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Mary Elizabeth The Spotless Cow VBT and Book Sale Extended! + Win $25 Amazon Gift Card

Great news, everyone! The virtual book tour for Mary Elizabeth The Spotless Cow by Salvatore (Sal) Barbera has been extended thru December 27, 2013. We are looking for book reviews, book trailer reveals, and guest posts. In addition, from November 4 – Dec 10, 2013 there are several openings for a book spotlight post featuring a $25 Amazon gift card giveaway. Participating bloggers will be able to provide Pump Up Your Book with a Twitter handle or Facebook page link that will be added to a Rafflecopter form to coordinate the giveaway. All participating bloggers from this tour (Oct – Dec) are eligible for a chance to enter and
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents Putting Life on the Finish Line Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Joe Sinclair, author of the self help/fitness book, Putting Life on the Finish Line, as he tours the blogosphere December 2 – December 31 on his first book tour with Pump Up Your Book! He will be giving away a $25 Amazon Gift Card and 10 free eBooks to the lucky winners! To enter, fill out the Rafflecopter form on the participating blogs below and good luck! If you would like to host him, please email Tracee at tgleichner (at) gmail.com. To sign up for this tour, click below: ABOUT PUTTING LIFE ON THE FINISH LINE When author Joe Sinclair turned sixty-two years old, he began his quest
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Red Qipao Book Blast & Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is proud to announce Ayo Shanti’s historical mystery/suspense novel The Red Qipao November 11-29! Ayo will be giving away a $25 Amazon Gift Card. To enter, fill out the Rafflecopter form below or on participating blogs throughout the blast and good luck! All participating bloggers willing to host are eligible to win. Thank you! ABOUT THE RED QIPAO   Title: The Red Qipao Genre: Historical Mystery/Suspense Author: Ayo Shanti Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 343 Language: English All the stories that filled my childhood, even the ones about my beloved Lemminkainen, were overshadowed by my growing obsession with the mystery surrounding Mother. And at the heart of her mystery was
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Saderia Series Virtual Book Publicity Tour

    Join Sarah Renée, author  of the middle grade fantasy adventure books, The Saderia Series, as she tours the blogosphere November 4 – 29, 2013 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ————————————————————— ABOUT THE SADERIA SERIES The Tiger Princess (Book 1) Ten years ago, a devastating fire took the lives of Queen Karenisha and King Makero, leaving a young Princess Saderia orphaned.  Nobody knows how the fire started, but it ignited quickly. Too quickly. In ten years, the truth has never been discovered… Saderia is a curious 10-year-old tiger Princess. Her Aunt Cia and Uncle Jash have taken over the duties of Queen and King
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Take Charge of Your Life Book Blast & Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card and Free eBooks!

