Posts Tagged ‘virtual blog tour’

The Full Moon Bride Online Book Tour September 2011

Join Shobhan Bantwal, author of The Full Moon Bride as she virtually tours the blogosphere in September 2011 on her fifth tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Shobhan Bantwal Shobhan Bantwal calls her writing Bollywood in a Book, romantic, colorful, action-packed tales, rich with elements of her own Indian culture, stories that entertain and educate. Shobhan writes for a variety of publications including The Writer magazine, India Abroad, Little India, U.S. 1, Desi Journal, India Currents, Overseas Indian, and New Woman India. Her short stories have won honors/awards in contests sponsored by Writer’s Digest, New York Stories and New Woman magazines. Visit her website at www.shobhanbantwal.com About The
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Pump Up Chats with Melanie Benjamin

Melanie Benjamin is a pseudonym for Melanie Hauser, the author of two contemporary novels. Her first work of historical fiction as Melanie Benjamin was Alice I Have Been. The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb is her second release. She lives in Chicago, where she is at work on her next historical novel. You can visit her online at www.melaniebenjamin.com. On The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb Q: Can you tell us why you wrote your book?  I was stuck in the middle of a manuscript that I simply couldn’t finish; I’d lost interest in it and had to assume the reader would, as well.  But it was due to
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Bears With Us Virtual Book Tour, October 2011

Join Marilyn Meredith, author of the mystery novel,  Bears With Us (Mundania Press, August 2011), as she virtually tours the blogosphere in October on her ninth virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Marilyn Meredith Marilyn Meredith is the author of over thirty published novels, many award winning, including the Deputy Tempe Crabtree mystery series. Bears With Us is the latest release. Writing as F. M. Meredith, her latest Rocky Bluff P.D. crime novel is Angel Lost, the third from Oak Tree Press. Marilyn is a member of EPIC, Four chapters of Sisters in Crime, including the Central Coast chapter, Mystery Writers of America, and on the board of the Public Safety
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Pump Up Chats with Sherree Funk

Well-grounded in biblical Christianity, Sherree G. Funk is passionate about sharing her love and knowledge of God’s Word with the next generation. She has earned Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees and holds a Certificate in Christian Studies from Asbury Theological Seminary. Sherree leads small groups of teens at Ingomar UMC. Peter: Rock Star from Galilee is her latest release. Her other teen Bible studies are available at www.servingonelord.com. On Peter: Rock Star from Galilee Q: Can you tell us why you wrote your book? When I was leading a group of young teens a few years ago, I found there were very few quality Bible studies for this age group. 
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New Book for Review: Nine Insights For A Happy and Successful Life by Dr. Mitchell Gibson

Dr. Mitchell Gibson will be touring in September and October with his book Nine Insights For A Happy and Successful Life. The Nine Insights is a book that is designed to be a guide for those who wish to rise above the suffering and confusion that so often marks this path of existence. As a medical professional, the Creator has given me thousands of profound moments of transformational insight. I began keeping notes on these insights and stored them away in a journal that over time, became the basis for this work. From time to time, I shared these insights with friends, family, clients, and colleagues. Simple in their
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Pump Up Chats with Dark Fantasy Author Benjamin Kane Ethridge

Benjamin Kane Ethridge is the Bram Stoker Award winning author of the novel Black & Orange. He received a Masters of Art in English Composition from California State University, San Bernardino, and his thesis was entitled: “Causes of Unease: The Rhetoric of Horror Fiction and Film.” When he isn’t staring into a burning computer screen, Benjamin is defending California’s water supplies as an environmental compliance inspector. His official web presence is www.bkethridge.com and you can FaceBook him here, www.facebook.com/benjamin.kane.ethridge and Tweet him here, twitter.com/#!/bkethridge Thank you for this interview, Benjamin.  Do you remember writing stories as a child or did the writing bug come later?  Do you remember your
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Pump Up Chats with Chamed – Author of ‘My Heart Stopped Beating’

