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New Horror/Fantasy Novel for Review: The Difference by Alessandro Tesio

Alessandro Tesio will be touring August 6 – August 26,2012 with his fiction novel, The Difference. It’s the beginning of the new millennium. The Delta team is a team of professional soldiers in charge of guarding and protecting against paranormal activities that are spreading throughout the world. Werewolves, vampires, demons, and other mutants are running rampant, and when The Delta team is mysteriously rescued by three strangers, they learn of a society known as The Assembly of Hidden Truth. Contact with this secret organization will bring the members of the U.S. Department of the Paranormal section to discover the fate of humanity and ancient prophecies about the end of
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Difference Virtual Book Tour 2012

Join Alessandro Tesio, author of the horror/fantasy novel, The Difference, as he tours the blogosphere August 6 – August 24, 2012 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT ALESSANDRO TESIO Alessandro Tesio was born in Turin (Italy) on May 5, 1975. A writer, blogger and thinker he has written many fantasy short stories. In the 2009 he made his debut with The Difference, his first horror/christian novel. He has visited the USA many times with New York City and the East Coast being his favorite. Throughout his visits he has met many people and explores what each person has absorbed from living here. Today Alessandro still
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New Fiction Novel For Review: Twelve Months by Steven Manchester

Steven Manchester will be touring August 13 – October 11,2012 with his fiction novel, Twelve Months. Don DiMarco has a very good life – a family 
he loves, a comfortable lifestyle, passions and interests that keep him amused. He also thought he had time, but that turned out not to be the case. Faced with news that might have immediately felled most, Don now wonders if he has time enough. Time enough to show his wife the romance he didn’t always lavish on her. Time enough to live out his most ambitious fantasies. Time enough to close the circle on some of his most aching unresolved relationships. Summoning an
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  • June 19, 2012
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Twelve Months Virtual Book Tour 2012

Join Steven Manchester, author of the fiction novel, Twelve Months, as he tours the blogosphere August 13 – October 12, 2012 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT STEVEN MANCHESTER Steven Manchester is the author of Pressed Pennies, The Unexpected Storm: The Gulf War Legacy and Jacob Evans, as well as several books under the pseudonym, Steven Herberts. His work has appeared on NBC’s Today Show, CBS’s The Early Show, CNN’s American Morning and BET’s Nightly News. Recently, three of Steven’s short stories were selected “101 Best” for the Chicken Soup for the Soul series. When not spending time with his beautiful wife, Paula,
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New Horror Novel For Review: Bottled Abyss by Benjamin Ethridge

Benjamin Ethridge will be touring August 6 – October 26, 2012 with his horror novel, Bottled Abyss. Herman and Janet Erikson are going through a crisis of grief and suffering after losing their daughter in a hit and run. They’ve given up on each other; they’ve given up on themselves. They are living day by day. One afternoon, to make a horrible situation worse, their dog goes missing in the coyote-infested badlands behind their property. Herman, resolved in preventing another tragedy, goes to find the dog, completely unaware he’s on a hike to the River Styx, the border between the Living world and the world of the dead. Long
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New Fantasy Novel For Review: Shadow in the Reflection by Joe Niehaus and Mary Sikora

Joe Niehaus and Mary Sikora will be touring September 2 – October 26, 2012 with their fantasy novel, Shadow in the Reflection. Can destiny be fulfilled in just one lifetime? Dr. Gregory Ambrose thinks so. Through past-life regression therapy with a young woman named Anne, he finds himself carried over the centuries to not only a different time but a different reality. Anne’s memories act like tendrils, drawing Ambrose into this most savage time with her. Frustrated and confused Dr. Ambrose reaches out to a colleague for help. During their conversations, he learns that one of this doctor’s past-life regression patients believes that he was some kind of Viking
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Shadow in the Reflection Virtual Book Tour 2012

