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Friday, February 10, 2012
Interview with Michael Charney, author of 'Chasing Glenn Beck'
 Michael Charney is an award-winning author and publisher from Bedford, New Hampshire, where he lives with his wife and two dogs. He enjoys a bit of surrealism now and then, and counts among his friends several people who can quote extensive passages from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and Red Dwarf. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, he has managed to become a Republican anyway. In previous lives he has worked in high technology start-up companies and as an adjunct professor of English. He continues to write and converse with others on politics, political dialogue, and political marketing at his website and blog, www.chasingglennbeck.com. His latest book is Chasing Glenn Beck: A Personal Experiment in Reclaiming Our Hijacked Political Conversation.
Q: Welcome to The Writer's Life, Michael. Can you tell us a little bit about yourself and how long you’ve been writing?
Q: Can you please tell us about your book and why you wrote it?
Q: What were some of the biggest challenges you faced writing it?
Q: Do you have a press kit and what do you include in it? Does this press kit appear online and, if so, can you provide a link to where we can see it?
I do have a virtual press kit; it’s available on request by emailing info@riddlebrookpublishing.com. It contains the traditional information, brochures and backgrounders.
Q: Have you either spoken to groups of people about your book or appeared on radio or TV? What are your upcoming plans for doing so?
I have not yet done signings or appearances, but scheduling for several is underway. I’ll keep people posted through my blog, and my Facebook and Twitter feeds.
Q: Do you have an agent and, if so, would you mind sharing who he/is is? If not, have you ever had an agent or do you even feel it’s necessary to have one?
I don’t have an agent and while I do see the benefits of having one, I also see certain drawbacks. In my case I chose to do the work myself because of timing constraints. We’re in an election year, and I felt it was important to capitalize on the current interest in politics. The process of obtaining an agent and working with a conventional publisher would not have fit into the window I was looking to hit.
Q: Did you, your agent or publisher prepare a media blitz before the book came out and would you like to tell us about it?
While “blitz” may be too strong a word, there was a fair amount of pre-publicity, most of it on social media. The blog site went up quite early on, and I posted excerpts, blog entries and other background material regularly (and still do). I kept thousands up to date through Twitter and Facebook, and also launched a national press release which was picked up by a number of newspapers and led to a couple of local interviews and newspaper articles. Marketing a book, of course, requires long days and nights over an extended period of time. An initial push is necessary, but it’s the consistency over time that leads to a book’s success.
Q: Do you plan subsequent books?
Q: Thank you for your interview, Michael. Would you like to tell my readers where they can find you on the web and how everyone can buy your book?
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Thursday, February 09, 2012
Interview with Nicolette Dumke: 'Overweight is due to a physiological problem'
 Nicolette Dumke enjoys helping people with food allergies and gluten intolerance find solutions to their health and weight problems. She began writing books to help others with multiple food allergies over 20 years ago and the process culminated in The Ultimate Food Allergy Cookbook and Survival Guide. She says, “This book contains everything I know to help with food allergies,” and it has helped many people come back from near-starvation. Her other books address issues such as how to deal with time and money pressures on special diets, keeping allergic children happy on their diets, and more. A few years ago, while listening to the struggles of an allergic friend on the Weight Watchers™ diet, she remembered her own weight struggles* many years ago and thought, “There has to be a better way.” This was the beginning of a new quest, and she is now helping those who are overweight due to inflammation (often due to unsuspected food allergies) or high-in-rice gluten-free diets, as well as those who are not food sensitive but want to lose weight permanently, healthily, and without feeling hungry and deprived. Her unique approach to weight and health presented in Food Allergy and Gluten-Free Weight Loss is based on body physiology and reveals why conventional weight-loss diets work against rather than with our bodies and therefore rarely result in permanent weight loss. * (Nickie’s weight loss story, briefly, is that in her early 20s she could not lose