Hello, Chamed. Welcome to Pump Up Your Book. Where are you from? I am Italian, although I am not of Italian descent, I cannot say more. I live in Tuscany. When and why did you begin writing? When I was ten years old I used to write in a journal about what happened to me during the day and my days where not very busy, so my pages were full of sketches and scribbles. I was fascinated by my mother; she used to write a lot. I had always had her romantic and melancholic vision of the writer, enlightened with beauty when absorbed in writing. As the years passed,
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Your Average Joe: Unplugged Virtual Book Tour September 2011

Join Joseph D. Schneller, author of the humorous and insightful Christian devotional,  Your Average Joe: Unplugged (Nordskog Publishing, July 2011) as he virtually tours the blogosphere in September on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Joseph Schneller Joseph Schneller served as a captain in the U.S. Marine Corps and holds a Psychology degree from Whitworth. He is an alumnus of the Christian Writers Guild. His publishing credits include Focus on the Family’s Thriving Family, Clubhouse, and Focus on the Family; LifeWay’s Stand Firm; and Walk Thru the Bible’s Indeed. He writes nonfiction and humor for adults, and fiction for children, youth, and adults. He and
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New Book for Review: ‘Your Average Joe: Unplugged’ by Joseph D. Schneller

Joseph Schneller is touring in September 2011 with his humorous Christian living/devotional book, Your Average Joe: Unplugged. Joseph writes for those tired of the canned answers for everyday believers desiring to live in faith amidst the joys and pains, the responsibilities and tragedies of life.  Through 30 daily devotionals and a half-dozen humorous articles, he presents honest, often humorous encouragement for our Christian pilgrimage through this fallen world. Excerpt: Trash Talk* (Women Are Not Allowed To Read This)  OK, now that it’s just us guys, let’s get down to business. You are a newly married man. While this is a great thing in many regards, you’ve quickly learned that
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The Language of Flowers Virtual Book Tour September 2011

Join Vanessa Diffenbaugh, author of the women’s fiction book, The Languauge of Flowers  (Ballantine Books, August 23, 2011), as she virtually tours the blogosphere in September on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Vanessa Diffenbaugh Vanessa Diffenbaugh was born in San Francisco and raised in Chico, California. After studying creative writing and education at Stanford, she went on to teach art and writing to youth in low-income communities. She and her husband, PK, have three children: Tre’von, eighteen; Chela, four; and Miles, three. Tre’von, a former foster child, is attending New York University on a Gates Millennium Scholarship. Diffenbaugh and her family currently live in
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The Queen’s Gamble Virtual Book Tour September 2011

Join Barbara Kyle, author of the historical novel, The Queen’s Gamble (Kensington Books, August 30, 2011) as she virtually tours the blogosphere in September on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Barbara Kyle Barbara Kyle is the author of the Tudor-era “Thornleigh” series of novels, which have been published internationally: The Queen’s Captive, The Queen’s Lady, and The King’s Daughter, praised by Publishers Weekly as “a complex and fast-paced plot, mixing history with vibrant characters.” Her new novel, The Queen’s Gamble, will be released on 30 August 2011. Barbara previously won acclaim for her contemporary novels under pen name ‘Stephen Kyle’, including Beyond Recall
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Peter: Rock Star from Galilee Virtual Book Tour August 2011

Join Sherree G. Funk, author of the guided teen study book, Peter: Rock Star from Galilee (WinePress Publishing, July 5, 2011) as she virtually tours the blogosphere in August on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book. About Sherree G. Funk Well-grounded in biblical Christianity, Sherree G. Funk is passionate about sharing her love and knowledge of God’s Word with the next generation. She has earned Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees and holds a Certificate in Christian Studies from Asbury Theological Seminary. Sherree leads small groups of teens at Ingomar UMC. Peter: Rock Star from Galilee is her latest release. Her other teen Bible studies are available at www.servingonelord.com. About Peter:
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My Dearest Friend Virtual Book Tour August 2011

