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  • July 29, 2014
  • Authors on Tour, Featured
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Moonflower: A Memoir of Healing Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Tara Edin’s Moonflower: A Memoir of Healing virtual book tour August 4-29! Title: Moonflower: A Memoir of Healing Author: Tara Edin Publisher: Tara Edin Pages: 156 Genre: Memoir Format: Kindle Blooming was her Birthright. Darkness the Unexpected Catalyst. Tara is an incest, rape and sexual abuse survivor, who suffered from PTSD for many years but was misdiagnosed with mental illnesses instead. This took her down a near-fatal path ultimately ending in an accident, which nearly claimed her life at age 29. Most only know the abridged version of the story, yet the real story holds many truths and miracles that
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  • July 29, 2014
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Pump Up Your Book Presents I Wish Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you E.B. Tatby’s I Wish virtual book tour August 4-29! Title: I Wish Author: E.B. Tatby Publisher: Dream Tag Pages: 329 Genre: YA/Fantasy Format: Kindle Purchase at AMAZON All her life, sixteen-year-old Kenza Atlas has heard the stories, but she never believed them. She never expected the allure of power or, worse, how far the dark shadows could cast. Genies and wishing are for fairy tales, not teenage girls, and especially not in Omaha. But when a Moroccan jinn with undulating tattoos and mysterious black eyes whisks her 500 years back in time, she witnesses the death of her powerful ancestor
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Palmetto Moon Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Kim Boykin’s Palmetto Moon virtual book tour August 4 – October 31! June, 1947. Charleston is poised to celebrate the biggest wedding in high-society history, the joining of two of the oldest families in the city. Except the bride is nowhere to be found…Unlike the rest of the debs she grew up with, Vada Hadley doesn’t see marrying Justin McLeod as a blessing—she sees it as a life sentence. So when she finds herself one day away from a wedding she doesn’t want, she’s left with no choice but to run away from the future her parents have so carefully
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{Mystery} Real Murder Blog Tour Sign Up

Lauren Carr will be returning September 2 – 26 with her mystery, Real Murder! 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! When Homicide Detective Cameron Gates befriends Dolly, the little old lady who lives across the street, she is warned not to get lured into helping the elderly woman by investigating the unsolved murder of one of her girls. “She’s senile,” Cameron is warned. “It’s not a real murder.” Such is not the case. After Dolly is brutally murdered,
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Rowena and the Viking Warlord Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Melodie Campbell’s Rowena and the Viking Warlord (Book 3 in the Land’s End series) virtual book tour August 4-29! Title: Rowena and the Viking Warlord Author: Melodie Campbell Publisher: Imajin Books Pages: 252 Genre: Paranormal Romance Time Travel Format: Paperback/Kindle He was her enemy and her lover… As Cedric fights battles down south, Rowena unwittingly rides into an enemy war camp and is taken prisoner by her old friend Lars, who is not what he seems. Yet Rowena is not helpless. After all, she is a hereditary half-witch with a whole lot of magic in her.  Too bad she doesn’t
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{Poetry} Lust Blog Tour Sign Up

Diana Raab will be returning September 2 – 26 with her book of poetry, Lust! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback & ebook) 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! A passionate journey through private emotional moments, Diana Raab’s LUST voices the pain of loneliness and the heart’s yearning for love while transcending the depths of human desire. In her fourth book of poetry, Raab employs narrative verse that is alive, titillating, and seductive. LUST examines the emotional and physical complexity of love, helping readers navigate the risks of
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{YA Fantasy} Metatron: The Mystical Blade Blog Tour Sign Up

Laurence St. John will be touring September 2 – 26 with his YA fantasy, Metatron: The Mystical Blade! We are looking for: Reviews (ebook only) 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! Thirteen-year-old Tyler Thompson is on the verge of becoming a superhero, but he must prove himself so he can earn the remainder of his superpowers and fulfill his destiny. When his grandfather, Benjamin, is held prisoner at AREA 51, where the eternal powers are presumed to be hidden, Tyler attempts to penetrate the
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  • July 22, 2014
  • Authors on Tour, Featured
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Meet Me in Barcelona Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mary Carter’s Meet Me in Barcelona virtual book tour August 4 – October 31! Title: Meet Me in Barcelona Author: Mary Carter Publisher: Kensington Pages: 352 Genre: Mainstream fiction Format: Paperback/Kindle/MP3 CD, Audiobook, MP3 Audo, Unabridged A surprise trip to Barcelona with her boyfriend, Jake, seems like the perfect antidote to Grace Sawyer’s current woes. The city is dazzling and unpredictable, but the biggest surprise for Grace is discovering who arranged and paid for the vacation. Carrie Ann wasn’t just Grace’s foster sister. Clever, pretty, and mercurial, she was her best friend—until everything went terribly wrong. Now, as she flees
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Pump Up Your Book Chats with Jean Hackensmith, author of ‘Identity Crisis’

