Posts Tagged ‘thriller’

New Book For Review: Pastor Evil by Robert McCabe

Robert McCabe will be touring in February with his fiction thriller novel Pastor Evil: My Calling: Conquer Evil at All Costs. Have you ever wondered what your real purpose or calling is in life? Wouldn’t it be wonderful to be a prodigy of some type: perhaps a pianist, mathematician, scientist, gifted athlete, or even take the spiritual path of a priest or pastor? Most of us end up doing something we fell into at an early age. As we gain responsibilities, we get stuck in these professions for the rest of our lives. This is the dilemma Robert McCabe encountered in order to support his family. He didn’t hate
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Pastor Evil Virtual Book Publicity Tour February 2012

Join Robert McCabe, author of the fiction thriller novel, Pastor Evil: My Calling: Conquer Evil at All Costs (AuthorHouse) , as he virtually tours the blogosphere February 6 -February 24, 2012 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Robert McCabe The author has over forty years experience in Information Technology. While earning a BS in Business and a MS in Telecommunications Management his career path offered him public speaking engagements to crowds as large as 10,000 people. An avid reader he has turned his interest toward writing, while enjoying activities which include inventing and the great outdoors. His proudest accomplishments include earning a brown
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New Book For Review: How Not to Save the World by J. Yinka Thomas

J. Yinka Thomas will be touring in February with her suspense adventure novel, How Not to Save the World. Remi Austin is a fundraiser for the African Peace Collaborative (APC), a conflict resolution nonprofit founded by her late mother. Frustrated by her inability to raise funds and faced with the imminent closure of the APC, Remi turns to a life of crime to keep her nonprofit afloat. From Sydney, to Tokyo, Geneva and Cape Town, Remi transforms from a fundraiser too shy to speak during staff meetings into a daring international art thief who must stop a war from breaking out and figure out how to save herself from
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How Not to Save the World Virtual Book Publicity Tour February 2012

Join Jessica Yinka Thomas, author of the suspense adventure novel, How Not to Save the World , as she virtually tours the blogosphere February 6 -February 24, 2012 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Jessica Yinka Thomas Jessica Yinka Thomas is a novelist with a background in toy design and social entrepreneurship. As managing director of the Center for Sustainable Enterprise at the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School, she has authored several award-winning academic articles. Jessica has worked as a designer of interactive educational toys, as the director of a social enterprise business plan competition and as a program manager for a
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Pump Up Chats with Peyman Pejman

Peyman Pejman is an award-winning journalist with over 20 years of experience. He has worked with respected newspapers, news agencies and radio stations such as The Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Cox Newspapers, The Associated Press, United Press International, Reuters, Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Pejman has extensive experience in the Middle East and the Arab world. His tenure in the Middle East has corresponded with important timelines in the region: the Iranian revolution, the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, the Gulf Wars and the 2003 invasion of Iraq. In addition to his journalistic career, he has been a media and communications professor and a media consultant/advisor/trainer.
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Pump Up Chats with Douglas Misquita – Author of Haunted

Douglas Misquita hails from Mumbai, India. When not writing, he plays lead guitar and sings with a rock n roll band, and enjoys travelling to places steeped in history and art. He is currently with the wireless telecommunication industry as a Project Manager. Haunted is his debut action-thriller novel and has been very well received by fans of the genre. Find out more at http://www.douglasmisquita.com , join the fan page on http://www.facebook.com/Haunted.Novel , find out what piques his interest at http://www.douglasmisquita.com/blog or subscribe to tweets at @douglasmisquita. Thank you for this interview, Douglas.  Do you remember writing stories as a child or did the writing bug come later?  Do
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New Book for Review: Thriller ‘Daddy’s Home’ by A.K. Alexander

A.K. Alexander will be touring March 19 – May 11 2012 with her thriller, Daddy’s Home! A KILLER STALKS HIS PREY… A calculating and deadly killer is in search for what he terms as his perfect family. Preying upon single mothers and their innocent children, the police have dubbed him “The Family Man.” HE WATCHES THEM…HE TAKES THEM… He plays out his role as the perfect father. When things don’t go so perfect in his insane fantasy world, the family man kills. HOLLY JENNINGS IS ON THE CASE… Crime Scene Investigator Holly Jennings of the San Diego Police Department is determined to track him down and see that justice
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The Public Pretender Virtual Book Publicity Tour February 2012

