Author Archive

Interview with Mark H. Jackson, Author of ‘The Atlantis Deception’ @markjackson873 #interview #thriller

“The Emperor thrust out a hand and one of his men pulled him to his feet. ‘Cut his throat and bury him in the bog.’ He clenched his fists. ‘Then find his belongings. Find them, or I’ll order you buried with him.’” –From The Atlantis Deception by Mark H. Jackson Mark H. Jackson is a qualified solicitor who splits his time between protecting the rights of academics, writing thriller fiction and raising five mostly lovely children. He studied Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Birmingham with a nod towards alternative theory, focusing on the relationship of the Giza complex to the stars; portolan maps; and the origins
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Featured Interview: Fantasy/Thriller Author Richard Hacker @Richard_Hacker #interview #fantasy #thriller

“I don’t want to move, but I’m not in control. Up and over the mud wall of a trench, the weight of a pack straining my back, the rifle heavy in my hands. A man to my left flies backward as if jerked by a cable, his cry muffled by explosions, his chest ripped open, organs spilling into the muck. I, we, plod forward through mud. A rhythmic takka-takka-takka, tat, tat, tat in the distance and more explosions vibrating through my feet.” –From Die Back: Book One of the Alchimeia by Richard Hacker Richard Hacker is a longtime resident of Austin, Texas who now writes and lives in Seattle.
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Featured Interview: A Few Words with Mystery Author T.C. Wescott @mousetrapbooks #mystery #interview

“Something moves among the birds, along the snowy lanes, skirting the light in favor of shadow. In Christmas Village, this night, a creature is stirring.” –From Slay Bells by T.C. Wescott T.C. Wescott was born in Missouri but has lived in Oklahoma most of his life. Like pretty much every author who has ever breathed, he is an avid reader. His favorites are classic mysteries from the Golden Age, as well as just before or just after that period (which is widely considered the period between the two World Wars). His first mystery novel, Running from Scissors, was published in July 2018 and will be the first of at
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Featured Interview: A Few Words with Psychological Thriller Author Rob Kaufman #interview @RobKaufmanCT

“Horror seized Jesse by the throat and he gasped as he slammed on the brakes. The car went into an immediate spin, flying directly at Danny whose eyes went wide in the headlights. Jesse felt a thud against the back panel of the car. He screamed, the view from every window only blurred streaks of light. He tried to focus, to spot Danny somewhere in the whirl of his surroundings. But the boy was gone. He screamed again, his cry now muffled by the airbag exploding against his face. He squeezed his eyes shut, feeling the BMW skid off the side of the road and nose-dive into a shallow
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Interview with Alison Littman, Author of ‘Radio Underground’ @alimcshpiel #interview

“I tiptoed past the Ministry of Interior, where red geraniums lined the building’s windows. In the secret prisons below, police tortured people with whips, limb crushers, nail presses, and scalding and freezing baths. Or else they just executed them. But the geraniums were always fresh.” –From Radio Underground by Alison Littman Alison Littman lives in San Francisco where she’s a writer by day and standup comedian by night. A former journalist in New Mexico, she covered politics and education while also contributing articles on John F. Kennedy and The Beatles to various specialty magazines. Her feature stories focus on listening to rock ‘n’ roll behind the Iron Curtain and
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Kinfolk: Cult of Sex and Cheese Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Satirical #Fantasy #VBT

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Josh Hickman’s THE KINFOLK: CULT OF SEX AND CHEESE Virtual Book Tour January 2 – 31! Inside the Book Title: THE KINFOLK: CULT OF SEX AND CHEESE Author: Josh Hickman Publisher: Polyester Press Pages: 299 Genre: Satirical Fantasy BOOK BLURB: Hollywood Author Josh Hickman will release his latest brand of satirical, humorous books in mid-November. In the author’s new book, THE KINFOLK: CULT OF SEX AND CHEESE  he explores the maddening world of cults.  Mr. Hickman’s new novel follows his last satirical fantasy book, FIVE SLICES OF FEAR, that has received much critical praise from book reviewers. Hollywood writer
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Slay Bells Virtual Book Publicity Tour #CozyMystery #VBT @MousetrapBooks

