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  • April 10, 2015
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Anzard Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Christopher Conroy’s ANZARD virtual book tour May 4-29! Title: Anzard Author: Christopher Conroy Publisher: CreateSpace Pages: 154 Genre: Children’s Fiction Format: Paperback/Kindle Author Christopher Conroy has just released a book for kids aged 8-12 called ANZARD. Teachers, parents, producers…take note!  This appealing and well-written book would give Lewis Carroll (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland) reason to worry.  As a matter of fact if you mixed in one part Harry Potter, with one part Pinocchio then added a generous helping of Alice in Wonderland…you’d get Anzard! ANZARD tells the story of how a young boy named Justin Cavell learns to listen to
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Ticktock to Triumph Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon GC!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Betty Wyatt’s TICKTOCK TO TRIUMPH virtual book tour April 20-May 1!     Title: Ticktock to Triumph Author: Betty Wyatt Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Religion Format: Kindle/Paperback Ticktock to Triumph presents a unique collection of prose and poetry written by author Betty Wyatt over the course of fifty years. It is her legacy of soul songs that offers her homespun wisdom captured in God moments, the love of nature and personal insights. She hopes her writing may comfort and give hope to people who are living with life’s daunting challenges, found in the pain of sorrow and loneliness. To Purchase Ticktock to Triumph Journaling
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Pump Up Your Book Presents No Crystal Stair Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon GC!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Sarah Smith Ducksworth’s NO CRYSTAL STAIR virtual book tour April 20-May 1!   Title: No Crystal Stair Author: Sarah Smith Ducksworth Publisher: Trafford Genre: Poetry Format: Kindle Each poem in this collection is a reflection upon the author’s personal life or is a response to her vicarious interactions in the lives of characters she has met in real life or in books. Through the critical lens of poetry, she has looked for deeper meanings inside those experiences. Though the writer ends with an understanding that her life has not been a “crystal stair,” alluding to the hardships the titular character in Langston
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Principium The Stone Prophecy Series Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon GC!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Alexandra Lamarre’s PRINCIPIUM The Stone Prophecy Series virtual book tour April 20-May 1!   Title: Principium: The Stone Prophecy Series Author: Alexandra Lamarre Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Fantasy Format: Kindle Ever since her mother’s death twelve years ago, fourteen-year-old Kiarra Johnson wonders if she is a good witch or if she is doomed to a lifetime of evil. Her life is anything but mundane as she lives in a rented room in her father’s home in the village of Kiamika, a magical society hidden from mortals who would persecute them for their gifts. For many years, Kiarra has lived across the lake from
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Correcting Misconceptions Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Rev. Dr. Hazel Ann Gibbs Depeza’s CORRECTING MISCONCEPTIONS virtual book tour April 20-May 1!   Title: Correcting Misconceptions Author: Rev. Dr. Hazel Ann Gibbs De Peza Publisher: Partridge Publishing Genre: Education Format: Kindle The book, a research paper, reveals and analyzes misconceptions about the Spiritual Baptist Faith, an indigenous religious expression of Christianity in Trinidad and Tobago. It highlights the academic bias to the Faith, which is maligned and misunderstood because of its humble beginnings amidst ex-plantation slaves of African descent and its history of persecution and prosecution by the colonial authorities of the early 20th century.The research provided answers to some
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Bookwright Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you George R. Dasher’s BOOKWRIGHT virtual book tour April 20-May 1! Title: Bookwright Author: George R. Dasher Publisher: iUniverse Genre: Science Fiction Format: Kindle/Paperback/Hardcover With his ship crippled and his crew dead, Jarl Hawkins fights for survival in space as his dying spaceship, the Cassiopeia, drifts out of control. But there is nothing he can do, and his own death is certain. Oddly enough, rescue comes in the form of an old wizard named Kvasir, who offers Jarl his chance at a new life on Vanir, a planet unlike anything Jarl has ever encountered. There, the King fights his rivals for control of his