Join M.D. Cliatt, author of the legal thriller, The Public Pretender (CreateSpace), as she virtually tours the blogosphere February 6 -February 17 2012 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About M.D. Cliatt M. D. Cliatt is a wife and a mother of two teenage boys. She lives in Central Pennsylvania where she is a staff attorney in a law school clinical program, and an adjunct law professor who teaches juvenile justice and legal writing. She used to be a public defender specializing in representing children, and for the most part, loved the work. She thrived in the heat of courtroom battle, but the highs
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New Book for Review: Espionage Thriller ‘Age of Intolerance’ by Peyman Pejman

Peyman Pejman will be touring January 3 – February 27, 2012 with his espionage thriller Age of Intolerance! Age of Intolerance is both an espionage thriller tackling a serious and newsworthy current affairs topic and heart-warming saga of a relationship between estranged brother and sister, each having pledged allegiance to a political master bent on defeating the other. Charles Shahin is a American journalist of Iranian descent whom the Central Intelligence Agency convinces to become a spy, skirting a long-held tradition that spy agencies not recruit reporters. Pretending to be a reporter for a US-based Internet newsgathering site, Shahin settles in sleepy Cyprus, long the center of spies and
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Age of Intolerance Virtual Book Publicity Tour January & February 2012

Join Peyman Pejman, author of the espionage thriller, Age of Intolerance (CreateSpace), as he virtually tours the blogosphere January 3 -February 27 2012 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Peyman Pejman Peyman Pejman is an award-winning journalist with over 20 years of experience. He has worked with respected newspapers, news agencies and radio stations such as The Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Cox Newspapers, The Associated Press, United Press International, Reuters, Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Pejman has extensive experience in the Middle East and the Arab world. His tenure in the Middle East has corresponded with important timelines in the
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New Book for Review: Thriller Suspense ‘Shadow Cay’ by Leona Bodie

Leona Bodie will be touring January 3 – 27 2012 with her thriller/suspense novel, Shadow Cay! Madeleine Nesbitt lives a privileged, sheltered life on a pristine tropical island paradise until the young girl is hauled off the deck of a capsizing ferry. Sixty-two passengers drown, trapped under the hull. Madeleine survives but her innocence dies that day. Despite the odds, she’s resilient enough to put her life together.  However, nine years later she realizes too late that catastrophe is only the beginning of the dangers that lurk ahead when another maritime disaster hits closer to home. Someone wants to make sure the Nesbitt family never makes it out of
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Haunted Online Book Tour December 2011

Join Douglas Misquita, author of the thriller Haunted as he virtually tours the blogosphere in December 2011 on his first tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Douglas Misquita Douglas Misquita is a thriller writer from India. The desire to write and tell entertaining stories was inspired by Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park. A series of short stories followed through school, college and university eventually culminating in the first full length novel ‘Ingram’ which was reworked, retitled and released as ‘Haunted’ which has been very well received by fans of the genre. Douglas currently works in the wireless telecommunications industry and besides writing, plays guitar and sings with a group
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New Book for Review in February 2012, “Defending Jacob” by William Landay

Award-winning author William Landay is touring in February 2012 with his family drama thriller, Defending Jacob. Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years. He is respected in his community, tenacious in the courtroom, and happy at home with his wife, Laurie, and son, Jacob. But when a shocking crime shatters their New England town, Andy is blindsided by what happens next: His fourteen-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student. 432 paages Visit William online at http://www.williamlanday.com/. This tour is now full. Thank you for your interest.


Murder on the Down Low Virtual Book Publicity Tour January & February 2012

Join Pamela Samuels Young, author of the legal thriller, Murder on the Down Low (Goldman House Publishing), as she virtually tours the blogosphere in January and February on her 13th virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Pamela Samuels Young Corporate attorney Pamela Samuels Young has always abided by the philosophy that you create the change you want to see. Fed up with never seeing women or people of color depicted as savvy, hot shot attorneys in the legal thrillers she read, Pamela decided to create her own characters. Despite the demands of a busy legal career, Pamela accomplished her ambitious goal by rising at four in
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Pump Up Chats with Robert Nelson, author of “Realize Real Eyez Real Liez”

Robert Nelson was born and raised in Garner, North Carolina where he earned the connections and street credibility needed to bring a sense of authenticity to his work. Consequentially, this lead to his stay in the luxurious NC-DOC where through a lot of retrospection he developed a strategy to defeat what he had become. Through the guidance of the Aryan Brotherhood and the variety of other hardened criminals he  played cards with he focused his energy into developing his skills as a writer to keep the youth from making the same mistakes he did. If he can open just one pair of eyes through his writing, everything he’s put
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New Book for Review: Monsters of L.A.

