MESSIAH INTERVIEWS VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR '09

Join Jerry Pollock, author of the spiritual/religious novel, Messiah Interviews: Belonging to God (Shechinah Third Temple, Inc., Jan 09), as he virtually tours the blogosphere in January on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book Promotion! ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jerry Pollock is the author of seventy-five scientific publications. His background includes both a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Pharmacy from the University of Toronto, a Ph.D. in Biophysics from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, and Postdoctoral training in Microbiology at the New York University School of Medicine. Dr. Pollock is currently Professor Emeritus in the Oral Biology and Pathology Department in the School of Dental Medicine at the State University of New York at Stony Brook on Long Island. Jerry’s first writer of the arts book, Divinely Inspired: Spiritual Awakening of a Soul, was a spiritual memoir originally published in 2003. The second edition of Divinely Inspired will be reissued in Paperback on Jan. 1, 2009. His ‘not so fictional’ novel, Messiah Interviews: Belonging to God, due out also on Jan. 1, 2009, is Jerry’s way of giving back to the Creator. Jerry is married to Marcia, his bashert or destined one. They reside in Florida. For more about Jerry and his work, please visit http://www.shechinahthirdtemple.org/ ABOUT THE BOOK: Ever since the Creation of Adam and Eve, man has grappled with knowing whether life exists after death. Because humans achieve the possible, while God accomplishes the impossible, only the Creator knows our fate and destiny at the End of Days. Scientist Jerry Pollock weaves his Messiah Interviews story of an imperfect life on Earth with an imaginative account of being interviewed in Heaven to be the Messiah. The writing becomes a testament to Divine morality, and to finding truth and sincerity in one’s heart. As readers embark on a journey of knowledge and understanding, they’ll join Jerry on an exploration of the implications of biblical history on our modern world. Through a series of unexplainable events, Jerry empowers readers to decide if an additional personal spiritual effort is worth making in this life, in order to possibly gain entrance to an uncertain futuristic Garden of Eden, the Messianic Age. In a process of the dreamlike interviews with biblical personalities―the angel Gabriel, Methuselah, Chanoch, Seth, King David, Moses, Jacob, Abraham and the prophet Isaiah―Jerry is forced to bear his soul and his own hidden demons. As human beings, we are all flawed. That’s how the Creator made us. During the course of reading the book, readers have the opportunity to ponder the improvement of their own imperfections, in order to meet the requirements set out in the Messiah Interviews for admission into a future blissful life at the End of Days. The book is God-centered and discusses, briefly or at length, various topics, including The Ten Commandments, Creation, Evolution, Good and Evil, Primal Therapy, Bipolar Disorder, Resurrection, Aging, Twelve Tribes of Israel, Monotheistic Religions, Third Temple, Messiah, and the Messianic Age. EXCERPT: The Archangel Michael is speaking in Heaven: “We have deliberately chosen a sinner: you, Yoseph, who has knowingly cheated in science. Yet, you have publicly repented and confessed your sins to your Stony Brook University administration; and sent letters of apology to the former institutions that you attended. Moreover, you have expressed your heartfelt remorse and your sincere regrets for all of your sinful actions in your published book, Divinely Inspired: Spiritual Awakening of a Soul, for all to see. We have intentionally chosen someone who has suffered horrifically, yet has the potential through his suffering to look inside and understand human nature. We also have especially not chosen a tzaddik, the wisest, most righteous, and perfect of men. We are testing the potential of a simple imperfect man. If you succeed in answering our questions, you will become King Messiah, and return to earth to take your place at the End of Days. If our assessment of you is that you are not the person, we had in mind, then we will have failed once again in finding the true Messiah.” WIN PRIZES!!! The MESSIAH INTERVIEWS VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR '09 will officially begin on January 5 and end on January 30. You can visit Jerry's blog stops at http://www.virtualbooktours.wordpress.com/ in January to find out more about this great book and talented author! As a special promotion for all our authors, Pump Up Your Book Promotion is giving away a FREE virtual book tour to a published author or a $50 Amazon gift certificate to those not published who comments on our authors' blog stops. More prizes will be announced as they become available.

