Archive for June, 2012:

Pump Up Your Book Chats with Sean Vogel author of Celtic Run

About Sean Vogel Growing up in a small town in Michigan during the 1980s, Sean was provided with an excellent garden for cultivating his writing career. With only a few simplistic video games and three television channels, he became an accomplished daydreamer and a creative outside adventurer. A son of a garbage truck driver, Sean often received “gently used” items from his father’s route. With a bit of imagination and a little tinkering, these items were reborn as tools for battles against backyard bandits. These childhood experiences would later serve as the foundation and inspiration for Jake McGreevy’s gadgetry expertise. Seeking his own adventures, Sean joined the Army via
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Win a Kindle Fire! eXtasy Books at Moonlight, Lace & Mayhem Today!

eXtasy Books & Devine Destinies are stopping off today at Moonlight Lace & Mayhem as part of their colossal 3 month virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book where they are giving away a Kindle Fire! Enter every day at a different blog for more entries! If you’d like to enter this fantastic giveaway, visit http://moonlightlacemayhem.blogspot.com/2012/06/extasy-books-and-devine-destinies.html. This contest begins June 4 and ends on August 31 2012. An extra bonus prize: $50 goes to the person who visits the most tour stops and leaves a comment. If there is a tie, we will choose a winner at Random.org. This contest is open to U.S. and Canadian citizens only.
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PUYB Q&A: “Can my books be returned to me?”

Pump Up Your Book answers YOUR questions about virtual book tours. If you have a question, leave it in the comment section and we’ll answer it in depth in a new blog post. Or you can email Dorothy at thewriterslife (at) gmail.com. We look forward to your questions! “Once I send a book to one of your reviewers, will they be able to send it back to me?” No, no and no.  Book bloggers are not compensated for their reviews.  Your book is their only compensation.  Please don’t ask for a book to be returned.


Kinde Fire Giveaway: Gabriella Bradley & Diana Kemp at I Am a Reader Not a Writer

Gabriella Bradley and Diana Kemp, authors of The Samsara Chronicles, are stopping off today at I Am a Reader, Not a Writer as part of their colossal 3 month virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book where they are giving away a Kindle Fire! Enter every day at a different blog for more entries! If you’d like to enter this fantastic giveaway, visit http://www.iamareadernotawriter.blogspot.com/2012/06/rafflecopter-giveaway.html. This contest begins June 4 and ends on August 31 2012. An extra bonus prize: $50 goes to the person who visits the most tour stops and leaves a comment.  If there is a tie, we will choose a winner at Random.org. This contest
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with Suspense Author Joshua Graham

INTRODUCING JOSHUA GRAHAM WINNER OF 2011 INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS, Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble #1 bestselling author Joshua Graham’s novel BEYOND JUSTICE is taking the world by storm, one reader at a time. Many of his readers blame him for sleepless nights, arriving to work late, neglected dishes and family members, and not allowing them to put the book down. Suspense Magazine listed BEYOND JUSTICE in its BEST OF 2010, alongside titles by Scott Turrow, Ted Dekker, Steven James and Brad Thor. His short story THE DOOR’S OPEN won the HarperCollins Authonomy Competition (Christmas 2010.) Publishers Weekly described BEYOND JUSTICE as: “A riveting legal thriller…breaking new ground with a
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