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Day Before Virtual Book Publicity Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Liana Brooks’ THE DAY BEFORE virtual book tour April 28 – May 15!   Title: The Day Before Author: Liana Brooks Publisher: Harper Voyage Impulse Pages: 304 Genre: Thriller Format: Kindle A body is found in the Alabama wilderness. The question is: Is it a human corpse … or is it just a piece of discarded property? Agent Samantha Rose has been exiled to a backwater assignment for the Commonwealth Bureau of Investigation, a death knell for her career. But then Sam catches a break—a murder—that could give her the boost she needs to get her life back on track. There’s a snag,
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Sacred Relationships Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon GC!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Dr. Kate Pola Brooks’ SACRED RELATIONSHIPS PSYCHOLOGY FOR THE SOUL virtual book tour April 20-May 1!     Title: Sacred Relationships Author: Dr. Kate Pola Brooks Publisher: Xlibris Genre: Psychology/Relationship Format: Kindle/Paperback/Hardcover Everything You Want To Understand About Relationships “Sacred Relationships: Psychology for the Soul”, is designed to define the inter-relatedness of everything and everyone. It gives clarity to the functioning of the mind, the psyche and the heart. “Sacred Relationships” defines the patterns of our thinking, understanding, ‘knowing’ and loving capacities. This book clears up misunderstandings and misinterpretations around our connection to this world, our Selves, and others, within the Universal
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Quantum Level Zero Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Ted Grosch’s QUANTUM LEVEL ZERO virtual book tour May 4-29! Title: Quantum Level Zero Author: Ted Grosch Publisher: Double Dragon eBooks Pages: 287 Genre: SciFi Format: Kindle/Nook Winston Churchill stated that history is written by the victors. Germany terrorized Britain’s civilian population with V1 and V2 rockets. The Nazi historians would have a legitimate rational for that had they won the war. Quantum Level Zero takes place in a dystopian society of the near future Earth, where fanatics are about to win the war on terror for the good for the people and the good of society. Their leader, Matteen
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  • April 4, 2015
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Hearts Beneath the Badge Virtual Book Excerpt Publicity Tour & $50 Amazon GC Giveaway!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Karen Solomon’s HEARTS BENEATH THE BADGE virtual book excerpt tour May 4-29! Title: Hearts Beneath the Badge Author: Karen Solomon Publisher: Missing Niche Publishing Pages: 247 Genre: Nonfiction Format: Hardcover/Paperback/Kindle/Nook Hearts Beneath the Badge is a unique compilation of interviews with officers across the country. It’s not about the crimes they witness or the judgment they face; it’s about them – Damien, Danny, Frances, Ken, Pamela, Brian, and more. Their thoughts, their fears, their proud moments and their heartbreak. It’s about the people we often don’t see because we are blinded by the uniform. They are among the hundreds of
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Jack of Souls Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Stephen C. Merlino’s THE JACK OF SOULS virtual book tour May 4-29! Title: The Jack of Souls Author: Stephen C. Merlino Publisher: Tortoise Rampant Books Pages: 352 Genre: YA Fantasy Format: Paperback/Hardcover/Kindle An outcast rogue named Harric must break a curse laid on his fate or die by his nineteenth birthday. As his dead-day approaches, nightmares from the spirit world stalk him and tear at his sanity; sorcery eats at his soul. To survive, he’ll need more than his usual tricks. He’ll need help—and a lot of it—but on the kingdom’s lawless frontier, his only allies are other outcasts. One
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Ghostcrow Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you M.K. Theodoratus’ THE GHOSTCROW virtual book tour May 4-29! Title: The Ghostcrow: A Tale of Andor Author: M.K. Theodoratus Publisher: Smashwords Pages: 55 Genre: Supernatural Fantasy Format: Kindle/Nook Seeing ghosts has plagued Dumdie Swartz since early childhood. Afraid that ghost guts might stick to her if she stepped through them, thirteen-year-old Dumdie Swartz still cringes when she encounters them. Her strange attempts to avoid spirits create a lonely life. Her sisters constantly mock her strange behavior, her parents are clueless, and her social life is zero. Dumdie finds solace working in a shared garden with her elderly neighbor, Mr. Carson.
