Posts Tagged ‘thriller’

Pump Up Your Book Presents China Red Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Ralph Sanborn’s China Red book blitz March 24- April 4! ABOUT CHINA RED Title: China Red Genre: Suspense/Thriller Author: Ralph Sanborn Publisher: iUniverse EBook: 292 pages Release Date: April 8, 2013 ISBN: 978-1-47598-293-0 Heroin, called “China Red” on the street, is being smuggled into the United States. Zhou Jing—who fancies himself a fifteenth-century Chinese warlord, is using Muslim Uighers in western China to produce the heroin. In exchange, Zhou arms, trains, and provides security from the Chinese government for the Uighers. Caleb Frost is a professional assassin in a deep cover, black operations team that specializes in wet work. His team includes two ex-Navy SEALs and a
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  • February 23, 2014
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Immortality Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Kevin Bohacz’s Immortality virtual book tour March 3 – May 30! Title: Immortality Genre: Techno-Thriller Author: Kevin Bohacz Publisher: CPrompt Pages: 389 Format: Paperback/Kindle Purchase at AMAZON Without warning, something has gone terribly awry. In the remote and unnoticed places of the world, small pockets of death begin occurring. As the initially isolated extinctions spread, the world’s eyes focus on this unimaginable horror and chaos. Out of the ecological imbalance, something new and extraordinary is evolving and surviving to fill the voids left by these extinctions. Evolution is operating in ways no one could have expected and environmental damage may
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  • February 18, 2014
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Southern Heat Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you David Burnsworth’s Southern Heat virtual book tour March 3 – April 30! ABOUT SOUTHERN HEAT   Title: Southern Heat Author: David Burnsworth Publisher: Five Star/Gale Pages: 304 Language: English Genre: Southern Noir/Mystery Format: Paperback & eBook Gunshots echo down an antebellum Charleston alley. Brack Pelton, an ex-racecar driver and Afghanistan War veteran, witnesses the murder of his uncle, Reggie Sails. Darcy Wells, the pretty Palmetto Pulse reporter, investigates Reggie’s murder and targets Brack. The sole heir of his uncle’s estate, Brack receives a rundown bar called the Pirate’s Cove, a rotting beach house, and one hundred acres of preserved and
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{Mystery/Thriller} Startup Blog Tour Sign Up

Glenn Ogura will be on tour April 7 – 30 with his mystery/thriller, Startup. We are looking for reviews (paperback), interviews, guest posts and book spotlights. Deadline to sign up is March 28. Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 48 hours. Thank you! Set in California’s Silicon Valley, STARTUP follows a young idealist/entrepreneur, Zack Penny, as he strives to achieve his dream of creating a new company that will launch an international revolution in technology through the creation of wallpaper-thin displays that will completely surround a viewer. Zack works for a highly successful company called Display Technik,
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  • February 6, 2014
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents They Call Me Superman Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Michael Goffinet’s They Call Me Superman virtual book tour March 3 – 28! ABOUT THEY CALL ME SUPERMAN Title: They Call Me Superman Author: Michael Goffinet Publisher: Barringer Publishing Pages: 334 Language: English Genre: Action/Thriller Format: Paperback & eBook Marcus Evans is a new kind of super hero.  Born with superhuman strength, he is compelled to join the Army Rangers, where his abilities create an unique assassin against the war on terror.  After his stent with the Rangers, he joins forces with reclusive billionaire, Robert Sinclair, who has been his mentor and father-figure since the age of sixteen.  A whirlwind
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents Dreamer Virtual Book Publicity Tour

    Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Phillip L. Davidson’s Dreamer virtual book tour January 13 – 24! ABOUT DREAMER Title: Dreamer Genre: Faith-based military thriller Author: Phillip L. Davidson Publisher: Phillip L. Davidson; 2 edition (September 4, 2013) Pages: 383 Language: English Format: Paperback and eBook   Is the Dreamer good or evil? As war looms between Britain and Argentina over the barren Falkland Islands, Major David Elliott is having nightmares. Long ago, in a dark jungle near Cambodia, he failed to do his duty. That duty was to execute a member of his team. David’s weakness eventually led to his team’s capture. Tortured by the
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  • December 2, 2013
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First Chapter: The Black Song Inside by Carlyle Clark