BLOOD HARVEST VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR '09

Join Bruce Cook, author of the mystery/suspense book, Blood Harvest (Capital Crime Press, May '08), as he virtually tours the blogosphere in January on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book Promotion! Bruce Cook, who also writes under the pen name Brant Randall, has earned credits as writer, producer, or director on eleven independent feature films as well as commercials. He has written more than twenty screenplays, including the films Husbands, Wives, Money & Murder; Line of Fire; and Nightwish. Since 1973 he has taught at a number of film schools, including USC, UCLA, and Los Angeles City College. Among his thousands of former students are Matt Groening (creator of The Simpsons), actor Laurence Fishburne, Paramount VP of Marketing Lucia Ludovico, numerous directors and producers, six Academy Award nominees and winners, and twelve Emmy nominees and winners. In 1996 Dr. Cook was invited by ABS-CBN, the largest television network in the Philippines, to teach a series of seminars on improving the production techniques of the film and TV industry. While there, he addressed an assemblage of 2,000 Filipino film industry professionals. He later returned to the Philippines to conduct a market study on Southeast Asian film production and helped design a motion picture soundstage. While on location, he researched the background for his novel Philippine Fever. Dr. Cook holds degrees in Physics, Mathematics, Film Education, and Communications. He worked as a laser physicist on the Apollo Project. He and his wife live in Castaic, California. After discovering that there were four other authors named Bruce Cook, he published his second novel, Blood Harvest, under the pseudonym Brant Randall. His third novel, Tommy Gun Tango, will be published in July 2009. Bruce and Brant will collaborate on that one. For more information, please visit http://www.brucecookonline.com/ What drives a small town in New England in the late 1920's to lynch a man? Immigrant Nic DeCosta's skill as a wine grower makes him a fortune as a moonshiner and puts him at odds with the 'shine sales of the MacKay clan, even though he's wed to their wild youngest daughter. But is this the real reason he is killed? And who is the second corpse in the woods? Jackie Sue Palmer, age 13, testifies at an attempted murder trial- The bailiff placed me in this little cubby next to the judge's tall desk. They call it the witness box. Every eye was on me, and I felt like I was a move star or something. Which sits just fine with my own future plans. I caught sight of the woman I had met in the bathroom, taking notes on a pad of paper, laughing all the while. She was sitting in the front row, right behind Andrew and Angus MacKay. There was a man unkown to me sitting next to my cousins. He was maybe thirty or so, not bad looking for a man of his age. I guessed he was their lawyer. The judge looked over the end of his nose and right down my blouse. He gave a little smile to himself and motioned to the bailiff. A Bible was placed in front of me. "Place your right hand on the Bible, raise your left hand, and repeat after me," said the bailiff. "I'm left-handed," I said. "Does that make any difference?" I gave an innocent look, the kind Mary Pickford is so good at. The spectators in the courtoom laughed out loud at that, causing Judge Halbersson to rap his gavel several times and demand order. "Which hand you use is not germane, Miss Palmer," said the judge. "Of course it's not germane," said I. "I'm an American, born right her in Potemkin County." That drew another round of guffaws from the gallery. I saw this was going to be a good crowd. The bailiff glared at the citizens who were laughing. I though the judge might break either the gavel or the top of his desk. I put my eyes down and looked demure. At least I think I did. I was trying to. The bailiff placed my left hand on the Bible. "Do you solemnly sweart to tell..." "I most certainly do now swear. My parents raised me to be ladylike." BLOOD HARVEST VIRTUAL BLOG TOUR '09 will officially begin on January 5 and end on January 30. You can visit Bruce's blog stops at http://www.virtualbooktours.wordpress.com/ in January to find out more about this great book and talented author! As a special promotion for all our authors, Pump Up Your Book Promotion is giving away a FREE virtual book tour to a published author or a $50 Amazon gift certificate to those not published who comments on our authors' blog stops. More prizes will be announced as they become available. Technorati Tags: Blood Harvest, Bruce Cook, Brant Randall, mystery novel, suspense novel, Capital Crime Press, virtual book tour, blog tour, virtual blog tour, book tour, Pump Up Your Book Promotion Add to: Technorati Digg del.icio.us Yahoo BlinkList Spurl reddit Furl