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Pump Up Your Book Presents An Oath Sworn Cover Reveal!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you the cover reveal for AN OATH SWORN by Diana Cosby on April 13! Title: An Oath Sworn Author: Diana Cosby Publisher: Lyrical Press A man of honor. A woman of spirit. As the new castellan, Sir Nicholas Beringar has the daunting task of rebuilding Ravenmoor Castle on the Scottish border and gaining the trust of the locals—one of whom wastes no time in trying to rob him. Instead of punishing the boy, Nicholas decides to make him his squire. Little does he know the thieving young lad is really…a lady. Lady Elizabet Armstrong had donned a disguise in an attempt to free
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Once Beloved Cover Reveal!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you the cover reveal for ONCE BELOVED by Amara Royce on April 7! Title: Once Beloved Author: Amara Royce Publisher: Lyrical Press Once, Helena led a charmed life. After eloping with the charismatic Captain Chase Martin, she left behind her childhood country home for a blissful life in London. Devastated by the death of her husband during a labor riot, she has spiraled into depression and agoraphobia, which she now combats solely for the sake of her children. When her grandmother summons Helena to her deathbed, terror at the thought of such a trip clashes with her sense of duty and affection toward
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Logic Bomb Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Scott Richard Lord’s THE LOGIC BOMB virtual book tour April 6-30! Title: The Logic Bomb Author: Scott Richard Lord Publisher: The Logic Bomb Pages: 264 Genre: Thriller Format: Hardcover/Paperback/Kindle Fiction collides with fact with frightening prescience in Scott Lord’s ripped-from-the-headlines techno-thriller, THE LOGIC BOMB. In his exciting debut as a novelist, Lord, a practicing lawyer, mixes shady financial deals, organized crime, and the real-life threat of cyber warfare into an unlikely but always entertaining blend of high drama and comedy. Scott Turow, author of the bestselling legal thriller PRESUMED INNOCENT, hails Lord as “a terrific writer. Read THE LOGIC BOMB.”
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Queen of Sparta Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you T.S. Chaudhry’s THE QUEEN OF SPARTA virtual book tour April 6-30! Title: The Queen of Sparta Author: T.S. Chaudhry Publisher: Top Hat Books Pages: 383 Genre: Historical Fiction Format: Paperback/Kindle Author T.S. Chaudhry offers a new spin on Spartan history in his novel, THE QUEEN OF SPARTA. In the book, Queen Gorgo, the wife of the courageous Spartan leader, Leonidas, surreptitiously organizes the Greek resistance against the invasion of the mighty Persian king, Xerxes, and his massive army. Although founded on the writings of historian, Herodotus, Chaudhry’s revision of the 480 B.C. invasion challenges readers to imagine the brilliant and
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{YA} Grey Blog Tour Sign Up

Christi J. Whitney will be touring May 4 – June 26 with her young adult urban fantasy, GREY (Book 1 in the Romany Outcasts series)! We are looking for: Reviews (ebook only – you will be sent to NetGalley) Interviews Guest Posts Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 72 hours. Thank you! Title: Grey (The Romany Outcasts Series, Book 1) Author: Christi J. Whitney Publisher: HarperCollins/HarperVoyager Pages: 400 Genre: Young Adult (Urban Fantasy) Format: Paperback/Kindle Sebastian Grey always thought he was a fairly normal teenager – good friends, decent grades, and a pretty sweet job
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Brass Giant Virtual Book Publicity Tour – Win a $25 Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Brooke Johnson’s THE BRASS GIANT virtual book tour April 27-May 15!   Title: The Brass Giant Author: Brooke Johnson Publisher: Harper Voyager Impulse Genre: Steampunk Format: Kindle Sometimes, even the most unlikely person can change the world Seventeen-year-old Petra Wade, self-taught clockwork engineer, wants nothing more than to become a certified member of the Guild, an impossible dream for a lowly shop girl. Still, she refuses to give up, tinkering with any machine she can get her hands on, in between working and babysitting her foster siblings. When Emmerich Goss–handsome, privileged, and newly recruited into the Guild–needs help designing a new clockwork