I have been writing since the age of twenty.  (That’s 37 years and, yes, I’m disclosing my age.)  I am the proud mother of three, stepmother of two, and grandmother to twelve wonderful children.  I lost the love of my life, my husband Ron, in November of 2011 when he died in an accident at work.  He took my heart with him and, for a time, my desire to write.  Time, as they say, heals all wounds, and I have again discovered my passion for the written word.  In fact, I find it strangely comforting to delve into the intricate webs that are my character’s lives and immerse myself
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Pump Up Your Book Presents More Precious Than Rubies Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Randy Coates’ More Precious Than Rubies book blitz August 4 – August 15!   Title: More Precious Than Rubies Author: Randy Coates Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 174 Genre: Fantasy Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON Paul Brager is twelve when his father tells the story of Iduna and her apples. Mr. Brager always tells stories before bed to entertain Paul’s little brother, Adrian—a ritual that has become even more important since their mother died. Iduna was a goddess who grew apples that made the gods younger and stronger, but one day she disappeared, along with her apples. Paul doesn’t think much of the myth;
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Sister Surrendered Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Darla M. Grese’s Sister Surrendered virtual book tour August 4-29! Title: Sister Surrendered Author: Darla M. Grese Publisher: Darla M. Grese Pages: 210 Genre: Memoir Format: Paperback / Kindle When you’re a twin, loneliness is somewhat unfamiliar because you’ve always had each other. So when a twin passes, the other is left unprepared. Our loyalty was steadfast and our devotion to one another, solid. Our love was unconditional no matter what the circumstances. I’m so grateful every day for the memories of the joy and laughter that we shared together. I know the bond that Kelli and I shared is
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{Science Fiction Space Opera} Lieutenant Henry Gallant Blog Tour Sign Up

H. Peter Alesso will be touring September 2 – 26 with his science fiction space opera, Lieutenant Henry Gallant! We are looking for: Reviews (ebook only) 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! In an era of genetic engineering, Lieutenant Henry Gallant is the only Natural (non-genetically enhanced) officer left in the fleet. Many of his superiors, including rival Anton Neumann, have expressed concern he is not up to the challenge. However, his unique mental abilities have proven essential to the defense of the United
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{Christian Fiction} Song From the Ashes Blog Tour Sign Up

Megan Whitson Lee will be touring September 2 – 26 with her Christian fiction novel, Song From the Ashes! 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! Attorney Landon Kingsley craves order and normalcy, and aside from his well-hidden vice of smoking, he lives the life that everyone expects from him in his hometown of Kingsport, Tennessee. Recently engaged to beautiful nursing student, April May, Landon’s new fiancée is everything he could want in a wife. She is devoted to
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Divine Sanctuary Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Cheryl Kay Tardiff’s Divine Sanctuary (Book 3 in the Divine Trilogy) virtual book tour August 4-29! Title: Divine Sanctuary Author: Cheryl Kaye Tardif Publisher: Imagin Books Pages: 210 Genre: Paranormal Mystery/Crime/Thriller/Romance Format: Kindle Purchase at AMAZON There’s no place like home… In the Divine trilogy finale, the heat is tripled when CFBI Agent Jasi McLellan must rescue Emily, the ghost girl that haunts her dreams; expose her own mother’s killer; and uncover a murderer that preys on the weak at Sanctuary, a controversial cult nestled in the woods near Mission, BC. Something insidious lurks behind the safe haven of Sanctuary’s
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First Chapter: Divine Sanctuary by Cheryl Kaye Tardif

Title: Divine Sanctuary Author: Cheryl Kaye Tardif Publisher: Imagin Books Pages: 210 Genre: Paranormal Mystery/Crime/Thriller/Romance Format: Kindle Purchase at AMAZON Prologue Emily emerged from the shadows of Jasi’s closet. She drifted forward, her feet barely touching the floor. Her head, with its long blonde hair, lolled at an awkward―strangled―angle. In this dream, an adult Jasi gasped in surprise. The pink skipping rope noose was gone. “You’re ready, Jasmine.” “Ready for what?” “To start looking for me.” Jasi stood still, mesmerized by the bruises around the girl’s neck. They were fading before her eyes. “The skipping rope is gone,” she said finally. “And your bruises are disappearing.” “Yours will too,”
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{Literary Fiction/Magical Realism} Captain Shelby Blog Tour Sign Up