on a calorie-counting diet in spite of repeatedly further reducing the number of calories she ate and swimming vigorously and often. Then she found a diet based on blood sugar control, lost weight without being hungry, and still weighs what she did in her mid-20s). Nickie has had multiple food allergies for 30 years and has been cooking for special diets for family members and friends for even longer. Regardless of how complex your dietary needs are or how much or little cooking you have done, she has the books and recipes you need. Her books present the science behind multiple food allergies and weight control in an easily-understood manner. She has BS degrees in medical technology and microbiology. She and her husband live in Louisville, Colorado and have two grown sons.You can visit Nickie’s websites at http://www.foodallergyandglutenfreeweightloss.com and http://www.food-allergy.org. ABOUT THE BOOK: Food Allergy and Gluten-Free Weight Loss answers the question, “Why is it so hard to lose weight?” Because it’s hard to put a puzzle together if you’re missing some of the pieces. We’ve been missing or ignoring the most important pieces in the puzzle of how our bodies determine whether to store or burn fat. Those puzzle pieces are hormones such as insulin, cortisol, leptin, and others. In addition, we’ve been given some puzzle pieces that don’t belong or fit in the weight-control puzzle. Much of what we’ve heard about dieting and exercise is incorrect and can cause loss of muscle mass instead of fat or even result in weight gain. The idea that weight is determined solely by “calories in minus calories out” is an assumption not based in reality. Most weight-loss diets require us to endure hunger much of the time, but hunger means that our blood sugar is falling or low and our insulin level may be rising. Prolonged hunger leads to the release of adrenal hormones, and the hormonal cascade which follows results in the inability to burn our own body fat as well as causing any fat we eat to be stored rather than burned to give us energy. Another problem with most weight loss diets is that they strictly dictate food choices, lack the flexibility that those on special diets for f  ood allergies or gluten-intolerance require, and deprive us of pleasure. Individuals with food allergies face additional weight-loss challenges such as inflammation due to allergies which can lead to our master weight control hormone, leptin, being unable to do its job of maintaining a healthy weight. Those with gluten intolerance often eat a diet too high rice. Rice is the only grain which is high on the glycemic index in its whole grain form; thus eating too much of it will raise insulin levels and cause the body to deposit fat. Although the recipes in this book were developed for those on special diets, non-sensitive people will enjoy them as well, and the weight loss principles in this book will help anyone lose weight. (A chapter of recipes made with wheat and other problematic foods is included for those on unrestricted diets). The most frustrating deficiency of conventional weight loss diets is that they don’t work long-term. Low-calorie, low-fat diets can lead to loss of muscle mass, and with less muscle to burn calories, this type of diet effectively reduces metabolic rate so we need less food. Rare is the person who loses weight by counting calories and keeps it off after they liberalize their diet! However, continual dieting for the rest of your life is not the way you need to live, and you do not have to be deprived of pleasure in order to lose weight. Overweight is not due to a lack of willpower. Rather, it is due to a chemical imbalance in our bodies. Once we begin to correct that imbalance by applying the principles in Food Allergy and Gluten-Free Weight Loss, we can lose weight without hunger or deprivation and can maintain a healthy weight permanently and easily by regaining normal self-regulating hormonal control of our weight.Q: Welcome to The Writer's Life, Nicolette. Can you tell us how long you’ve been writing and how your journey led to writing your latest book, Food Allergy and Gluten-Free Weight Loss? My first book, Allergy Cooking With Ease, was published in 1992, so I’ve been writing for over 20 years. I have nine books currently in print and have talked to hundreds people on special diets over the years. Before I wrote Food Allergy and Gluten-Free Weight Loss, I was contacted by an increasing number of people who had gained weight on gluten-free diets, so I knew that there was a growing need for a book about weight loss that was geared to the special challenges faced by individuals with food allergies or gluten intolerance. Q: How did you choose your title and was it your first choice?
Q: We all know that publishers can’t do all of the publicity and that some lies on the author. What has your publisher done so far to publicize the book and what have you done?