Pump Up Your Book is proud to announce William Glasser, MD’s self-help/personal transformation book Take Charge of Your Life Book Blast November 11-29! William will be giving away a $25 Amazon Gift Card and 10 eBook copies of his book. To enter, fill out the Rafflecopter form below or on participating blogs throughout the blast and good luck! All participating bloggers willing to host are eligible to win. Thank you! ABOUT TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR LIFE Title: Take Charge of Your Life Genre: Self help/Personal Transformation Author: William Glasser, MD Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 255 Language: English “A game changer for anyone ready to become the captain of their own ship.” —Dr. Phil
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Curse of the Holidays Book Blast & Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Join Joshua C. Fuller, author of the paranormal suspense novel, Curse of the Holidays Volume 1: Dead Snow, as he tours the blogosphere October 21 – November 1 on his first book blast with Pump Up Your Book! Joshua will be giving away a $25 Amazon Gift Card to one lucky winner! To enter, fill out the Rafflecopter form on the participating blogs below and good luck! If you would like to host Joshua, please email Tracee at tgleichner (at) gmail.com. ABOUT CURSE OF THE HOLIDAYS VOLUME 1: DEAD SNOW Donovan VonBreak, demon god, thinks he will destroy the world of light when he cheats his way into power.
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Pump Up Your Book Presents In Retrospect Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Ellen Larson, author of the science fiction/mystery novel, In Retrospect, as she tours the blogosphere January 6 – January 31, 2014 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT IN RETROSPECT Former elite operative Merit Rafi suffered during her imprisonment at the end of a devastating war, but the ultimate torment is being forced to investigate a murder she would gladly have committed herself. The year is 3324. In the region once known as Turkey, the Rasakans have attacked the technologically superior Oku. The war is a stalemate until the Oku commander, General Zane, abruptly surrenders. Merit, a staunch member of the Oku resistance,
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents A Path Through the Garden and Nardi Point Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Nancy LaPonzina, author of the women’s fiction books, A Path Through the Garden and Nardi Point, as she tours the blogosphere November 4 – November 29 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT A PATH THROUGH THE GARDEN Alternative healer Leyla-Jo Jared helps others grow their families, yet struggles with her own infertility. Archaeologist scientist husband, Hal Jared dearly wants to share the context and provenience of a multi-racial baby and feels guilty he has let her down. Hoping for a solution for their craving to become a family, Leyla Jo turns to her folkways heritage and explores natural plant botanicals. When the
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Run With the Wolves Book Blast & Win a $25 Gift Card!

Join T c Tombs, author of the paranormal fantasy novel, Run with the Wolves, as he tours the blogosphere October 21 – November 1 on his first book blast with Pump Up Your Book! He will be giving away a $25 Amazon Gift Card to one lucky winner! To enter, fill out the Rafflecopter form on the participating blogs below and good luck! If you would like to host him, please email Tracee at tgleichner (at) gmail.com. ABOUT RUN WITH THE WOLVES It is the fifteenth century, and three kingdoms are caught up in the dire conflicts of their time. As the possibility of a peaceful resolution provides hope
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Save JFK: A Mission Thru Time Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Armando Pazos, author of the science fiction novel, Save JFK: A Mission Thru Time, as he tours the blogosphere October 7 – October 31 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT SAVE JFK: A MISSION THRU TIME The book opens on that tragic 22nd November 1963; when the body of President Kennedy arrived at Andrew’s air force from Dallas. The events surrounded his assassination are described by a young agent named Joe Randolph, leaving a profound mark on him for the rest of his life. Then the story goes fifty years into the future, to Thursday November 21, 2013, when the President of
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with Joe Sergi, Author of ‘Sky Girl and the Superheroic Adventures’

Joe Sergi lives outside of Washington, DC with his wife and daughter. Joe is an attorney and a Haller Award winning author who has written articles, novels, short stories, and comic books in the horror, scifi, and young adult genres. Joe is the creator of the Sky Girl series of novels and the editor of Great Zombies in History. His first novel, Sky Girl and the Superheroic Legacy was selected Best of 2010 by the New PODler Review. Joe is a life-long comic fan who regularly writes on the history of comics and censorship for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. A complete list of Joe’s titles is available
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents Hypothyroidism, Health and Happiness: The Riddle of Illness Revealed by Dr. Steven Hotze Virtual Book Publicity Tour – Win a Kindle Fire HD and $100 Amazon Gift Card

Join Dr. Steven Hotze, author of the non-fiction health book, Hypothyroidism, Health and Happiness: The Riddle of Illness, as he tours the blogosphere November 3- April 30 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT HYPOTHYROIDISM, HEALTH AND HAPPINESS Have you ever thought to yourself, “I think I might have a thyroid problem. I’m tired all the time, no matter how much I exercise, I can’t seem to lose weight, my hair’s falling out, and overall I just feel blah.” If so, it is essential that you explore the very real possibility that indeed, you do have hypothyroidism. In Hypothyroidism, Health & Happiness, Dr. Steven
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents M.E.R.C.A.T.O.: The Underground Art of Wealth Creation Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Jimmy Slagle, author of the financial/investing/personal finance book,  M.E.R.C.A.T.O.: The Underground Art of Wealth Creation, as he tours the blogosphere October 21 – January 31, 2014 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT M.E.R.C.A.T.O.: THE UNDERGROUND ART OF WEALTH CREATION From the author of Dart-Throw Trading comes a compelling financial parable of anguish, loss, hope and redemption. The story of a young, struggling family is one that has become all-too-common in the stalled economy of 2009. Steve, a professional man in his early forties, has discovered that he and his family are just one more casualty of the American recession. Formerly a top
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  • September 22, 2013
  • Author Interviews, Featured
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with Tim & Debbie Bishop, Authors of ‘Two Are Better’