Title: The Black Song Inside Author: Carlyle Clark Publisher: Thomas & Mercer Pages: 435 Language: English Genre: Mystery/Thriller Format: Paperback, Kindle, Audiobook Purchase at AMAZON Atticus Wynn and Rosemary Sanchez, newly engaged private investigators, have seen the dark and violent side of life. Nothing, though, has prepared them for an explosive murder investigation that threatens to tear their relationship apart as they struggle to solve a case that could leave them in prison or dead. Atticus’s manipulative ex-girlfriend bursts back into their lives wielding a secret about Rosemary’s family that she exploits to force the couple into investigating the execution-style slaying of her lover. The case thrusts Atticus and
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{Who’s on Blog Tour Today?} WHITE ROGUE VISITS THE BOOK CONNECTION

Who’s on tour today? Dr. David R. Fett, Stephen Langford & Connie Malcolm, authors of the spy fiction, WHITE ROGUE, will be stopping off at The Book Connection for Day 9 of their virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book. ABOUT WHITE ROGUE Cold War era biological experiments are resurrected and after Boston experiences a seemingly inexplicable bio-terrorist attack, the Center for Disease Control’s Dr. Davie Richards and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Paula Mushari once again join forces to uncover who is behind it. An obscure reference to a Dresden project found amid crash site evidence marks them both for execution. Paula and Dave are forced
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents A Vampire Trilogy Book III: Isle of the Undead Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is proud to be representing N.E. Tovell, author of the horror/thriller, A Vampire Trilogy III: Isle of the Undead, as she tours the blogosphere February 17- March  14! ABOUT A VAMPIRE TRILOGY BOOK III: ISLE OF THE UNDEAD Title: A Vampire Trilogy Book III: Isle of the Undead Author: N.E. Tovell Genre: Horror/Thriller Publisher: iUniverse Eight years have passed since Galian McDermot moved to Ireland to take his place in the Celtic world as the Tribunal Judicial Officer and King. The unlikely union of Galian and Delbeth has survived all attempts to destroy them. Together, they now live in a converted castle on the Isle of Man that
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Last Sunrise Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is proud to announce James E. Fielder Sr.’s international thriller, The Last Sunrise Book Blast December 2 – December 13! James 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 THE LAST SUNRISE Title: The Last Sunrise Genre: International Thriller Author: James E. Fielder Sr. Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 440 Language: English ISBN – 978-1-47591-772-7 Washington DC: President Wilson Riordan, former career Air Force officer, businessman, and senator, discovers hints of an international plot that could upend the current fragile balance
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{First Chapter} Moon River by J.R. Rain

Title: Moon River Genre: Contemporary Fantasy/Mystery Author: J.R. Rain Publisher: Lulu Pages: 216 Language: English ISBN-10: 1304328198 ISBN-13: 978-1304328199 Purchase at AMAZON Seven years ago federal agent Samantha Moon was the perfect wife and mother, your typical soccer mom with the minivan and suburban home. Then the unthinkable happens, an attack that changes her life forever. And forever is a very long time for a vampire. Now in MOON RIVER, private investigator, Samantha Moon, is asked to look into a string of bizarre murders, murders that are looking more and more like the handiwork of a bloodthirsty vampire. But when her sister, Mary Lou, goes missing, Samantha, Allison and
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents The Cured Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is proud to be representing David Wind and Terese Ramin, authors of the suspense/thriller novel, The Cured, as they tour the blogosphere November 18 – January 17! ABOUT THE CURED   Title: The Cured Author: David Wind & Terese Ramin Genre: Suspense/Thriller Publisher: Smashwords Pages: 274 Language: English ISBN-13: 978-1-48178-874-8 When over 4000 people world-wide died after taking a cure for cancer, the drug was recalled. But the questions kept coming. Was it contamination? Was it sabotage? Or,was it outright murder by an insane research scientist in retaliation against the pharmaceutical giant he worked for and to avenge the death of his wife? And everyone wanted Doctor Donald
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents Sleeping with a Wall Street Banker Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is proud to be representing Marlene Morgan, author of the psychological thriller/romantic suspense novel, Sleeping with a Wall Street Banker, as she tours the blogosphere November 18 – February 21! ABOUT SLEEPING WITH A WALL STREET BANKER   Title: Sleeping with a Wall Street Banker Author: Marlene Morgan Genre: Psychological Thriller/Romantic Suspense Publisher: AuthorHouse Pages: 322 Language: English ISBN-13: 978-1-48178-874-8 Sleeping With A Wall Street Banker is a psychological thriller that begins when lawyer Alice Francis leaves her life in London for a new start with Wall Street banker Jake Logan in New York. She quickly learns that this is a man consumed by his need to
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{Historical Fiction/Thriller for Review} Saving Jackie K by LDC Fitzgerald