Join Hazel Statham, author of the Regency romance novel, My Dearest Friend (Write Words, Inc., May 29, 2011), as she virtually tours the blogosphere in August on her sixth virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book. About Hazel Statham Hazel read her first Regency Romance, Regency Buck by Georgette Heyer, when she was seventeen and knew that at last she had found her era. She had been writing since she was fifteen and had mainly been influenced by authors like Austen, the Brontes and Sabatini, but Georgette Heyer opened up the romance and elegance of the eighteen and nineteenth century and she fell head over heels in love with it. She devoured her books in
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Consequence Virtual Book Tour August 2011

Join Hazel Statham, author of the Regency romance novel, Consequence (Avalon Books), as she virtually tours the blogosphere in August on her fifth virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book. About Hazel Hazel read her first Regency Romance, Regency Buck by Georgette Heyer, when she was seventeen and knew that at last she had found her era. She had been writing since she was fifteen and had mainly been influenced by authors like Austen, the Brontes and Sabatini, but Georgette Heyer opened up the romance and elegance of the eighteen and nineteenth century and she fell head over heels in love with it. She devoured her books in very quick succession and wanted nothing more
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New Book for Review: ‘A Christmas Journey Home’ by Kathi Macias

Multi-published award-winning Christian author Kathi Macias is touring from October 17 – 28, 2011 with her contemporary novel, A Christmas Journey Home. During Isabella Alcantara’s seventh month of pregnancy, her parents and siblings are murdered in gang- and drug-related violence, simply because their home was targeted by mistake. Isabella knows she was spared only because she now lives in a different location, but she knows too that the same thing could easily happen to her and her husband, Francisco. When her grandfather offers to hire a “coyote” to bring them across the border to America, she agrees. But Francisco and Isabella are abandoned by the coyote and left to die.
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New Book for Review: ‘Deliver Me From Evil’ by Kathi Macias

Multi-published award-winning Christian author Kathi Macias is touring from October 3 – 14, 2011 with the first book of her new Freedom Series, Deliver Me From Evil. Deliver Me from Evil introduces readers to Mara, an eighteen-year-old girl who has been enslaved for nearly ten years, having been sold by her parents in Mexico and then smuggled across the border into San Diego where she was forced into sexual slavery. Readers will also meet 18-year-old, Bible-college-bound Jonathan and his 16-year-old sister, Leah, whose paths cross Mara’s and who become involved in her dramatic rescue. Interwoven between the stories of Mara, Jonathan, and Leah is the heartbreaking story of another
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New Book for Review: ‘Bears With Us’ by Marilyn Meredith

Multi-published, award-winning author Marilyn Meredith is touring during the month of October with the latest installment in her Deputy Tempe Crabtree series, Bears With Us. A burglar turns out to be a bear and Deputy Tempe Crabtree and her pastor husband, Hutch, chase the bear out of the house. This is their first encounter with a bear and the occupants of the home, an elderly couple and their daughter—and it isn’t the last.  A bear turns up at the school, at a restaurant, an apple orchard and two more homes. That is only part of what Tempe is called to handle. A teenager’s suicide, a mother who doesn’t like her
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The Fear of God Online Book Tour July 2011

Join B.A. Chepaitis, author of the sci-fi mystery with romantic elements The Fear of God as she virtually tours the blogosphere in July 2011 on her second tour with Pump Up Your Book! About B.A. Chepaitis BARBARA CHEPAITIS is author of 7 published novels, including the critically acclaimed Feeding Christine and These Dreams, as well as the sci-fi series featuring Jaguar Addams. The fourth novel in that series, A Lunatic Fear was a finalist for a Romantic Times Bookclub award. Her first nonfiction book, Feathers of Hope, came out through SUNY Press in July. She has optioned two scripts, and has recently been awarded a seed grant to develop
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Jane Rowan at A Book and A Chat Tonight!

