Welcome to Day Five of Pump Up Your Book Promotion’s May Authors on Tour! Follow along as these talented authors travel the blogosphere all month long to talk about their books, their lives and their future projects. Each author will be giving away a free copy of his or her book to one lucky person who comments at a blog during his or her tour, so pick your favorites, follow their tours, and make sure you leave them a note to tell them you stopped by!
Andrew Jalbert, author of the historical fiction novel, West Across the Board, will be stopping off at Pump Up Your Online Book Promotion! Based in the colorful Florida Keys, West Across the Board is an historical novel that ties together the eventful era of the 1930s with the turn of the following century.
David Grant, author of the literary fiction novel, Emotionless Souls, will be stopping off at American Chronicle! Jerk offs, ex-cons, new cons, pranksters, one hit wonders, and homeless entrepreneurs are the EMOTIONLESS SOULS that populate the twenty stories in this collection by David S. Grant.
Heidi Hess Saxton, author of the nonfiction christian book, Behold Your Mother: Mary Stories and Reflections from a Catholic Convert, will be stopping off at Cafe Theology! Heidi’s book is a collection of stories and reflections about Mary, the mother of Jesus of Nazareth, written from the perspective of a Catholic convert and adoptive mother who wasn’t always “wild about Mary.”
Jean Hackensmith, author of the romantic thriller, Checkmate, will be stopping off at Night Owl Romance! A victim of spousal abuse, Caryn’s ex-husband bound her children hand and foot, locked them in the bathroom, and set the house on fire. They managed to escape with their lives, and Dan Hamilton was sentenced to eighteen years in prison for the crime. He’s out now, though, and the rules in his sadistic game allow Caryn only twelve “moves” before she dies.
Joel Richardson is the co-author of the nonfiction current events book, Why We Left Islam, will be stopping off at LorMarie! He was about to convert to Islam but pleaded, “I fear I am about to make the biggest mistake of my life. Please give me one solid reason not to convert.” This desperate cry for help from a visitor to an interfaith website inspired Joel Richardson and Susan Crimp to find that reason, but instead of one, they found many, put forward by former Muslims who dared to speak out about the oppressive religion that held them in thrall.
Karen Harrington, author of the suspense/mainstream/women’s fiction novel, Janeology, will be stopping off at The Dark Phantom! A Texas college professor struggles to understand his wife Jane’s sudden snap and murder of their toddler son, forcing him on an exploration of her family history for clues to her unpredictable violence.
Lisa Jackson, author of romance suspense/thriller novel, Lost Souls, will be stopping off at The Book Stacks! Missing women, students in thrall to evil, and a fiend after blood pull Kristi Bentz into an unimaginable confrontation with death in number one New York Times best selling author Lisa Jackson’s new thriller, Lost Souls.
Michaela Riley, author of the fiction novel, Embittered Justice, will be stopping off at The Writer’s Life! What if everything in your life was changed because you opened a mysterious package?
R. Leigh, author of the fantasy romance novel, The Winds of Asharra, will be stopping off at The Story Behind the Book! Two earth teenagers are transported to the sensual world of Asharra (a land of intelligent telepathic trees, musical dragons and evolved felines), where they embark on a journey of self-discovery as well as beginning an epic quest which will benefit all around them in this strange new world.
Tristi Pinkston, author of the LDS historical romance, Season of Sacrifice, will be stopping off at Jen Writer! Tristi’s book is the dramatized true story of Benjamin Perkins, Mormon pioneer, who engineered the passage down a treacherous cliff to create the famous Utah landmark, the Hole in the Rock.
Vina St. Fran, author of the fiction novel, One Foot Outside the Door, will be stopping off at Paperback Writer! A scorned, yet beautiful black woman finds love again after being rejected by her Iraqi-American high school sweetheart.