LDC Fitzgerald will be touring December 2 – 27 with her historical fiction/thriller, Saving Jackie K. We are looking for reviews, interviews, guest posts, first chapter reveals, book trailer reveals and book spotlights/excerpts. To sign up, click on banner below! Book Description: The First Lady in Danger? Jump into the past to save her! Enter an upside-down world where Soviet henchmen botched their mission to eliminate John F. Kennedy fifty years ago, slaying his wife Jackie instead. The unthinkable crime incites Americans and triggers an unending war with Russia. In present day, as the two superpowers teeter on the brink of mutual destruction, a team of outlaws discovers a
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{Mystery Thriller for Review/Hosting} The Black Song Inside by Carlyle Clark

Carlyle Clark will be touring December 2 – February 28 with his mystery/thriller, The Black Song Inside. We are looking for reviews, interviews, guest posts, first chapter reveals and book spotlights/excerpts.  This tour is part of a $100 Amazon Gift Card Giveaway. Book Blurb: Atticus Wynn and Rosemary Sanchez, newly engaged private investigators, have seen the dark and violent side of life. Nothing, though, has prepared them for an explosive murder investigation that threatens to tear their relationship apart as they struggle to solve a case that could leave them in prison or dead. Atticus’s manipulative ex-girlfriend bursts back into their lives wielding a secret about Rosemary’s family that
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{Contemporary Fantasy/Mystery for Review} Moon River by J.R. Rain

J.R. Rain will be touring November 4 – 28 with his contemporary fantasy/mystery, Moon River. We are looking for reviews, interviews, guest posts, first chapter reveals and book spotlights/excerpts. This book is available in paperback & ebook for review.  Please note which format you need on the sign up sheet. To sign up, click on banner below! Book Synopsis: Seven years ago federal agent Samantha Moon was the perfect wife and mother, your typical soccer mom with the minivan and suburban home. Then the unthinkable happens, an attack that changes her life forever. And forever is a very long time for a vampire. Now in MOON RIVER, private investigator,
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  • September 17, 2013
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents Luthecker Virtual Book Publicity Tour

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Keith Domingue’s Luthecker virtual book tour October 7 – 31! ABOUT LUTHECKER Title: Luthecker Genre: Thriller Author: Keith Domingue Publisher: CreateSpace Pages: 374 Language: English ISBN-10:  1478361638 ISBN-13: 978-1478361633 ALEX LUTHECKER lives off of the grid. He prefers the comfort of the night. He avoids the crowded and chaotic daylight hours, because the relentless anxieties of the multitudes overwhelm him. This is because Alex has a rare gift. He is a pattern reader. Patterns in nature, patterns in social groups, patterns in individual behavior, he can recognize them all. With one conversation, he knows all of your secrets. He
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  • September 5, 2013
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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 Wrage Virtual Book Publicity Tour + Win $25 Starbucks Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is proud to be representing Joseph Spencer, author of the occult crime thriller, Wrage, as he tours the blogosphere September 2 – October 31! ABOUT WRAGE Title: Wrage Author: Joseph Spencer Publisher: Damnation Books LLC (June 1, 2013) Genre: Occult Crime Thriller Pages: 214 Language: English ISBN-10: 161572978X ISBN-13: 978-1615729784 Sometimes the toughest fight lies within yourself. As more dark secrets come to light, the battle for souls pushes Prairieville to the brink of war in the living and supernatural realms. Jeff Wrage swears a blood oath to Abaddon, the supernatural avenger of murder victims, to hunt the crooked cop who butchered his wife. Jeff
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{New Thriller for Review} Lutheker by Keith Domingue