Join Joe Niehaus and Mary Sikora, authors of the fantasy novel, Shadow in the Reflection, as they tour the blogosphere September 3 – October 26 2012 on their first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT JOE NIEHAUS Joe Niehaus, a veteran police officer in Ohio, is the author of six books and numerous articles in police and martial arts magazines.  He holds certificates in fraud examination and clinical and forensic hypnosis.  A graduate of Tiffin University, he is an adjunct professor at his alma mater, Ashford University and Sinclair Community College. Purchase this book through:  Amazon and Barnes and Noble ABOUT MARY SIKORA Mary Sikora is
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Finding Home-Breaking Free From Limits Virtual Book Publicity Tour 2012+ $50 Amazon Gift Card Giveaway

Join Joleen Bridges, author of the self-help spiritual book, Finding Home – Breaking Free From Limits, as she tours the blogosphere July 16 – August 17, 2012 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT JOLEEN BRIDGES Joleen is a life-long Missouri resident and currently resides in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. Besides writing, Joleen’s favorite things to do are; hang out with family, travel, read, and pretty much anything related to nature. Joleen is passionate about the topics of consciousness, enlightenment, spirituality and personal empowerment. Her debut book,Finding Home, Breaking Free from Limits, available at Amazon.com and on the book’s website, represents over 10 years of research
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Last of the Seals Virtual Book Publicity Tour 2012

Join Greg Messel, author of the mystery/romance, Last of the Seals, as he tours the blogosphere July 2 – August 24 2012 on his third virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT GREG MESSEL Greg Messel has written four novels and three unpublished memoirs. He published his premiere novel “Sunbreaks” in 2009, followed by “Expiation” in 2010 and “The Illusion of Certainty” in 2011. “Last of the Seals” is the first in a series of mysteries which are set in 1957 San Francisco. The second book in the series “Deadly Plunge’ will be published around Christmas of 2012. Greg grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Lost Girls Virtual Book Publicity Tour 2012

Join Caitlin Rother, author of the true crime thriller, Lost Girls, as she tours the blogosphere July 2 – 27 2012 on her third virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT CAITLIN ROTHER New York Times bestselling author Caitlin Rother has written or co-authored eight books, including Poisoned Love (Kensington, December 2011), Dead Reckoning (Kensington, February 2011), Twisted Triangle (Wiley, 2009), Body Parts (Kensington, 2008), Deadly Devotion (Simon&Schuster/Pocket, July 2011), NYT bestseller My Life, Deleted (HarperOne, October 2011), and Naked Addiction (Dorchester, 2007). Her latest true crime project, Lost Girls (Kensington, July 2012), chronicles the rape and murder of two innocents, teenagers Chelsea King and Amber Dubois, by sexual predator John
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Wanting Rita Virtual Book Publicity Tour 2012 + Kindle Fire Giveaway

Join Elyse Douglas, the husband/wife writing team of the women’s fiction novel, Wanting Rita, as they tour the blogosphere July 2 – August 24 2012 on their first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! The Wanting Rita Book Publicity Tour is part of huge Kindle Fire giveaway. See details further down on how you can win one for your own! ABOUT ELYSE DOUGLAS Elyse Douglas is the pen name for the married writing team Elyse Parmentier and Douglas Pennington. Elyse grew up near the sea, roaming the beaches, reading and writing stories and poetry, receiving a Master’s Degree in English Literature from Columbia University. She has enjoyed
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with author Judy Byington

About Judy Byington Judy Byington, M.S.W., L.C.S.W., ret, has dedicated her life to humanizing and raising public awareness about the little known effects of ritual abuse and mind-control programming that tragically cause formation of multiple personalities in children. The retired CEO, therapist, author and mental health supervisor is founder and leader of Trauma Research Center, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing information through CEU accredited seminars and lectures on Dissociation and coordinating ritual abuse survivor group, therapeutic and legal resources. The former mental health supervisor spent twenty years in research with Jenny Hill while interviewing hundreds of ritual abuse survivors, legal entities, therapists, families of missing children and religious,
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Anger Mastery Virtual Book Publicity Tour 2012 + Nook 8GB Tablet Giveaway

