A Man and His Maniac: The Bunkie Story Virtual Book Tour January ‘10
Authors on Tour, Featured — By Dorothy Thompson on December 9, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Join Charles Franklin Emery III, author of the pet memoir, A Man and His Maniac: The Bunkie Story (Bunkiedog Press), as he virtually tours the blogosphere in January 2010 on his first virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book Promotion!
About Chuck Franklin Emery III
Charles Franklin Emery III was born in Los Angeles, California in 1956. He joined the US Navy Submarine force in 1977 and spent the following six years on Fast Attack and Fleet Ballistic Missile submarines as a Sonar Technician and Sonar Supervisor. He forged a career in commercial Nuclear Power and is now a Consulting Engineer to various electric utilities. He is an avid fisherman and hunter, enjoys working on his 1964 Plymouth Savoy and collecting colonial American coins. Drag Racing is also a passion and his 1964 Plymouth Savoy Nostalgia Super Stocker provides the needed outlet. He now resides with a Boston Terrier horde and his wife Sherry in Port Saint Lucie, Florida.
Charles’s early influences are Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes mysteries). Sprinkle in a liberal dose of Sports Afield, Popular Hot Rodding and Saltwater Fisherman magazines and that about wraps it up.
Charles always had an interest in dogs, as his father and he were avid hunters and nature lovers. Charles spent a large amount of his youth hunting and fishing the Coachella Valley in the Southern California desert. There he chased quail, dove and rabbits and fished the Salton Sea for Corvina, Sargo and Croakers.
Charles developed a love for muscle cars. He grew up in the Los Angeles suburbs in Bellflower surrounded by the raucous exhaust tones of the high horsepower years that defined the muscle car era. He is passionate about Mopars and thus his present ownership and obsession with his 1964 Plymouth Savoy.
Charles is also a mentor to various nuclear industry entities and enjoys teaching the next generation electrical power theory and relay testing techniques and regimen.
Charles owns and operates his own publishing imprint, Bunkiedog Press. The website address for Bunkiedog Press is http://www.bunkiedog.com.
Bunkiedog Press has published “Dad, Dog and Fish” & “A Man and His Maniac: The Bunkie Story” and “A Man and His Maniac: The Bunkie Story” – Second Edition”. He is currently working on the memoirs “Moondoggie and the Boston Terrier Horde”, “Gearhead” and “Bubblehead”.
About A Man and His Maniac: The Bunkie Story
A Man and His Maniac: The Bunkie Story – Second Edition, is a heartfelt memoir about Bunkie, the yellow Labrador Retriever Wonder dog. The memoir contains highlights of a 14 year chronological voyage through Bunkie’s and the authors life.
It won’t take you 14 years to read it; but it’s got 14 years worth of love, laughs and tears buried within. The memoir is primarily a humor piece but has some serious components as well and deals with the positive aspects of pet ownership as well as the grief associated with losing a loved pet and family member.
Read the Excerpt!
”The dust billowed up and away as the truck made its way along the back roads behind Lake Perris. It was summertime in the Inland Empire and it was hot. A dry searing heat that radiated from the windshield into the truck’s air-conditioned cab. The truck rolled to a stop; Master and dog looked at each other. Silent communication followed and it was agreed that it was just too hot to walk around out in the brush today. So they slept.”
It was summertime and hotter than hell in the Inland Empire.
I had a 1984 Ford Ranger and Bunkie liked riding in that truck bed almost as much as he loved to hunt. Bunkie was a friend to all he met, except for ground squirrels. He hated those critters, but man did he love chasing them.
I decided to do some trap shooting on the outskirts of Sunnymead, so I loaded Bunkie up and away we went.
I’m barreling down a dirt road outside Lake Perris with Bunkie and a trap thrower in the back. I must have been doing 20 MPH or so when I feel the truck lurch.
I look back over my shoulder and see Bunkie launching out the bed of the truck after a ground squirrel.
Oh crap.
That dog had always had terrible timing. He managed to jump out of the truck at the exact same time we were passing some huge boulders; the same kind of desert boulders that you see in any of the old westerns filmed in the 30’s & 40’s. Think Gene Autry, Roy Rogers or Hopalong Cassidy westerns.
If you’ve ever seen a Coyote & Roadrunner cartoon, you can envision what happens next.
A Man and His Maniac: Tour Schedule
Monday, January 4
Interviewed at As the Pages Turn
Tuesday, January 5
Reviewed at Winning Readings
Wednesday, January 6
Book featured at A Bookworm Reads
Thursday, January 7
Interviewed at Blogcritics
Friday, January 8
Interviewed at Examiner
Monday, January 11
Guest blogging at The Writer’s Life
Tuesday, January 12
Interviewed at The Writer’s Life
Wednesday, January 13
Book Reviewed at Pump Up Your Book
Thursday, January 14
Interviewed at Working Writers
Friday, January 15
Reviewed at A Mom After God’s Own Heart
Tuesday, January 19
Interview l Chat l Book Giveaway at Pump Up Your Book
Wednesday, January 20
Book reviewed at Reading at the Beach
Interviewed at Review From Here
Thursday, January 21
Guest blogging at The Book Connection
Friday, January 22
Interviewed at Personovelty
Monday, January 25
Interviewed at Beyond the Books
Wednesday, January 27
Interviewed live on Kim Smith’s Introducing Writers Radio Show (tune in at 8:30 p.m. eastern time – adjust to your time zone)
Book reviewed at Broken Teepee
Thursday, January 28
Book reviewed or interviewed at Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers
Friday, January 29
Book reviewed or interviewed at Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers
Charles Franklin Emery’s A MAN AND HIS MANIAC: THE BUNKIE STORY VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR ‘10 will officially begin on January 4th and end on January 29. If you would like to review this book, contact Dorothy Thompson at thewriterslife@yahoo.com before Dec. 30. Thank you!
Editor’s Note: Charles Franklin Emery’s tour is not taking anymore requests. If you’d like to see what other books we have available for review, click on the “for reviewers” tab at the top right. Thank you!
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3 Comments
Move over James Patterson – Here Comes Chuck !!