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Pump Up Your Book Presents Conscious Experience Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you W.H. Sparks’ Conscious Experience book blitz October 6 – October 17!   Title: Conscsious Experience Author: W.H. Sparks Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 164 Genre: Philosophy Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON The fundamental principles that explain the heretofore mysterious phenomena of consciousness are: (1) Consciousness is energies of the environment, and energies developed in intrafusal muscle spindles are conscious experience, and (2) the experience occurring as the developed energies, depending on purpose and intensity, are detected by muscle receptors. The conscious experience occurs as perception (the experience of the environment), imagery (imagination, memory, and dreams), feelings (emotion), or, when agreed to, the meanings of
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Wings That Spread Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Ramesh Sangle’s Wings That Spread book blitz October 6 – October 17! Title: Wings That Spread Author: Ramesh Sangle Publisher: PartridgeIndia Pages: 202 Genre: Family/Relationship Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON This is the story of two loving souls, Jessica, a Spanish village girl and Aniket, son of the Indian Ambassador to Spain, who first meet at a school competition. As they grow older, they fell in love with each other. But, circumstances forced them to move on with their separate lives and Aniket moves back to India. Tragedy strikes their lives individually and they both loose their loved ones. Can Jessica and
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Pump Up Your Book Presents A Dead End in Vegas Book Blitz!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Irene Woodbury’s A Dead End in Vegas book blitz November 3 – 28! Title: A Dead End in Vegas Author: Irene Woodbury Publisher: SynergEbooks Pages: 248 Genre: Women’s Fiction Format: Paperback/Kindle As Dave Sloan is leaving for the Denver airport to pick up his wife, Tricia, the phone rings. It’s the cops in Las Vegas.  His wife is dead.  Her nude body was found that morning in a hotel room at the Bellagio. Dave is stunned and devastated.  He thought she was in Phoenix at a week-long teachers’ conference.  A lie, of course, concocted by Tricia, who flew to Phoenix,
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Anybody’s Daughter Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Pamela Samuels Young’s Anybody’s Daughter virtual book tour November 3 – January 30! Title: Anybody’s Daughter Author: Pamela Samuels Young Genre: Mystery/Thriller Publisher: Goldman House Publishing Pages: 376 Purchase at AMAZON Is Anybody’s Daughter Ever Safe? Based on the real-life horrors faced by thousands of girls, award-winning author Pamela Samuels Young takes readers deep inside the disturbing world of child sex trafficking in a fast-paced thriller that educates as much as it entertains. The opening chapter of Anybody’s Daughter introduces readers to thirteen-year-old Brianna Walker. She’s ecstatic because she’s about to sneak off to meet her first real boyfriend—a boyfriend she met on
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Living with Heart Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you L. Reynolds Andiric’s Living with Heart book blitz October 6 – October 17!     Title: Living with Heart Author: L. Reynolds Andiric Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 266 Genre: Biography Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON Reflections from the heart: intimate and provocative An eclectic assortment of sensitive, reflective, and occasionally spiritual short stories relates the experiences of an adventurous seeker and world traveler. Never a mere spectator of life, but always fully participating, L. Reynolds Andiric relays stories of intimate connections with nature and family as well as memorable exchanges with individuals randomly encountered along life’s way. Each tale conveys an insightful experience that broadened
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Pump Up Your Book Presents There’s a Brevitist Loose in the Condensory Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you John T. Langeld’s There’s a Brevitist Loose in the Condensory book blitz October 6 – October 17!   Title: There’s a Brevitist Loose in the Condensory Author: John T. Langfeld Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 220 Genre: Poetry Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON With the desire of making others feel, think, and smile, author John Langfeld shares a diverse collection of aurally and visually unique poetry written over the course of more than thirty years of working with language as a technology. Influenced by the ideas, themes, and poetic devices that have tested both him and his students over the years, Langfeld offers poems that
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{Graphic Memoir/Nonfiction} Welcome to Nursing HELLo Blog Tour Sign Up

