Pump Up Your Book Announces Mark Spivak's Friend of the Devil Virtual Book Tour
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Chincoteague Island, Virginia, August 14 2016 - Pump Up Your Book! is proud
to announce Mark Spivak's Friend of the Devil virtual book tour
starting September 15 and ending December 15. Mark will be guest appearing at blogs throughout the U.S. and
international regions talking about his phenomenal new culinary fiction novel
that critics are calling a 5 star book.
Mark Spivak is an award-winning author, specializing in wine, spirits, food, restaurants, and culinary travel. He was the wine writer for the Palm Beach Post from 1994-1999, and was honored by the National Geographic Traveler, Robb Report, Men’s Journal, Art & Antiques, the Continental and Ritz-Carlton magazines, Arizona Highways and Newsmax. From 1999-2011 Spivak hosted Uncorked! Radio, a highly successful wine talk show on the Palm Beach affiliate of National Public Radio.
Spivak is the author of two non-fiction books: Iconic Spirits: An Intoxicating History (Lyons Press, 2012) and Moonshine Nation: The Art of Creating Cornbread in a Bottle (Lyons Press, 2014). Friend of the Devil is his first novel. He is currently working on a political thriller set during the invasion of Iraq.
In 1990 some critics believe that America’s most celebrated chef, Joseph Soderini di Avenzano, sold his soul to the Devil to achieve culinary greatness. Whether he is actually Bocuse or Beelzebub, Avenzano is approaching the 25th anniversary of his glittering Palm Beach restaurant, Chateau de la Mer, patterned after the Michelin-starred palaces of Europe.
Journalist David Fox arrives in Palm Beach to interview the chef for a story on the restaurant’s silver jubilee. He quickly becomes involved with Chateau de la Mer’s hostess, unwittingly transforming himself into a romantic rival of Avenzano. The chef invites Fox to winter in Florida and write his authorized biography. David gradually becomes sucked into the restaurant’s vortex: shipments of cocaine coming up from the Caribbean; the Mafia connections and unexplained murder of the chef’s original partner; the chef’s ravenous ex-wives, swirling in the background like a hidden coven. As his lover plots the demise of the chef, Fox tries to sort out hallucination and reality while Avenzano treats him like a feline’s catnip-stuffed toy.
If you’d
like to follow Mark's tour, visit http://www.pumpupyourbook.com/2016/07/29/pump-up-your-book-presents-friend-of-the-devil-virtual-book-publicity-tour/.
Please leave a comment or question at
each of his tour stops to let him know you stopped by!
Pump Up
Your Book! is an award-winning virtual book tour agency for authors who want
quality service at an affordable price. More information can be found on
our website at http://www.pumpupyourbook.com/. While there,
check out our Authors on Tour page to see what we have coming up in the months
ahead. We’re always looking for new bloggers to join our team.
Contact Information:
Dorothy Thompson
Founder of Pump Up Your Book! Virtual
Book Tours
P.O. Box 643
Chincoteague Island, Virginia 23336
Leave a Comment