KATIE AND KIMBLE VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR '09

Join Linda Thieman, author of the children's chapter book, Katie and Kimble: A Ghost Story (Pale Silver Rainplop Press, '08), as she virtually tours the blogosphere in January on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book Promotion! About the author: Linda Thieman (pronounced TEE-mun) writes the Katie & Kimble chapter book series (RL3) and runs the Katie & Kimble Blog (http://www.katieandkimbleblog.com). She is a former English language teacher who has created a set of reading skills worksheets and classroom materials that teachers and homeschoolers can download from the Katie & Kimble Blog free of charge. The materials correspond to the first two books in the Katie & Kimble series and are guided by the standards set for third grade reading skills in Iowa school systems. Linda lives in Sioux City, Iowa. She hopes to publish Katie & Kimble: The Golden Door (book 3) in 2009. You can visit Linda's website at http://www.katieandkimbleblog.com/ About the book: Nine-year-old Katie Russell and her family LOOK like a normal family. But the Russells don't know they are living with Kimble, the ghost of a ten-year-old girl. That is, until Katie discovers Kimble and the two of them set off on a quest to find out what happened to Kimble's mother. -- Katie & Kimble: A Ghost Story is a chapter book at RL3 (reading level 3), and is the first in a series. The Katie & Kimble books are funny, engaging and exciting, but are not fear-based. Excerpt: Katie could see the graveyard farther up. She kept on going. Twinkle ran after her. When Katie got to the graveyard, she saw a big gate. The gate was closed. "Do you think we can go in?" Katie said to Twinkle. Twinkle barked. Katie got off her bike. She parked it next to the fence and hung her yellow helmet on it. Then she and Twinkle walked to the big gate. Katie looked at it. Then she tried to lift a piece of metal. The metal piece moved and the gate swung open. Katie and Twinkle walked inside. Katie walked slowly. Twinkle walked slowly, too. "This is a little spooky," Katie said. Twinkle put his head to her hand. A small road went down the middle of the cemetery. There were grave markers on each side. "Well, let's start here. In the front," Katie said to Twinkle. "First, we'll do the left side. Then the right." Twinkle followed along as Katie walked from grave to grave. Katie read each marker carefully. But she did not see Kimble's name. Katie kept moving from stone to stone. She was almost in a trance. "Kimble," she whispered aloud. "I have to find Kimble." Katie was so lost in her dream that she wasn't paying attention to where she was walking. Then, just as Katie was about to start another row, boom! She fell over backwards into an open grave! Katie was six feet under! "Oh, no!" she cried. Katie was not hurt. But Katie was lying at the bottom of the grave. After a moment, she sat up. There was black dirt under her. There was also black dirt on all four sides. "This ground is hard," Katie said loudly. "I should be hurt. Very hurt." Then she remembered. When she fell, she heard a loud woosh sound. And it felt like she landed on a pillow. A big, soft pillow of air. "I wonder what that was," Katie thought. Katie stood up. She looked up. Two feet above her head, she saw Twinkle. He was looking down at her. And he was barking wildly. "I'm okay," she shouted up to Twinkle. "But how am I going to get out of here?" she said to herself. Just then, Twinkle's bark changed. Twinkle ran from the grave. The barking sounded far away. Then he ran back to the grave. The barking got louder again. Katie looked up. This time, she saw two faces. Twinkle's and an old man's. "Hey, hey, Missy," the man laughed. "How did you get down there? I'd join you, but it's not my time!" At this, the old man laughed even harder. WIN PRIZES! KATIE AND KIMBLE VIRTUAL BLOG TOUR '09 will officially begin on January 1 and end on January 30. You can visit Linda's blog stops at http://www.virtualbooktours.wordpress.com/ in January to find out more about this talented lady! As a special promotion for all our authors, Pump Up Your Book Promotion is giving away a FREE virtual book tour to a published author or a $50 Amazon gift certificate to those not published who comments on our authors' blog stops. More prizes will be announced as they become available.

NO EXPERTS NEEDED VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR '09

Join Louise Lewis, author of the inspirational book, No Experts Needed: The Meaning of Life According to You! (iUniverse, Inc., May '07), as she virtually tours the blogosphere in January on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book Promotion! About the author: Louise has two decades of experience in marketing and advertising, having held senior-level positions on the client, advertising agency, and ad sales sides of the business. She considers herself a self-growth junkie, continuing to seek light, love, and wisdom in her daily life. With an innate passion for spiritual growth, she has a strong desire to give back to the world. Along with the inspiration and direction received from Spirit, Louise continues to touch the lives of all she meets. She volunteers at Children’s Hospital of Orange County. Louise earned a bachelor’s degree in Communications at California State University in Fullerton. Born and raised in Louisiana, she resides in Southern California. To learn more visit http://www.noexpertsneeded.com/ About the book: Losing a job always delivers a hard blow, but it was especially hard for forty-something author Louise Lewis, one of many victims of the technology industry's dotcom implosion. No Experts Needed: The Meaning of Life According to You! tells the story of how she pulled herself together and discovered a new life of meaning. Just minutes after being "set free", Lewis, a single woman with a mortgage to pay, sits in the San Jose, California, airport panicking over her future. While toying with the option of giving into depression, she receives a powerful message from God that instantly releases the weight of her worries. "This is just a new chapter in your life. You hold the pen, I'll guide your hand, and together we'll write one hell of a chapter." Through Spirit's continued involvement, Lewis is inspired to ask normal, everyday people to answer Spirit's question: what is the meaning of life? No Experts Needed: The Meaning of Life According to You! weaves through a vast collection of spontaneous, thought-provoking answers and inspirational stories that demonstrate how the simple act of listening to Spirit can add meaning to every moment of your life. WIN PRIZES! NO EXPERTS NEEDED VIRTUAL BLOG TOUR '09 will officially begin on January 5 and end on January 30. You can visit Louise's blog stops at http://www.virtualbooktours.wordpress.com/ in January to find out more about this talented lady! As a special promotion for all our authors, Pump Up Your Book Promotion is giving away a FREE virtual book tour to a published author or a $50 Amazon gift certificate to those not published who comments on our authors' blog stops. More prizes will be announced as they become available.

