first love swindled her out of a small fortune in lottery winnings, and her own small business—forcing her to strip to keep loan sharks at bay. That’s what
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Reflections of a Negro Revolutionary Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Boss Jackson’s REFLECTIONS OF A NEGRO REVOLUTIONARY Book Blast March 14 – 25! Inside the Book: Title: Reflections of a Negro Revolutionary Author: Boss Jackson Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 64 Genre: Biography Format: Ebook The turbulent years of the sixties and early seventies, a time of the flowering of a people and a nation, we thought we knew what it meant to black in America, but everything we knew was changing. From the civil rights movement Led by Dr Martin Luther King Jr. The watts Riot, the so called Black Revolution, the rise of the Black Student Unions on college campuses, to the anti
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Love Me Tenor Virtual Book Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Annabeth Albert’s LOVE ME TENOR virtual book tour February 29 – March 31!   Inside the Book: Title: Love Me Tenor Author: Annabeth Albert Release Date: February 16, 2016 Publisher: Lyrical Shine Genre: Contemporary Romance Format: Ebook There’s no way he’ll shake this off…. Trevor Daniels is feeling aimless. A recent college grad, he’s not sure what to do with his useless degree, and his family all but abandoned him after he revealed the truth about himself. But a friend’s suggestion that he take his chances on a reality show aimed at finding the next big boy band strikes a chord with
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  • February 24, 2016
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The CIA International Thriller Series Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you R. Lawson’s THE CIA INTERNATIONAL THRILLER SERIES virtual book tour March 1 – 31! Inside the Book Title: Existential Threats (Book 4 of The CIA International Thriller Series) Author: R. Lawson Publisher: Independent Pages: 345 Genre:  Thriller/Espionage The CIA’s incoming Director of Counter Terrorism, Biff Roberts, is inheriting a multitude of challenges. For starters, there is the existential threat of a nuclear Iran. Added to that, the Middle East has become enmeshed in a surge of radical religious extremism ranging from fanatical Muslims of the Islamic State to the Taliban, groups who commit unspeakable atrocities using violence to pursue their
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  • February 23, 2016
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Avocadonine and Spring Stone Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Patrick Barnes’ novel, The Avocadonine and Spring Stone (Young Adult Fiction) March 1-31, 2016.   Inside the Book:   Title: The Avocadonine and Spring Stone Author: Patrick Barnes Publisher: Independent Self Publishing Publication Date: January 26, 2015 Pages: 334 Genre: Young Adult Fiction   Praised by many as one of the best YA fiction books you’ll ever read. Rey Naresh, a likeable kid worth rooting for, is going into the ninth grade at Pemota High.  He’s not sure what to expect being fresh off a visit with a gypsy who may or may not have been psychic, but he’s hoping in ninth grade he’ll get to meet
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  • February 23, 2016
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Not Quite So Stories Virtual Book Publicity Tour & Two Book Giveaway!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you David S. Atkinson’s NOT QUITE SO STORIES virtual book tour March 1 – May 27! Inside the Book Title: NOT QUITE SO STORIES Author: David S. Atkinson Publisher: Literary Wanderlus LLC Pages: 166 Genre: Absurdist Literary Fiction The center of Not Quite So Stories is the idea that life is inherently absurd and all people can do is figure out how they will live in the face of that fact. The traditional explanation for the function of myth (including such works as the relatively modern Rudyard Kiping’s Just So Stories) is as an attempt by humans to explain and demystify
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{Young Adult} The Avocadonine and Spring Stone Blog Tour Sign Up

