Posts Tagged ‘sell your book’

Pump Up Your Book Presents Colorado Dream Book Blast!

We invite you to Charlene Whitman’s COLORADO DREAM Book Blast on December 6! Leave a comment on each of her tour stops to let her know you stopped by! Inside the Book: Title: COLORADO DREAM Author: Charlene Whitman Publisher: Ubiquitous Press Pages: 450 Genre: Sweet Historical Western Romance Yearning to become a concert musician, a young woman from New York travels to Colorado to purchase a violin, but when she meets a wild, untamable cowboy, her dream is threatened and her heart torn … In New York in 1877, Angela Bellini longs to become a concert violinist and get away from her abusive father. When her dream takes her
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Sight Unseen Book Blast!

We invite you to Erin Leigh Crisp’s SIGHT UNSEEN Book Blast on December 5! Leave a comment on each of her tour stops to let her know you stopped by! Inside the Book: Title: Sight Unseen Author: Erin Leigh Crisp Publisher: Independent Pages: 198 Genre: Christian Romance Emilia Phillips is looking for a career and a way out of her day job. She is not looking for a man to rescue her heart. Asher Mason wants his life back. He lost his sight and the hero-life he loved in a millisecond. He no longer trusts his instincts, especially about women. But the sweet-smelling waitress in his favorite café tempts
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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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How to be #1 Kindle Amazon bestseller

This is one of the most informative videos on how to be a #1 Kindle Amazon bestseller!


{Nonfiction} The Can’t-idates: Running For President When Nobody Knows Your Name Blog Tour Sign Up

Craig Tomashoff will be touring July 11 – 15 with his nonfiction, THE CAN’T-IDATES: RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT WHEN NOBODY KNOWS YOUR NAME. We are looking for reviews only. Paperback (U.S.) and PDF copies are available. Thank you! Inside the Book Title: The Can’t-idates: Running For President When Nobody Knows Your Name Author: Craig Tomashoff Publisher: Bobtimystic Books Pages: 302 Genre: Nonfiction I’m not a political person by nature. Most of the time, it seems the political world plays out more like a lame ‘70s sitcom with all its predictable characters and routine storylines. However, last spring, I got tired of hearing friends and family complain about the lack of
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Jungle Within Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Charles M.’s THE JUNGLE WITHIN virtual book tour June 6 – August 31! Inside the Book Title: The Jungle Within Author: Charles M. Publisher: Createspace Pages: 308 Genre: Drama/Suspense When Evan and Katie said “I do”, they expected to navigate life together side-by-side. But when a car accident and a tawdry affair disrupt life as they know it, Evan and Katie are forced to venture on alternate paths, alone. In the darkest depths of an unforgiving coma, Evan fights to survive the treacherous jungle of his mind. He embarks on a spiritual journey to understand the meaning of life and
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  • May 14, 2016
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Book Marketing Tip: How Important Is Your Book Cover?

We have had thousands of book covers come through whether they are for blog tours, book blasts, cover reveals, trailer blitzs, and review campaigns to name a few.  One of our most recent things we offer are the book review campaigns.  The book review campaigns are for  authors wanting more reviews at Amazon.  Plus, the bloggers may add your review to your page at Goodreads and your selling page at B&N as well as on their own blog.  Just what the author wants.  But the main focus is Amazon.  This is where books get noticed.  The more reviews your book gets, not only will that make your book look
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Tours and Cures of a Lightsoldier: Surviving the Path to Enlightenment Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Alexander TOURS AND CURES OF A LIGHTSOLDIER: SURVIVING THE PATH TO ENLIGHTENMENT virtual book tour June 6 – 30! Inside the Book Title: Tours and Cures of a Lightsoldier Author: Alexander King Publisher: O Books Pages: 370 Genre:  Self-Help/Self-Discovery/Spirituality Tours and Cures of a Lightsoldier is a revolution in the Self-help book world. It shakes up the status-quo, by questioning and uncovering the illogical, cold-hearted or incomplete in spiritual teachings. But Alexander King then attempts to find understandings which allow for the Divine and the basis of Life to be truly loving and intelligent again. Perhaps to keep ascending on
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{Legal Thriller} Dark Money Blog Tour Sign Up

