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Sympathy and prayers for the family of Julie L. Cannon

It is of great sadness I bring you the news of Julie L. Cannon’s passing. She toured with us recently with her Christian fiction book, Twang, and was terrific to work with. We at Pump Up Your Book will miss her deeply. We extend sympathy and prayer to her family and friends and hope that everyone can remember what a legacy through her books she has left us.

Here is the official press release from Abingdon Press:

Abingdon Press Fiction Author Julie L. Cannon Passes Away

On Tuesday, October 9,...

Would you pay someone to publish your book? I didn’t think so.

It’s overcast here on the island but looks a lot better than yesterday when not only was it raining but cold (ych) also – an early hint of the cold winter months ahead perhaps? So, I did my walk the dogs thing and my walk around town thing to get me geared up to work on today’s tasks. Usually I check on stops first because I know better to get into email but it didn’t quite happen that way today.

I open up my email and (before I begin does anyone love Google alerts as much as a junkie love...

Introducing New Client Lisa Tillinger Johansen, Author of ‘Fast Food Vindication’

I just love my new blog. Now I can talk about all the wonderful authors I get to represent. I just got my copy of Fast Food Vindication by Lisa Tillinger Johansen. I can’t wait to dig into it. I am setting up a virtual book tour for her to run November 5 – 30 at Pump Up Your Book. If anyone wants to host her, click here. But hurry time will run out on October 25.

I have a funny feeling she is going to change my mind about the fast food industry! Oh and did I mention she’s giving away a Kin...

Watch erotica fiction author Tony Cane-Honeysett talk about his new book FEM DOM!

Today at Pump Up Your Book we have a fantastic AuthorVid with Tony Cane-Honeysett, author of Fem Dom.

Tony is touring the month of October to promote his new erotica fiction book.

Click here to watch!

What Books Were Bestsellers On the Day You Were Born?

What books were bestsellers on the day you were born? BibliOZ, the book search wizard, can tell you!

Just click here.

Just put in the day, month and year you were born and it spits out all the books that were bestsellers on the very day you were born. Fun!

Pump Up Your Book’s 28-point Virtual Book Tour Checklist

Pump Up Your Book’s 28-point Virtual Book Tour Checklist

Going on a virtual book tour? Here are some things you should know.

Your book has just been published. Or maybe it’s going to be published in the next month or two. Regardless, authors are signing up for virtual book tours the moment they hear about the exciting ways they can promote their books with them. There is no better vehicle to sell your books online than with a virtual book tour so I don’t really blame them.

I would like to pr...

Ten Things About Helen Smith You May Not Know

Helen Smith, author of The Miracle Inspector, is my guest today! Welcome Helen!

Ten Things About Helen Smith You May Not Know

By Helen Smith

Helen Smith lives in Brixton, an ethnically diverse area of London, England, and she’s an active member of the local literary scene.


Several of Helen Smith’s books are dedicated to Lauren. Lauren is her daughter.


She’s a qualified scuba diver.


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Interview with ‘The Coop’ Rebecca Reid & Win Free Kindle Fire HD!

Rebecca Reid was withdrawn from school due to illness at fourteen. Being limited in the things she was able to do, she wrote all the time − poetry, stories, feelings, thoughts. At 16 she had her own page in the local weekly newspaper, the Bangor Spectator, in which she covered anything and everything: fashion, beauty, film, teen issues etc. At 17 she became a model, doing catwalk, photographic work, and TV. In 2008 she graduated in English from Queens University, Belfast, and she was awar...

Introducing my new head of public relations at Pump Up Your Book

Okay so he has a weird name. And he’s a guy. I only had one guy who worked with us at Pump Up Your Book and he wasn’t quite exactly cut out for the job so it’s an all woman team now. Until recently. I’m not saying that men aren’t great tour coordinators at all, this is just the way it’s worked out.

So I thought we needed some testosterone. Is that the right spelling? You know, just so someone won’t say we like girls better for promoting books. And he happens to be very opinionated. What I...

Penguin sues authors over advances: right or wrong?

According to Smoking Gun, Penguin Books has filed a lawsuit against several authors who failed to deliver books at a certain time for which they received hefty advances. The Penguin Group’s New York State Supreme Court has ruled this is breach of contract and the authors must pay their advances back even though the money went to living expenses, so forth, and is probably gone by now.

When an author gets a book contract with a large house such as Penguin, it’s not unusual to get at least a...