Posts Tagged ‘Garasamo Maccagnone’

Pump Up Your Book! Announces July ‘11 Authors on Virtual Book Tours

Join a talented and diverse group of 36 authors promoting 35 books and a publisher celebrating “Five Years of Irresponsible Reading,” as they tour with Pump Up Your Book! Virtual Book Tours during the month of July 2011. Follow them as they travel the blogosphere from July 5th through July 29th to discuss their books. This month is filled with a variety of genres: fantasy novels, memoirs, short story collections, historicals, and more! The month of July finds us host to short story collections from Hugh Aaron, Garasamo Maccagnone, and Dangerous Lee. Are you an author considering using the blogosphere to promote your book? Then be sure you don’t
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Sentiments of Blue Virtual Book Tour June and July 2011

Join Garasamo Maccagnone, author of the literary short story collection,  Sentiments of Blue (CreateSpace, January 14, 2011), as he virtually tours the blogosphere in June and July on his fourth virtual book tour with Pump Up Your Book. About Garasamo Maccagnone Garasamo Maccagnone is a writer and entrepreneur. The founder of a successful airfreight business, Maccagnone now focuses on his literary career. He is the author of the novel St. John of the Midfield, the novella, For the Love of St. Nick, a collection of short stories entitled, My Dog Tim and Other Stories, and a children’s book titled, The Suburban Dragon. Sentiments of Blue is his latest short
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New Book for Review: Short Story Collection ‘Sentiments of Blue’ by Garasamo Maccagnone

Garasamo Maccagnone returns in June and July 2011 to tour with his new short story collection, Sentiments of Blue. Set in a Michigan factory, the title story takes readers inside a workplace dominated by a ruthless bully and his cronies. While explaining the actions taking place around him, it becomes clear that the narrator yearns to escape the blue-collar life handed down to him from his father. “Perfect Game” unfolds during a minor league baseball game with Chi-Chi Gomez on the mound, a fearless pitcher who never fails to brush a few batters back from the plate–a space he considers his personal property. Along with other stories, the book also features original
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Book Review: For the Love of St. Nick by Garasamo Maccagnone

Title: For the Love of St. Nick Author: Garasamo Maccagnone Genre: Fiction Publisher: Booksurge Pages: 61 pages Purchase your copy here! About the Book: Two California boys, coping with the loss of their mother, find themselves uprooted when their father, a Navy Commander, is transferred to a base in northern Michigan. With the youngest boy continuously sick, the family must survive military life and the northern elements as they dwell in their little hunter’s cabin on Lake Huron. When the boy’s father, the commander, must leave prio to Christmas to fulfill his secret mission for the United States Military, the boys are surprised by a chance encounter that saves
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