Larry D. Thompson will be touring March 1 – May 27 with his legal thriller, DARK MONEY. We are looking for reviews (paperback U.S./PDFs), interviews, guest posts and book spotlights.  Larry will be giving away a $25 Amazon Gift Card, so don’t forget to leave your Twitter handle or Facebook link on the form below Thank you! Inside the Book: Title: DARK MONEY Author: Larry D. Thompson Publisher: Story Merchant Books Pages: 420 Genre: Legal Thriller DARK MONEY is a thriller, a mystery and an expose’ of the corruption of money in politics. Jackson Bryant, the millionaire plaintiff lawyer who turned to pro bono work in Dead Peasants, is
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Book Marketing Videos: Why I Turned Down A Book Publishing House To Self Publish My Book!

I simply loved this video on several points and I knew I had to include it in my Book Marketing Video Showcase today.  This guy makes a very strong point(s) on why he decided to self-pub.  If you watch the video and have been down this road before, I’ll probably see you nodding as you’re watching.  One strong point I got out of this video is that in order to sell your book, it really helps if you already have an audience.  If you’re just starting out and haven’t gotten that far yet to achieve a substantial amount of an audience, then you’re going to have a rougher time
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Pump Up Your Book Presents A Brazen Bargain Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Laura Trentham’s A BRAZEN BARGAIN virtual book tour February 1-26! Inside the Book Title: A Brazen Bargain Author: Laura Trentham Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages: 236 Genre: Regency Historical Romance Love soothes the deepest of scars. Minerva Bellingham is at her wits’ end. Her younger brother, Simon, will have them penniless and on the streets if his extravagant gambling habit isn’t curtailed. An enormous debt to Lord Rafe Drummond is the final indignity. Signing over her dowry is their only choice. Until Lord Drummond suggests something much more scandalous. She can keep her dowry—in exchange for the Bellinghams working three months
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  • January 1, 2016
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Mirror World Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you John Calicchia’s MIRROR WORLD virtual book tour January 4 – March 31! Inside the Book Title: Mirror World Author: John Calicchia Publisher: Psychangel Books Pages: 404 Genre: YA Fantasy What would you do if you saw the future apocalypse of the world in a mirror? Would you try to save the world and those you love, or die trying? Welcome to my life, this is the vision of the future I’ve been cursed to see.    – Cailyssa Larkin When Cailyssa Larkin looks in a mirror she has an ominous feeling that someone is watching her. Stranger still, she has visions
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Oh Ship! Tales of a Cruising Chick and Other Travel Adventures Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lori A. Moore’s OH SHIP! TALES OF A CRUISING CHICK AND OTHER TRAVEL ADVENTURES virtual book tour January 4-29! Inside the Book Title:  OH SHIP! TALES OF A CRUISING CHICK AND OTHER TRAVEL ADVENTURES Author: Lori Moore Publisher: Tate Publishing Pages: 134 Genre: Travel/Humor Reading Lori A. Moore’s true tales of things that happen on the high seas will have you saying, “Oh Ship!” From stories of passengers pepper-spraying other passengers to grown men fighting over glass figurines of penguins, you’ll laugh until your ribs hurt. For More Information Oh Ship! Tales of a Cruising Chick and Other Travel Adventures
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Winemaker Detective: An Omnibus Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jean-Pierre Alaux & Noel Balen’s THE WINEMAKER DETECTIVE: AN OMNIBUS virtual book tour January 4-29! Inside the Book: Title: The Winemaker Detective: An Omnibus Author: Jean-Pierre Alaux & Noel Balen Publisher: LeFrench Book Pages: 309 Genre: Mystery/French Cozy/Culinary Mystery An immersion in French countryside, gourmet attitude, and light-hearted mystery. Two amateur sleuths gumshoe around French wine country, where money, deceit, jealousy, inheritance and greed are all the ingredients needed for crime. Master winemaker Benjamin Cooker and his sidekick Virgile Lanssien solve mysteries in vineyards with a dose of Epicurean enjoyment of fine food and beverage. Each story is a homage
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{Suspense} Justice is for the Lonely Blog Tour Sign Up