Tim Bishop Originally from Maine, Tim Bishop has over thirty years of experience in business, first as a CPA, then for many years in various roles in the corporate world. In addition to consulting for small businesses, Tim serves as a Hope Coach for TheHopeLine, a nonprofit organization that seeks to reach, rescue, and restore hurting teens and young adults. Debbie Bishop Debbie Bishop has taught for over twenty-five years, for the past ten years as a literacy specialist in Framingham, Massachusetts. She has a passion for reading and seeing that young people do it well. She also has high interest in recovery issues and encouraging others with her
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents How to Trade Stocks Using Options: The Dart-Throw Traders Kick A$$ Strategies to Throwing Darts – Picking Stocks-Making Money Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Jimmy Slagle, author of the financial/investing/personal finance book,  How to Trade Stocks Using Options: The Dart-Throw Traders Kick A$$ Strategies to Throwing Darts – Picking Stocks – Making Money, as he tours the blogosphere October 21 – January 31, 2014 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT HOW TO TRADE STOCKS USING OPTIONS How To Trade Stocks Using Options: The Dart-Throw Traders Kick A$$ Strategies to Throwing Darts – Picking Stocks – Making Money is an instant trading classic. This book will take you on a 12-month trading journey that will educate, inspire, and entertain you. There is more to trading stocks (using
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New Children’s Book for Review: Mary Elizabeth The Spotless Cow

Salvatore Barbera will be touring October 1 – 31, 2013 with his children’s picture book, Mary Elizabeth The Spotless Cow. We are looking for reviews, interviews, guest post spots, and book spotlights. Please mention how you want to host this author and provide three dates that would work for you when inquiring. The story of Mary Elizabeth The Spotless Cow takes us on the journey she travels to figure out how to get the cows at a new farm to like and accept her. While she hopes to find friendship at her new home, instead she learns what it means to be different from everyone else. (Spotless!) Mary Elizabeth uses
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Becoming Josephine Book Blast

Pump Up Your Book is proud to announce Heather Webb’s Becoming Josephine  Book Blast December 16 – January 3! Heather will be giving away a $25 Amazon Gift Card. To enter, fill out the Rafflecopter form below or on participating blogs throughout the blast and good luck! All participating bloggers willing to host are eligible to win. ABOUT BECOMING JOSEPHINE   Title: Becoming Josephine Author: Heather Webb Publisher: Plume Pages: 320 Language: English Genre: Historical Fiction Readers are fascinated with the wives of famous men. In Becoming Josephine, debut novelist Heather Webb follows Rose Tascher as she sails from her Martinique plantation to Paris, eager to enjoy an elegant life
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{Social Innovation Book for Review} The Kochia Chronicles by Khanjan Mehta

Khanjan Mehta will be touring October 7 – November 29 with his social innovation book, The Kochia Chronicles. We are looking for reviews, interviews, first chapter reveals, and book spotlights/excerpts. Book Synopsis Kochia, a sleepy community on the shores of Lake Victoria in Western Kenya, is caught in the turmoil among traditional ways of life, excitement brought about by development projects and the throes of relentless globalization. Cellphones are spreading HIV and funerals are killing people. Cows are drowning in enormous holes dug by white people. Girls are dropping out of school and children are being rented to orphanages. Crusades and miracle services are blurring the lines between religion and
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{General Fiction for Review} What Remains by Bart Baker

