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Pump Up Your Book Presents Fighter Pilot’s Daughter Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mary Lawlor’s FIGHTER PILOT’S DAUGHTER virtual book tour November 17 – December 19! Title: Fighter Pilot’s Daughter: Growing Up in the Sixties and the Cold War Author: Mary Lawlor Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield Pages: 336 Genre: Memoir Format: Hardcover/Kindle FIGHTER PILOT’S DAUGHTER: GROWING UP IN THE SIXTIES AND THE COLD WAR tells the story of the author as a young woman coming of age in an Irish Catholic, military family during the Cold War.  Her father, an aviator in the Marines and later the Army, was transferred more than a dozen times to posts from Miami to California and Germany
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Behind the Taffeta Curtain Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Verne Casstress’ Behind the Taffeta Curtain book blitz November 10 – 21! Title: Behind the Taffeta Curtain Author: Verne Castress Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 102 Genre: Women’s Fiction Format: Paperback/Kindle Clair, a small-town girl attending Iowa State University in 1940, has her palm read for a laugh—and gets a surprisingly specific prediction about her career, marriage, and children. She laughs it off, with no idea of how accurate it will turn out to be. After a failed romance, she hastily marries a man named John, has two children, and very soon finds herself miserable. John is not only abusive and controlling, but also a
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Pump Up Your Book Presents I, James Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mike Hartner’s I JAMES virtual book tour November 3 – January 30! Title: I, James Author: Mike Hartner Publisher: Eternity4Popsicle Publishing Pages: 293 Genre: Historical Fiction/Romance Format: Kindle James Crofter was ripped from his family at age 11. Within a year the prince was a pauper in a foreign land. Is nature stronger than nurture? And even if it is, can James find the happiness he so richly desires?   For More Information I, James is available at Amazon. Discuss this book at PUYB Virtual Book Club at Goodreads. Mike Hartner was born in Miami in 1965. He’s traveled much
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  • October 29, 2014
  • Authors on Tour, Featured
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Daughter of the Fallen Virtual Book Publicity Tour – Win $50 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Madeline Wynn’s DAUGHTER OF THE FALLEN virtual book tour November 3 – January 30! Title: Daughter of the Fallen Author: Madeline Wynn Publisher: Book Baby Pages: 250 Genre: YA paranormal Format: Paperback Most sixteen-year olds aren’t worried about the fate of their immortal souls. May Krieg should be. Typically, honor student May’s biggest problems have revolved around her super-hot arch-rival, Jack. But when a school project takes them ghost-hunting in a local cemetery, she discovers that an ominous force roams in the darkness around her. And it follows her home. It claws its way into her life, burning messages into
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Grysdcaen Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Natsuya Uesugi’s grydscaen virtual book publicity tour November 3 – 14! ABOUT GRYDSCAEN       Title: grydscaen Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy Author: Natsuya Uesugi Publisher: Xlibris EBook: 288 pages Release Date: July 21, 2011 Follow the lives of the main characters as they come together in the backstory to grydscaen:retribution, the first volume of the grydscaen saga. Faid is tired of life on the run in the Echelons, trying to keep his psychic power in check, he founds the Packrats establishing a safe haven for psychics. As a hacker he uses his jack to support his neurocyne habit. Lino is recruited by the Psi Faction and
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{Memoir} Fighter Pilot’s Daughter: Growing Up in the Sixties and the Cold War Blog Tour Sign Up

Mary Lawlor will be touring November 17 – December 19 with her memoir, FIGHTER PILOT’S DAUGHTER: GROWING UP IN THE SIXTIES AND THE COLD WAR! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback) Interviews Author 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!   FIGHTER PILOT’S DAUGHTER: GROWING UP IN THE SIXTIES AND THE COLD WAR tells the story of the author as a young woman coming of age in an Irish Catholic, military family during the Cold War.  Her father, an aviator in the Marines and later the Army, was transferred more
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{Mystery/Thriller} Too Late to Run Blog Tour Sign Up