Keith Domingue will be touring October 7-31 with his thriller, Lutheker. We are looking for reviews, interviews, guest post spots, and character guest post spots. To sign up, click on banner below! Book Synopsis: ALEX LUTHECKER lives off of the grid. He prefers the comfort of the night. He avoids the crowded and chaotic daylight hours, because the relentless anxieties of the multitudes overwhelm him. This is because Alex has a rare gift. He is a pattern reader. Patterns in nature, patterns in social groups, patterns in individual behavior, he can recognize them all. With one conversation, he knows all of your secrets. He can tell you exactly who
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{Virtual Book Tour} Pump Up Your Book Presents The Guilty Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is proud to be representing Vincent Zandri, author of the thriller novel, The Guilty, as he tours the blogosphere September 2 – 27 on his sixth virtual book tour! ABOUT THE GUILTY Jack Marconi is back. In The Guilty, Jack finds himself investigating a local restaurateur who’s not only obsessed with the sexy, dark romance novel, Fifty Shades of Grey, he’s accused of attempting to murder his school teacher girlfriend. As the now brain-damaged young woman begins recalling events of that fateful winter night when she was allegedly pushed down the front exterior stairs of a West Albany mansion, she becomes the target of the
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  • June 27, 2013
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{Book Blast} Pump Up Your Book Presents Be Careful What You Wish For Book Blast – Win $25 Amazon GC/Paypal Cash

Join R.K. Avery, author of the mystery/thriller, Be Careful What You Wish For, as she tours the blogosphere August 5 – 30 on her first Book Blast with Pump Up Your Book! R.K. will be giving away a $25 Amazon GC/Paypal Cash and a signed paperback copy of her book to one lucky reader! To enter, fill out the Rafflecopter form on the participating blogs below and good luck! ABOUT BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR Bunting Valley, North Dakota—a scenic and picturesque town where nothing dreadful ever happens—is a place where people feel safe leaving their front doors unlocked and their cars running in the driveways. So when
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  • May 15, 2013
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{Book Blast} Pump Up Your Book Presents Colin M. Drysdale’s For Those in Peril on the Sea Book Blast – Win $25 Amazon GC/Paypal Cash

Join Colin M. Drysdale, author of the post-apocalyptic thriller, For Those in Peril on the Sea, as he tours the blogosphere July 1 – 5 on his first Book Blast with Pump Up Your Book! Colin will be giving away a $25 Amazon GC/Paypal Cash to one lucky reader! To enter, fill out the Rafflecopter form on the participating blogs below July 1 – 5 and good luck!  If you would like to host Colin, please leave a comment below or email Dorothy at thewriterslife (at) gmail.com. ABOUT FOR THOSE IN PERIL ON THE SEA After a six week voyage across the Atlantic, they couldn’t wait to get to
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Collapse Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Richard Stephenson, author of the dystopian thriller, Collapse, as he tours the blogosphere May 6 – May 31, 2013 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ABOUT COLLAPSE America is falling, ready to join the Roman Empire as a distant memory in the annals of history. The year is 2027. Tired and desperate, the American people are deep in the middle of The Second Great Depression. The Florida coastline is in ruins from the most powerful hurricane on record; a second just like it is bearing down on the state of Texas. For the first time in history, the Middle East has united as
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Julie Flanders Polar Night Book Blast – Win $25 Amazon Gift Card/Paypal Cash!