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Desert Rising Virtual Book Publicity Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Kelley Grant’s DESERT RISING virtual book tour April 13-30!   Title: Desert Rising Author: Kelley Grant Publisher: Harper Voyage Impulse Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy Format: Kindle “It frightens me, knowing the One has called up two such strong individuals. It means that there are troubled times in our future, and you must prepare yourselves.” The Temple at Illian is the crown jewel of life in the Northern Territory. There, pledges are paired with feli, the giant sacred cats of the One god, and are instructed to serve the One’s four capricious deities. Yet Sulis, a young woman from the Southern Desert, has
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Apex Virtual Book Publicity Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Aer-ki Jyr’s APEX virtual book tour April 6-30! Title: Apex Author: Aer-ki Jyr Publisher: Harper Voyage Impulse Pages: 368 Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy Format: Kindle A new dawn is coming. It’s been eons since Humans controlled the universe, after their defeat by a mysterious enemy. With their downfall came a virtual dark age in which culture and technology stagnated. But now trade is once again flourishing as Human artifacts resurface throughout the galaxy, resurrecting long-forgotten advancements. And one such discovery may very well alter the course of the future forever. An epic space adventure, Aer-ki Jyr’s Apex is a breathless race to the ultimate
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Berceuse: The Song Book Blast – Win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Trynia Merin’s BERCEUSE: THE SONG book blitz April 6 – April 17!   Title: Berceuse: The Song Author: Trynia Merin Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 350 Genre: Science Fiction Format: Paperback Purchase at AMAZON Now that Trisha Maypierce is safely back on Earth, she has forgotten much of her last adventure, or has she? Everyday life on earth suddenly becomes far more surreal when she invents a new polymer, and her life is possibly in danger. Her protection, Temporal Anthropologist Professor Esmentaur, who must study the link between his charge and the being Berceuse they encountered on Avious. More questions are generated then answered, as
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  • March 14, 2015
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Meditation is an Open Sky Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Whitney Stewart’s MEDITATION IS AN OPEN SKY: MINDFULNESS FOR KIDS virtual book tour April 6-30! Title: Meditation is an Open Sky: Mindfulness for Kids Author: Whitney Stewart Publisher: Albert Whitman Pages: 32 Genre: Children’s Picture Book Format: Hardcover/Kindle Feeling mindful is feeling good! You know when you’re having a bad day, you have that wobbly feeling inside and nothing seems to go right? Find a quiet place, sit down, and meditate! In this daily companion, kids of any age will learn simple exercises to help manage stress and emotions, find focus, and face challenges. They’ll discover how to feel safe
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Peer Through Time Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you David T. Pennington’s PEER THROUGH TIME virtual book tour May 4-29! Title: Peer Through Time Author: David T. Pennington Publisher: Quantaj Publishing Pages: 371 Genre: Science Fiction Format: Paperback/Kindle In 2079, a time travel experiment sends physicist Carmela Akronfleck further back in time than she’d intended. Though she’s still in her small northern California town, the year is 1936 and she must learn to live without the technology she’s come to rely on. Her neurological implants should be dormant, but she receives a cryptic message, periodically accompanied by an audio transmission from the future. It’s the voice of her former
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Treasure at Devil’s Hole Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jody M. Mabry’s THE TREASURE AT DEVIL’S HOLE virtual book tour May 4-29! Title: The Treasure at Devil’s Hole Author: Jody Mabry Publisher: Maybury and Gilliam Literary Pages: 220 Genre: Middle Grade Children’s Format: Paperback/Kindle How would you feel if you knew you had a legendary treasure right in your own back yard? Francis “Bug” Mosser knows, and will do nearly anything to find it, even if it means defying the most villainous person he knows—Mom! Standing in Bug’s way is his nemesis Tad Pricket, the red headed, pock-holed bully who’s suddenly been seen walking Bug’s girl, Melanie, home from