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AMAZING GRAYS VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR '09

Join Maggie Rose Crane, author of the self-help book, Amazing Grays: A Woman's Guide to Making the Next 50 the Best 50 (FTA Press, April '08), as she virtually tours the blogosphere in January on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book Promotion! Prior to publishing her book, AMAZING GRAYS, Maggie Rose Crane spent a decade crisscrossing the country conducting leadership and life-skills workshops for women. Born on the leading edge of the Baby Boom generation, she has experienced many life passages common to her peers: college, marriage, divorce, single motherhood, career changes, and creating a blended family. At the core of her message, shared through writing, speeches and workshops, Maggie exposes the fears and anxieties that haunt many midlife women – and reveals how to mindfully navigate the turbulence with wisdom, perspective and practice. She also serves as a guest editor for the Dove Real Women/Real Beauty Campaign website. (www.dove.com). Born and raised in Wisconsin, Maggie now resides on the West Coast. You can visit Maggie's website at www.maggiecrane.com. Maggie Rose Crane has written an informative and engaging book for boomers who are unwilling to become feeble old women with boobs in their laps, dreams on the shelf, and “Memory Lane” their only destination. This book is for maturing women who are staking their claim as part of a dynamic and growing movement of ‘Amazing Grays’, women who want to challenge stereotypes about aging and create a fresh start for the second half of life – but aren’t quite sure how to pull it off. When an epiphany in the hair salon convinced Maggie to try life without hair dye, she found herself face to face with the fears and questions that unsettle many maturing women living in a culture obsessed with youth and manufactured beauty… Who am I now that I’m no longer young and fertile? Will I still be desirable as I age? Will I be invisible? Is this the beginning of the end? Is it too late to make a difference? And how on earth do I stop coloring my hair if I want to? Balanced somewhere between a memoir and a how-to, Maggie uses her personal journey as a springboard to shatter stereotypes about aging. She shares her most poignant insights and experiences on what it means to be a woman "of a certain age," and offers suggestions on how to mindfully chart a graceful course through the physical changes, emotional challenges and mental gauntlet of aging. With honesty, humor and plenty of research, Maggie lights the way for women who want to live with vibrancy and joy – regardless of their hair color! In this provocative and touching book, Maggie explores, with humor and compassion, the many aspects of growing older – from changing social and family roles to changes in body and appearance, even changes in perspective and purpose. She shares how redirecting her focus from her packaging to her essence gave her the perspective to age mindfully and joyfully (after, of course, a bit of kicking and screaming). SHHHH...LISTEN, DO YOU hear it? It's the shrill cry of millions of baby-boomer wmen looking in the mirror and wondering, "Hey, what's going on here? When did I get this roll around my middle? Where did that wrinkle come from? Do I see another gray hair? I'm too young for this! This must be a mistake! Not to me!" We are the generation that vowed to stay forever young - and now we're facing the reality that we were...wrong. I can relate. One minute I was 30, the next I'm pushing 60! As a woman on the leading edge of the baby-boom generation, I still carry a set of beliefs and expectations that were shaped by our generation's denial that our good life could come to an end. We'll never get old - we'll get better! Somehow we expected a major breakthrough in medical science that would fix all that ails us so we could live happily and healthfully into our hundreds. As the years pass and it gradually sinks in that this miracle fix is still beyond our reach, I noticed there is even a little anger simmering just below the surface. This wasn't supposed to happen! There are a lot of us. The oldest baby boomers turned 60 in 2006; the youngest were 42. Seventy-six million of us were born between 1946 and 1964, the official bookends of the baby-boom generation. Because of this 18-year expanse of time, the boomer generation is divided into leading-edge boomers, born between 1946 and 1955, and trailing-edge boomers born from 1956 to 1964. Coming of age at the time of Kennedy's Camelot was very different from growing up amidst the Iran-Contra Scandal and the Reagan years, and these early influences differentiated us in ways we're still discovering. Early boomers and late boomers may be nearly a generation apart, but the one thing we have in common is that we're all getting older...and we're all starting to explore what that means - to us. AMAZING GRAYS VIRTUAL BLOG TOUR '09 will officially begin on January 5 and end on January 30. You can visit Maggie's blog stops at www.virtualbooktours.wordpress.com in January to find out more about this talented lady! As a special promotion for all our authors, Pump Up Your Book Promotion is giving away a FREE virtual book tour to a published author or a $50 Amazon gift certificate to those not published who comments on our authors' blog stops. More prizes will be announced as they become available. 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RECOVERING ME DISCOVERING JOY VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR '09

