Pump Up Your Book! Announces June ‘11 Authors on Virtual Book Tours

Join a talented and diverse group of 38 authors who are touring with Pump Up Your Book! Virtual Book Tours during the month of June 2011.

Follow these authors as they travel the blogosphere from June 6th through June 30th to discuss their books. This month is filled with a variety of genres: thrillers, children’s books, fantasy novels, historicals, memoirs and more!

The month of June finds several authors continuing their virtual book tours. Returning are Buzz Bernard and “Eyewall,” Sandi Gelles-Cole and “The Memoir of Marilyn Monroe,” Emily Sue Harvey and “Homefires,” Douglas Jacobson and “The Katyn Order,” Tom McLaughlin and “Borneo Tom,” M.J. Rose and “The Hypnotist,” Alexandrea Weis and “Recovery,” Nzingha West and “Is My Kid Stupid?”and Lory Kaufman and “The Lens and the Looker.” Kaufman will also be touring with “The Bronze and the Brimstone,” the second book in his Verona Trilogy.

Short story collections come to you from Hank Aaron and Garasamo Maccagnone, while Michael Scott Miller talks about his contemporary novel, “Ladies and Gentlemen…The Redeemers.” Thrillers are being promoted by Steve DeWinter, Julia Madeleine, bestselling author Aaron Patterson and Chris White, L.L. Reaper, and Dave Zeltserman.

Check out literary fiction offerings from Patty Friedmann, Lynda Simmons, and Carole Waterhouse. Mysteries come to you from Ray Ellis, Larry Jukofsky, and Wayne Zurl, while Paul Levine promotes his hardboiled crime novel, “Flesh and Bones.” Amazon bestselling author Mayra Calvani talks about her children’s picture book, “Frederico, the Mouse Violinist,” and award-winning author Renee Hand tours with the second book in her Joe-Joe Nut and Biscuit Bill children’s mystery chapter book series, “Mineral Mischief.”

Also on tour in June are F.J. Dagg, P.J. Hoover, Leonora Pruner, and C.W. Gortner, who is promoting the paperback release of “The Confessions of Catherine de Medici.”

Memoirs come to you from Neil Cullen McKinlay, Jessamine Rose, and Jane Rowan. Other nonfiction authors on tour are Harriet Cammock, Barbara Conelli, and Dr. Frederick Lukash. Pump Up Your Book! is also running a one-day promotional event on June 14th for author Laurel Dewey and her crime thriller, “Revelations.”


Visit YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PujAarlkpBo to view a video trailer introducing our authors on tour in June.


Pump Up Your Book! is a virtual book tour agency for authors who want quality service at an affordable price. More information can be found on their website at www.pumpupyourbook.com.



Contact Information:

Dorothy Thompson
Founder of Pump Up Your Book! Virtual Book Tours
P.O. Box 643
Chincoteague, Virginia 23336
Email: thewriterslife@yahoo.com

Book Trailer for Invisible Path by Marilyn Meredith

Paperback: 224 pages

Publisher: Mundania Press LLC (October 1, 2010)

ISBN-10: 1606592394

ISBN-13: 978-1606592397

Available at Amazon.com! Also available in a Kindle edition.

Video Trailer for Little Shepherd

In case you hadn't heard, my first children's book, Little Shepherd is now available at the publisher's website and Amazon.com! Autographed copies can be ordered directly through me for a cost of $9.95 plus shipping. Please find a link to my email in my profile and provide me with the following:

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Payment can be made by PayPal or by bank check or money order.

Here's a video trailer I created today to share some of the lovely illustrations Eugene Ruble created for the book.



Thanks for your support. I hope you enjoy the trailer!

Pump Up Your Book Promotion's February 2010 Authors On Tour

Pump Up Your Book Promotion Announces February ‘10 Authors on Tour

Join a talented and diverse group of 21 authors who are touring with Pump Up Your Book Promotion during the month of February 2010!

Follow these authors as they travel the blogosphere from February 1st through February 26th to discuss their books. You’ll find everything from gritty memoirs to mystery novels, children’s books to legal thrillers, historical fiction to inspirational nonfiction, self-help and more! And for the month dedicated to love, we have several authors who have written books on relationships or romance.

Maria Andrade, Barbora Knobova, and Gary Morgenstein will be promoting titles about relationships, while Bill Walker is back for another tour with his soul searching romance novel, A Note from an Old Acquaintance. Life coach and motivational speaker, Judi Moreo, is just one of the contributing authors for the motivational book Life Choices: Navigating Difficult Paths, and Michele Paiva returns with her spiritual self-help book, Truth, Next Exit.

Susie Larson tours for another month with her inspirational devotional, Embracing Your Freedom, and Victor Pross tours with the humorous art book, Icons & Idols: Pop Goes the Culture. Alan Markovitz, Joy Slosar, and Kay Marshall Strom return with a gritty memoir, a psychological book, and book for baby boomers; and Pamela Samuels Young and Vincent Zandri tour their thrillers.