Jesse Giles Christiansen will be touring September 2 – 26 with his literary fiction/magical realism novel, Captain Shelby! 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! There are places even the sea cannot go… In coastal Denmark, a young man named Nereus builds a longship and leaves at age eighteen to discover a new, enigmatic land. Faced with unimaginable obstacles, he crosses the North Atlantic, only to be captured by the Skraelings, the Inuit indigenous people who seek revenge on
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Banana Bunch Book Virtual Book Publicity Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Dawn Carroll’s The Banana Bunch Book book blitz August 4 – August 29!     Title: The Banana Bunch Author: Dawn Carroll Publisher: Amolibros Pages: 120 Genre: Children’s Book Format: Ebook/Paperback Purchase at AMAZON The monkeys have a human friend called Sheila. Sheila is in hospital – and she hates the hospital food. The monkeys decide that something simply has to be done… When their first attempt at delivering bananas to Sheila is thwarted the monkeys decide to form The Banana Bunch, a secret society dedicated to the delivery of delicious, health-giving bananas to Sheila and all the other unwell people at
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First Chapter: Two Empty Thrones by C.H. MacLean

Title: Two Empty Thrones Author: C.H. MacLean Publisher: CNH Publishing Pages: 242 Genre: YA Fantasy Format: Paperback; Kindle Purchase at AMAZON With her powers growing every day, fourteen-year-old Haylwen Rightad thinks she’s safe in the magical forest. And now that she finally has the friends she always wanted, what is there to be afraid of? But she’s not out of the woods yet. Old enemies rip through her beloved forest, threatening to haul Haylwen and her newfound friends away. Their safety shattered, Haylwen and her friends are suddenly at each other’s throats. Is the friendship she worked so hard for already ruined, or is there another, unseen enemy at
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{Adventure Travel} Round the Bend Blog Tour Sign Up

Alistair McGuiness will be touring September 4 – 29 with his adventure travel book, Round the Bend: From Luton to Peru to Ningaloo, a Search for Life After Redundancy! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback & 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 48 hours. Thank you!   From the Amazon to the Andes and Kilimanjaro to Cape Town. This adventure story captures the reality and exhilaration of leaving home to undertake Gap Year travel in South America, Africa, Fiji and Australia. Three things happened simultaneously. The lioness charged, Alistair fled
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{Mystery} Behind You Blog Tour Sign Up

Carly M. Duncan will be returning September 4 – 29 with her mystery, Behind You! 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 48 hours. Thank you!   When a mysterious attack lands Heather in the hospital on the brink of death, her family rushes to her side. Through an inconvenient maze of shadowed memory and family secrets, Heather can trust only herself to discover if her husband, parents, sister or aunt tried to kill her. During the course of their own narratives, each character confesses to their
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First Chapter: I Wish by E.B. Tatby

Title: I Wish Author: E.B. Tatby Publisher: Dream Tag Pages: 329 Genre: YA/Fantasy Format: Kindle Purchase at AMAZON All her life, sixteen-year-old Kenza Atlas has heard the stories, but she never believed them. She never expected the allure of power or, worse, how far the dark shadows could cast. Genies and wishing are for fairy tales, not teenage girls, and especially not in Omaha. But when a Moroccan jinn with undulating tattoos and mysterious black eyes whisks her 500 years back in time, she witnesses the death of her powerful ancestor and the gorgeous slave she loved. They sacrificed themselves to escape the Caliph, a tyrant named Mazin. And
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{Southern Women’s Fiction} Palmetto Moon Blog Tour Sign Up

Kim Boykin will be touring August 4 – October 31 with her southern women’s fiction, Palmetto Moon! 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 48 hours. Thank you!   June, 1947. Charleston is poised to celebrate the biggest wedding in high-society history, the joining of two of the oldest families in the city. Except the bride is nowhere to be found…Unlike the rest of the debs she grew up with, Vada Hadley doesn’t see marrying Justin McLeod as a blessing—she sees it as a life sentence.
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{YA Fantasy} I Wish Blog Tour Sign Up