Q: Open to a random page in your book. Can you tell us what is happening? O.K., here we are at the “Turkey Curry” recipe. What’s happening when you make and eat this tasty main dish is that you get a good dose of several anti-inflammatory foods, including carrots and spinach, plus two potently anti-inflammatory seasonings, ginger and turmeric. These foods decrease inflammation, which allows leptin, the master hormone for achieving and maintaining a healthy weight, to function optimally. In addition, the cinnamon helps stabilize blood sugar levels and decreases insulin resistance. The effect of this dish on weight-related hormones is to promote easy weight loss. For more about how to control your hormones to lose weight easily and without hunger, see this page: http://www.foodallergyandglutenfreeweightloss.com/controlling_hormones.html Q: Do you plan subsequent books? I hope to write a sequel to Food Allergy and Gluten-Free Weight Loss which includes what I’ve learned from people who are losing weight using this book about the “real life” application of hormonal weight loss principles. Q: What is the one thing you learned about your book AFTER it was published? I learned that for some people a very minor change, such as adding breakfast to their daily routine, is enough to lower and stabilize their insulin level and result in weight loss. Therefore, the dietary recommendations in the sequel will be simpler.My husband is also following the eating plan and has taught me a lot about the role of pleasure in weight loss. For the first several months, he ate 100% stone ground whole wheat bread made from the recipe in Food Allergy and Gluten-Free Weight Loss. He grew up on Wonder™ bread, so he never liked whole wheat and felt mentally dissatisfied (although not physically hungry) after eating whole wheat bread. Both stone ground whole wheat and sourdough bread have a lower GI score than white bread. Therefore, I began making sourdough for him. He loves it, and now he’s satisfied mentally as well as physically with his meals. There are recipes for several types of sourdough bread, made by a bread machine or by hand, in the new third edition of Easy Breadmaking for Special Diets. This book contains white, whole wheat, allergy, and gluten-free sourdough recipes, which are made possible by a new gluten and wheat-free freeze-dried sourdough starter. Q: What is your most favorite time of the day or night to write? I like to write in the morning when my mind is fresh. Q: What is usually better – the book or the movie? For classic fiction, I think the book is better. Q: You’re about to write your next book. What did you learn from your previous book to help you write your next book? That weight loss is all about hormones, far beyond what I thought when I began writing Food Allergy and Gluten-Free Weight Loss. The eating plan in the sequel will be simpler, and the recipes will be designed for pleasure. Q: Finally, what’s your best tip you can give to writers who want to be published? My advice would be to write niche market books that meet a real need. This is a way to get published and have your books sell well even if you’re not a celebrity. Q: Thank you for your interview, Nicolette. Do you have any final words? Yes, I’d like to summarize the most important message in the book. It is that overweight is due to a physiological problem. It is not something that is the reader’s fault. If anything is to blame, it is ideas about weight loss which have been forced on us for so many years that many people cannot accept that they are untrue. What is needed is a weight lost plan based on accurate information about how our bodies handle food and fat, not on “calorie math.” For more about this, you can read the essential information in the book here: http://www.foodallergyandglutenfreeweightloss.com/ |
'Red Hot Sky' Gordon Gumpertz: 'Keep writing and never give up'
 Gordon Gumpertz brings fiction readers another exciting action/adventure experience in his new novel RED HOT SKY. This is the author’s second book, following his highly acclaimed novel TSUNAMI. In addition to writing novels, Gordon has won gold and silver awards in national and regional short story competitions. He is a member of the Authors Guild, the Palm Springs Writers Guild, a UCLA graduate, and an instrument-rated private pilot. He keeps his website current by blogging on natural disasters and natural phenomena. Gordon and his wife Jenny live not far from the San Andreas fault, where the Pacific Plate thrusts into the North American Plate, building increasingly high levels of faultline stress which, the seismologists say, may soon produce the Big One. Visit his website at www.tsunaminaturaldisaster.com. Website | Amazon | Amazon Kindle | Barnes & Noble | Smashwords About Red Hot SkyCO2 buildup in earth’s atmosphere reaches a tipping point. Global weather destabilizes, turns chaotic. Ice storms, dust storms, floods, blizzards, hurricanes, tornadoes pummel the earth nonstop. A secret computer model reveals that the frantic weather will peak out, and transform world climate into an alien environment devastating to human survival. Scientists Ben Mason, Claudine Manet, and Bertrand Short are developers of the computer model. Ben and Claudine are lovers as well as lab partners. While they work frantically to head off the approaching catastrophe, a disgraced Russian general hacks into their model and sees earth’s bleak future as his opportunity for ultimate world power. Ben, who had left the CIA to develop the computer model at the national lab, is reactivated by the Agency and sent on a perilous mission to block the rogue general’s plot. Claudine, not realizing that Ben is on a secret mission, misunderstands his absence, putting their relationship on thin ice. Claudine is placed in charge of a massive NASA project that, if
Q: Welcome to The Writer's Life, Gordon. Can you tell us how long you’ve been writing and how your journey led to writing your latest book, Red Hot Sky?