Joel Craig will be touring November 3 – 28 with his graphic memoir/nonfiction, Welcome to Nursing HELLo! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback) Interviews Author Guest Posts Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 72 hours. Thank you! A MUST HAVE FOR ANY NURSING STUDENT! This nurse is not out to save the world. He’s too busy dodging bed pans and urine containers. What happens when all the jobs for movie star have been filled. The next best thing is to become a registered nurse and that is exactly what Joel Craig did. Here is Joel’s journey through the
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Mastering Negative Impulsive Thoughts Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you John & Elizabeth McIntosh’s Mastering Negative Impulsive Thoughts virtual book tour October 6 – 31! Title: Mastering Negative Impulse Thoughts Author: John & Elizabeth McIntosh Publisher: GP Mx Solutions P/L Pages: 283 Genre: Nonfiction/Self-Help Format: Paperback Doctor John McIntosh and Rev. Elizabeth McIntosh, authors of an important new book, MASTERING NEGATIVE IMPULSIVE THOUGHTS, use “nits” as both an acronym for their book’s title and as an analogy for the clearly unhealthy effects of negative thinking. “Negative thoughts occur impulsively, so that is why they are Negative Impulsive Thoughts, or NITs, for short,” the authors say. “The nice analogy is that
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Fallen Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Leslie Tenter’s Fallen virtual book tour October 6 – 31! Title: Fallen Author: Leslie Tentler Publisher: Left Field Press Pages: 396 Genre: Romantic Suspense Format: Paperback/Kindle “If it wasn’t an armed robbery, it was a hit. An execution.” Amid a sultry Atlanta summer, someone is targeting police… The investigation becomes personal for APD Detective Ryan Winter when a colleague and friend is shot dead, the second victim in just weeks. But even as he finds himself being drawn into the tense hunt for a serial cop killer, he is forced to re-examine his own shattering personal tragedy. An ER physician
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Pump Up Your Book Presents To the Breaking Pointe Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Cindy McDonald’s To the Breaking Pointe virtual book tour October 6 – 31! Title: To the Breaking Pointe Author: Cindy McDonald Publisher: Acorn Book Services Pages: 250 Genre: Romantic Suspense Format: Paperback/Kindle Pushed to the breaking pointe! Five years ago First Force operative, Grant Ketchum, let the ballerina of his dreams dance right of his life. Silja Ramsay returned to her birthplace, Russia, to take the position of principal dancer for the Novikov Ballet Company. The owner and director of the ballet company, Natalia Novikov, has a dark secret: her beloved ballet company is almost broke. Natalia forces her dancers
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Yell and Shout, Cry and Pout: A Kid’s Guide to Feelings Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Peggy Krugert Tietz’s YELL AND SHOUT, CRY AND POUT: A KID’S GUIDE TO FEELINGS virtual book tour October 6 – 31! Title: Yell and Shout, Cry and Pout: A Kid’s Guide to Feelings Author: Peggy Kruger Tietz Publisher: Peggy Kruger Tietz Pages: 40 Genre: Nonfiction/Psychoeducational Format: Paperback/Kindle Yell and Shout, Cry and Pout: A Kid’s Guide to Feelings is an essential guidebook for adults in steering children through the confusing behaviors that emotions evoke.  When you understand the purpose of emotions, behavior becomes understandable.  Each of the eight emotions is clearly defined thorough vignettes and illustrations, keeping both adult and
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{Memoir} Searching for Normal: A Memoir Blog Tour Sign Up

Alison Neuman will be touring November 3 – 28 with her memoir, Searching for Normal: A Memoir! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback – only 3 available/ebook) 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! 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
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Winter Wolf by RJ Blain ~ One Day Book Blast Event ~ Win A $25 Amazon Gift Card

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you RJ Blain’s  Winter Wolf ~ One Day Book Blast Event, November 24th!   Title:  Winter Wolf Author: RJ Blain Genre: Urban Fantasy / Thriller / Supernatural Suspense Publisher:  Pen & Page Publishing Publication Date: November 24, 2014 ISBN:  978-1-928148-00-5   Book Description: The Hunted Wizard When Nicole dabbled in the occult, she lost it all: Her voice, her family, and her name. Now on the run from the Inquisition, she must prove to herself—and the world—that not all wizards are too dangerous to let live. The savage murder of a bookstore employee throws Nicole into the middle of Inquisition business, like it or not. Driven by
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{Nonfiction/Psychoeducational} Yell and Shout, Cry and Pout: A Kid’s Guide to Feelings Blog Tour Sign Up