Join Julie Flanders, author of the suspense/urban fantasy book, Polar Night, as she tours the blogosphere May 6 through May 10 on her first Book Blast with Pump Up Your Book! Julie will be giving away a $25 Amazon GC/Paypal Cash to one lucky reader! To enter, fill out the Rafflecopter form on the participating blogs below anytime during the tour and good luck! ————————————————– ABOUT POLAR NIGHT When Detective Danny Fitzpatrick leaves his hometown of Chicago and moves to Fairbanks, Alaska he wants nothing more than to escape the violence and heartbreak that left his life in pieces. Numbed by alcohol and the frozen temperatures of an Alaskan
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  • February 22, 2013
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Parallax View Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Allan Leverone, author of the thriller, Parallax View, as he tours the blogosphere May 6 – June 28 on his third virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book!   ABOUT ALLAN LEVERONE Allan Leverone is the author of five novels, including the Amazon Top 25 overall paid bestselling thriller, THE LONELY MILE. He is a 2012 Derringer Award winner for excellence in short mystery fiction, as well as a 2011 Pushcart Prize nominee. Allan lives in Londonderry, NH with his wife and family, and a cat who has used up eight lives. Visit his website at  www.allanleverone.com. Follow Allan! ABOUT PARALLAX VIEW It’s late in the Cold
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with Marc Cortez, author of A Gangster’s Garden

ABOUT MARC CORTEZ Marc Cortez began his storytelling career in the third grade, when he entered a school writing contest and won with his story THE ANT WHO STOLE EASTER. Since then he has become a marketing writer and frequent blogger, leveraging his writing skills into success as a business executive and entrepreneur. With A GANGSTER’S GARDEN, he has turned his lifelong passion for storytelling into a full-length novel. Mr. Cortez studied creative writing at the University of California, Los Angeles, and lives in California with his wife and two children. A GANGSTER’S GARDEN is his first novel. To purchase A Gangster’s Garden, click here. To find out more,
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Buzzard Bay Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Bob Ferguson, author of the thriller, Buzzard Bay, as he tours the blogosphere February 4 – 28 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ————————————————————— ABOUT BUZZARD BAY Murder, drugs trafficking, kidnapping and betrayal are the detonators that set Bob Ferguson’s explosive thriller BUZZARD BAY into motion. The tale begins on a cold winter night in a remote area of Canada. Five assassins surround an old farm house. They have already made four kills and this one seems as routine as the others. But then a dog barks and the murderous plan is suddenly disrupted. In a breathless chase over the next two days,
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First Chapters: Plague by H.W. “Buzz” Bernard

Paperback: 250 pages Publisher: Bell Bridge Books (September 4, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 1611941768 ISBN-13: 978-1611941760 AMAZON | BARNES & NOBLE Deep in the secret recesses of a Cold War lab, the Russians created tons of deadly bio-weapons. Now, decades later, a protege of that Russian research is about to release weaponized Ebola into the heart of the South’s most iconic city: Atlanta, where the symbols of American “decadence” range from a happily diverse population to the Coca-Cola museum and CNN headquarters. A preliminary test of the horrifying virus demonstrates the unspeakable suffering of its victims–and alerts the Centers for Disease Control that a terrible pandemic is in the
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  • December 27, 2012
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Cry of Eagles Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Join Stefan Vucak, author of the political thriller, Cry of Eagles, as he tours the blogosphere January 2 – 31 2013 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! ————————————————————— ABOUT STEFAN VUCAK Stefan Vucak is an award-winning author of seven techno sci-fi novels, including With Shadow and Thunder which was a 2002 EPPIE finalist. His Shadow Gods Saga books have been highly acclaimed by critics. His recent release, Cry of Eagles, won the coveted 2011 Readers Favorite silver medal award. Stefan leveraged a successful career in the Information Technology industry and applied that discipline to create realistic, highly believable storylines for his books. Born in Croatia,
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