I started creative writing after retiring from business 15 years ago. The first five years were devoted to learning the craft of writing. In the last ten, I've published two novels, am wrapping up a third, and have a fourth in early draft form. The idea for Red Hot Sky was sparked by a report that CO2 in our atmosphere has increased more in the last 50 years than in the preceding 150, since the start of the industrial revolution. I wondered what would happen if the galloping CO2 increase reached a tipping point and kicked earth's climate into a phase that threatened human survival.
Q: How did you choose your title and was it your first choice?
The novel started life as The Jupiter Effect because earth's climate would soon look like that of the Great Red Spot on Jupiter. I changed it to Red Hot Sky because there were many other novels with "Effect" in the title at the time.
Q: We all know that publishers can’t do all of the publicity and that some lies on the author. What has your publisher done so far to publicize the book and what have you done?
I self published Red Hot Sky with CreateSpace. I'm the publisher and all the promotion is up to me. I'm featuring Red Hot Sky on my website, www.tsunaminaturaldisaster.com. I blog on natural disasters and have built up a fairly large and consistent following. Sales of my first novel Tsunami have been excellent, mainly the ebook version on Kindle, and I hope the website will produce well for Red Hot Sky. I'm using Dorothy Thompson's Pump Up Your Book program to increase awareness of Red Hot Sky and pump up traffic to my website.
Q: Open to a random page in your book. Can you tell us what is happening?
Q: Do you plan subsequent books?
I have my third novel almost ready to go. I hope to publish it sometime this year.
Q: What is the one thing you learned about your book AFTER it was published?
The reviewers like it.
Q: What is your most favorite time of the day or night to write?
I start writing around 9:00 in the morning, but seem to hit my stride after lunch, from 2:00 to 5:00.
Q: What is usually better – the book or the movie?
The movie usually has to be a condensed version of the book. For the full flavor of the story as the author intended, I favor the book. However, my scenes are all very visual and if a Hollywood producer calls, I will gladly listen.
Q: You’re about to write your next book. What did you learn from your previous book to help you write your next book?
Important to end every chapter with a hook, to keep the reader turning the pages.
Q: Finally, what’s your best tip you can give to writers who want to be published?
Keep writing, and never give up.
Q: Thank you for your interview, Gordon. Do you have any final words?
I hope every new writer will take the time to learn his or her craft before trying for publication. No matter how much natural talent a writer has, it takes time to get it right. Try hard to get it get it right before submitting.
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'Letters on Balboa Island' Kathy Holmes: 'The most important thing is listen to yourself'
 Born in the City of Angels, raised on Walt Disney, and inspired by the dreams of both, Kathy Holmes grew up in southern California halfway between Disneyland and the beach. Tantalized by the tropics since Adam Troy set sail on the Kon Tiki in James A. Michener’s “Adventures in Paradise,” she traveled to tropical destinations such as Hawaii, Florida, the Caribbean, Mexico, and Asia Pacific. Eventually, she moved to Florida where she wrote and secured representation for Real Women Wear Red. She also wrote for Walt Disney World and the Orlando Sentinel. After living in Las Vegas for a few years, Kathy, her husband, and their three Burmese cats have moved back to Florida and are now living halfway between Walt Disney World and the beach in Central Florida. Her latest book is Letters on Balboa Island. Visit her on the web at www.KathyHolmes.net. Website | Blog | Twitter | Facebook | Amazon | Amazon Kindle | Smashwords l Official Tour Page About Letters on Balboa IslandWhen Rosalie Martin was seventeen, she knew two things that were true: (1) You couldn’t help but meet a man in a military uniform in southern California in the 1950s, and (2) Sooner or later, men would leave. But that didn’t stop her mother, her sister, or even herself from trying to find a man who would stay. And before she knew it, she had not only one man on her hands, but two. When Rosalie sends a Dear John letter to the one serving in the Korean War to marry the one back home, she begins a life of secrets and regrets. Years later, when letters surface on Balboa Island, she realizes she may have chosen the wrong man. So when fate gives her the chance to make a different choice, will she? Or has she lived a life of lies for too long?