Peggy Kruger Tietz will be touring October 6 – 31 with her nonfiction/psychoeducational book, Yell and Shout, Cry and Pout: A Kid’s Guide to Feelings! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback/ebook) Interviews Author Guest Posts Book Spotlights Please only G rated blogs Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 72 hours. Thank you! Yell and Shout, Cry and Pout: A Kid’s Guide to Feelings is an essential guidebook for adults in steering children through the confusing behaviors that emotions evoke.  When you understand the purpose of emotions, behavior becomes understandable.  Each of the eight emotions is clearly defined
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(Women’s Fiction) Always With You by Andrea Hurst – Blog Tour Sign Up

  Andrea Hurst will be touring November 3-14 with her Women’s Fiction novel, Always With You! We Are looking for: Reviews: (paperback / eBook (.mobi format – Kindle) Author Guest Posts Author 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!     “Always With You is the bittersweet and poignant love story of a woman trapped between temptation and the ties that bind.” ~Tracey Garvis Graves, New York Times bestselling author of On the Island and Covet. “Hurst captivates from page one, and keeps you hooked until the very last word, in this entrancing
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Murders at Astaire Castle Book Blitz – Win books!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lauren Carr’s The Murders at Astaire Castle book blitz October 6 – 31! Title: The Murders at Astaire Castle Author: Lauren Carr Publisher: Acorn Book Services Pages: 286 Genre: Mystery Format: Paperback/Kindle Never tell Mac Faraday not to do something. In The Murders at Astaire Castle, Spencer’s police chief, David O’Callaghan, learns this lesson the hard way when he orders Mac Faraday to stay away from the south end of Spencer’s mountaintop—even though he owns the property. It doesn’t take long for Mac to find out what lies on the other side of the stone wall and locked gate, on
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{Romantic Comedy/Paranormal} Her Ghost Wears Kilts Blog Tour Sign Up

Kathleen Shaputis will be touring October 6 – 31 with her romantic comedy/paranormal, Her Ghost Wears Kilts! 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! “He’s… he’s trying to warn you… ” Baillie pulled her hands from the psychic wiping out the meat-locker cold. Baillie thought life content, successful in the Pacific Northwest until her bookshop became haunted. Murder, mayhem and maleficent merriment create a perfect tempest for Baillie between her bookstore in Olympia and the highlands of Scotland. Drag
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{Romantic Suspense/Women’s Fiction} The Scent of Humanity Blog Tour Sign Up

Margay Leah Justice will be touring October 6 – 31 with her romantic suspense/women’s fiction, The Scent of Humanity! We are looking for: Reviews (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! Lightning doesn’t strike the same place twice. In theory. But in one small town, in one family, that theory is put to the test. Growing up in a rural town in Massachusetts was supposed to be safe, but for SILVIE CHILDS, that safety was shattered by a kidnapping attempt that forever changed her
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Miracle Man Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you William R. Leibowitz’s Miracle Man virtual book tour October 6 – December 19!   Title: Miracle Man Author: William Leibowitz Publisher: Manifesto Media Group Pages: 428 Genre: Cross-genre Thriller Format: Paper/Kindle 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
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{YA} K-9 Cop Blog Tour Sign Up

Erna Mueller will be touring October 6 – December 19 with her new young adult novel, K-9 Cop: Case #1 The Dreck Report! We are looking for: Reviews (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!   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
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{Supernatural Thriller Horror} Night Terror Blog Tour Sign Up

Jeff Gunhus will be touring October 6 – December 19 with his new supernatural thriller horror, Night Terror! 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!   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
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{Nonfiction/Self-Help} Mastering Negative Impulsive Thoughts Blog Tour Sign Up

John & Elizabeth McIntosh will be touring October 6 – 31 with their new nonfiction/self-help Mastering Negative Impulsive Thoughts! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback) Interviews 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!   Doctor John McIntosh and Rev. Elizabeth McIntosh, authors of an important new book, MASTERING NEGATIVE IMPULSIVE THOUGHTS, use “nits” as both an acronym for their book’s title and as an analogy for the clearly unhealthy effects of negative thinking. “Negative thoughts occur impulsively, so that is why they are Negative Impulsive Thoughts, or NITs, for short,”
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{Romantic Suspense} Fallen Blog Tour Sign Up