Bart Baker will be touring October 7 – November 29 with his general fiction novel, What Remains. We are looking for reviews, interviews, first chapter reveals, and book spotlights/excerpts. Book Synopsis When Conner Carter is banished from New York for cheating on his socialite wife, he flies across country to Sonoma, California to stay with his brother Cody, Cody’s ridiculously wealthy husband, Rhett, and their two adopted Cambodian children. Since childhood, Conner has been jealous of the gilded life Cody has led, but Conner learns that what glitters often tarnishes and shatters in shocking and dangerous ways. Having always taken life’s easiest route, Conner now finds that path closed when
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  • September 5, 2013
  • Authors on Tour, Featured
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents The Diabolist Virtual Book Publicity Tour – Win a $100 Amazon Gift Card and Signed Copies of The Dominic Grey Novels

Join Layton Green, author of the suspense/mystery/thriller novel, The Diabolist, as he tours the blogosphere  October 1 – October 31, 2013 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT THE DIABOLIST In this gripping thriller, the bizarre murder of a Satanic priest in San Francisco draws Dominic Grey and Viktor Radek, private investigators of cults, to the scene. Witnesses claim a robed figure, seemingly able to appear and disappear at will, set fire to the priest. When the leader of another Satanic cult in Paris dies under similar circumstances, the case only grows stranger… and more dangerous. Convinced that a charismatic New Age prophet is
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents Forward to Camelot: 50th Anniversary Edition Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Susan Sloate and Kevin Finn, authors of the thriller/suspense novel, Forward to Camelot: 50th Anniversary Edition, as they tours the blogosphere December 2 – January 31 on their first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT FORWARD TO CAMELOT: 50th ANNIVERSARY EDITION WHERE WERE YOU THE DAY KENNEDY WAS SAVED? On the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination comes a new edition of the extraordinary time-travel thriller first published in 2003, now extensively revised and re-edited, and with a new Afterword from the authors. On November 22, 1963, just hours after President Kennedy’s assassination, Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as President aboard Air Force One using
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents The Juice Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Herve Bebele, author of the erotic paranormal book, The Juice, as he tours the blogosphere  October 7 – October 31, 2013 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT THE JUICE The Juice is the second book in the trilogy “The Senses”. In the first book “The Scent” we met Herve and his avatar Richard. They were unaware they had been selected by the African queen to assist her in the production of the Pokako juice and to its safe keeping. The Scent detailed the story of how Richard discovered the women who had the ability to squirt their orgasmic fluid and responded only
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{Self-Help Memoir for Review} Through the Withering Storm by Leif Gregersen

Leif Gregersen will be touring October 7 through December 13, 2013 with his self-help memoir, Through the Withering Storm. We are looking for reviews, interviews, guest posts, and book spotlights/excerpts.  This book is available in paperback for review and is 188 pages. Book Synopsis Mental illness is something that is a great deal more common than many think. Statistics show that 1 in 5 North Americans will require treatment for a major disorder at some point in their lives. This means either you or a family member or friend close to you are very likely to be stricken down by a failure of our most essential and complicated organ in
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with Christian Historical Fantasy Adventure Author Gary L. Doman

Gary L. Doman, whose (pen-)surname rhymes with “roman”, the French word for “novel”, was born in Syracuse (New York) and has spent the majority of his life in Connecticut. He has degrees from Fairfield University and the University of Connecticut. He has developed an interest in just about everything, especially history, geography, religion, language, and the natural world. He began writing as a child and has never really stopped, although he does periodically need to eat and sleep, and also devotes considerable time to his other creative and intellectual endeavors; these include his “weblog” the Doman Domain and one of the items of interest found there, namely, “The Best
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  • August 28, 2013
  • Authors on Tour, Featured
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Sky Girl And the Superheroic Adventures Virtual Book Publicity Tours

