Welcome to Day Twenty of Pump Up Your Book Promotion’s July Authors on Virtual Book Tour! Follow along as these talented authors travel the blogosphere all month long to talk about their books, their lives and their future projects. Leave a comment at their blog stops and you could win a FREE virtual book tour if you’re a published author with a recent release or a $50 Amazon gift certificate if you are not published. So, pick your favorites, follow their tours, and make sure you leave them a note to tell them you stopped by!
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Susan Chodakiewitz, author of the children’s picture book, Too Many Visitors for One Little House will be visiting As The Pages Turn, Books and Needlepoint and Blogcritics! The crabby neighbors of El Camino can’t bear all the music, fun and laughter at the house of the new family on the block as aunts, uncles, cousins and grannies arrive for a big noisy reunion. Too Many Visitors for One Little House is a joyful story about the importance of being included…You can visit Susan’s website at www.booksicals.com.
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Alan Furst, author of the fiction novel, The Spies of Warsaw (Random House),will be visiting You’ve Gotta Read This! Alan Furst is widely recognized as the master of the historical spy novel. Now translated into seventeen languages, he is the bestselling author of Night Soldiers, Dark Star, The Polish Officer, The World at Night, Red Gold, Kingdom of Shadows, Blood of Victory, Dark Voyage, and The Foreign Correspondent. Born in New York, he now lives in Paris and on Long Island. You can visit his website at www.alanfurst.net.
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T. Katz, author of the children’s chapter book, Miss L’eau (Windstorm Creative, Inc.), will be visiting American Chronicle! Two young boys in a coastal town discover a secret about their mysterious elementary school teacher, Miss L’eau. James and David had always known there was something unusual about her, but they could never quite put their finger on it. David discovered their first clue had been there all along, in her eyes. You can visit her website at www.TKatz.com.
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David Liss, author of the historical thriller, The Devil’s Company (Random House), will be visiting A Journey of Books and I Heart Monster! From the acclaimed author of The Whiskey Rebels and A Conspiracy of Paper comes a superb new historical thriller set in the splendor and squalor of eighteenth-century London. In Benjamin Weaver, David Liss has created one of fiction’s most enthralling characters. With the explosive action and scrupulous period research that are David Liss’ trademarks, The Devil’s Company, depicting the birth of the modern corporation, is the most impressive achievement yet from an author who continues to set ever higher standards for historical suspense. You can visit David’s website at www.davidliss.com.
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Pat McDermott, author of the alternate history adventure novel A Band of Roses (Red Rose Publishing, LLC, February 2009), will be visiting Tiffany Norris! A Band of Roses is an alternate history adventure set in modern day Ireland. The “what if” premise of the story supposes that Irish High King Brian Boru survived the Battle of Clontarf in 1014 A.D. and founded a dynasty that rules Ireland to this day. You can visit Pat’s website at www.patmcdermott.net.
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Jon Meacham, author of the biography, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House (Random House), will be visiting Jenn’s Bookshelf! New York Times Bestseller and 2009 Pulitzer Prizewinner for Biography, AMERICAN LION by Jon Meacham is a deeply insightful and eminently readable narrative biography of Andrew Jackson (often called “America’s second founding father”) and his pivotal years in the White House that shaped the modern presidency. You can visit Jon’s website at www.johnmeacham.com.
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Elle Newmark, author of the Renaissance mystery novel, The Book of Unholy Mischief (Atria, December 2008) will be visiting Bookworms Dinner! It is 1498, the dawn of the Renaissance and Venice teems with rumors of an ancient book that hold the secrets of unimaginable power. Rich and poor alike speculate abouthe the long buried secred tht might be scrawled in its pages and where the book might be hidden in the labyrinthine city. While those who seek the book will stop at nothing to get it, those who know will die to protect it. You can visit Elle’s website at www.ellenewmark.com.
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Kim Smith, author of the romance novel, A Will to Love (Red Rose Publishing), will be visiting The Writer’s Life! Benton Jessup wants his bed and breakfast to be successful. He will go to no lengths to insure that it does. But when Kitty Beebe, a famous romance author, arrives at The Inn, his desire for success becomes a struggle of wills with love. You can visit Kim’s website at www.mkimsmith.com.
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Nancy Thayer, author of the women’s fiction novel, Summer House (Ballantine Books), will be visiting Beyond the Books! Artfully written and set on the glorious island of Nantucket, Nancy Thayer’s Summer House is a vibrant and stirring novel about family, love, and daily choices that affect entire lives. New York Times calls it “a Nantucket family-reunion story…well-wrought, appealing book will come as a pleasant surprise…packed with literally down-to-earth charm, what with a central character who escapes her family of starchy bankers by lovingly tending her vegetable garden.” You can visit Nancy’s website at www.nancythayer.com.
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Carolyn Wada, author of the family saga fantasy novel, For Cory’s Sake (Outskirts Press Inc., February 2009), will be visiting Fiction Scribe and Review from Here! The planet of Cory has been enslaved by Fear, by the threat of an end to their world. Roci’s outward life typifies the plight of the Coryan people: he has no family; he has been forced into slavery; people are attempting to control him with both the threat and reality of physical violence. Roci is distinct, though, in that he has decided to live in a place he can control—in vivid imaginary lives and worlds which he has created within the untouchable space of his mind. He believes in families though he has never had one, and he believes in compassionate people willing to make sacrifices to save those who cannot save themselves. Find out more on the publisher’s website.
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Silvia Weber, author of the fantasy magic mystery novel, The Wolves’ Keeper Legend (Vanguard Press, March 2009), will be visiting My Reading Books , Bobbi’s Book Nook and Book Nook Club! From the beginning of time, it seemed that rivalry between man and wolf was at the root of man’s dislike for the animal, discovered only too well by Sealgair. Was his fate forever to be condemned to isolation, to see terror and hate in the eyes of the once he once loved? All he could see in his mind was the last pictures of Awena’s beloved face, which he carried in his heart for all his life. You can visit Silvia’s website at www.wolveskeeperlegend.com.
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Tom Weston, author of the young adult novel, First Night (Tom Weston Media), will be visiting The Plot and Good Girls Read Books! Alexandra O’Rourke, aged 16, is not a happy camper. It’s New Year’s Eve. She should be partying in San Diego with her friends, but instead she is stuck in Boston, with just her younger sister, Jackie, for company. As if that wasn’t bad enough, she is being haunted by Sarah, the ghost of a seventeenth century Puritan. Oh, and there is the small matter of the charge of witchcraft to be sorted out.
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