E.B. Tatby will be touring August 4-29 with her YA fantasy, I Wish! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback or 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 48 hours. Thank you!   All her life, sixteen-year-old Kenza Atlas has heard the stories, but she never believed them. She never expected the allure of power or, worse, how far the dark shadows could cast. Genies and wishing are for fairy tales, not teenage girls, and especially not in Omaha. But when a Moroccan jinn with undulating tattoos and mysterious black eyes whisks
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Pump Up Your Book Presents It’s Your Decision Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Ed Grizzle’s It’s Your Decision book blitz July 21 – August 1!   Title: It’s Your Decision Author: Ed Grizzle Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 128 Genre: Family Relationships/Parenting Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON Children are gifts from God, but parenting those children can often be a difficult task. In It’s Your Decision, author Ed Grizzle shows how parenting can be successful when it’s carried out according to God’s plan. Using his life’s experiences as a guide, Grizzle explores the importance of making the right decisions in life—from choosing the right lifestyle and the right mate and to raising children according to what God has planned
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Double Blind Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Tiffany Pitts‘ Double Blind virtual book tour August 4-29! Title: Double Blind Author: Tiffany Pitts Publisher: Booktrope Editions Pages: 280 Genre: Action/Adventure/Humor/Sci-fi Format: Paperback/Kindle Delilah Pelham’s brother, Paul, is missing. She should probably be worried about that but honestly, he’s been in trouble since the day he learned the words “trust me.” In fact, if it weren’t for his roommate, Carl, she would gladly leave him to his fate. Carl is a good guy, even if he’s a bit of a dork. Okay, a large slice of a dork. Possibly the entire cake. But he wants to help, as do
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Psyche-Soul-Ology Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you David Roberts’ Psyche-Soul-Ology book blitz July 21 – August 1! Title: Psyche-Soul-Ology Author: David Roberts Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 202 Genre: Psychology Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON Psyche-Soul-ology: An Inspirational Approach to Appreciating and Understanding Troubled Kids is a companion text to At the Mercy of Externals: Righting Wrongs and Protecting Kids, 2nd Edition. Dr. Roberts presents a spiritually based application of his theories and the Roberts FLAGS Model detailed in his first book. His use of the term Psyche-Soul-ology focuses on the importance of addressing both the minds and souls of troubled kids. Of utmost importance is the need to look beyond
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Parker Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Stephanie Macniel’s Parker virtual book tour August 4 – 29! ABOUT PARKER Title: Parker Genre: Young Adult Author: Stephanie Macneil Publisher: iUniverse EBook: 226 pages Release Date: November 20, 2012 ISBN: 978-1-47596-038-9 The secret came out a few years ago: Parker Knight is gay. Now Parker is sixteen, and everyone has either embraced it, does not care, or has forgotten—everyone except for Dylan Baker. He is determined to make Parker’s life miserable. Parker really thought killing himself would make everything better. If he was dead, he would not have to get kicked around by Dylan and his friends anymore. He would be free. Now, after a failed
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Dark South Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you William Stewart’s Dark South book blitz July 21 – August 1! Title: Dark South Author: William Stewart Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 458 Genre: Biography Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON In the mysterious dark South, strange old ladies, killers, hucksters, deceivers, and the unhinged lurk in the shadows where they are forced to confront inexplicable forces they do not understand. After a couple books a room in the famous Hotel Le Grande in New Orleans, one of them disappears, leaving the other to follow a bizarre trail to a sealed room where a gruesome murder took place some fifty years earlier. Uncle Poot, who has
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Dakota Gold Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Karen Wilson’s Dakota Gold book blitz July 21 – August 1!     Title: Dakota Gold Author: Karen Wilson Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 80 Genre: Biography Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON Karen Wilson watched as a little tyke came running from the group of golden retriever puppies as fast as his little legs would carry him. Wearing a red ribbon, he was the most adorable bundle of golden softness she had ever seen. As soon as he reached her and she picked him up, he settled in her arms and immediately captured her heart. There was no question that she was his mama and
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Vlad Dracula: The Dragon Prince Book Blitz – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Michael Augustyn’s Michael Augustyn book blitz July 21 – August 1!       Title: Vlad Dracula Author: Michael Augustyn Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 286 Genre: Historical Fiction Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON Most of the vast audience attracted to the subject of Dracula know him only in his fictional, one-dimensional form: vampire! Yet the truth behind the historical character–voevode, warlord–of 15th C. Romania is at least as equally fascinating as any contrived account of his supernatural persona.   Vlad Dracula faithfully follows his life story as hostage, fugitive, prince, and prisoner. His principality of Wallachia was caught between two voracious predators: the kingdom of Hungary
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