Patrick Barnes will be touring March 1-31 with his young adult fiction novel, The Avocadonine and Spring Stone!   We are looking for: Book Reviews (eBook /Paperback /PDF) Author Guest Post Author Interview Book Spotlight     Inside The Book Title: The Avocadonine and Spring Stone Author: Patrick Barnes Publisher: Independent Self Publishing Pages: 334 pages Genre: Young Adult Fiction Praised by many as one of the best YA fiction books you’ll ever read. Rey Naresh, a likeable kid worth rooting for, is going into the ninth grade at Pemota High.  He’s not sure what to expect being fresh off a visit with a gypsy who may or may not have been psychic, but he’s
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Unicorn: Addiction, Guilt and a Decision That Would Change Her Life Forever Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you L.E. Get’s UNICORN: ADDICTION, GUILT AND A DECISION THAT WOULD CHANGE HER LIFE FOREVER virtual book tour March 1 – 31! Inside the Book Title: Unicorn: Addiction, Guilt, and a Decision That Will Change Her Life Author: L.E. Get Publisher: Telemachus Press Pages: 240 Genre: Women’s Fiction/Literary Fiction/Drama Scarlet has the life most only dream about—she travels the world, she makes plenty of money and she has the best friend anyone could ask for. But, piece by piece, her world is falling apart because of her damaged family, years of resentment and her sister’s drug and alcohol addiction. Scarlet tries
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Changing Teams Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jennifer Allis Provost’s CHANGING TEAMS virtual book tour March 1 – 31! Inside the Book Title: Changing Teams Author: Jennifer Allis Provost Publisher: Limitless Publishing Pages: 36 Genre: Contemporary Romance Britt Sullivan, part time model and full time aspiring artist, is sick of living alone in the city… Taking lame jobs just to make ends meet is leading Britt nowhere, and she knows something has to change. She needs some excitement, and when she meets blue-eyed Midwesterner Sam MacKellar at a photo shoot, she realizes he’s perfect for her in every way—well, except for the fact that he’s gay. A
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Swept Away Cover Reveal!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Kristina Mathews’ SWEPT AWAY Cover Reveal February 24! Inside the Book: Title: Swept Away Author: Kristina Mathews Publisher: Lyrical Shine Genre: Contemporary Romance Format: Ecopy Carson Swift may look exactly like his twin brother Cody, but they’re as different as tie dye and camouflage. Reliable, responsible, and usually the designated driver, Carson is also over being his brother’s keeper, but suddenly his plans to break free are complicated by the woman they fish out of Hidden Creek . . . Lily Price is not your typical damsel in distress. Infidelity, infertility, and downsizing provide a triple threat to her ego, but
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First Chapter: From Ashes Into Light by Mouw Gudrun

Title: From Ashes Into Light Author: Gudrun Mouw Pages: 240 Genre: Literary/Visionary Fiction Publisher: Raincloud Press From Ashes into Light is a transpersonal tale of epic tragedy, spirituality, family, and personal redemption. It is told through three distinct voices: the haunting story of Ruth, a Jewish adolescent during Kristallnacht in World War II Austria, Saqapaya, a stalwart Native American from coastal California during the time of the Spanish conquest, and Friede Mai. Friede is born during WW II to a Bavarian soldier and an East-Prussian mother. As those around her struggle with the inevitable chaos and paradox of war, young Friede opens her heart to gruesome enemies, at times
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  • February 21, 2016
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Charlotte and Loving Lies Virtual Book Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you CHARLOTTE and LOVING LIES virtual book tour February 22 – March 18, 2016!   Inside the Book: Title: Charlotte Author: Virginia Taylor Release Date: February 2, 2016 Publisher: Lyrical Press Genre: Historical Romance Format: Ebook A marriage most inconvenient… After losing his first love in childbirth, Nicholas Alden knows with a great certainty that he must never be a father. But to be a husband is a very different matter—mandated by South Australian society, necessary for his family name. So when he meets beautiful social climber Charlotte, he believes he has found a wife he can keep at arm’s length. He is terribly
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Perfect Tear Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Connie Lansberg’s THE PERFECT TEAR virtual book tour March 1 – 31! Inside the Book Title: The Perfect Tear Author: Connie Lansberg Publisher: Rockit Press Pages: 320 Genre: YA Fantasy The Perfect Tear begins with the Singers of the world who, during their initiation by a multi-dimensional being, are given a magical three-pronged hair comb to use as tuning forks to help keep the world in harmony.  They are a special breed of women, able to connect their voices to the vibration of the earth in order to create this needed balance and equilibrium for all. The story follows the
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  • February 20, 2016
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Networking Karma Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Gail Tolstoi-Miller’s  NETWORKING KARMA virtual book tour March 1 – April 29! Inside the Book Title: Networking Karma Author: Gail Tolstoi-Miller Publisher: Consultnetworx Pages: 160 Genre: Business/Self-Help Are you Awkward? Uncertain? Even jittery at networking events? Author Gail Tolstoi Miller, an award-winning entrepreneur and successful CEO, feels your pain. In fact, she spent years experiencing the same emotions when networking. An avowed introvert, Gail discovered a powerful and universal law of connecting, she calls Networking Karma. And when she embraced it, Gail put those anxious, apprehensive interactions behind her to become a career coach and owner of a networking event
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Falling Grace, Moving On, Two to Wrangle and Wild Hearts Virtual Book Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you FALLING GRACE, MOVING ON, TWO TO WRANGLE and WILD HEARTS virtual book tour February 22 – March 18, 2016!   Inside the Book: Title: Falling Grace Author: Melissa Shirley Release Date: February 2, 2016 Publisher: Lyrical Shine Genre: Contemporary Romance Format: Ebook Finding the fairytale in Storybook Lake . . . Grace Wade left Storybook Lake hoping to escape her crazy family and the demands of her job as a defense attorney. But not twenty-four hours after landing in a small Texas town where she hopes to find new beginnings, Grace instead finds herself in the middle of an investigation that’s turning the
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Murder on Wheels Virtual Book Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lynn Cahoon’s MURDER ON WHEELS virtual book tour February 22 – March 18! Inside the Book: Title: Murder on Wheels Author: Lynn Cahoon Pages: 198 Publisher: Lyrical Underground Genre: Cozy Mystery Format: Ecopy/Paperback/Audio The food truck craze has reached the charming coastal town of South Cove, California, but before Jill Gardner—owner of Coffee, Books, and More—can sample the eats, she has to shift gears and put the brakes on a killer . . . Now that Kacey Austin has got her new gluten-free dessert truck up and running, there’s no curbing her enthusiasm—not even when someone vandalizes the vehicle and
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{Inspirational Contemporary Romance} Cupid’s Quest Blog Tour Sign Up