Steve Clark will be touring December 1 – 31 with his suspense novel, JUSTICE IS FOR THE LONELY! We are looking for: Reviews (Paperback/PDF) Interviews Guest Posts Book Spotlights (HTML included) Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 72 hours. Thank you! Title: JUSTICE IS FOR THE LONELY Author: Steve Clark Publisher: Rorke Publishing Pages: 430 Genre: Suspense In JUSTICE IS FOR THE LONELY, the stunning new suspense novel by author Steve Clark, Kristen Kerry, a smart, attractive, young lawyer faces the dilemma of trying her biggest legal case while attempting to fulfill the less than moral demands
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Martina McAtee’s CHILDREN SHOULDN’T PLAY WITH DEAD THINGS virtual book tour October 5 – November 30! Title: Children Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things Author: Martina McAtee Publisher: Martina McAtee Pages: 450 Genre: YA Paranormal Romance 17 year old Ember Denning has made an art of isolating herself. She prefers the dead. She spends her days skipping school in old cemeteries and her nights hiding from her alcoholic father at the funeral home where she works. When her own father dies, Ember learns her whole life is a lie. Standing in the cemetery that’s been her sanctuary, she’s threatened by the
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Little Boy Gan From Passion-Filled Everland & Reimburse the Universe Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lisa McDonald’s LITTLE BOY GAN FROM PASSION-FILLED EVERLAND & REIMBURSE THE UNIVERSE virtual book tour October 5-30! Title: Little Boy Gan From Passion-Filled Everland Author: Lisa McDonald Publisher: Lisa McDonald Pages: 36 Genre: Children’s Picture Book McDonald’s first book, LITTLE BOY GAN FROM PASSION-FILLED EVERLAND, tells the story of ten-year-old Gan. Gan is humble and wise with a loving spirit that he shares with the animals he meets in the magical forest where the story takes place. The curious animals watch Gan and observe his kindness and humility. Soon they seek the boy out to learn the secret of his
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  • September 8, 2015
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Animals Have Feelings, Too! Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Karen Lee Stevens ANIMALS HAVE FEELINGS, TOO! EXPLORING EMOTIONS FROM A TO Z virtual book tour October 5-30! Title: Animals Have Feelings, Too!: Exploring Emotions From A to Z Author: Karen Lee Stevens Publisher: All for Animals Pages: 32 Genre: Children’s Picture Book Filled with humor and whimsical illustrations, this enchanting and educational A to Z guide takes young readers on a journey through the alphabet with a lovable Labrador retriever named Sandy, who shows kids that animals and people share many of the same feelings. From A is for Affectionate to Z is for Zonked, Animals Have Feelings, Too!
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{YA Fantasy Romance} Heartbound Blog Tour Sign Up