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you T.C. Wescott’s SLAY BELLS (A Christmas Village Mystery) Virtual Book Tour December 3 – 28! Inside the Book Title: SLAY BELLS (A CHRISTMAS VILLAGE MYSTERY) Author: T.C. Wescott Publisher: Better Mousetrap Books Pages: 230 Genre: Cozy Mystery BOOK BLURB: ‘Twas the week before Christmas and all through the village, the night settled in over swirling-smoke chimneys; the air was alive with pine and holly, with sugar and cinnamon and cider, by golly! Along snowy lanes and through shadows it crept, past windows behind which each villager slept, where sleeping dogs lie and cats rest a’purring- Tonight, in Christmas Village, a
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents You Can’t Force Love Book Excerpt Tour #Fiction #VBT @MarieDrake72

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Marie Drake’s YOU CAN’T FORCE LOVE Book Excerpt Tour November 16 – December 14! Inside the Book Title: YOU CAN’T FORCE LOVE Author: Marie Drake Publisher: RedBird Books Pages: 286 Genre: Realistic Fiction BOOK BLURB: “A battered butterfly, he’d build Kimberly up, nurture her strength and watch her return to flight. He repressed the visions dancing in the back of his mind; her naked body brandished red flags and spurred him to stampede. Bulls and butterflies did not mix.” Jordan Fry’s obsession is born in “You Can’t Force Love” by Marie Drake, Book I in the Locked Hearts Series. From
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents A Broken Reality Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Thriller #Suspense #VBT @RobKaufmanCT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Rob Kaufman’s A BROKEN REALITY Virtual Book Tour December 3 – January 31! Inside the Book Title: A BROKEN REALITY Author: Rob Kaufman Publisher: Independent Pages: 320 Genre: Thriller/Suspense/Psychological Thriller BOOK BLURB: On a fateful night in the dead of winter, an unimaginable tragedy changes the lives of two families forever. How will they manage to deal with reality while stopping the sociopath who is pushing them toward the edge of sanity? Ten-year-old, Danny Madsen, has been missing for four days when Jesse Carlton begins his own search for his godson on a frigid, snowy night. Driving along a deserted
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Atlantis Deception Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Adventure #Thriller #VBT @MarkJackson873

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mark H. Jackson’s THE ATLANTIS DECEPTION Virtual Book Tour December 3 – January 31! Inside the Book Title: THE ATLANTIS DECEPTION Author: Mark H. Jackson Publisher: Unbound Digital Pages: 288 Genre: Adventure/Thriller   BOOK BLURB: A German property developer, Hans Hoffmann, revels in the belief he has discovered the key to unleashing the weapon responsible for sinking Atlantis. Hoffmann requests the help of Cambridge archaeologist, Dr John Hunter to validate his mysterious find. Hunter’s acceptance leads the maverick academic on a journey from the headquarters of a clandestine organisation in England, to a lost city in the heart of
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Twelve Days Virtual Book Publicity Tour #romance #VBT @HopeWatersBooks

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Hope Waters’ TWELVE DAYS Virtual Book Tour December 3 – 28! Inside the Book Title: TWELVE DAYS Author: Hope Waters Publisher: Independent Pages: 212 Genre: Romance BOOK BLURB: Zoey Blake is having a perfect holiday season. Finals are over and it’s time to head home for Christmas, but when she wins the Hartbreakers True Love contest to join them on their tour, she has a chance to follow her favorite band for twelve days — and twelve steamy nights. Mackenzie has been a player since and joining Hartbreakers has only edged up his game, that is until he meets Zoey.
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Magical Christmas Do Over Book Blast @morningmayan #holiday #Christmas #VBT #BookBlast

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Linda West’s THE MAGICAL CHRISTMAS DO OVER Book Blast November 19 – December 28! Inside the Book Title: THE MAGICAL CHRISTMAS DO OVER Author: Linda West Publisher: Morningmayan Publishing Pages: 320 Genre: Holiday BOOK BLURB: Three women, thrown together by fate, get a second chance to go back in time and change their lives forever. ORDER YOUR COPY: Amazon ______________________ Meet the Author Linda West is an Amazon best seller and author of the best selling series ‘Christmas Kisses and Cookies.’ She writes books that feature food and fun and includes her own recipes from her quaint beach café in
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents I Am Number 13 Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Paranormal #Historical #Fantasy #Thriller #VBT @AndraWatkins