Lori Soard will be touring April 4 – 29 with her inspirational contemporary romance, CUPID’S QUEST. We are looking for reviews (paperback U.S./PDFs), interviews and guest posts. Thank you! Inside the Book: Title: CUPID’S QUEST Author: Lori Soard Publisher: Grace Nicole Books Pages: 201 Genre: Inspirational Contemporary Romance The only life Gracie has ever known has been the nursing home and the residents who are like family to her. Now, she risks losing it all and her friends scattering to different homes if she can’t come up with the money to save the business. Between caring for his ailing mother and running the family farm, Brandt is stretched thin.
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{Romantic Suspense} Banished Threads Blog Tour Sign Up

Kaylin McFarren will be touring April 4 – June 30 with her romantic suspense, BANISHED THREADS. We are looking for reviews (paperback U.S./PDFs), interviews, guest posts and book spotlights. Thank you! Inside the Book: Title: Banished Threads (Book 3 – Threads Series) Author: Kaylin McFarren Publisher: Creative Edge Publishing LLC Pages: 258 Genre: Romantic Suspense A valuable art collection disappears turning a treasure-hunting duo into crime-stopping sleuths committed to vindicating family members in Kaylin McFarren’s action-packed suspense novel, Banished Threads. While vacationing at the stately Cumberforge Manor in Bellwood, England, Rachel Lyons and Chase Cohen attend an elegant dinner party hosted by her uncle, Paul Lyons, and his aristocratic
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  • February 18, 2016
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Bipolar Millionaire Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you John E. Wade’s THE BIPOLAR MILLIONAIRE virtual book tour March 1 – May 27! Inside the Book Title: The Bipolar Millionaire Author: John E. Wade II Publisher: Sunbury Press Pages: 164 Genre: Memoir John E. Wade II, retired CPA, author, investor, television producer, and philanthropist, reveals in his memoir, The Bipolar Millionaire, his personal struggle with bipolar disorder and how he has succeeded in living a balanced and blessed life, despite his mental illness. Wade takes the reader through his family experiences, political aspirations and beliefs, spiritual journey, relationship trials and errors, all while battling mental illness. Through his religious
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{International Action Adventure Thriller} Fast Track Review Campaign Sign Up

We are taking review requests for Tomasz Chrusciel’s international action adventure thriller, FAST TRACK TO GLORY. This is an Amazon review campaign and not a tour. If requesting review copies, we ask that you post your review at Amazon and Goodreads no later than May 17. When you are ready to submit your review, come back and click the links below to take you directly to FAST TRACK TO GLORY’s Amazon and Goodreads pages. Review copies will be sent in PDF format. Thank you! Inside the Book: Title: FAST TRACK TO GLORY Author: Tomasz Chrusciel Publisher: Agato House Pages: 372 Genre: International Action Adventure Thriller Nina Monte, a well-respected
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Book Marketing Videos: Six Figure Success Self-Publishing Non-Fiction Books With Steve Scott

Who doesn’t want a six figure income from writing non-fiction books?  Here’s an example of someone who did just that.  Love his tips – extensive email marketing, having more than one book out and being consistent.  Don’t waste your time on the inky dinky stuff and concentrate on the stuff that really matters and leveraging that.  There is no big secret to selling books – you just do the same stuff regularly for years.  Study what other nonfiction authors are doing who are making a huge success and study what they do and you’ll find they are being consistent – that’s the big secret.   I especially like Steve’s idea
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