Join Vivian Eisenecher, author of the how to book, Recovering Me, Discovering Joy: Uplifting Wisdom for Everyday Greatness (KTW Publishing, Nov. '08), as she virtually tours the blogosphere in January on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book Promotion! Author of Recovering Me, Discovering Joy / Uplifting Wisdom for Everyday Greatness, Vivian Eisenecher has been an inspirational speaker, mentor and writer since 1996. Using her experience, strength and hope, she is committed to helping educate and enlighten the general public about the puzzling aspects of the addiction/recovery process and the strong correlation between anxiety, depression and alcoholism. Vivian holds a marketing degree in Business Administration (magna cum laude). Her other published works include articles for The Chicken Soup for the Soul series, Woman’s World, Viewpoint, and JUST FINE: Unmasking Depression and Anxiety Disorders (due out in 2009). She is featured on the 2009 Faces of Recovery Calendar and is a Board of Director for A New Path (Parents for Addiction Treatment and Healing). You can visit Vivian Eisenecher's website at: www.recoveringme.com. Recovering Me, Discovering Joy reveals how to recover (from any ailment or condition) not to normal but to a better normal. After numerous attempts at sobriety, stints in more than three rehabs, followed by repeated relapses, Vivian shares the “secret” that finally brought her lasting recovery and profoundly changed her life. In an effort to improve the success rate of recovery and quite possibly save lives, one of the book’s main goals is to raise awareness about the profound correlation between depression, social anxiety, and alcoholism. Vivian has struggled with these disorders and is in recovery from all three. In addition, Recovering Me, Discovering Joy is a remarkably honest book of creative non-fiction about the positive nature of life’s problems. It is about the journey to know oneself. With a sense of humor and an uplifting spirit of gratitude, Vivian suggests ways to live a more meaningful life. She offers a fresh look at enduring truths which we all tend to forget in our day-to-day fast-paced lives. By using stories from people in recovery, famous quotes and personal reflections, she re-establishes the importance of faith in the healing process. Her experience, strength and hope provide the reader with keys to living a richer, easier and happier life. Recovering Me, Discovering Joy is for anyone who has ever had to forge ahead after a negative life event. If you have ever had to bounce back from a failed relationship, convalesce from an illness, recoup any kind of loss, or just recover from a bad day, then this book will be beneficial. It will help you with your recoveries, and it will help you move on to live a richer, easier and happier life. Recovering Me, Discovering Joy takes a good honest look at how I, my husband and countless others have used recovery not as a disadvantage, but as an opportunity and springboard to an improved life. We learned that it’s not about recovering to normal – it’s about recovering to a better normal…from anything. This book is about my transformation from a depressed, anxiety-laden alcoholic to a successful, grateful and joyful woman. For me, it took my total collapse and complete failure to finally understand that I wasn’t just battling alcoholism, I was fighting two other distinct disorders as well. Believe it or not, this realization paved the way for me to finally enjoy life. Until then, my life had been a struggle, an uphill climb within the grim-looking landscape of my mind. My newfound love for life was such a complete turnaround that, to benefit others, I wanted to commit to paper pivotal parts of my journey. It took the diagnosis and successful treatment of not only alcoholism but also my chronic low-grade depression, called dysthymia, and my social phobia or S.A.D. (Social Anxiety Disorder) for me to recognize that these two lifelong disorders were ‘triggers’ for my alcoholism. They were the ugly underbelly of the beast. Substance abuse was a mere symptom of two underlying disorders that were not discernible to anyone, not even me. All my life, I had wondered why everything seemed so hopeless, why my life seemed so meaningless, and why I was unable to experience any real joy. Along with that, I had a deep, lifelong fear of encountering people who I deemed ‘better’ than me (anyone with more money, better educated, etc.). Even though I had never known anything different, somehow I knew the way I felt wasn’t right. I had no idea that I was depressed and anxiety-ridden until I was curiously (and serendipitously) treated for both conditions. RECOVERING ME, DISCOVERING JOY VIRTUAL BLOG TOUR '09 will officially begin on January 5 and end on January 30. You can visit Vivian's blog stops at www.virtualbooktours.wordpress.com in January to find out more about this talented lady! As a special promotion for all our authors, Pump Up Your Book Promotion is giving away a FREE virtual book tour to a published author or a $50 Amazon gift certificate to those not published who comments on our authors' blog stops. More prizes will be announced as they become available.