Lisa Morton will be touring December 5-16 with her horror fiction collection Monsters of L.A. Frankenstein, Dracula, Mr. Hyde, the Phantom, the Hunchback…they’re all here, the ones you grew up watching on the silver screen. But these monsters aren’t lumbering across a fog-shrouded moor or clambering along the ramparts of a Gothic castle; no, they’re here, in sunny modern-day Southern California, in places you know and may have visited. That homeless vet with the rebuilt leg lounging before the liquor store in Santa Monica – could that be Frankenstein’s monster? The eerie host making promises at the end of an Orange County amusement park ride – is he really
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Monsters of L.A. Virtual Book Publicity Tour December 2011

Join Lisa Morton, author of the horror fiction collection Monsters of L.A. (Bad Moon Books), as she virtually tours the blogosphere December 5 – 16 2011 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Lisa Morton Lisa Morton is the screenwriter of cult favorites Meet the Hollowheads and Blood Angels, and has also written numerous episodes of children’s animated series. She is a four-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award (including Superior Achievement in a First Novel for The Castle of Los Angeles), and her short fiction has appeared in such books and magazines as Dark Delicacies, The Living Dead, Cemetery Dance, The Mammoth Book
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New Book for Review: Closet

Eric Swanson will be touring December 5-16with his Christian Fiction novel, Closet. Derek is a struggling seminary graduate and turns to the occult after receiving multiple rejections from various churches. But this opens a portal to a demonic dimension that a local witch uses to take his mentally disabled son and wife into. Now Derek must enter a demonic world to save the ones he loves with the aid of the Holy Spirit, who shows up in seven different human forms depending on the situation. Along the way Derek finds out what really matters in life after coming to terms with his own weaknesses. But will he do this
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Closet Virtual Book Publicity Tour December 2011

Join Eric Swanson, author of the Christian fiction novel Closet (Faith Books and More), as he virtually tours the blogosphere December 5 – 16 2011 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Eric Swanson Eric graduated from Moody Bible Institute in Chicago with a MDIV degree. After Eric graduated he went on several short term mission trips and even applied for some long term missionary assignments. Eric also felt lead to seek out a job in a church setting, but the door for both domestic and international long term service was closed. Eric went through a time of wondering what his next step should
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New Book for Review: Real Eyez Realize Real Liez

Robert Nelson is touring from November 1 -23 and January 2-27 with his urban thriller, Real Eyez Realize Real Liez. The War for the heart of Urban America won’t televise from some foreign shore. It’ll be fought in your living room with dope, cash, blood and bullets. The American way of life has strayed into the shadows and one by one we’re losing our children to the illusion of Hood Dreams and a Gangsta’s Paradise. Only one man stands strong enough to hold back the tide. A renegade Aryan Prodigy and his crew, and an unfathomable amount of guns are all that protects the last shreds of civilization in
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Real Eyez Realize Real Liez by Robert Nelson Virtual Book Publicity Tour November ’11 and January ’12

Join Robert Nelson, author of the urban thriller, Real Eyez Realize Real Liez (CreateSpace), as he virtually tours the blogosphere November 1-23 2011 and January 2-27 2012 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Robert Nelson Robert Nelson was born and raised in Garner, North Carolina where he earned the connections and street credibility needed to bring a sense of authenticity to his work. Consequentially, this lead to his stay in the luxurious NC-DOC where through a lot of retrospection he developed a strategy to defeat what he had become. Through the guidance of the Aryan Brotherhood and the variety of other hardened criminals
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New Book for Review: Thriller ‘Naked Addiction’ by Caitlin Rother

Caitlin Rother will be touring January 3 – 27 2012 with her thriller novel, NAKED ADDICTION! Police detective Ken Goode is tired of working undercover narcotics and wants a transfer to homicide. When the Camus-reading surfer finds the body of a beautiful woman in an alley, he gets the go-ahead to head a team of relief detectives and wins the chance to prove he’s homicide-worthy. As Goode explores the underbelly of the affluent coastal enclave of La Jolla and its neighbor, Pacific Beach, he clashes with the patrons and employees of a neighborhood bar: real estate agents and beauty school students who have possible ties to an escort service
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New Thriller Novel for Review: Haunted by Douglas Misquita

Douglas Misquita will be touring in December with his thriller novel Haunted. FBI Special Agent Kirk Ingram’s life is torn apart when his family is brutally murdered before his eyes. Devastated physically and psychologically, he vows to destroy organized crime in all forms. In the Eastern bloc, a rogue dictator state is stockpiling Citex, a deadly nerve agent… Across the globe, an international trade house funnels Balkan organized crime activities through its business channels and now hatches a plot to distribute Citex to major cities in the world, creating a nexus with terror that threatens to bring the world order to the point of anarchy. And only one man
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The Lonely Mile Virtual eBook Publicity Tour September 2011