Q: Welcome to The Writer's Life, Kathy. Can you tell us how long you’ve been writing and how your journey led to writing your latest book, Letters on Balboa Island. On January 31, 2012, I ordered “Immediate Fiction” from Chicago’s The Loft, which I later discovered was the same workshop that my favorite author, Laura Caldwell, enrolled in. Q: How did you choose your title and was it your first choice? Early on it was called Balboa Island, but then it became Dear John. Well, Nicholas Sparks published his Dear John, which also became a movie, and so I decided I should change the title back to Balboa Island. But when I blogged about it, several people who had also grown up near Balboa Island began to talk about their Balboa Island memories. So, I added Letters on to Balboa Island because it was more than a commentary on Balboa Island and I didn’t want to mislead readers. Q: We all know that publishers can’t do all of the publicity and that some lies on the author. What has your publisher done so far to publicize the book and what have you done? This book is being published as an Indie – I’m doing all of the publicity with a little help from my friends and a fabulous book promotion tour company, Pump Up Your Book! Q: Open to a random page in your book. Can you tell us what is happening? On page 124 of the paperback, Rosalie, shaken to hear from a sailor boy she once knew, writes to her soldier boy in Korea without revealing he might have competition when he returns. Q: Do you plan subsequent books? I haven’t planned a sequel to Letters on Balboa Island but I am writing a follow-up to Real Women Wear Red called Real Women Sing the Blues. I hope to publish it sometime this year. Q: What is the one thing you learned about your book AFTER it was published? I’m not sure I can answer that. Maybe because after a book is published, I forget exactly what’s in it. There have been so many versions by then, and I’m off writing the next book. I think the main thing I learn is whether readers embrace it or not. You just never know. Q: What is your most favorite time of the day or night to write? When I first started writing, it took me all day to face the page. So at about 4 p.m., I’d finally sit down to write. Now, I usually have more energy in the morning so I do most of my writing then, although I’ve been known to take an afternoon nap and then write another scene at about 4 p.m. Q: What is usually better – the book or the movie? Definitely the book! Q: You’re about to write your next book. What did you learn from your previous book to help you write your next book? Real Women Wear Red is my most successful book so far. I think my core readers want more of that from me. The Tom Jones Club and Letters on Balboa Island attract a different reader. So, while finding new readers for those books, I’m excited to get back to writing what my core readers want – the sequel to Real Women Wear Red. Q: Finally, what’s your best tip you can give to writers who want to be published? Learn the rules and then learn which rules to break. Many of those “rules” are current writing styles so don’t lose your voice and your style in order to write what/how others say you should write. Listen to yourself. Q: Thank you for your interview, Kathy. Do you have any final words? Thank you for having me—it’s been such a pleasure. Just know that there’s a lot of advice out there, and the most important thing you can do is listen to yourself.
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Friday, February 03, 2012
Find the goof and win a Pump Up Your Book cap!