P.I. Alltraine will be touring October 5 – November 30 with her YA fantasy romance, HEARTBOUND! We are looking for: Reviews (Bloggers will be sent vouchers to pick up their e-copy at Amazon) Interviews Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 72 hours. Thank you! Title: Heartbound Author: P.I. Alltraine Publisher: Soul Mate Publishing Pages: 177 Genre: YA fantasy romance Petyr has never found it necessary to consider the humans as anything more than distant, inferior beings–until now. They are the cause of the fatal disease that has plagued his realm, taking the lives of too many of
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  • August 15, 2015
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Pump Up Your Book Presents A Peach of a Pair Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Kim Boykin’s A PEACH OF A PAIR virtual book tour September 1 – November 27! Title: A Peach of a Pair Author: Kim Boykin Publisher: Penguin Random House/Berkley Books Pages: 304 Genre: Southern Women’s Fiction “Palmetto Moon” inspired “The Huffington Post” to rave, It is always nice to discover a new talented author and Kim Boykin is quite a find. Now, she delivers a novel of a woman picking up the pieces of her life with the help of two spirited, elderly sisters in South Carolina. April, 1953. Nettie Gilbert has cherished her time studying to be a music teacher
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Laguna Nights Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Kaira Rouda’s LAGUNA NIGHTS virtual book tour September 1 – 30! Title: Laguna Nights Author: Kaira Rouda Publisher: Real You Publishing Group Pages: 250 Genre: Contemporary Romance Format: Paperback/Kindle/Nook Madison Alcott was back in her hometown, caring for her sick mom and working long hours at the best resort in Laguna Beach. She never imagined she’d return to the place where she became famous on the hit reality TV show Laguna Nights, and the place where she was humiliated on national television. Fortunately, the past had stayed tucked away until her old high school boyfriend appeared in the lobby. Josh
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Grey Daze Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Michael Allan Scott’s GREY DAZE virtual book tour September 1 – 30! Title: Grey Daze (A Lance Underphal Mystery) Author: Michael Allan Scott Publisher: Independent Pages: 306 Genre: Mystery/Thriller/Suspense/Supernatural/Paranormal Format: Paperback/Kindle GREY DAZE descends.  A fresh murder spins out of control, twisting into new realms of paranormal mystery. Not for the faint of heart, the third in the Lance Underphal Mystery series, is an interplay of corrupt characters immersed in today’s world. Paranormal twists and fast action in movie-like scenes set the story’s mystery/thriller elements apart from the typical whodunit/serial-killer thriller. Guided by his dead wife, a reluctant psychic finds
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Rockstar Remedy Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Dr. Gabrielle Francis’ THE ROCKSTAR REMEDY virtual book tour September 1-November 27! Title: The Rockstar Remedy Author: Dr. Gabrielle Francis with Stacy Baker Masand Publisher: HarperCollins Wave Pages: 330 Genre: Health and Wellness/Rock n Roll Format: Paperback/Kindle/Nook Known as the “Rock n’ Roll Doctor” to some of the most famous bands in the world, Dr. Gabrielle Francis shares her unique holistic prescription to achieving health and balance—even when you don’t live like a saint! As a Holistic Doctor to the music industry’s elite, Dr. Francis has helped rock stars repair, recover, and refuel from the demanding schedules and occasional overindulgences that come
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{Young Adult} The Teddy Bear Eye Club Blog Tour Sign Up

Suzanne M. Hurley will be touring September 1 – 30 with her young adult novel, THE TEDDY BEAR EYE CLUB! We are looking for: Reviews (PDF only) Interviews Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 72 hours. Thank you! Title: The Teddy Bear Eye Club Author: Suzanne M. Hurley Publisher: Wings ePress Pages: 286 Genre: Young Adult Format: Kindle/Nook Depressed, fourteen-year-old Mayah Lewis hides from the world, until she befriends new girl, beautiful bald-headed Celeste Daniels. Everything begins looking up, until one day, Celeste disappears. ——————- All her life, Suzanne M. Hurley had a secret. She
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{Health & Wellness/Rock n Roll} The Rockstar Remedy Blog Tour Sign Up

Dr. Gabrielle Francis w/Stacy Baker Masand will be touring September 1 – November 27 with their health/wellness/rocknroll book, THE ROCKSTAR REMEDY! We are looking for: Reviews (Paperback U.S. only/PDF) Interviews Guest Posts Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 72 hours. Thank you! Title: The Rockstar Remedy Author: Dr. Gabrielle Francis with Stacy Baker Masand Publisher: HarperCollins Wave Pages: 330 Genre: Health and Wellness/Rock n Roll Format: Paperback/Kindle/Nook Known as the “Rock n’ Roll Doctor” to some of the most famous bands in the world, Dr. Gabrielle Francis shares her unique holistic prescription to achieving health
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{Mystery/Thriller/Suspense} Grey Daze Blog Tour Sign Up