GRAYRIDER VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR '09

Join Bruce Skye, author of the fantasy novel, Grayrider (Eloquent Books, Oct. '08), as he virtually tours the blogosphere in February on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book Promotion! A former technical writer, detail is important to Bruce Skye. His research for the Deathsong Chronicles included medieval armor and fortresses, as well as Celtic names and magic. "If you create a world, it must be consistent. And that's what I strive for Grayrider's world to be. I've built a database of material for each of the Deathsong Chronicles. Those databases aid me in keeping the world the same from book to book. "When I wrote Grayrider, I followed the advice of Stephen King. I did not write the book following any sort of outline. I have no more idea than my readers do when I write a novel what will happen in the midst of the story. It makes it more exciting for both the readers and myself." You can visit his website at www.bruceskye.com. Gabriel, the exiled king of Rivalin, comes before King Airell to warn him the Ansgarian army will invade his kingdom before the night is over. Airell tells him he has no one to send. Gabriel wants revenge for the murder of his family by the Ansgarians. He decides to fight the incursion without help. As this takes place, Deirdre (Airell’s daughter), flees the kingdom of Cynyr north of Boadhagh. She knows now her mentor, Morrigan, created the Ansgarian army her father has fought for years. She goes south to warn him of her. Because Deirdre does not believe in herself, the young sorceress has difficulty in performing magic. Once she is reunited with her father, she tells both he and Grayrider about Morrigan. Her power is growing; only Gabriel’s magical sword may yet destroy her. He must go to Cynyr to fight her. He agrees if Deirdre attends him, seeking her counsel. On that journey they fall in love and foil many efforts by Morrigan to kill Gabriel by both armies and sorcerers. Grayrider fights Morrigan and sees his beloved slain by the sorceress before he is finally able to kill her. He returns to Rivalin brokenhearted. The ending is a complete surprise the reader will not expect at all. GRAYRIDER VIRTUAL BLOG TOUR '08 will officially begin on February 2 and end on February 27. You can visit Bruce's blog stops at www.virtualbooktours.wordpress.com in February to find out more about his new book! As a special promotion for all our authors, Pump Up Your Book Promotion is giving away a FREE virtual book tour to a published author or a $50 Amazon gift certificate to those not published who comments on our authors' blog stops. More prizes will be announced as they become available.

FIVE STEPS TO C.A.L.M. VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR '08