Join Kevin Burk, author of the nonfiction, Anger Mastery: Get Angry, Get Happy, as he tours the blogosphere July 2 – August 24 2012 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT KEVIN B. BURK Kevin B. Burk has been helping people around the world to improve their lives and relationships since 1996 through his astrological counseling and relationship coaching practice. His humor, wisdom and compassion are always present, in his books (ten so far, including Astrology: Understanding the Birth Chart, The Relationship Handbook: How to Understand and Improve Every Relationship in Your Life, and his newest book, Anger Mastery: Get Angry, Get Happy), his
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Son of a Soldier Virtual Book Publicity Tour 2012

Join Aiken Brown, author of the Christian fiction, Son of a Soldier, as she tours the blogosphere July 2 – 27 2012 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT AIKEN BROWN Aiken Brown graduated summa cum laude from Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama. She is the author of In a Brother’s Eyes: the Brant McLachlan Story (2005), For Such a Time as This (2007) and Son of a Soldier (2012). Aiken’s book are available at all major booksellers and in Kindle, Nook and other ebook formats! Learn more about Aiken Brown’s books at www.aikenbrown.blogspot.com and become a fan at www.facebook.com/booksbyaikenbrown. To get your
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Spider Brains Virtual Book Publicity Tour 2012

Join Susan Wingate, author of the young adult fiction, Spider Brains, as she tours the blogosphere July 2 – August 24 2012 on her second virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT SUSAN WINGATE Most recently, Susan Wingate’s novels, SPIDER BRAINS and DROWNING each reached Amazon Bestseller status in 2012. DROWNING won the 2011 Forward National Literature Award for Drama. She would love for you to read her books. You can find them all under the tab on this site labeled “Books”. SUSAN has written eleven novels, two short story collections, a few plays, one screenplay and tons of poems. Her latest 2011 novel DROWNING  (contemporary women’s fiction), won 1st place in the 2011 Forward National
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Sleep Magic: Surrendering to Success Virtual Book Publicity Tour 2012

Join Victoria Pendragon, author of the self-help book, Sleep Magic: Surrendering to Success, as he tours the blogosphere July 2 – 27  2012 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT VICTORIA PENDRAGON Victoria Pendragon was born and raised in the vicinity of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is the oldest of eleven. Her life has been defined, as are most of ours perhaps, by conditions that would seem to have been beyond her control. Eighteen years of various sorts of abuse and two diseases that should have killed her rank among the most outstanding of those. Her study of metaphysics began in early childhood as an
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Final Approach: Northwest Airlines Flight 650 Tragedy and Triumph Virtual Book Publicity Tour 2012

Join Lyle Prouse, author of the autobiography, Final Approach: Northwest Airlines 650 Tragedy and Triumph, as he tours the blogosphere August 6 – 24 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT LYLE PROUSE Lyle Prouse was born in Wichita, Kansas in 1938. He is part Comanche and grew up in an alcoholic home in a World War II housing project. He was active in his Native American community. After graduating from High School in Wichita, Lyle joined the Marines as a private but made the rare transition from enlisted to officer grade and ultimately Captain, a jet fighter pilot flying combat missions in Vietnam.
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Mind Secrets Virtual Book Publicity Tour 2012

Join Chris Reynolds, author of the urban fantasy/young adult novel, Mind Secrets, as she tours the blogosphere August 6  – 24 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT CHRIS REYNOLDS Chris Reynolds is a lover of adventure stories. Chris spent her time growing up avidly reading them, watching them on TV and writing them in her school exercise books. She was often frustrated that stories written by other people didn’t go the way she wanted them to, so she decided to write her own. In the interim, she has worked for the BBC and independent radio as a journalist, written for magazines and some
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Gabriella Bradley & Diana Kemp to give away Kindle Fire at Books, Books and More Books, Reviews by Martha’s Bookshelf & The Book Faery Reviews!