Michael Allan Scott will be touring September 1-30 with his mystery/thriller/suspense/supernatural/paranormal, GREY DAZE! We are looking for: Reviews (Paperback U.S. only/PDF) Interviews Guest Posts Please Note: this book “R” rated and is intended for adult readers. Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 72 hours. Thank you! Title: Grey Daze (A Lance Underphal Mystery) Author: Michael Allan Scott Publisher: Independent Pages: 306 Genre: Mystery/Thriller/Suspense/Supernatural/Paranormal Format: Paperback/Kindle GREY DAZE descends.  A fresh murder spins out of control, twisting into new realms of paranormal mystery. Not for the faint of heart, the third in the Lance Underphal Mystery series, is
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{Comic Urban Fantasy} Magno Girl Blog Tour Sign Up

Joe Canzano will be touring  August 3-28 with his comic urban fantasy, MAGNO GIRL! We are looking for: Reviews (Paperback U.S. only/PDF) Interviews Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 72 hours. Thank you! Title: Magno Girl Author: Joe Canzano Publisher: Happy Joe Control Pages: 320 Genre: Comic Urban Fantasy Format: Paperback/Kindle/Nook Price: Paperback $9.89/Kindle $2.99/Nook $2.99 When a Manhattan pizza maker is found dead in his own dough, Magno Girl enlists the aid of her biker ninja boyfriend to help solve the crime – and quickly discovers there’s more to the pie than meets the
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{Nonfiction/Nutrition/Health} Stop the Diet, I Want To Get Off! Blog Tour Sign Up

Lisa Tillinger Johansen will be touring August 3 – October 30 with her nonfiction/nutrition/health book, Stop the Diet, I Want to Get Off! This tour is part of a $100 Amazon Gift Card giveaway and includes the option to participate in the release day blitz on August 1. We are looking for: Reviews (Paperback U.S. only please & PDF) Interviews Guest Posts Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 72 hours. Thank you! Title: Stop the Diet, I Want To Get Off! Author: Lisa Tillinger Johansen Publisher: J. Murray Press Pages: 275 Genre: Nonfiction/Nutrition/Health The Paleo. 
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{Nonfiction/Memoir/Poetry} Don’t Hit Me! Blog Tour Sign Up

Vanessa de Largie will be touring August 3 – 28 with her nonfiction/memoir/poetry book, Don’t Hit Me! We are looking for: Reviews Interviews Guest Posts Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 72 hours. Thank you! Title: Don’t Hit Me! Author: Vanessa de Largie Publisher: Booktrope Pages: 88 Genre: Nonfiction/Memoir/Poetry/Journey Format: Paperback/Kindle #1 Amazon Bestseller # Winner of the 2014 Global eBook Award Bronze (women’s studies) # Winner of the 2014 Honourable Mention Award London Book Festival (memoir) # Five-Star Review Midwest Book Review # Five-Star Review San Francisco Book Review # Five-Star Review #1 Amazon Hall of
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Pump Up Your Book Presents No Bull Information Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Dr. John Gamble’s NO BULL INFORMATION: A HUMOROUS, PRACTICAL GUIDE TO HELP AMERICANS ADAPT TO THE INFORMATION AGE virtual book tour July 6 – 31! Title: No Bull Information Author: Dr. John Gamble Publisher: Morgan James Publishing Pages: 166 Genre: Psychological/Self-Help Format: Hardcover/Paperback/Kindle/Nook In his new book, NO BULL INFORMATION, Dr. John Gamble challenges readers to confront the Information Age by abandoning simplistic thinking and taking a measured approach that requires asking questions to analyze and understand complicated issues, to identify and avoid word traps, and to effectively dissect and comprehend numbers frequently used to confuse voters and consumers. Gamble
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