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Pump Up Your Book Announces Braxton A. Cosby's 'The Star-Crossed Saga: Protostar Virtual Book Publicity Tour 2011′

Join Braxton A. Cosby, author of the young adult science fiction novel, The Star-Crossed Saga: Protostar (Firefly Publishing & Ent,LLC), as he virtually tours the blogosphere December 5 – January 23 2012 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book!

About Braxton A. Cosby

Braxton A. Cosby is a dreamer with a vision of continuously evolving and maximizing the untapped potential of the human spirit. Braxton received a lot of his inspiration from watching the...

Pump Up Your Book Announces Anneke Campbell's 'Slouching Towards Bellingham Virtual Book Publicity Tour 2011′

Join Anneke Campbell, author of the women's fiction, Slouching Towards Bellingham (BooksbNimble), as she virtually tours the blogosphere December 5 – 16 2011 on her first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book!

About Anneke Campbell

Anneke Campbell has worked as a midwife, nurse, masseuse, prenatal yoga teacher, college teacher of English, and writer in a number of genres. She has won awards for poetry, for one piece of journalism and one television script. She writes and...

Pump Up Your Book Announces Charles Rosenberg's 'Death on a High Floor Virtual Book Publicity Tour 2011′

Join Charles Rosenberg, author of the legal thriller, Death on a High Floor (Sliding Hill Press), as he virtually tours the blogosphere December 5 – 16 2011 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book!

About Charles Rosenberg

Charles B. ("Chuck") Rosenberg has been the credited legal script consultant to three prime time television shows: L.A. Law, The Practice and Boston Legal, as well as The Paper Chase (Showtime). During the O .J. Simpson criminal trial, he was one ...

Decking the Halls with Humor Writer Davis Aujourd'hui

Davis Aujourd'hui is the author of the Sister Mary Olga Fortitude series of hilarious satires. The first book is entitled The Misadventures of Sister Mary Olga Fortitude. It was followed by Babes in Bucksnort.

Davis possesses a rich life experience that has enabled him to draw from it in order to create a colorful canvas upon which to paint very human lives. He is a retired social worker, having worked for Adult Protective Services in New York State for nearly twenty years. He ...

Book Review: The Nine Lives of Christmas by Sheila Roberts

Title: The Nine Lives of Christmas

Author: Sheila Roberts

Genre: Holiday Fiction

Paperback: 224

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Language: English

ISBN-13: 978-0312594497

BOOK SUMMARY:

Bestselling author Sheila Roberts brings us a humorous, heartwarming Christmas novel about a matchmaking cat who brings a couple together just in time for the holidays. When a guy is in trouble, he starts making deals with his Creator…and Ambrose the cat is no exception. In danger...

Decking the Halls with Contemporary Romance Author C. Elizabeth

C. Elizabeth lives in St. Albert, Alberta, Canada. She stumbled upon writing, it found her, she finds writing a peaceful escape and is very excited to have her characters come alive in her readers' minds. Her contemporary romance novel, Absolute Obsession, is about 42 year old Rose Gerbaldi who by an intervention of fate unites her heart and soul with 30 year old British movie star, Michael Terrance.

Please visit and blog with her at www.celizabeth.ca.

Connect with her o...

New Feature for Writers: Hook Us With Your First Page

Literarily Speaking has a new feature starting January 3, 2012.  Hook Us With Your First Page is for those writers who would like to get feedback on their works-in-progress.  If your book has not been published, you qualify!

If you would like feedback on a manuscript you are working on, send us your first manuscript page and the following information (please copy and paste information below into an email or word doc):

Tentative Title of Manuscript:
Genre:
Your Name:
Your Email...

Anatomy of a Character: Introducing Bigfoot from 'Donations to Clarity' by Noah Baird

Today kicks off a new feature at Literarily Speaking!  Anatomy of a Character is a continuing feature with interviews talking about their main characters.  What makes these characters tick?  How did the authors develop their personalities and quirks?  Today we are talking to Noah Baird, author of the humor book, Donations to Clarity (South Wind Publishing).  Today's character spotlight is on Bigfoot, one of the main characters in his book.

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Partners in Crime Blog Tour: I Will Swing Today by Karen Arnpriester

I Will Swing Today

By Karen Arnpriester

When I was in the fourth grade, there was a school rule involving the swings so that the kids would have to share. After you counted to thirty, the child on the swing had to get off and you got a turn. This was a great idea unless you were a school leper, which I was.

Let me back up a bit. My family left West Virginia and moved to California when I was a kid. Before I started at my new school, my mom decided to home-perm my fragile...

Decking the Halls with Contemporary/Literary Fiction Author Terri Giuliano Long

It's time to deck the halls and what better way to do it is to find out what your favorite authors are up to this joyous and oh-so-busy time of year.  Today's guest is Terri Giuliano Long, author of the contemporary/literary fiction  novel, In Leah's Wake (Createspace/Inspired Quill).

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Thank you for being my guest at Literarily Speaking, Terri! Is Christmas your favorite holiday?

Terri: Thank you so much for having me! It's an...