Leslie Tentler will be touring October 6 – 31 with her new romantic suspense, Fallen! We are looking for: Reviews (ebook only) Interviews 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!   “If it wasn’t an armed robbery, it was a hit. An execution.” Amid a sultry Atlanta summer, someone is targeting police… The investigation becomes personal for APD Detective Ryan Winter when a colleague and friend is shot dead, the second victim in just weeks. But even as he finds himself being drawn into the tense hunt
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Alzheimer’s Through Tears and Laughter Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Edwina Marino’s Alzheimer’s Through Tears and Laughter book blitz September 15 – September 26!   Title: Alzheimer’s Through Tears and Laughter Author: Edwina Marino Publisher: AuthorHouse Pages: 83 Genre: Biography Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON Today, there is a disease afflicting many people and arousing fear in those whose ages can start as young as forty years, and moving on through the sixties, seventy and eighty year old groups. It is known as Alzheimer’s Disease. This book is about sharing this experience with my sister-in-law who came down with this disease in her later years. She was eighty-four at the time and lived
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Ashleigh’s Fall Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Ruth Ferguson’s Ashleigh’s Fall book blitz September 15 – September 26! Title: Ashleigh’s Fall Author: Ruth Ferguson Publisher: Partridge Publishing Pages: 33 Genre: Children’s Fiction Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON Ten-year-old Jessica is pedaling as fast as she can with her friend Ashleigh on her bicycle following her. Jessica wants to get home before the storm hits. But when she decides to take the dirt track with a sharp drop-off on one side, everything suddenly changes. After Ashleigh’s chain slips off her bicycle, she stops to fix it and accidentally falls over the side of the cliff. As thunder rumbles and the sky
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{Fantasy Science Fiction} Rhapsody Blog Tour Sign Up

David Lundgren will be touring October 6 – 31 with his new fantasy/science fiction, Rhapsody! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback or ebook) Interviews 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!   In RHAPSODY, the Forest has been completely healed and the battles of Books I and II are over, but a corrosive blackness that has been haunting Raf still seems to be growing in strength. They return to Miern to stop a traitor from assuming control of the city, but find themselves caught up in a
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Hidden Truth Behind Beautiful Smiles Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Zack Zaibak’s The Hidden Truth Behind Beautiful Smiles book blitz September 15 – September 26!   Title: The Hidden Truth Behind Beautiful Smiles Author: Zack Zaibak Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 152 Genre: Medical/Dentristry Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON We are often judged by how we look, and the first thing people notice is a smile. In The Hidden Truth Behind Beautiful Smiles, author Dr. Zack Zaibak tells how modern cosmetic dentistry can transform ordinary smiles into stunning gorgeous ones. Dr. Zaibak, honored by the Consumers Research Council of America for the last five years as one of America’s top dentists, discusses important issues relating
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Afternoons with Grandma Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Laxmi Jagadish’s Afternoons with Grandma book blitz September 15 – September 26! Title: Afternoons with Grandma Author: Laxmi Jagadish Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 62 Genre: YA Fiction/Fantasy Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON Children often learn a lot about life from stories, and Grandma knows it. That’s why she’s sharing these six stories she’s collected from all over the world with her grandchildren, the twins Josh and Tamara. These tales of self-confidence, honesty, and bravery expose children to the lives of people unlike themselves, guiding them to build good, strong characters. Milo’s perseverance as she tries to get to the Magic Lake, Lee’s determination to
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Pump Up Your Book Presents First Harvest Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mat Kondo’s First Harvest book blitz September 15 – September 26!   Title: First Harvest Author: Mat Kondo Publisher: Partridge Publishing Pages: 102 Genre: Poetry Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON First Harvest is the culmination of ten years of work, presenting verses that were madly scribbled down in cafes during lunch breaks, from the flashing windows of commuter trains, or while walking the streets of Tokyo at midnight. In this, his first collection of poetry, poet Mat Kondo offers us a peek into the mind of a man deeply in love with the world and equally troubled by the existing state of affairs.
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Until the End: A Fight For Survival Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jesus Gutierrez’s Until the End: A Fight for Survival book blitz September 15 – September 26!   Title: Until the End: A Fight For Survival Author: Jesus Gutierrez Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 126 Genre: Family and Relationship Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON In 1985, when a small freckle on Fanny Gutiérrez’s cheek grew to the size of a quarter and turned dark brown, the young mother sought medical advice. She soon learned she had malignant melanoma, an aggressive form of skin cancer. In Until the End, her husband, author Jesús L. Gutiérrez, shares her battle with cancer and how the diagnosis and treatment affected Fanny,
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