I'm over at Literarily Speaking today with not only a cool way to promote your book, but an incentive for you as well! I found a neat program that allows you to make your own 3D movies (not hard at all) and I've used it to promote an upcoming book about relationships I will be self-publishing shortly. But...I goofed. There's a mistake in the video and I don't think I'm the only one who can notice it as it 's fairly obvious if you pay very close attention. Be the first to find it and tell me what it is in the comment section over at Literarily Speaking and you'll win a FREE Pump Up Your Book cap!Visit http://literarilyspeaking.net/2012/02/03/make-your-own-3d-movies-to-promote-your-books-win-free-pump-up-your-book-cap/ to see if you can be first to find the goof! |
Thursday, February 02, 2012
New Book for Review: Conscious Calm: Keys to Freedom from Stress and Worry by Dr. Laura A. Maciuika
Dr. Laura A. Maciuika will be touring mid-March to mid-April 2012 with her self-help book Conscious Calm: Keys to Freedom from Stress and Worry. Stressed out? There is plenty of real external stress, sure, and a serious stress epidemic going on. Then there is what we do on the inside, often without even realizing it. Conscious Calm focuses on the internal patterns of stress creation we may not even notice, and describes how to get free of these patterns for good to find lasting calm. Integrating psychology and neuroscience, and combining practical wisdom from both East and West, Dr. Laura Maciuika explains the inner stress traps that so many of us fall into. She reveals 9 Stress Secrets that can keep us stuck in cycles of feeling more and stress, and describes 9 Keys to Conscious Calm and simple, step by step ways to use them for lasting stress relief, deeper calm, and greater happiness. Read an ExcerptFrom Chapter 1: For stress reduction, it’s natural to focus on where and how we do have control over outside stress. Some people try to organize themselves better, or to break the To-Do list down into smaller pieces to get more done. You probably have heard about or even tried tips and strategies for organizing the tasks and To-Dos in your life, and doing that can be helpful. Those tips and strategies take one common approach to focusing on stress reduction. They look at the outside challenges and strategize ways to deal with them better. And that can be a useful and worthy exercise. It can become a problem, though, if outside solutions to stress are the only focus. It can feel like you’ll have to get a handle on everything in your life before your stress will go down and you will feel calmer and happier. Or, it can seem like you’ll never get less stressed and worried, because the To-Do list and the serious outside challenges just aren’t going away anytime soon. One reason some people feel both helpless and hopeless about stress is that their focus is only on the outside. Without addressing inside stress directly, without a better understanding of its dynamics, causes, and possible solutions, it’s hard to find real and lasting calm. Without learning more about the internal contributions to stress, it’s more likely you will stay stuck in some of the very patterns that can be making your stress worse. While there are real ways to control some of our outside stress, INSIDE is where we can have the most control. Even with the real outside challenges and pressures, moment-to-moment we have all kinds of internal choice. 180 Pages Check out ConciousCalm.com for more information. If you would like to review Conscious Calm: Keys to Freedom from Stress and Worry, please email Jaime McDougall at jmfictionscribe@yahoo.com.au. Please mention which date(s) would work for you. Deadline for inquiries end February 29th or until the tour is filled. Thank you! |
Wednesday, February 01, 2012
Alicia Singleton on nationwide blog tour February 6 - 29
 Pump Up Your Book is pleased to announce Alicia Singleton's Dark Side of Valor Virtual Book Tour 2012 beginning February 6 and ending on February 29 2012. Alicia will be on hand during her nationwide tour talking about her book in candid interviews and guest posts! Lots of fun along the way as Alicia stops off at blogs around the world to give her fans a chance to ask her questions and to find out more about this talented author. About Alicia Singleton Born and raised in Philadelphia, the Howard University graduate embraced the written word at an early age. She credits this to her loving, older sister whom, while they were youngsters, made the author eat lotion on a regular basis. Realizing the need to sound-out the ingredients on the lotion label, Alicia stopped the lotion-eating practice, but continued to read the labels of the concoctions her sister brought for her to try. This early necessity to read flowered to a passion; hence, a writer was born. The award winning author resides in Maryland with her wonderful husband and son. Still an avid reader, label or otherwise, Alicia is hard at work completing her next suspense novel. Her latest book is the suspense novel, Dark Side of Valor. Visit Alicia’s website at www.aliciasingleton.com. Website | Twitter | Facebook | Library Thing | Goodreads | Amazon | YouTube | LinkedIn | Powell's Books | Simon & Schuster | BooksAMillion l Official Tour Page About Dark Side of Valor Child advocate Lelia Freeman saves children