Gabriella Bradley and Diana Kemp, authors of The Samsara Chronicles, are stopping off today at Books Books and More Books, Reviews by Martha’s Bookshelf and The Book Faery Reviews 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! 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
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New Contemporary Women’s Fiction Novel: Behind God’s Back: Secrets, Shadows, and Sex by Anna O’Moss

Anna O’Moss will be touring July 2-27, 2012 with her contemporary women’s fiction novel, Behind God’s Back: Secrets, Shadows, and Sex! When six old friends meet for lunch… they discover things about each other… they never knew existed… Sandra, a writer, excited to have a book deal, which is based on her story of FORBIDDEN LUST, now must tell her friends what really happened on their last church camping trip. They swore they would never speak of it again and now it is going to be exposed to the world.Now in her forties, Darlene is outraged, until she lets them in on her secret. As their day turns into
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Behind God’s Back Virtual Book Tour 2012

Join Anna O’Moss, author of the contemporary women’s fiction novel, Behind God’s Back: Secrets, Shadows, and Sex (Lighten-Up Books), as she virtually tours the blogosphere July 2 – July 27, 2012 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT ANNA O’MOSS You can find out more about this fascinating book at http://behindgodsbacknovel.com. You can find the author on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/anna.omoss You can purchase the book for Kindle: http://www.amazon.com/Behind-Gods-Back-Secrets-ebook/dp/B0087B5EBE/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1338398088&sr=1-1 or on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Behind-Gods-Back-Secrets-Shadows/dp/0981813461/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1338398263&sr=8-1 ABOUT BEHIND GOD’S BACK: SECRETS, SHADOWS, AND SEX When six old friends meet for lunch… they discover things about each other… they never knew existed… Sandra, a writer, excited to have a
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New Psychological Thriller for Review: White Lies by Jeremy Bates

Jeremy Bates will be touring July 2 thru August 24, 2012 with his psychological thriller, White Lies! ABOUT WHITE LIES While driving to a charming village tucked away deep in the Cascade Mountains of eastern Washington, where she is to begin a new job teaching high school English, Katrina Burton picks up a young hitchhiker who turns out to be drunk and predatory. Fearful for her safety, she lies about her destination in order to get him out of the car. But when she later discovers that he is a teacher at the same school, she finds herself feeding that initial lie with more lies. Then Katrina meets a
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Pump Up Your Book Presents White Lies Virtual Book Tour 2012

Join Jeremy Bates, author of the psychological thriller, White Lies (Oceanview Publishing), as he virtually tours the blogosphere July 2 – August 24, 2012 on his 1st virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT JEREMY BATES Jeremy Bates has spent the last ten years traveling the world, visiting more than thirty countries. He has lived in Canada, the United States, Australia, Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines. Bates is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario with a degree in English literature and philosophy. He is a member of Mystery Writers of America, International Thriller Writers, Inc, and Crime Writers of Canada. His frightening debut novel,
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New Historical Fiction Novel for Review: The Katyn Order by Douglas Jacobson

Douglas W. Jacobson will be touring July 2-27 ’12 with his historical fiction novel,The Katyn Order.  The German War Machine is in retreat as the Russians advance. In Warsaw, Resistance fighters rise up against their Nazi occupiers, but the Germans retaliate, ruthlessly leveling the city. American Adam Nowak has been dropped into Poland by British intelligence as an assassin and Resistance fighter. During the Warsaw Rising he meets Natalia, a covert operative who has lost everything—just as he has. Amid the Allied power struggle left by Germany’s defeat, Adam and Natalia join in a desperate hunt for the 1940 Soviet order authorizing the murders of 20,000 Polish army officers
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Katyn Order Virtual Book Tour 2012