Join Allan Leverone , author of the thriller novel, The Lonely Mile (Stone House Ink), as he virtually tours the blogosphere September 5 – October 28 2011 on his second virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Allan Leverone Allan Leverone is a three-time Derringer Award finalist as well as a 2011 Pushcart Prize nominee for his short fiction. The Lonely Mile, released by StoneHouse Ink in July, is Allan’s second thriller, following Final Vector from Medallion Books in February. He has been hailed as “the successor to Michael Crichton” by bestselling author Vincent Zandri, and bestselling author Scott Nicholson calls The Lonely Mile “a taut crime
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Concrete Pearl Virtual Book Publicity Tour September 2011

Join Vincent Zandri, author of the thriller novel, Concrete Pearl (StoneGate Ink), as he virtually tours the blogosphere September 5 – 30 2011 on his fifth virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Vincent Zandri Vincent Zandri is the No. 1 International Bestselling author of the thrillers THE INNOCENT, GODCHILD, MOONLIGHT FALLS, THE REMAINS and CONCRETE PEARL. An MFA in Writing graduate of Vermont College, he has was a Stringer for The Albany Times Union Newspaper, and a contributor to New York Newsday, Hudson Valley Magazine, Game and Fish Magazine, and more. His short fiction has appeared in many of the leading journals and magazines, Orange County
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New Book for Review: Contemporary Fantasy/Supernatural Thriller ‘Devil’s Hand’ by M.E. Patterson

M.E. Patterson will be touring in October and November 2011 with his contemporary fantasy/supernatural thriller, Devil’s Hand. A Las Vegas poker ace with supernatural luck is swept into a world-ending conflict between fallen angels and otherworldly shades, in a thrilling debut novel for readers who enjoy Dean Koontz, Jim Butcher, and Tim Powers. The lone survivor of a tragic plane crash, Trent Hawkins inherited a mysterious lucky streak that made him famous, and hated, in the poker circles of the City of Sin. It wasn’t long before the eyes in the sky threw him on the blacklist and chased him out of town. Now, after years away, Trent returns
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New eBook for Review: Thriller ‘The Lonely Mile’ by Allan Leverone

Allan Leverone will be touring in September 2011 with his thriller e-book, The Lonely Mile! When struggling hardware store owner Bill Ferguson stumbles upon a kidnapping in progress, he does what we all like to believe we would do – he steps in and breaks up the crime, saving a young girl from a horrific fate. The perpetrator, a serial kidnapper/murderer known as the I-90 Killer, escapes and vows revenge, focusing his twisted obsession on Ferguson’s family. When Bill’s daughter disappears soon after, the frantic father forms an uneasy alliance with a beautiful FBI investigator leading the search for the I-90 Killer. But there are forces at play which
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White Sleeper Virtual Book Publicity Tour August 2011

Join David Fett & Stephen Langford, authors of the thriller suspense novel, White Sleeper (Synergy Books), as they virtually tours the blogosphere August 1 – 26 2011 on their first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About David Fett DAVID FETT is a Board Certified Ophthalmologist  and Fellowship trained Ophthalmic Plastic Surgeon specializing in reconstructive and cosmetic surgery around the eye.  He has a busy private practice in Los Angeles and is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the UCLA School of Medicine. Dr. Fett earned his MD from Dartmouth Medical School.  He completed his Ophthalmology Residency training at UCLA and The Jules Stein Eye Institute and Fellowship
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with Paul Levine

The author of 14 novels, Paul Levine won the John D. MacDonald fiction award and has been nominated for the Edgar, Macavity,International Thriller, and James Thurber prizes. His critically acclaimed and bestselling “Jake Lassiter” novels have been published in 21 countries. The first of the series, “To Speak for the Dead,” was named one of the top ten thrillers of the year by the Los Angeles Times, and is now a bestselling e–book. A former trial lawyer, he wrote more than 20 episodes of the CBS military drama “JAG” and co-created “First Monday,” starring James Garner and Joe Mantegna. He is also the author of the “Solomon vs. Lord” series
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Murder on the Down Low by Pamela Samuels Young Virtual Book Tour August 2011

Join Pamela Samuels Young, author of the legal thriller, Murder on the Down Low (Goldman House Publishing), as she virtually tours the blogosphere in December-March on her 12th virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Pamela Samuels Young Corporate attorney Pamela Samuels Young has always abided by the philosophy that you create the change you want to see. Fed up with never seeing women or people of color depicted as savvy, hot shot attorneys in the legal thrillers she read, Pamela decided to create her own characters. Despite the demands of a busy legal career, Pamela accomplished her ambitious goal by rising at four in the morning
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