Tuesday June 28th – 6:30pm EST Number you need to call is: 347- 237-5398 People don’t make up things like that for fun. That’s what Jane’s therapist tells her when Jane reports fragmentary memories from her childhood that hint at sexual abuse. A busy, successful scientist, Jane at first fights the implications, but finally has to admit that something indeed happened. With help from a gifted therapist as well as creative arts, Jane taps into her own aliveness and reconciles with both her parents’ love and their betrayal. This deeply personal memoir invites the reader behind the closed doors of the therapist’s office and into the author’s journal and
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My Heart Stopped Beating Online Book Tour July, August & September 2011

Join Chamed, author of the survival memoir My Heart Stopped Beating as she virtually tours the blogosphere in July, August & September 2011 on her first tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Chamed Chamed is not the registry office name of the author, yet it is not a pseudonym. She lives in Tuscany, she works mostly abroad, as a painter on canvas and porcelain. Some of her porcelain works are displayed in exhibitions in Italy, Sweden and Poland, France, Portugal and Brazil. My Heart Stopped Beating is her first novel. A second novel by her is forthcoming. About My Heart Stopped Beating Fourteen year old Italian girl, Chamed,
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Black & Orange Online Book Tour August & September 2011

Join Benjamin Kane Ethridge, author of the award-winning dark fantasy horror Black & Orange as he virtually tours the blogosphere in August & September 2011 on his first tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Benjamin Kane Ethridge Benjamin Kane Ethridge’s fiction has appeared in Doorways Magazine, Dark Recesses, FearZone, and others. His dark fantasy novel BLACK & ORANGE (Bad Moon Books 2010) has won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in First Novel. Beyond that he’s written several collaborations with Michael Louis Calvillo, one of which is a novella called UGLY SPIRIT, available in 2011. He also wrote a master’s thesis entitled, “CAUSES OF UNEASE: The Rhetoric
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New Book for Review: Memoir ‘My Heart Stopped Beating’ by Chamed

Italian author Chamed will be touring in July, August and September with her survival memoir My Heart Stopped Beating (MindLeaves July 2011). Fourteen year old Italian girl, Chamed, is a living miracle after fighting illness since birth to live a normal life. Now fourteen years old, she feels a thrill of freedom when she convinces her parents to let her stay home alone while they go on holiday. She soon regrets that decision when she receives a call from her aunt Patrizia that the worst has happened: her parents have died in a car accident. Things only get worse for Chamed as she mourns the deaths of her parents
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New Book for Review, ‘The Language of Flowers’ by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Vanessa Diffenbuagh is touring in September 2011 with her women’s fiction book, The Language of Flowers. The Victorian language of flowers was used to convey romantic expressions: honeysuckle for devotion, aster for patience, and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it’s been more useful in communicating grief, mistrust, and solitude. After a childhood spent in the foster-care system, she is unable to get close to anybody, and her only connection to the world is through flowers and their meanings. Now eighteen and emancipated from the system, Victoria has nowhere to go and sleeps in a public park, where she plants a small garden of her own. Soon
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New Book to Review, ‘Peter: Rock Star from Galilee’ by Sherree Funk

Sherree Funk will be touring in August with her youth/teen Bible study book, Peter: Rock Star from Galilee. If the New Testament were a Broadway musical, Peter would be one of the stars.  He lived life loud, while making his best effort to be one of the best disciples. Peter was like a modern day rock star, but his struggles were just like ours.  If Jesus could shape Peter into a solid rock of a disciple, he can surely do the same for you. From his first call to follow, Peter was acutely aware of his own sinfulness.  He wanted Jesus to go away, but ended up following.  What makes
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New Book to Review, ‘The Queen’s Gamble’ by Barbara Kyle