John Perich will be touring December 1 – 19 with his mystery/thriller, TOO LATE TO RUN! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback & ebook) Interviews Author Guest Posts Character Guest Posts Book Spotlights (Please note: While Too Late to Run is the third book in the Mara Cunningham series, it stands alone as a story, not requiring familiarity with the other two (Too Close to Miss, published in 2011; Too Hard to Handle, published in 2012). The author is willing to send one or both previous books to reviewers who sign up to review Too Late to Run.  Please mention this on the form if you need the first two
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Straw That Broke Book Blitz – Win $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Tom Whalen’s The Straw That Broke book blitz November 3 – 28! In his rollicking new novel, THE STRAW THAT BROKE, author Tom Whalen continues his ENCYCLOPEDIA MOUSE series, a challenging and funny roller-coaster ride through the outer margins of science-fiction, philosophy, and word play. Readers who reveled in previous books in the series, such as THE CAMEL’S BACK (called “the Moby-Dick of mice” by poet and critic R.H.W. Dillard) and ROITHAMER’S UNIVERSE (which science-fiction writer Rudy Rucker termed “giddy fun”), are sure to greet the arrival of THE STRAW THAT BROKE with anticipation and joy. Lovers of such visionary
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Pump Up Your Book Presents A Session Director’s Guide to Commercial Acting in L.A. Book Blitz – Win $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Shaan Sharma’s A SESSION DIRECTOR’S GUIDE TO COMMERCIAL ACTING IN L.A. book blitz November 3 – 28! Shaan Sharma’s A SESSION DIRECTOR’S GUIDE TO COMMERCIAL ACTING IN L.A. is the commercial acting industry’s most comprehensive book ever written – – giving readers a step-by-step guide to breaking into and prospering in the commercial acting business in the world’s entertainment center, Los Angeles. Fusing his experience, wisdom, vignettes and wit – Sharma is about to change the lives of those who thought big-picture acting was nothing but a fantasy, as well as those commercial veterans who could be even more successful.
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{Epic Fantasy} Exile Blog Tour Sign Up

Tom Stacey will be touring December 1 – 19 with his epic fantasy, EXILE! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback & ebook) Interviews Author Guest Posts Character 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!   On the fringes of the Verian Empire, two small boys stumble upon a strange altar, buried in the heart of a mountain. There they awaken a horror unseen for generations, that will descend upon the realm of men while it is at its weakest. For Veria is a nation at war with itself, only recently
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(YA / Historical Fantasy) Reflections by Jena Baxter – Blog Tour Sign Up