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Andra Watkins’ I AM NUMBER 13 Virtual Book Tour November 12 – December 21! Inside the Book Title: I AM NUMBER 13 Author: Andra Watkins Publisher: Word Hermit Press Pages: 275 Genre: Paranormal Historical Fantasy Thriller Speculative Fiction   BOOK BLURB: When Emmaline Cagney’s father dies on her graduation day, she foregoes college and heads to Honduras to volunteer with Nicaraguan refugees. It’s 1986. The Sandinista-Contra war rages in the jungles all around her. But when General James Wilkinson reenters her life during a hurricane, can she trust him? Or should she flee? Because of his unsolved death, Wilkinson is
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Author Interview: Preston Howard, Author of ‘The Sheltering Palms’ #historical #satire #vbt

“I USED TO BE SOMEBODY—when Preston Howard walked down the street, kings and queens would move off to the curb. Okay, so that bit of paraphrased hyperbole, courtesy of George Thorogood, might qualify as excessive, but for sure, when I rode into town, mayors, city managers, and police chiefs became more than a little queasy over what kind of wrath I might bring down on their community.” –From The Sheltering Palms by Preston Howard Preston Howard spent his entire career working on behalf of police officers, representing them under adverse circumstances, negotiating contracts to improve officers’ benefits and working conditions, and training police union officials in the art of
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Interview with Juliet Huck, Author of 50 Ways To Get Your Way @JulietHuck #Interview #VBT

“Persuasion in NOT a call to action – it is a directed action. It is time to break up the myth that persuasion is a call to action. To “call” is to “invite.” This puts all the power in someone else’s hands. While to “direct” is to “control.” This is the ultimate way to give you the power you need to get what you want. Inviting someone to do something allows them to say no. You must lead or direct them to what you want in simple words, statistics and/or visuals proportional to the magnitude of your need. Think of a traffic cop. They are not inviting you to
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Sheltering Palms Virtual Book Publicity Tour #historical #fiction #satire #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Preston Howard’s THE SHELTERING PALMS Virtual Book Tour November 5 – December 28! Inside the Book Title: THE SHELTERING PALMS Author: Preston Howard Publisher: Preston Howard Press Pages: 519 Genre: Fictional Autobiography/Historical Fiction/Satire   BOOK BLURB: Renowned police labor lawyer, Preston Howard, reached a watershed in his life—a forced retirement from the firm he built from the ground up and a cancer diagnosis. These two events made him take a step back and reflect over a life that had at times been hilarious, irreverent, self-mocking, eerie and even a bit, make that, quite lewd. A family of unique characters guided
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Die Back Virtual Book Publicity Tour #fantasy #thriller #VBT @Richard_Hacker

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Richard Hacker’s DIE BACK Virtual Book Tour December 3 – January 31! Inside the Book Title: DIE BACK (Book One of the Alchimeia) Author: Richard Hacker Publisher: Del Sol Press Pages: 332 Genre: Fantasy/Thriller BOOK BLURB: In 272 AD Egypt, an enemy thwarts an attempt by League Inkers, Thomas Shaw and Nikki Babineaux, to obtain the Alchįmeia, a document holding alchemical secrets. Sensing his impending death, Thomas secures Nikki’s promise to keep his son, Addison, from the League, an organization defending the time continuum. After his father’s death, Addison inherits a mysterious pen, accidentally inking himself into the consciousness of
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Song of the Boricua Book Excerpt Publicity Tour #Fiction #BookExcerpt #VBT @OliviaCAuthor