Join Robert Patterson, author of the business book, Five Steps to C.A.L.M. (Career and Life Management) (Booksurge, 2008), as he virtually tours the blogosphere in December and January on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book Promotion! Born in Cincinnati, Ohio Reverend Robert Patterson, Sr. is the father of six children (5 sons one daughter) and the loving husband of Mrs. Linda Patterson. He is a grandfather as well as a great grandfather. As a member of Walker Chapel AME Church (The Fifth District), he has served in various capacities, from the Usher Board to the Steward and Trustee Boards. He has taught both Sunday School and Bible Study and has served in each department to the best of his abilities His life reads like a road map, he is a Vietnam ERA Veteran (U.S.M.C 1961-1970), A Graduate of San Diego State University (Class of 1975). He has served as a Cable Television News Reporter, (Oceanside, CA.) Host of “Behind the Truth”, Employment Counselor Specialist, (Operation SER), Counselor-Testing Specialist, Metropolitan Area Advisory Committee (MAAC). Coordinator of Manpower, CETA Area Training Center (at Palomar Community College), Transitional Assistance Program Instructor (TAP) and was Director of Personal Affairs (Camp Pendleton, CA) and Coordinated the first ever Sickle Cell Anemia Testing in Oceanside, just to name a few of his many accomplishments. Reverend Patterson is a strong advocate of education and cultural awareness. He likes teaching and having the interaction and discussion of both Bible Study and Sunday School with the congregation in order to get down to the nitty gritty and still be brief, be specific, and be seated.” As he is fond of saying, “The day that you stop seeking knowledge, is the day that you most surely are dead.” You can visit his website at www.rpatters.com. A father once told his young son, who was going out into the world on his own, “Son, whatever you want to become, be The Best.” This course teaches you how to be “The Best.” It begins with instructions on how to put “The Best” of you on paper  Writing Your Resume. Then, later presenting “The Best” of you in person  Preparing for an Interview. You’ll begin with the basic Resume Content, noting what should and should not be included in your Resume. After mastering the content, then begins the formatting of the Resume. The author has thoughtfully provided you with a Resume checklist. Some of the questions are as follows: Is the Resume two pages or less? (Do you realize the importance of this question?) Are the dates consistent on the left (or right) side, and limited to years? Does the language “flow” (neither stiff nor stilted)? Are Action Verbs used to your full advantage? I would like to make a comment here; this is one of the many sections that you will utilize not only in your job search but also in your everyday associations. C.A.L.M. gives you access to nine different categories for Action Verbs. They are listed under the headings of: Communication Skills Creative Skills Detailed Skills Financial Skills Helping Skills Management Skills Manual Skills Research Skills Teaching Skills You’ll be surprised how many Action Verbs from this section you will be able to include in your Resume, which will help make it more impressive to your employer. Didn’t I tell you that employers would be impressed with your Resume? Now, you have been called for an interview! The next section of the book takes you into “Interviewing Techniques.” What other book walks you through an all-inclusive “Pre-Interview” session? Well, C.A.L.M. does, and once you have completed this lesson, you will indeed be CALM during your interview, no matter how many people may be on the panel of interviewers. Included in the “Interviewing Techniques” section are Fashion Recommendations, which takes you step by step through the protocol for the business interview dress code, how both men and women should dress when going to an interview. Remember, your Resume may have “opened” the door, now your personal appearance may get a “foot” in that door. Here is where you put the lessons you have learned from C.A.L.M. into practice. Here’s where you sell The Product – Yourself! Don’t worry. C.A.L.M. has fully prepared you for any of the possible questions that you may be asked during the interview. You are ready for them, and you will remain CALM. C.A.L.M. guides you step-by-step through the entire interview: from the Beginning of the Interview, during the Interview, and through the Closure of the Interview. After completing this course of study, you will glide through your interview with confidence and a sense of achievement. You will have left a favorable impression with the employer, and all because you put into practice your C.A.L.M. course of study. While the employer is checking you out, C.A.L.M. also instructs you on how to compile a checklist of pertinent company information. Information that is important to you in helping you decide whether or not you would want to work for this firm or company. The author has thought of everything in preparing you for the job search. He has included a web-site listing for those of you who want to do your job-hunting via the Internet. C.A.L.M. answers all the questions you may have ever had in your previous job search. The “Who,” the “What,” the “Where,” and the “How.” If you are willing to strike a Faustian Bargain, that is, willing to sacrifice anything to satisfy a limitless desire for knowledge, then C.A.L.M. is, without a doubt, the course of study for you. FIVE STEPS TO C.A.L.M. VIRTUAL BLOG TOUR '08 will officially begin on December 1 and end on January 30. You can visit Robert's blog stops at www.virtualbooktours.wordpress.com in December and January to find out more about his new book! As a special promotion for all our authors, Pump Up Your Book Promotion is giving away a FREE virtual book tour to a published author or a $50 Amazon gift certificate to those not published who comments on our authors' blog stops. More prizes will be announced as they become available.

FORCES OF NATURE VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR '08

Join Marilyn Celeste Morris, author of the novel, Forces of Nature (Vanilla Heart Publishing), as she virtually tours the blogosphere in December on her virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book Promotion! Marilyn Celeste Morris, multipublished author of the Forces of Nature, The Women of Camp Sobingo, and coming soon from Vanilla Heart Publishing, Sabbath’s House, has also published Sabbath’s Room, a supernatural mystery, and Once a Brat, part travelogue, part therapy session about her world-wide travels with her army officer father from her birth in 1938 to his (their) retirement in 1958. Her Diagnosis: Lupus, The Intimate Journal of a Lupus Patient is a non-fiction journey through Lupus Erythematosus and is written to give hope and knowledge. She is the co-facilitator of the Fort Worth Lupus Support Group, North Texas Chapter, Lupus Foundation of America and counsels newly diagnosed persons and their families about the ravages of systemic lupus erythematosus. She has taped various radio interviews, such as Artist First, local cable television programs, most recently Sizzlin’Seniors on Comcast Television and is accustomed to speaking to groups on the subject of lupus. Being involved in the military brats communities, the Lupus Foundation and her children and grandchildren are her passions. She has a black cat named Cleopatra, or, rather, Cleopatra has Marilyn! Marilyn says "Cleopatra is highly neurotic, but I love her anyway." When she can find the time in between her work and her writing work, her family and her involvement in her many organizations, Marilyn is a voracious reader, "reading almost anything," she says, and watching the Discovery Channel and History Channel. What would happen when a bomber from the nearby Air Force base is flung by a fierce tornado into the county’s largest shopping mall? Begin the day with the mall manager, his assistant, the security officer and Howard the Weatherman, whose predictions are always uncannily accurate, and in this case, deadly. FORCES OF NATURE VIRTUAL BLOG TOUR '08 will officially begin on December 1 and end on December 23. You can visit Marilyn's blog stops at www.virtualbooktours.wordpress.com in December to find out more about her new book! As a special promotion for all our authors, Pump Up Your Book Promotion is giving away a FREE virtual book tour to a published author or a $50 Amazon gift certificate to those not published who comments on our authors' blog stops. More prizes will be announced as they become available.

