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Join Olakunbi Korostensky ND , author of the inspirational spiritual life guide book: lntuition Involution on her virtual book Tours   from April 2 – April 27,2012 , with Pump Up Your Book About Intuition Involution – Living by Intuition for a Balanced World in 2012 and Beyond!   By Olakunbi Korostensky ND INTUITION INVOLUTION is an inspiration spiritual life guide, instructing us to fully merge our intuition into Creation and worldly actions so as to bring a more harmonious balance into our lives and our world. It shows why bonding fully with intuition is the answer to the chaos of modern daily existence and business challenges. It presents how living by Intuition can best guide against several life issues such as manipulation, suicide and struggles. It’s time to look within us, to begin trusting our natural abilities, and integrate them into our lives. It’s time to remove the barriers that we’ve placed on our life path that are preventing us from trusting our own...

Join Elizabeth Parkinson-Bellows , author of the Middle Grade fantasy novel , Alexander Drake’s Extraordinary Pursuit (Wild Child Publishing), as she virtually tours the blogosphere April 2 – April 20,2012 on her second virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book ! About Alexander Drake’s Extraordinary Pursuit Alexander Drake is not a typical “story book” hero. He’s awkward, insecure and introverted. His struggle to make friends has made him a bit of a loner. He is terribly fearful of not living up to his conservative father’s expectations of him, and always puts forth every effort to make him proud. At the same time, Alexander is a curious and wildly imaginative boy, who constantly craves adventure. Up to this point, Alexander led a very sheltered life. He was raised solely by his father, a reserved distinguished gentleman with a rarely exposed soft side. His mother died when he was baby, and he has no memory of her. Many secrets of his family’s extraordinary past were intentionall...

Our guest author Thomas Waite is not only an author, but an entrepreneur and consultant whose writings have appeared in such publications as the Harvard Business Review and The New York Times and he has been featured in a wide variety of media, including CNN Money and a number of cable news programs.  About Terminal Value When Dylan Johnson sold his mobile computing business to Mantric Technology Solutions – a red-hot technology firm about to go public – he thought he and his partnerswould realize their wildest dreams. But before the deal is even completed, Dylan senses that something isn’t quite right. He should have trusted his instincts. He quickly finds himself marginalized and his partner and best friend Tony suspects that they are all caught in sinister web of deceit. The very night of Mantric’s wildly successful public offering, Dylan discovers his best friend dead – and is convinced he was murdered. Dylan forms a close alliance – and romantic relationship – with his form...

  1.  The Canker Death is my first full-length novel.  It's an adventure story about a reclusive, cynical computer geek who finds that one of his own servers has been cracked late one night and gets far more than he bargained for when he decides to track down the perpetrator.  What his search uncovers thrusts him, unaware, into a mad shifting between worlds, time and alien minds 2.  The Canker Death is not easy to classify.  I realize that many authors say this of their novels.  I only started saying so after my literary agent, editor, and, later, my readers all told me so.  Oddly enough, I wrote the book with both the literary and the sci-fi, fantasy audiences in mind, which is a bit of a strange mix.  I've been happily surprised to find that people with many different reading preferences have enjoyed the book.  If I were to really narrow it down, I'd say that science fantasy is the closest classification – sort of like Star Wars, w...

About Equity of Evil  A Venture Capital Fund makes a risky investment to start a challenging new business that appears capable of reaching profitability with modest capital requirements. The real challenge: optimizing one of the most frequently performed surgical procedure in the World — Abortion. Founding Partner, Roman Citrano, a successful entrepreneur turned venture capitalist, soon struggles with what he believes is his choice to establish the controversial new company. He soon realizes that he and others are but pawns on a massive, ugly chessboard being manipulated to benefit a far larger, illicit market in human organs for transplantation. Unknowingly, prime, hyper-enriched organs are spawned from the aborted fetuses and grown like hydroponic vegetables. An unfolding world of deceit, rape, human trafficking and assassination becomes deeply personal as Roman’s sole love interest secretly uses one of his new abortion services to terminate her untimely pregnancy. When she di...

Jaimie Hope, author of the children’s book, The Adventures of Baby Jaimie: Baby Jaimie gets Stage Fright is on Day 1 of her virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book   this month of April, 2012 to talk about her book, the writing life and her future projects. Today she chats with Pump Up Your Book .  Follow along all month on her tour by visiting her tour page .  About The Adventures of Baby Jaimie Baby Jaimie is in her first year of school. She has made a lot of friends and learned a lot of things. Now she will learn what it means to be a team player when she is in her very first play. Follow Baby Jaimie as she learns the lesson, there are no small parts, only small actors.  Read the interview at Pump Up Your Book !  Purchase the book in kindle or book form at Amazon If you would like more information about virtual book tours contact me here at the blog on the contact page or send me an email at rebecca.camarena@gmail.com

Author Barbara Lampert is guest posting at Dogs Rule Cats Drool about her long, loving, unconditional relationship with her dog Charlie. Here's is some of what Barbara has to say about their relationship. A good relationship is hard to find, and when you do find one, make the most of it, cherish it. It doesn’t matter whether it’s a person or a dog, or a cat, or a bird, or any other animal: it’s finding and keeping a good relationship that matters. It’s the feeling of connecting deeply with another being. It can give you confidence and heal you. It can make you feel whole. Read the entire post at Dogs Rule Cats Drool . 

by Richard Alan After an education in mathematics, a 17-year career in manufacturing engineering and a 22-year career in software engineering, I started a career as an author.   Writing has become my fulltime job and avocation.  My wife, Carolynn, was forced into retirement by the lousy economy, has joined me in my efforts to establish Village Drummer Fiction as my self-publishing imprint.  We work at home, each having our own office.  It’s wonderful knowing that my partner is nearby and we can easily consult with each other, take breaks together, and sometimes (rarely) play hooky together.  Publishing is a family business and joint effort for us.   Our three sons are grown and only one lives in the area.  We have lunch with him weekly, frequent dinners with him and girlfriend, and we take time off whenever our other boys and their fiancées come to town.   Family is paramount to us.  We balance family and writing well because...

    About A Boy Called Duct Tape Pablo Perez is a 12-year-old poor kid without much going for him. His classmates have dubbed him “Duct Tape” because his tattered discount-store sneakers are held together with…you guessed it, duct tape. He can’t escape the bullying. Pablo’s luck, however, changes after he finds a $20 gold coin while swimming in a river near his home. Pablo later buys a $1 treasure map at the county fair. The map shows the route to the “lost treasure” of Jesse James. Pablo can’t help but wonder: Is there a link between the map and the gold coin? He is determined to find out, and he, his 9-year-old sister and 13-year-old cousin hire an ill-natured cave guide, and begin a treacherous underground adventure in search of the lost treasure. If you would like to review A Boy Called Duct Tape, email Rebecca at Rebecca.camarena@yahoo.com . Deadline for inquiries ends Feb 29 or until the tour is filled. Thank you.