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Olivia Castillo’s SONG OF THE BORICUA Virtual Book Excerpt Tour December 3 – 28! Inside the Book Title: SONG OF THE BORICUA Author: Olivia Castillo Publisher: Independent Pages: 335 Genre: Fiction BOOK BLURB: Puerto Rico an island of contradiction, serves as an enchanting backdrop following three generations of women. Elena:  Resilient and ambitious, but trapped by duty to her children. Maria:  Passionate and headstrong, but married to a man she does not love. Josephina: Optimistic and romantic, but in love with an alcoholic. Isabella: Clairvoyant and spiritual, but denies her heritage and roots. Like the land these women are held
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Shelter Island Virtual Book Publicity Tour #middlegrade #fantasy #adventure #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you John Paul Tucker’s SHELTER ISLAND Virtual Book Tour November 5 – December 28! Inside the Book Title: SHELTER ISLAND Author: John Paul Tucker Publisher: Brownridge Publishing Pages: 224 Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy Adventure BOOK BLURB: Thirteen-year-old Cary and his sister Clarisse must return home every day after school to mind their eight year old brother, Gregory. “It’s a non-negotiable,” insist their work-obsessed parents. There is another problem. Clarisse and Gregory don’t like Cary much, and Cary doesn’t much like anything, especially being tagged with his gummy-fingered little brother. But their troubles are about to grow talons. While bickering over the
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Where Wishes Grow… Virtual Book Publicity Tour @Chris_Sarracini #children #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Chris Sarracini’s WHERE WISHES GROW… Virtual Book Tour November 5 – December 28! Inside the Book Title: WHERE WISHES GROW Author: Chris Sarracini Publisher: Brownridge Publishing Pages: 56 Genre: Children’s Picture Book BOOK BLURB: Where Wishes Grow… is the story of eight-year-old Maggie, a pensive and courageous dreamer, whose big heart starts to break when her grandmother becomes bedridden and sick with no recovery in sight. Fortunately Maggie has some wishes in mind to breathe life into Nana and is about to learn the secret for making them come true. Watching Nana’s health fail has been difficult for Maggie and so now
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Interview with Sheila Roberts, Author of ‘Winter at the Beach’ #womensfiction #interview @_sheila_roberts

“Someplace good, she realized as she crawled into bed. A holiday festival was bound to lure people to town. Who didn’t like fairs and festivals, especially holiday ones? She could see it now—the storefronts all lit up with multicolored lights, trees in the restaurants decorated with glittery shells and little lighthouses and mermaids, amusement rides and cotton candy and hot chocolate down at the pier, a live Nativity scene in front of one of the churches. And a Christmas parade with Santa bringing up the rear for a grand finale. You had to include Santa. In fact, the jolly old guy was such a draw, maybe they could include
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Wild Heart, Peaceful Soul Virtual Book Publicity Tour @LoveAutherine #Poetry #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you J. Autherine’s WILD HEART, PEACEFUL SOUL: POEMS AND INSPIRATION TO LIVE AND LOVE HARMONIOUSLY Virtual Book Tour November 5 – 30! Inside the Book Title: WILD HEART, PEACEFUL SOUL: POEMS AND INSPIRATION TO LIVE AND LOVE HARMONIOUSLY Author: J. Autherine Publisher: Autherine Publishing Pages: 158 Genre: Poetry BOOK BLURB: Wild Heart, Peaceful Soul, is a beautiful collection of poems that provide inspiration to strong, vulnerable, badass women who love deeply, sometimes fall hard but always lead with their hearts. It is a deep and gritty, fresh and robust look at the thrill of loving unconditionally, as well as the mental
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Bargaining With The Billionaire Bodyguard Virtual Book Publicity Tour @Dreamweavings #RomanticSuspense #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lisa Weaver’s BARGAINING WITH THE BILLIONAIRE BODYGUARD Virtual Book Tour December 3 – 31! Inside the Book Title: BARGAINING WITH THE MILLIONAIRE BODYGUARD Author: Lisa Weaver Publisher: Independent Pages: 244 Genre: Romantic Suspense   BOOK BLURB: Having miraculously survived the bombing that blasted his private jet out of the sky, billionaire Donovan White has dedicated his life to the pursuit of justice. Now a covert operative for the Sentinels Agency, he is closing in on the man responsible for the crash. When his mission is nearly botched by a spunky reporter with a score of her own to settle, he
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Interview with Laura Vosika, Author of ‘The Water is Wide’

“Niall, he’s cold.” Niall’s knife remained pointed at the boy. “Which soldiers?” “They were English, Milord. Meaning no offense, Milord.” His teeth clattered again. “If you’re English.” “Niall!” Shawn stepped forward, his anger growing. “He’s just a kid! He’s about to….” Before he finished, the boy collapsed. Shawn was under him, catching his sagging body before it hit the ground. From The Water is Wide by Laura Vosika Laura Vosika is a writer, poet, and musician. Her time travel series, The Blue Bells Chronicles, set in modern and medieval Scotland, has garnered praise and comparisons to writers as diverse as Diana Gabaldon and Dostoevsky. Her poetry has been published
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents You Can’t Force Love Pre-Order Blitz @MarieDrake72 #Fiction #Blitz