    Join Joe Sergi, author of the young adult superhero fantasy novel, Sky Girl And the Superheroic Adventures, as he tours the blogosphere September 3 – November 29, 2013 on his second virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ————————————————————— ABOUT SKY GIRL AND THE SUPERHEROIC ADVENTURES   Being a teenage girl is hard enough, but for DeDe Christopher, it is proving impossible. In addition to cliques, books, and boys, she has to worry about capes, apes, and aliens. Last year, DeDe discovered that she possessed fantastic abilities that were strangely similar to those of a comic book character named SkyBoy. With the help of her best friend Jason,
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  • August 28, 2013
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Two Are Better Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Tim and Debbie Bishop, authors of the inspirational travel adventure memoir, Two Are Better, as they tour the blogosphere September 3 – October 11, 2013 on their first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ————————————————————— ABOUT TWO ARE BETTER From an engagement to a cross-country trip in just ten weeks? And with no experience in bicycle touring—or marriage? While Tim left behind a 26-year corporate career and familiar surroundings, Debbie was about to enter a “classroom” she hadn’t seen in her 24 years of teaching.  Was it a grand getaway or a big mistake? Excerpt:  Over The Top (pgs. 90-91)Just 15 minutes into the day, we arrived at
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{Science Fiction/Mystery Crossover for Review} The Case of the Displaced Detective Series by Stephanie Osborn

Stephanie Osborn will be touring September 16 – October 18 with her science fiction/mystery crossover series, The Case of the Displaced Detective Series. We are looking for reviews, interviews, guest posts, and book spotlights/excerpts. If you are interested in reviewing, please let me know which book and/or books you are interested in. ABOUT THE CASE OF THE DISPLACED DETECTIVE: THE ARRIVAL The Case of the Displaced Detective: The Arrival is a SF mystery in which brilliant hyperspatial physicist, Dr. Skye Chadwick, discovers there are alternate realities, often populated by those we consider only literary characters. Her pet research, Project: Tesseract, hidden deep under Schriever AFB, finds Continuum 114, where Sherlock
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with T.J. MacLeslie, Author of ‘Designed for Relationship’

T.J. MacLeslie has been involved in a variety of Christian ministries since 1990, including pastoring, church planting, leadership development, prayer, and spiritual formation. He currently lives in the UK with his wife and two children where he leads a team focused on prayer and spiritual formation. You’ll often find him walking the fields with his dog, reading a book, or enjoying a warm cup of coffee. Visit him online at http://about.me/tj_macleslie. ———— INTERVIEW ———– Thank you for this interview, T.J.! Can you tell us why you wrote Designed for Relationship? As a minister and missionary, I have the opportunity to walk alongside people from all walks of life, and
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Presents The Princess Diana Conspiracy Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Alan Power, author of the true crime/royalty book, The Princess Diana Conspiracy, as he tours the blogosphere  August 29 – September 27, 2013 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT THE PRINCESS DIANA CONSPIRACY The Princess Diana Conspiracy is primarily a detailed investigation into the brutal murder of Diana, Princess of Wales but British democracy is also questioned. Evidence is presented that MI6 perverted the course of justice and that they murder people but also that Diana was a target “within their code”. The police are proven to have conspired, “to get their stories straight” at the inquest and there is also further
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{New Children’s Book For Review} The Funny Adventures of Little Nani by Cinta Garcia De La Rosa

Cinta Garcia De La Rosa will be touring September 2 – October 31 with her children’s book, The Funny Adventures of Litle Nani. We are looking for reviews, interviews, guest post spots, and character guest post spots. To sign up, click on banner below! Book Synopsis: Little Nani is a little girl who likes helping people. However, when she helps people the results can be a bit unexpected. Why is that? Little Nani is a witch! Or at least she wants to be a witch. With her magic wand, she will try to cast different spells to help her friends, but she won’t be successful all the time. Follow Little Nani in
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