Also on tour with Pump Up your Book Promotion in February are historical novelist Ogo Ogbata, mystery authors Misa Ramirez and Angela Henry, women’s contemporary author Kaylin McFarren, and children’s author Chris Wardle. February shines the light on Carla Buckley’s apocalyptic novel, The Things That Keep Us Here, and the current affairs book The American Medical Money Machine by James Goldberg. Marnie Swedberg is also on tour with her book for writers, eBooks: Idea to Amazon in 14 Days.

Check out YouTube at to view a special Authors on February Virtual Book Tour video trailer featuring each author. To follow these authors during the month of February, visit the official Pump Up Your Book Promotion website at www.pumpupyourbook.com or our publicity blog found at http://virtualbooktours.wordpress.com.

Pump Up Your Book Promotion is a virtual book tour agency for authors who want quality service at an affordable price. More information can be found on their website at www.pumpupyourbook.com.

Pumping Up the Holidays with the 12 Days of Christms Virtual Book Tour '09

Pump Up Your Book Announces 12 Days of Christmas Virtual Book Tour ‘09

Join a talented and diverse group of 28 authors who are touring with Pump Up Your Book Promotion during “The 12 Days of Christmas Virtual Book Tour ‘09”!

Follow these authors as they travel the blogosphere for the first 12 weekdays of December (December 1st – December 16th) to discuss their books. You’ll find everything from tween fiction to memoirs, horror and suspense novels to historical romances, children’s books to self-help and so much more!

Michael Anthony, David Berner, Hope Edelman, and Ingrid King tour with their memoirs. Learn more about short story collections from Barbora Knobova and J.W. Nicklaus. Michael Estepa and Larry Sweitzer travel the blogosphere with their young adult fiction books, while Bernadine Feagins, Dixie Philips, and Victoria Simcox are children’s authors. Tween/teen fiction books are being promoted by Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein and Beverly Stowe McClure, and historical novels from authors J.M. Hochstetler, Dot Ryan, and Cindy Vallar will also be touring. Nonfiction books on a variety of topics come to you from Malana Ashlie, James Burns, James Diehl, Jacqueline Klosek, Pat Snyder, John Tippets, and Sophia White.

Also touring in December are Joy DeKok with her contemporary novel, Gale Laure and Stephen Masse with their suspense novels, horror author Maryann Paige, and romance author Bill Walker.

Check out our special “The 12 Days of Christmas Virtual Book Tour ‘09” video trailer featuring each author:



To follow these authors during “The 12 Days of Christmas Virtual Book Tour ‘09” visit the official Pump Up Your Book Promotion Virtual Book Tour site at www.pumpupyourbook.com or http://virtualbooktours.wordpress.com/.

Pump Up Your Book Promotion Virtual Book Tours is a virtual book tour agency for authors who want quality service at an affordable price. More information can be found on their website at http://www.pumpupyourbook.com.

Video Trailer for Beyond the Code of Conduct by K.M. Daughters

Here is the latest trailer I created. This is for the romantic supsense novel, Beyond the Code of Conduct, Book 2 in the Sullivan Boys series by K.M. Daughters, which we reviewed here.

FBI Agency Brass and Sullivan family connections force Special Agent Bobbie Leighton into an undercover operation with inactive Homicide Detective Joe Sullivan.

Posing as a cattleman and his arm-candy wife the couple is assigned to infiltrate NY attorney Bradley Sterling’s illegal operation. Suspected of baby trafficking, Sterling maybe be connected with Joe’s brother, Jimmy Sullivan’s murder.

How do Bobbie and Joe adhere to their professional code of conduct living under the same roof? Can they forget their personal history, ignore their volatile feelings for each other and ensnare their target when they might be next on Sterling’s victims list?

You can visit the authors' website at www.kmdaughters.com and follow them at http://twitter.com/kmdaughters!



I would love to hear what you think.

Video Trailer for The Crypto-Capers

Author Renée Hand will be going on a virtual book tour in June with Pump Up Your Book Promotion. She'll be discussing the first book in her new interactive children's detective series, The Crypto-Capers. In The Case of the Missing Sock--which we reviewed here--the Crypto-Capers go to Florida to investigate the theft of a missing sock.

Readers can also check out the author's website at www.reneeahand.com for more Crypto-Capers fun and to join The Crypto-Capers Fan Club!






Check out The Crypto-Capers video trailer:

New Video for Across the Pond by Storyheart

Someone recently drew my attention to a promotional video for Across the Pond by Storyheart. Across the Pond is a teen romance between Fred, a boy visiting the United States from England, and Brittany, whose parents are entrusted with Fred's care while he is in the States.

We reviewed this title here.

One of the things that can be most challenging about book promotion is to find a unique angle. Barry Eva, the writer known as Storyheart, did just that when he created this silent movie video trailer to promote Across the Pond. It looks like he got some help from his family.

Check it out!

Video Trailer for Herbert Howard Jones's The Pyewiz and The Amazing Mobile Phone

Herbert Howard Jones is on a virtual book tour to promote his young adult fantasy novel, The Pyewiz and The Amazing Mobile Phone. Herbert stopped by The Book Connection recently to talk about his antagonist, the Pyewiz. You can find that post here.

Since his visit, a video trailer has been created by yours truly for The Pyewiz and The Amazing Mobile Phone. View the trailer below and feel free to leave your comments here.