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Marie Drake’s YOU CAN’T FORCE LOVE Pre-Order Blitz November 5 – 30! Inside the Book   Title: YOU CAN’T FORCE LOVE Author: Marie Drake Publisher: RedBird Books Pages: 286 Genre: Realistic Fiction BOOK BLURB: “A battered butterfly, he’d build Kimberly up, nurture her strength and watch her return to flight. He repressed the visions dancing in the back of his mind; her naked body brandished red flags and spurred him to stampede. Bulls and butterflies did not mix.” Jordan Fry’s obsession is born in “You Can’t Force Love” by Marie Drake, Book I in the Locked Hearts Series. From different
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Fatal Agreements Virtual Book Publicity Tour @AshleyFontainne #mystery #suspense #thriller #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Ashley Fontainne’s FATAL AGREEMENTS Virtual Book Tour November 5 – 30! Inside the Book Title: FATAL AGREEMENTS Author: Ashley Fontainne Publisher: RMSW Press Pages: 449 Genre: Mystery/Suspense/Thriller BOOK BLURB: Whispered rumors tickled the ears of the residents of an entire town for decades about the disturbing secrets of the old Halstead House, dating all the way back to the early 1920s. Most people didn’t believe them. Several people will soon discover they should have listened. Three years after struggling to cope with the death of her beloved father and escaping an abusive relationship, Samantha Chapman decides it’s time to return
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Radio Underground Virtual Book Publicity Tour @AliMcShpiel #historicalfiction #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Alison Littman’s RADIO UNDERGROUND Virtual Book Tour November 26 – December 26 2018! Inside the Book Title: RADIO UNDERGROUND Author: Alison Littman Publisher: Last Syllable Books Pages: 354 Genre: Historical Fiction   BOOK BLURB: After years of suffering under the communist regime in Cold War Hungary, Eszter Turján—fanatical underground journalist—would sacrifice anything, and anyone, to see the government fall. When she manipulates news broadcasts on Radio Free Europe, she ignites a vicious revolution, commits a calamitous murder, and is dragged away screaming to a secret underground prison. Her daughter Dora, then a teenager, cowers in her bedroom as the secret police arrest her mother. Haunted and
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📢 {Romantic Fantasy} New Book Review Campaign! OBSESSIONS OF A DJINNI by Claudia Herring #romance #fantasy #reviews

We are taking review requests for Claudia Herring’s OBSESSIONS OF A DJINNI. This is a review campaign and not a blog tour. If requesting review copies, we ask that you post your review at Amazon no later than January 6, please. When you are ready to submit your review, come back and click below to take you directly to the book’s Amazon link. Review copies will be sent via PDF and Mobi formats. Thank you! Inside the Book Title: OBSESSIONS OF A DJINNI Author: Claudia Herring Publisher: Caravan Serai Publishing Pages: 364 Genre: Romantic Fantasy BOOK BLURB: A world of mysterious powers and tumultuous intrigues comes to life in
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📢 {Contemporary Romance/Reimagined Fairy Tale} New Book Review Campaign! Fragments of Ash by Katy Regnery #romance #fairytales #reviews

We are taking review requests for Katy Regnery’s FRAGMENTS OF ASH. This is a review campaign and not a blog tour. If requesting review copies, we ask that you post your review at Amazon no later than January 3, please. When you are ready to submit your review, come back and click below to take you directly to the book’s Amazon link. Review copies will be sent via PDF, Mobi or ePub formats. Thank you! Inside the Book Title: FRAGMENTS OF ASH: CINDERELLA: THE MODERN FAIRYTALE COLLECTION Author: Katy Regnery Publisher: Independent Pages: 300 Genre: Contemporary Romance/Reimagined Fairy Tale BOOK BLURB: My name is Ashley Ellis… I was thirteen
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Love, Loss and Lagniappe Virtual Book Publicity Tour @RRobbinsbooks #literaryfiction #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Richard Robbins’ LOVE, LOSS AND LAGNIAPPE Virtual Book Tour October 30 – November 30 2018! Inside the Book Title: LOVE, LOSS AND LAGNIAPPE Author: Richard Robbins Publisher: Evolved Publishing Pages: 186 Genre: Literary Fiction   BOOK BLURB: Life is good for Dr. Drew Coleman, a successful young eye surgeon living in Uptown New Orleans, and he knows it. Having met and married his beautiful medical school classmate, Kate, the two settle happily into the routine of raising their two young daughters. Drew’s charmed life is soon shattered by devastating news, causing him to go on a ten-year transcontinental journey of self-discovery,
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