Jena Baxter will be touring December 1- January 2, 2015 with her YA / Historical Fantasy novel, Reflections!   We Are looking for: Reviews: (paperback / eBook / PDF) Author Guest Posts Author Interviews Character Interviews Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 48 hours. Thank you!         When Juliette has a domestic servant beaten for pursuing a young man above her station, she finds herself cursed by a witch to live in a world behind her own mirror. She is unable to leave except on the first night of a full moon. Juliette
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Pump Up Your Book Presents It’s This Monkey’s Business Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Debra Mares’ IT’S THIS MONKEY’S BUSINESS virtual book tour November 3 – 28! Title: It’s This Monkey’s Business Author: Debra Postil Publisher: Justicia House Pages: 32 Genre: Children’s Books Format: Hardback/Kindle “Cabana,” a young spider monkey is brought to life to tell her story It’s This Monkey’s Business to help children who are affected by domestic violence and divorce. Cabana, who lives with her parents in a treehouse high up in a rainforest canopy, becomes startled one day from her Mama’s scream, when she is waiting atop a tree branch for her Papa to teach her how to swing. After falling to
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Wraith Trilogy Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Arielle Strauss’ THE WRAITH TRILOGY virtual book tour November 3 – 28! Title: The Wraith Author: Arielle Strauss Publisher: Escape Artist Press Pages: 138 Genre: YA LGBT Paranormal Romance Format: Paperback The Wraith – Ophelia Weller never believed in ghosts until the night she became one. But when the aftermath of a frat party on the most haunted campus in America leaves her face to face with her own naked corpse, she really has no other option. Now a wraith, Ophelia is a spirit hidden amongst the living. Forced to conceal her undead identity from the world, and struggling to
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Searching for Normal: A Memoir Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Alison Neuman’s SEARCHING FOR NORMAL: A MEMOIR virtual book tour November 3 – 28! Title: Searching for Normal: A Memoir Author: Alison Neuman Publisher: Fireside Publications Pages:302 Genre: Memoir Format: Paperback/Kindle They thought she was going to die. At three-and-a-half years old, bed-ridden shivering in a cold sweat, Alison Neuman’s tiny fingers wrap around her mother’s for strength.  But even at this age, Alison is determined to beat the odds. When years of hospitalization robs her of most of her childhood, she finds joy. When children and adults avoid her like the plague, she finds friendship. When she cracks her
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Temple of All Knowing Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lee Papa’s THE TEMPLE OF ALL KNOWING virtual book tour November 3 – December 19! Title: Temple of All Knowing Author: Lee Papa Publisher: WaveCloud Corporation Pages: 186 Genre: Memoir Format: Paperback/Kindle The Temple of All Knowing is a memoir of one woman’s passage from personal and professional turmoil to spiritual awakening. A compelling straight forward and sometimes humorous account of the most personal of journeys as this 40-something woman finds herself in Sin City with promise of a new life, new husband and elderly mother living with her. She instead is uncovered as a central character in the deepest
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Dream in Color, Think in Black & White Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jonathan Bissell’s DREAM IN COLOR, THINK IN BLACK & WHITE virtual book tour November 3 – 28! Title: Dream in Color, Think in Black & White: How to Get Unstuck and Fulfill Your Dreams Author: Jonathan Bissell Publisher: High Performance Impact, LLC Pages: 108 Genre: Self-Help/Personal Growth Format: Paperback/Kindle Somewhere along the way, you had a dream that you let go of. But it hasn’t let go of you.  You’re the reason this book was written.  Because dreams matter. Dreams are powerful. And sometimes dreams just won’t go away – no matter how impractical, ill-timed or financially risky they are.
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Pump Up Your Book Presents I’ve Got Good News and Some Bad News: You’re Old Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you David Bernsteins’s I’ve Got Good News and Some Bad News: You’re Old virtual book tour November 3 – November 28!   Title: I’ve Got Some Good News and Some Bad News: You’re Old Author: David Bernstein Publisher: Dynamic Learning Pages: 202 Genre: Health/Fitness Format: Paperback/Ebook Life is an aging process. Each of us will go through it in our own way. How we lead our lives when we are old, particularly as we near the end, is, I believe, worth pondering. In this way, “I’ve Got Some Good News and Some Bad News: You’re Old” serves as a guide for all of
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  • October 13, 2014
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Four Before Their Time Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Timothy Spillane’s FOUR BEFORE THEIR TIME virtual book tour November 3 – 28! Title: Four Before Their Time Author: Timothy Spillane Publisher: Skitterbird, LLC Pages: 342 Genre: Memoir Format: Paperback/Kindle Anne had it all. She was a physician, an Army officer, and a great wife. She’d be a great mom, too. But the joy of pregnancy is short-lived after an ultrasound reveals that Anne isn’t just pregnant, she’s really pregnant – with quadruplets! Now her dad, Tim Spillane, is a grandfather four times over, and much too soon. Just 24 weeks into her pregnancy, Anne delivered, and not one of Tim’s grandkids
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Oath of Nimrod Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you David Brody’s OATH OF NIMROD virtual book tour November 3 – November 28! Title: Oath of Nimrod Author: David S. Brody Publisher: Eyes That See Pages: 283 Genre: Historical Suspense Format: Paperback/Ebook A mysterious race of North American giants. An ancient Hebrew inscription in a Cherokee burial mound. A blood oath made by blindfolded Freemasons. Are these three historical oddities the reason the CIA is trying to brainwash historian Cameron Thorne and his fiancée Amanda Spencer-Gunn? The answer lies buried in the legends of the Knights Templar, within the rituals of the secretive Freemasons and, most significantly of all, inside the
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Warrior of the Way Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Nathan Chandler’s Warrior of the Way book blitz November 10 – 21!   Title: Warrior of the Way Author: Nathan Chandler Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 376 Genre: Fantasy Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON Civil war is a curse that touches everyone, including King Tashdar of the Mulamar. When he is ordered by a powerful and mysterious stranger to send warriors toward Kanai and Kadisha to slaughter everyone, Tashdar has no choice but to obey. As the Hebari emperor’s palace is invaded, only one man escapes—a captain of the guard to whom the emperor has entrusted the safety of his remaining two children. Moments later,
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Pump Up Your Book Presents One Month Week Day Hour Minute Second Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Rebecca Marie’s One Month Week Day Hour Minute Second book blitz November 10 – 21! Title: One Month Week Day Hour Minute Second Author: Rebecca Marie Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 113 Genre: Self Help/Personal Growth Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON Abuse knows no boundaries. It doesn’t care if you are rich or poor, old or young. It can enter your life at any time and stay as long as you let it. In One Month Week Day Hour Minute Second, author Rebecca Marie discusses that the key is to release the secrets, talk about the abuse, and take the power away from the abusers.
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Open Your Heart for Happy Relationships Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Eve Picquette’s OPEN YOUR HEART FOR HAPPY RELATIONSHIPS virtual book tour November 17 – February 27! Would you like a free copy for review or to host in another way?  Click here to sign up! Title: Open Your Heart for Happy Relationships: 10 Shift Keys – What Your Angels Have Been Trying to Tell You for Centuries Author: Eve Picquette Publisher: Enchanted Eve, Inc. Pages: 78 Genre: Self Help/Inspiration Format: Paperback How many times have you read or seen something that made you want to change your life and relationships – but you didn’t know how? Introduced by two angels,
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{Children’s Book} It’s This Monkey’s Business Blog Tour Sign Up