for a living. As the director of ChildSafe Shelters, she ventures to abandoned squats and crackhouses to rescue teens from the hellish streets of Los Angeles. When she is summoned to Washington to serve on a committee that aids the children of a war-torn African nation, Lelia is kidnapped and becomes a political pawn in a sinister conspiracy. Oceans away from everything she knows, she must trust a mercenary to save her life, or die in the clutches of a psychopath. Hunting, combat and staying alive are Elijah Dune’s specialties. Vengeance is his passion. Haunted by past demons, he’s travels to the Motherland to collect a debt. A debt that demands one payment. Death. Caught in the crosshairs of a madman, Lelia and Elijah must survive the jungles of Zaire and the horrors of their pasts or be forever consumed by the DARK SIDE OF VALOR. About Pump Up Your BookPump Up Your Book handles all the aspects of virtual book touring from pre-buzzing your book before the tour starts to making sure buyers will find your book long after the tour is over. If you are the author of a newly published book, have an upcoming release or just want to give a previously published book new life, a virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book is the answer. We welcome traditionally published, electronically published and self-published authors. Our esteem list of clients include Claire Cook, Caridad Pineiro, C.W. Gortner, Barbara Bretton, Cody McFayden, James Hayman, Karen White, Kathleen Willey, Lisa Daily, Lisa Jackson, Mary Burton, Nancy Thayer, Randy Sue Coburn, Ray Comfort, Sandi Kahn Shelton, Sheila Roberts, Therese Fowler, Hope Edelman, Wendy Wax, Jon Meacham, Shobhan Bantwal, Pat Williams, Jane Green, Judge Glenda Hatchett and cook show personality Paula Deen. We also represent Random House, Abingdon Press, Zumaya Publications, WND Books, Sheaf House Publishers, New Hope Publishers, Guardian Angel Publishers, Genesis Press, and Moody Publishing. Contact us to find out what we can do for you and your book!
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Pump Up Your Book Announces Fantasy Author Stephanie Keys on 'The Star Child Virtual Book Tour 2012'
 Pump Up Your Book is pleased to announce Stephanie Keyes' The Star Child Virtual Book Tour 2012 beginning February 6 and ending on February 29 2012. Stephanie will be on hand during this worldwide online book tour talking about her book in candid interviews and guest posts! Lots of fun along the way as Stephanie stops off at blogs around the world to give her fans a chance to ask her questions and to find out more about this talented author. About Stephanie Keyes For the past twelve years, Stephanie Keyes has worked full time as a Corporate Educator and Curriculum Designer. She holds a M.Ed. from Duquesne University and and a B.S. in Management information Systems from Robert Morris University. Stephanie is a clarinetist, saxophonist, and vocalist, and is always making music somewhere at sometime. She credits her loving husband of ten years and her two sons for the completion and publication of The Star Child. Stephanie is a featured author on www.LoveaHappyEnding.com. You can visit her website at http://www.stephaniekeyes.com. Website | Blog | Twitter | Facebook | Google+ | Goodreads | Amazon | Amazon Kindle Store | YouTube | Barnes & Noble | Smashwords | Official Tour Page About The Star Child Kellen St. James is just your average seventeen-year-old prodigy, but with a Yale degree, a photographic memory, and an addiction to everything 80s. But what’s not so average about Kellen is the girl who’s been haunting his dreams for the last eleven years. When the sudden death of his grandmother takes him from the East Coast to the Irish Coast, he finds himself face to face with his own personal ghost and finds out that she’s just as real as he is. Plus she’s come spinning a tale about an ancient prophecy in which Kellen plays a key role. Together they will travel through an underworld of faeries and demons, angels and gods, not to mention a really ticked off pack of wild dogs, all in order to save the world from darkness. But will they make it in time? About Pump Up Your BookPump Up Your Book handles all the aspects of virtual book touring from pre-buzzing your book before the tour starts to making sure buyers will find your book long after the tour is over. If you are the author of a newly published book, have an upcoming release or just want to give a previously published book new life, a virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book is the answer. We welcome traditionally published, electronically published and self-published authors. Our esteem list of clients include Claire Cook, Caridad Pineiro, C.W. Gortner, Barbara Bretton, Cody McFayden, James Hayman, Karen White, Kathleen Willey, Lisa Daily, Lisa Jackson, Mary Burton, Nancy Thayer, Randy Sue Coburn, Ray Comfort, Sandi Kahn Shelton, Sheila Roberts, Therese Fowler, Hope Edelman, Wendy Wax, Jon Meacham, Shobhan Bantwal, Pat Williams, Jane Green, Judge Glenda Hatchett and cook show personality Paula Deen. We also represent Random House, Abingdon Press, Zumaya Publications, WND Books, Sheaf House Publishers, New Hope Publishers, Guardian Angel Publishers, Genesis Press, and Moody Publishing. Contact us to find out what we can do for you and your book!
