Sam’s latest…(6/29)
Hello Friends,
I was blessed with another wonderful week on the Promises I Made My Mother rainbow book tour! Last Sunday I appeared at the Miss Indiana Pageant where I signed and sold 150 books purchased to raise money for scholarships. I then meet my publicist Nancy White Perkins in Memphis, TN, Tupelo, MS, and Oxford, MS for three book signing events at Davis Kid Booksellers, Reed’s Gumshoe Book Store, and Square Books of Oxford….sold over 400 books during these events. My birthday was Wednesday June 24th, and I celebrated with Mary, Mary Lane, Marsha and Frank Tindall, Patty and Will Lewis, Robert and Margaret Khayat, Tatum and Lain Brown, Lynda Mead Shea, and Dianne Scruggs at City Grocery Restaurant in Oxford. We then went to the Ford Performing Arts Center to see Mary Lane’s performance in the Gilbert and Sullivan Musical “Iolanthe”. On Thursday morning, I left for Pittsburgh and an appearance at the Miss Pennsylvania Pageant….sold over 125 books there, got up the next morning and flew to Columbus, Georgia….and appeared at the Miss Georgia Pageant where I signed and sold 102 books, got up Saturday and flew to Jackson, Mississippi to host a charity event with Eli Manning and Emerril Lagasse to benefit Batson Children’s Hospital of Mississippi. We raised over a million dollars, and the event purchased 250 books which I personally signed for all the sponsors and donors. On Sunday, I appeared at the Miss Colorado Pageant in Denver, and they bought and sold over 200 books for me to sign to raise more money for scholarships. Thanks for letting me share the good news of personally selling and signing over 1,000 books during this past week of the tour
stay tuned!
Love,
SAM
Chase McGill wrote:
July 5, 2009 @ 9:40 am
From Columbus, Mississippi, we are very proud of you! At my mother’s insistence, I am reading your book. Awesome. I am 22 years old; a graduate of Mississippi State University (don’t hold that against me); vocals, keyboard, guitar, banjo, lyricist and composer for the band, Come On Go With Us (www.myspace.com/comeongowithus); and am very close to my own mother, who is an assistant superintendent for Lowndes County School District (18th largest in the state of Mississippi). I am proud to say that reading your book is like hearing her lectures from the past few years. We hope that, if we follow your principles, we too can realize our dream of being successful in the music business. Thank you for giving this group of small town boys encouragement to follow their dreams. By the way, Helen Rutledge is my cousin. Her mother, Lillie Wright, and my grandfather, Luke Crossley, were brother and sister. We live next door to Laurie Flora. Small world.