Join Douglas W. Jacobson, author of the historical fiction novel, The Katyn Order, as he virtually tours the blogosphere  July 2 – July 27, 2012 on his third virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Douglas W. Jacobson Douglas W. Jacobson is an engineer, business owner and World War Two history enthusiast. Doug has traveled extensively in Europe researching stories of the courage of common people caught up in extraordinary circumstances. His debut novel, Night of Flames: A Novel of World War Two was published in 2007 by McBooks Press, and was released in paperback in 2008. Night of Flames won the “2007 Outstanding Achievement Award” from
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  • June 4, 2012
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Attorney-Client Privilege Virtual Book Tour 2012 – Win a Free Kindle Fire HD!

Join Pamela Samuels Young, author of the legal thriller, Attorney-Client Privilege (Goldman House Publishing), as she virtually tours the blogosphere September 3 – November 30 2012 on her 14th virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT PAMELA SAMUELS YOUNG PAMELA SAMUELS YOUNG is a practicing attorney, whose fast-paced legal thrillers tackle law and crime. Her novels include Attorney-Client Privilege, Murder on the Down Low and Buying Time. A former television news writer, Pamela is a graduate of USC, Northwestern University and UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law. Pamela currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Chapter of Sisters in Crime, an organization
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Dark Side of Valor Virtual Book Publicity Tour 2012 + Win $100 Visa Gift Card!

Join Alicia Singleton, author of the suspense novel, Dark Side of Valor (Simon &  Schuster/Strebor), as she virtually tours the blogosphere June 4 – August 27 2012 on her second virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book!  Alicia has agreed to give away a $100 Visa Gift Card at the end of her tour and you could be the one!   Find out how you can win by scrolling down and enter by filling out the Rafflecopter form below.  Stop off at all her blog stops for more entries.  Good luck!   ABOUT ALICIA SINGLETON Born and raised in Philadelphia, the Howard University graduate embraced the written word at
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Great Sphinx of Amun-Ra Book Publicity Tour 2012

Join Herbert Smith, author of the historical fantasy novel, The Great Sphinx of Amun-Ra, as he tours the blogosphere June 4 – 22 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT HERBERT SMITH Herbert L. Smith has lived and taught in many different countries of the world, from Africa to South America, and has written about some of his posts in three books published since 2008: Cairo: The Mother Of The World, Crossing Borders, and his most recent, The Great Sphinx Of Amun-Ra. All these books are based in Egypt, where he lived in the 1990’s, and he has followed the evolution of Egypt continually
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  • May 21, 2012
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Tuesday’s Child Book Publicity Tour ’12

Join Jeannette Baker, author of the historical romance novel, Tuesday’s Child (Valley Publishing), as she virtually tours the blogosphere June 18 – July 13 2012 on her third virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Jeanette Baker Jeanette Baker is the award-winning author of fifteen novels, published by Pocket, Kensington and Mira Books, many of them set in the lush countryside of historical and contemporary Ireland where she lives and writes during the summer months. Her ancestors, the O’Flahertys, hail from Inishmore, the largest of the Aran Islands located off the coast of Galway. She takes great pride in the prayer posted by the English over the
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Murder Takes Time Virtual Book Publicity Tour ’12 + Win a Free iPad 3 or Kindle Fire

Join Giacomo Giammatteo as he tours the blogosphere June 18 – August 31,2012 with his mystery/suspense novel Murder Takes Time! Giacomo has agreed to give away an iPad 3, a Kindle Fire, and a $50 Gift Certificate (payable by Paypal). The iPad3 and Kindle Fire winners will be determined by Rafflecopter and the gift certificate will go to the person who comments the most during his 2 month tour.  If there is a tie, the winner will be chosen through Random.org!     About Giacomo Giammatteo I live in Texas now, but I grew up in Cleland Heights, a mixed ethnic neighborhood in Wilmington, Delaware that sat on the
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