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'Playing with the Enemy' Preparing for Exciting Fall 2006 Release!
PHOENIX, AZ— Bartholomeaux/Public Relations President, Carole V. Bartholomeaux, announced today that her firm has been retained to handle all public relations for Gary Moore, whose first book, Playing with the Enemy, will be released in September by Savas-Beatie. The book is a poignant look back at the life of Moore’s father, Gene Moore, a 15-year old baseball phenomenon. Headed for baseball stardom with the Brooklyn Dodgers, his destiny was interrupted by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. From Sesser, IL to Tunisia, North Africa; from the capture of the infamous German submarine U-505, to playing baseball with its imprisoned crew, Playing with the Enemy is an exciting story that is baseball tragedy turned real-life triumph. Moore’s literary agent is Tristram C. Coburn. Actor Toby Moore www.tobymoore.com (A Separate Peace, Murder in Greenwich) is pursuing film possibilities with the goal of playing his grandfather, Gene Moore. For more information on the book go to www.playingwiththeenemy.com
“We are very proud to represent Gary Moore and Playing with the Enemy,” Bartholomeaux stated. “Gene Moore was part of the ‘Greatest Generation’; he may have been down but he was not out. This is a story that needs to be told and we already have interest in the book from Hollywood.”
"We are particularly pleased with the acquisition of the rights to publish Gary Moore's Playing with the Enemy, a rich and deeply moving biography of his father Gene's remarkable life. The elder Moore was one of the country's leading catcher prospects in the late 1930s, but his budding career in the Major League was cut short by Pearl Harbor and America's entry into WWII. Gene was playing ball in the Navy when a freak injury delivered by a German prisoner of war effectively ended a career that could have been, but never was. His postwar catharsis was difficult, long in coming, but ultimately successful. Playing with the Enemy is the new millennium's extraordinary riches-to-rags-to-riches saga that will be especially loved by everyone who enjoyed The Rookie or The Natural,” Theodore P. Savas, Managing Director, Savas Beatie LLC, remarked in explaining why his publishing house agreed to work with this first-time author.
Gary W. Moore is a successful entrepreneur and business executive, exciting speaker and sales trainer, musician and author. Dedicated to success through creativity, coupled with hard work, Gary is a diverse, multitalented professional with boundless energy. As President & Managing Partner of Covenant Air & Water, LLC www.aquativa.com, Gary heads the operation and expansion of a fast-growing international business, providing solutions to almost all water problems, large or small. With the natural disasters that occurred world-wide the last 18 months, potable water is a necessity for basic life and one that does not exist in much of the world. Gary has been featured in such publications as Entrepreneur Magazine, Selling Power Magazine, and Sales and Marketing Management Magazine. In 1996, Gary was awarded the prestigious Sam Walton Leadership Award. Gary is a graduate of VanderCook College of Music (BMEd 1976). He and his wife, Arlene, have been married for 30 years. They have three children Toby, Tara Beth and Travis, and reside at their FoxMoore Farms home in Bourbonnais, Illinois.
Coburn brings more than ten years of book publishing experience to his clients. During his time as an editor for Pocket Books (a division of Simon & Schuster) he worked with numerous New York Times best-selling authors, including Clive Cussler, Richard Marcinko, John Weisman, Col. Philip Corso, and Bill Birnes, among others. While acquiring for McGraw-Hill, he worked with such authors as Edward Hotaling, Kevin McMurray, and sailing guru Gary Jobson and acquired more than 50 other successful projects. In total, Tris Coburn has acquired more than 100 titles, both fiction and nonfiction, during his career working for two major international publishing houses. With that experience, he has a vivid sense of what works and what doesn't in today’s competitive publishing market. Tristram C. Coburn Literary Management represents clients who write commercial fiction and topical nonfiction on a variety of subjects including sports, adventure, health, and politics.
Bartholomeaux/Public Relations was founded in 1983 and is a boutique firm providing public relations and marketing expertise to a wide variety of clients along with web site design, graphic design, award winning videography, business plans and product placement. Current clients include Deborrah Himsel, motivational speaker and author, LEADERSHIP SOPRANOS STYLE, www.leadershipsopranosstyle.com, multi-award winning authors and toy designers, Lana & Tania Bloch, HOW BUTTERBEES CAME TO BEE!, www.butterbees.com, Thunderbird, the Garvin School of International Management, www.thunderbird.edu, artist Jude Dayton, www.judeart.com, nine time world champion cyclist, motivational speaker and fitness guru, Terry Roach, www.bodystabilization.com, and singer/songwriter Brent Burns, www.brentburns.com. Former clients include the Barrett-Jackson Classic Car Auction, author Clive Cussler, DOXA Watches of Switzerland. For more information about B/PR go to www.b-pr.com.
For additional media information only, photographs, sample CD’s, etc., please contact:
Carole V. Bartholomeaux, Bartholomeaux/Public Relations, LLC, 602 404 8018 or Carole@b-pr.com
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