SCATTERED LEAVES VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR '09

Join Richard E. Roach, author of the suspense mystery novel, Scattered Leaves (Multi-Media, Sept. '08), as he virtually tours the blogosphere in December and January on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book Promotion! Suspense/Mystery author Richard Roach was born in 1931 in Galveston, Texas. Short stories of his have been published in Man’s Story 2, Happy 2007, Vol. 20 and Bibliophilos 2006, Vol. 42. His first novel, Scattered Leaves, hit the book stores on September 1, ’08, and his second novel, Scattered Money, will be published in 2009. You can visit his website at www.richarderoach.com. When Ben McCord comes home from a business trip to find his young wife raped and murdered, he starts out on a journey of death and destruction. Clues lead him to a dark world of drugs and violence in action that spans Texas, Colorado, and the Mexican border. McCord hooks up with a beautiful doctor, who was also victimized by members of the same drug cartel, and together they track down the killers, surviving bloody confrontations, and ending with a suspenseful climax in the Big Thicket of Texas. I found her on the floor near my side of the bed, nude, lying in a pool of inky-black, coagulated blood. She was dead. Cold dead. A long time dead. The words seemed foreign. She had worried about her twenty-ninth birthday, which was coming up soon; she had been concerned that being nearly thirty might be getting old. She had been fretful about too many things: not having rugs beside the bed, the poor people at church, when would the roof start leaking. All those worries had taken wing when her heart had stopped beating and her blood ceased to flow. I could not share with her the final pain of her last moments on this earth. She would forever be twenty-eight. The smell of death permeated the bedroom air. She had never been a big person, but in death she seemed shrunken. A glob of caked blood held a dozen strands of her silky, blonde hair and was stuck to her temple. The swollen, black tongue protruded from her mouth. She looked at the world from behind eyelids that were almost closed. LISTEN TO RICHARD ON BLOG TALK RADIO! SCATTERED LEAVES VIRTUAL BLOG TOUR '09 will officially begin on Dec. 1 and end on January 31. You can visit Richard's blog stops at http://www.virtualbooktours.wordpress.com/ in January to find out more about this great book and talented author! As a special promotion for all our authors, Pump Up Your Book Promotion is giving away a FREE virtual book tour to a published author or a $50 Amazon gift certificate to those not published who comments on our authors' blog stops. More prizes will be announced as they become available.

A JOLLY GOOD FELLOW VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR '08

Join Stephen V. Masse, author of the suspense fiction novel, A Jolly Good Fellow (Good Harbor Press, Sept. '08), as he virtually tours the blogosphere in December on his second virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book Promotion! Stephen V. Masse was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Educated at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, he studied creative writing and historical biography, and was the author of a weekly column, "Out of Control." His first novel, Shadow Stealer, was published by Dillon Press in 1988. When not writing, he restores and renovates homes in the Boston area, and serves as an ambassador each year in the Santa Claus Anonymous fundraising benefit. You can visit his website at www.ajollygoodfellowthebook.com. Two weeks before Christmas, Duncan Wagner gets into his car for another attempt at kidnapping the son of his most despised enemy, State Representative Win Booker. When he drives into the wealthy Boston suburb, he is surprised to find the boy hitchhiking. So begins Wagner’s quest for revenge as he finds himself face to face with a real boy, and without a clue about how to run a kidnapping. Wagner, a self-styled charity Santa Claus, comes to realize that eleven year old Gabriel Booker is truly a runaway, much more curious than scared. Gabriel has no idea who Duncan Wagner is—or could be. A JOLLY GOOD FELLOW VIRTUAL BLOG TOUR '08 will officially begin on December 1 and end on December 23. You can visit Stephen's blog stops at www.virtualbooktours.wordpress.com in December to find out more about his new book! As a special promotion for all our authors, Pump Up Your Book Promotion is giving away a FREE virtual book tour to a published author or a $50 Amazon gift certificate to those not published who comments on our authors' blog stops. More prizes will be announced as they become available.