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Announcing Richard Tillotson's Acts of God While on Vacation Virtual Book Tour 2012
 Pump Up Your Book is pleased to announce Richard Tillotson's Acts of God While on Vacation Virtual Book Tour 2012 beginning February 6 and ending on February 29 2012. Richard will be on hand during his worldwide tour talking about his book in candid interviews and guest posts! Lots of fun along the way as Richard stops off at blogs around the world to give his fans a chance to ask him questions and to find out more about this talented author. About Richard Tillotson Richard Tillotson has been a Peace Corps volunteer in Borneo, a playwright in New York, a copywriter in Hawaii, and is a relative of an English Lord, all of which helped him write Acts of God While on Vacation, a National Semi-Finalist for the 2009 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award and named “Hawaii’s best fiction book of 2011” by The Honolulu Star-Advertiser. He works in Honolulu and vacations in Washington DC. Amazon Blog | Amazon | Amazon Kindle | Createspace | Barnes & Noble | Borders | Arlington Avenue Books l Official Tour Page About Acts of God While on Vacation ACTS OF GOD WHILE ON VACATION begins with a death threat received by a philandering general manager of a lavish Hawaii resort, jumps to an anthropologist researching headhunters in the jungles of Borneo, then to a demonic, scandal-mongering paparazzo in New York, and on to a gorgeous, party-loving English aristocrat in London. Alternately desperate and hilarious adventures draw them all to Waikiki, where their arrival coincides with an international conference on shamanism and a catastrophic, force-five hurricane. ACTS OF GOD WHILE ON VACATION was a National Semi-Finalist for the AMAZON BREAKTHROUGH NOVEL AWARD. “A rollicking page-turner … This is Hawaii’s best fiction book of 2011.” - HONOLULU STAR-ADVERTISER “A shamanically-skewed romp of brilliant insight and slapstick comedy” - HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO “As entertaining as it is enlightening” - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY “Laugh-out-loud funny, while also ringing true” - HONOLULU WEEKLY “It’s a comic novel with serious edges. Even more remarkable: It’s one of the few fictions set in Hawaii that gets all the details right.” - HONOLULU MAGAZINE About Pump Up Your BookPump Up Your Book handles all the aspects of virtual book touring from pre-buzzing your book before the tour starts to making sure buyers will find your book long after the tour is over. If you are the author of a newly published book, have an upcoming release or just want to give a previously published book new life, a virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book is the answer. We welcome traditionally published, electronically published and self-published authors. Our esteem list of clients include Claire Cook, Caridad Pineiro, C.W. Gortner, Barbara Bretton, Cody McFayden, James Hayman, Karen White, Kathleen Willey, Lisa Daily, Lisa Jackson, Mary Burton, Nancy Thayer, Randy Sue Coburn, Ray Comfort, Sandi Kahn Shelton, Sheila Roberts, Therese Fowler, Hope Edelman, Wendy Wax, Jon Meacham, Shobhan Bantwal, Pat Williams, Jane Green, Judge Glenda Hatchett and cook show personality Paula Deen. We also represent Random House, Abingdon Press, Zumaya Publications, WND Books, Sheaf House Publishers, New Hope Publishers, Guardian Angel Publishers, Genesis Press, and Moody Publishing. Contact us to find out what we can do for you and your book!
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