Barbara Kyle is touring in September with The Queen’s Gamble. Young Queen Elizabeth I’s path to the throne has been a perilous one, and already she faces a dangerous crisis. French troops have landed in Scotland to quell a rebel Protestant army, and Elizabeth fears that once they are entrenched on the border, they will invade England. Isabel Thornleigh has returned to London from the New World with her Spanish husband, Carlos Valverde, and their young son. Ever the queen’s loyal servant, Isabel is recruited to smuggle money to the Scottish rebels. Yet Elizabeth’s trust only goes so far—Isabel’s son will be the queen’s pampered hostage until she completes
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New Book to Review, ‘My Dearest Friend’ by Hazel Statham

Hazel Statham is touring from August 15 – 26, 2011 with her Regency romance novel, My Dearest Friend. Robert Blake, Duke of Lear, is a man of intense emotions who loves deeply and protects fiercely. Devastated and wracked with guilt by the death of his younger brother, Stefan, in the Peninsular War,  he readily agrees to aid Jane Chandler to bring her seriously wounded brother back from Portugal.  Much against Jane’s wishes, he decides to accompany her and together they embark on the hazardous mission to retrieve the young soldier. However, the journey holds many revelations, not least of all the abiding friendship and growing love between the two travelers. 
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New Book for Review, ‘Consequence’ by Hazel Statham

Hazel Statham tours from August 1 – 12, 2011 with her Regency romance novel, Consequence. In the wake of a duel, Marcel Blake, the Duke of Lear, an infamous rake and gamester, leaves London to visit his cousin in Paris. Here he meets and falls in love with Julie, the British ambassador’s daughter. Thinking she would be horrified if she learned of his reputation, Marcel fights the attraction; but when he is wounded while saving her from the unwanted advances of a less-than-desirable would-be suitor, Marcel finds that she returns his affections. Ultimately, vengeance conspires against them; at their wedding reception, Julie is maliciously informed of Marcel’s previous life
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‘So You Want to Write a Guest Post: An Author’s Guide to Promoting with Guest Blogging’ Online Book Tour July 2011

Join Jaime McDougall, author of the non-fiction author guide So You Want to Write a Guest Post: An Author’s Guide to Promoting with Guest Blogging as she virtually tours the blogosphere in July 2011 on her first tour with Pump Up Your Book! About Jaime McDougall Jaime McDougall is a citizen of the world, currently loving life in beautiful country Victoria in Australia. She loves eating sushi, kidnapping her husband and naming her pets in honour of science fiction authors. (So far, a cat named Asimov and a puppy named Brin.) A love of fiction has always coursed through her veins and she told stories as a child even
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New Book for Review: Women’s Fiction ‘The Full Moon Bride’ by Shobhan Bantwal

Women’s fiction author Shobhan Bantwal will be touring in September with her novel Full Moon Bride (Kensington Publishing Corp. August 2011). What makes a marriage—love or compatibility? Passion or pragmatism? THE FULL MOON BRIDE is a compelling story that explores the fascinating subject of arranged marriage, as young Indian-American attorney Soorya Giri navigates the gulf between desire and tradition. In choosing between two very different men, Soorya must reconcile her burgeoning independence and conservative background. And she must decide what matters most to her—not just in a husband, but in a family, a culture, and a life. Find more about THE FULL MOON BRIDE, other books by Shobhan Bantwal,
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Pump Up Chats with Renee Hand

Renee Hand writes because it is a passion in her heart. She is a homeschool parent and likes to create books that educate and inspire the children of today. She was born in Michigan and still lives there with her husband and two children. She has a degree in Zoology with a minor in Chemistry. Renee is the author of the amazing mystery series known as the Crypto-Capers Series that encourages children to read by incorporating several topics of interest. The reader participates into the story by solving cryptograms and puzzles to solve the case. She is also the author of the Joe-Joe Nut and Biscuit Bill Series, which
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