📚Pump Up Your Book Presents Michael D. Meloan’s Pinball Wizard Virtual Book Publicity Tour

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Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Michael D. Meloan’s Pinball Wizard Virtual Book Tour January 2 – 31.

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About the Book books

Pinball Wizard

Title: Pinball Wizard
Author: Michael D. Meloan
Publisher: IFSF Publishing
Pages: 136
Genre: Novella / Romantic Action / Adventure

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Michael D. Meloan’s new novella PINBALL WIZARD is a story of love, sex, jets, and Bukowski. Ralph is buffeted between a controlling father, international intrigue in the US defense industry, and a friendship with the writer Charles Bukowski. A wild girlfriend also ratchets-up the action. But in the end, it is Ralph’s turn at the controls. “Are you the Pinball Wizard or the pinball?” asks Ralph’s manager inside a nuclear hardened bunker in England. That is the question driving Michael D. Meloan’s new novella–a story of love, sex, jets, and Bukowski. “My mailbox contained a surprise a week or so ago: PINBALL WIZARD, a novella by Michael Meloan. It is one of the most satisfying reading experiences I’ve had in recent years, in part because it handles a famous writer (Charles Bukowski) as one of its main characters with nonchalant deftness. Meloan’s slightly picaresque story is hard to classify, which is one of the things that makes it such a pleasure to read. He has a gift for writing unapologetically masculine prose; it’s flavorful without being exotic, and it doesn’t hurt that he has a fine ear for dialogue.”–Bill Mohr, writer, critic, and English Literature Professor at California State University, Long Beach More information on the book PINBALL WIZARD can be found at https://www.amazon.com/Pinball-Wizard-Michael-D-Meloan/dp/1733386483/

 

 

About the Author books

Michael Meloan

Michael Meloan traveled extensively to England, Germany, and South Korea supporting the Department of Defense as a software engineer. He met the real Top Guns at Ramstein, Germany. He also wrote short stories for Larry Flynt, Buzz, Wired Magazine, and many literary journals. With his brother, Steven, he penned a published novel called The Shroud. Also with his brother, he wrote journalism for The Huffington Post. In the ‘80s and ‘90s, Meloan was friends with Charles Bukowski and his wife Linda. Bukowski enthusiastically encouraged his writing and invited him and his wife Cathy to many Hollywood events. Meloan was also good friends with NPR monologue artist Joe Frank. Their regular brunches at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills were among the most fascinating encounters of his life. They discussed sexual failure, the nature of existence, godly realms, and the existential abyss. Meloan had the privilege of co-writing a number of radio shows with Frank that appeared on the NPR syndicate. The documentaries Bukowski: Born into This and Joe Frank: Somewhere Out There both contain interviews with Meloan. Visit the book’s website at www.pinballwizardbook.com.

 

 

 

  Blog Tour Highlights

 

Tuesday, January 2

PUYB Virtual Book Club: Pump Up Your Book Virtual Book Tour Kick OffPinball Wizard by Michael D. Meloan

Wednesday, January 3

The Literary Nook: Q&A: Michael D. Meloan, Author of Pinball Wizard

“One of my goals is to create a cinematic experience for the reader, so I’m always looking at visuals. And I include intricate details of the scenarios I describe, hopefully without becoming tedious. It’s a fine balance.”

Thursday, January 4

The Story Behind the Book: The Story Behind Pinball Wizard by Michael D. Meloan

“Three story arcs had been rattling around in my head for years—my parents’ dramatic and acrimonious divorce, my work in Europe as a software engineer supporting Top Gun fighter pilots, and my early friendship with the writer Charles Bukowski.”

Monday, January 8

Book Feature Highlight at Author C.A. Milson’s Blog

Tuesday, January 9

Book Feature Highlight at The Avid Reader

Wednesday, January 10

Book Feature Highlight at b for bookreview

Thursday, January 11

Book Review at redbookreview

Definitely add this book to your reading list!”

Friday, January 12

Book Trailer Feature at YouTube

Monday, January 15

PUYB Virtual Book Club: PUYB Author Talks: A Bookish Conversation with ‘Pinball Wizard’ Michael D. Meloan

“I do research while writing. I’m constantly looking at photos similar to what I’m creating in text to heighten a sense of reality. And if I write about anything with a technical aspect, I include details that must be absolutely accurate.”

Tuesday, January 16

Book Feature Highlight at The Faerie Review

Thursday, January 18

Confessions of an Eccentric Bookaholic: Book Spotlight | Blog Tour | Pinball Wizard by Michael D. Meloan

Monday, January 22

📚A Bookish Chat with ‘Pinball Wizard’ Michael D. Meloan | Author Interview

“I called it a novella, but almost all of it is true.”

Thursday, January 25

I’m Into Books: Book Spotlight: Pinball Wizard by Michael D. Meloan

Book Review at Author Liliyana Shadowlyn’s Blog

” An interesting piece of literary fiction, especially if you’re not quite sure what you’re looking for.”

Monday, January 29

Pump Up Your Book’s Book Teaser Trailer of the Week

Author Talks: A Bookish Conversation with Pinball Wizard Michael D. Meloan

Wednesday, January 31 

Nuttin’ But Books: ❤Author Interview: Novella Author Michael D. Meloan

“PINBALL WIZARD consists of mostly true tales from a compressed period of my life in the early 1980s. There is a bit of embellishment here and there. So, I chose the moniker—novella.”

❀New Romantic Action Adventure Book Alert❀: Pinball Wizard by Michael D. Meloan

 

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