Debra Mares will be touring November 3 – 28 with her children’s book, IT’S THIS MONKEY’S BUSINESS! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback) Interviews Author Guest Posts Character 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!   “Cabana,” a young spider monkey is brought to life to tell her story It’s This Monkey’s Business to help children who are affected by domestic violence and divorce. Cabana, who lives with her parents in a treehouse high up in a rainforest canopy, becomes startled one day from her Mama’s scream, when she is waiting atop
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{YA Paranormal} Daughter of the Fallen Blog Tour Sign Up

Madeline Wynn will be touring November 3 – January 30 with her YA paranormal, DAUGHTER OF THE FALLEN!  This tour will include a $50 Amazon Gift Card giveaway.  All bloggers who sign up will be included on Rafflecopter form. We are looking for: Reviews (ebook) Interviews (Madeline is offering a self-interview) First Chapter Reveals (html will be provided) Book Spotlights (html will be provided) Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 72 hours. Thank you!   Most sixteen-year olds aren’t worried about the fate of their immortal souls. May Krieg should be. Typically, honor student May’s biggest problems
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Wolf Haven Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lindsay McKenna’s WOLF HAVEN virtual book tour November 3 – 28! Title: Wolf Haven Author: Lisa Wray Publisher: Harlequin Books Pages: 378 Genre: Romantic Suspense Format: Paperback/Kindle New York Times bestselling author Lindsay McKenna brings readers back to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, for another gripping, edge-of-your-seat romantic suspense! U.S. Navy nurse Skylar Pascal is struggling to regain control of her life after a traumatic crash in Afghanistan that nearly destroyed her. After losing so much, an ideal job at the Elk Horn Ranch in Wyoming offers Sky something she thought she’d never find again—hope. Former SEAL Grayson McCoy has his own
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First Chapter: Miracle Man by William R. Leibowitz

Title: Miracle Man Author: William R. Leibowitz Publisher: Manifesto Media Group Pages: 428 Genre: Cross-genre Thriller Format: Paper/Kindle Purchase at AMAZON REVERED   REVILED    REMARKABLE The victim of an unspeakable crime, an infant rises to become a new type of superhero. Unlike any that have come before him, he is not a fanciful creation of animators, he is real. So begins the saga of Robert James Austin, the greatest genius in human history.  But where did his extraordinary intelligence come from? As agents of corporate greed vie with rabid anti-Western radicals to destroy him, an obsessive government leader launches a bizarre covert mission to exploit his intellect.  Yet Austin’s greatest
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First Chapter: Night Terror by Jeff Gunhus

Title: Night Terror Author: Jeff Gunhus Publisher: Seven Guns Press Pages: 400 Genre: Supernatural Thriller/Horror Format: Purchase at AMAZON Ten years after her abduction and near-sacrifice to the Source, Sarah Tremont struggles to be a normal teenager. As much as she’s tried to suppress the power inside of her, it’s grown dangerously strong and has drawn the attention of those who want to possess her power for themselves. The nightmare that she thought was long over starts again as powerful forces descend upon Prescott City to seek her out. With her parents and Joseph Lonetree’s help, Sarah must stand up to an evil much more powerful than the one
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First Chapter: K-9 Cop by Erna Mueller #YA #PUYB

Title: K-9 Cop: Case #1 The Dreck Report Author: Erna Mueller Publisher: Erna Mueller Pages: 220 Genre: YA Format: Paperback/Kindle Purchase at AMAZON No one thought as highly of Lieutenant Spencer Watley as he did himself. This selfish cop met 14 year-old Justin Andrews during an important stakeout. Determined to nab a group of cyber killers, he wasn’t going to let anything get in his way, especially a smart mouthed teenager like Justin. After Spencer bids him good riddance, he is killed by the hackers and stands before the gates of heaven. But – what’s this? After a life of putting dangerous criminals behind bars, he’s locked out? He
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{Romantic Suspense} Wolf Haven Blog Tour Sign Up

Lindsay McKenna will be touring November 3 – 28 with her romantic suspense, Wolf Haven! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback/ebook) 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!   New York Times bestselling author Lindsay McKenna brings readers back to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, for another gripping, edge-of-your-seat romantic suspense! U.S. Navy nurse Skylar Pascal is struggling to regain control of her life after a traumatic crash in Afghanistan that nearly destroyed her. After losing so much, an ideal job at the Elk Horn Ranch in Wyoming offers Sky something she thought
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Winner Announced in the Married One Night Book Blitz!

Congratulations goes out to Stacey Roberson. She is the winner of a $25 Amazon gift card during Amber Leigh Williams’ Married One Night Book Blitz! Thanks to all who participated. Visit our Authors on Tour page to find more giveaways and chances to win!