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{Science Fiction} Peer Through Time Blog Tour Sign Up

David T. Pennington will be touring May 4-29 with his science fiction, PEER THROUGH TIME! We are looking for: Reviews (paperback & ebook) Interviews Guest Posts Book Spotlights Please sign up on the form below. If you are chosen to host, we will email you within 72 hours. Thank you! Title: Peer Through Time Author: David T. Pennington Publisher: Quantaj Publishing Pages: 371 Genre: Science Fiction Format: Paperback/Kindle In 2079, a time travel experiment sends physicist Carmela Akronfleck further back in time than she’d intended. Though she’s still in her small northern California town, the year is 1936 and she must learn to live without the technology she’s come
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Genius De Milo Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Russ Colchamiro’s GENIUS DE MILO virtual book tour April 6 – June 26! Title: Genius De Milo Author: Russ Colchamiro Publisher: Crazy 8 Press Pages: 320 Genre: SciFi/Comedy Format: Paperback/Kindle Best pals Jason Medley and Theo Barnes barely survived a backpacking trip through Europe and New Zealand that — thanks to a jar of Cosmic Building Material they found — almost wiped out the galaxy. But just as they envision a future without any more cosmic lunacy: The Earth has started fluxing in and out of existence, Theo’s twin girls are teleporting, and Jason can’t tell which version of his
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Actor Virtual Book Publicity Tour!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Douglas Gardham’s The Actor virtual book tour April 6 – April  30!   Title: The Actor Author: Douglas Gardham Publisher: iUniverse Pages: 352 Genre: Fiction Format: Ebook Purchase at AMAZON It is 1991 when Ethan Jones finally wins the role of his dreams in an upcoming, big screen movie. With the envelope holding the script clutched in his hand, he arrives at his California apartment where he can hardly wait to tell his girlfriend the exciting news. But when he finds the door unexpectedly ajar, he has no idea that in just a few seconds, the life he has fought so hard to
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Stonehill Downs Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Sarah Remy’s STONEHILL DOWNS virtual book tour April 6-30! Title: Stonehill Downs Author: Sarah Remy Publisher: Harper Collins/Voyager Pages: 400 Genre: Fantasy Format: Paperback/Kindle/Nook Stonehill Downs follows Mal, a powerful mage who functions as Lord Vocent, the king’s personal forensic scientist and detective.  Magic and murder are his calling.  Never have the two entangled in quite as terrifying a manner as on Stonehill Downs, where Avani, a Goddess-gifted outsider, has discovered a host of gruesome corpses reeking of supernatural malfeasance.  The investigation is haunted by ghosts of Mal’s past, and the two quickly learn that they must cast aside their
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Pump Up Your Book Presents In His Corner, Baked Fresh, Second Chances, A Taste of Sauvignon and Men Like This Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lyrical Press and Kensington Books IN HIS CORNER, BAKED FRESH, SECOND CHANCES, A TASTE OF SAUVIGNON and MEN LIKE THIS virtual book tour April 2 – 30!   Title: In His Corner Author: Vina Arno Publisher: Lyrical Press Genre: Romance Format: Kindle Work Out No sex for almost a year could kill a guy, but when you’re the boxer known as the Juggernaut, it’s the price you pay for turning pro. Tommy’s fully dedicated to his craft, until he meets the incredibly gorgeous Dr. Siena Carr. Now he’s looking forward to taking on this prim and proper lady in a wet and wild
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The Johnstone Thriller Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lyrical Press’ THE DEVIL’S CAT, THE DEVIL’S HEART, THE DEVIL’S KISS and THE DEVIL’S TOUCH  virtual book tour April 2 – April 30!   Title: The Devil’s Cat Author: William Johnstone Publisher: Lyrical Press Genre: Thriller/Horror Format: Kindle The Devil’s Disguise   Cats. The town was alive with them. All kinds. Black, white, fat, scrawny . . . They lived in the streets, in the back yards, in the swamps of Becancour. Sam, Nydia, and Little Sam had never seen so many cats. The cats’ eyes were glowing slits as they watched the new-comers. And their furry tails were slowly switching back and
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