As he tours the blogosphere this month to promote his book, St. John of the Midfield, Garasamo "Gary" Maccagnone stops off at Potpourri of Writing today. He also is the author of the children's book, The Suburban Dragon and the collection of short stores entitled, The Affliction of Dreams.
After pursuing a college baseball career, business and marketing careers, coaching youth soccer and writing, Gary has combined soccer and writing in St. John of the Midfield. The idea for this book came about after Gary met former Bulgarian national soccer player, Jordan Mitkov.
In a synopsis of the book, we learn this book is:
An almost mystical story of Bobo Stoikov, one of the world's greatest soccer players, who escaptes death in communist Bulgaria to find the American Dream. Due to severe injury during Bobo's escape, he is unable to play once he arrives in America.
Though he finds peace and happiness in simply coaching soccer to youth travel teams, his eccentric ways of teaching and his success lead to a hate-filled rivalry, and eventually, his death.
To read an excerpt, visit Pump Up Your Book Promotion Virtual Book Tours.
You can visit his website at http://www.garasamomaccagnone.com/.
Thomnpson also conducted an interview with Gary at The Writer's Life, February 15 posting.
May you have much success with your tour, Gary, and your book.
2 comments:
Thanks for hosting Gary. He's written a great book and I'm thrilled to be working with him to promote it.
Best of luck with the rest of the tour Gary.
Thank you, Cheryl, for stopping by. I enjoyed hosting Gary and wish him much success with his book on this tour...and afterwards.
It's always fun to encourage writers by hosting them on their tours.
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