Tennessee: Something to Pray For
UPDATE: Text REDCROSS to 9099 to donate $10 to flood victims.
ORIGINAL POST: Those of you who bought my book—promised to be autographed–before it was on sale with the big online booksellers know that there has been a huge delay in getting those books into your hands. The day before yesterday, I sent out an email informing each of you that the books would be here at my house today. Well, early this morning, my publisher sent me an email saying that the delivery date is now the 10th.
Normally, I’d be feeling pretty frustrated about now. But ever since my publisher told me that the printers were located in Tennessee, the urge to look deeper at the disaster there has been stronger than my need to smack my fist on a table for not getting what I want when I want it. So, I looked and I am flabbergasted.
People are dead and another American city rich with history—Nashville–is under water. It is Katrina minus the demagogy of the Left.
Mayor Karl Dean estimates the damage from weekend flooding could easily top $1 billion in Nashville alone.
As the rain-swollen Cumberland River continued to recede Wednesday, Nashville’s downtown remained without power and one of two water plants was disabled, but officials said progress was being made on both problems.
From Newsbusters:
And instead of waiting for a handout or a symbolic gesture from the federal government, Country Music stars have already begun the process of rebuilding Music City.
Radio fundraisers are taking place, and star-studded benefits are in the works after 19 people died in weekend storms in Tennessee.
Among the events is a telethon Thursday with Vince Gill for NBC affiliate WSMV-TV to benefit the Red Cross, Salvation Army and Second Harvest Food Bank.
“Nashville is a community of great spirit,” country superstar Keith Urban told CNN’s Rick Sanchez via Skype from the Nashville-area home he shares with his wife, Nicole Kidman, and their daughter.
Michelle Malkin has a list of those who are making it easy to donate and/or assist in other ways.
And Ed Morrissey calls this The Disaster America Ignored.
I cannot point fingers, for I am guilty of feeling only vaguely sorry for these people until their plight affected me personally. But this isn’t about my mea culpa while sitting here in my nice, dry home office with my nice, dry worldly possessions. It’s about the little and big taps on the shoulder which the Almighty gives Christians all the time to remind us of the second of Jesus the Christ’s two commandments: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
As was so when Hurricane Katrina battered the Gulf Coast (which is having contemporary problems again of its own; discussed in a bit), a philanthropy link for Tennessee flood victims will appear at the end of each blog post for at least two weeks.
Let’s start by lifting one from Michelle. I’m sure she won’t mind.
(Thanks to Anita Moncrief; cross-posted at baldilocks and at The Professional Black Writer)
Subtext Two
Another undercurrent of Tale of the Tigers is the notion that promises of the Sexual Revolution were false.
Subtext One
I’ve billed this story as an interracial love story, but one of the subtexts concerns the difference between sex and love.
Practice Evil Capitalism
If not now, when?
Tale of the Tigers is now available at Amazon, at Barnes & Noble and at Books-a-Million.
However, you can still buy it right here at this very site. Just scroll up and click on the orange “Buy Now” button.
For those who pre-ordered the autographed copies, they will arrive at my house this week. I will email you when they get here, sign them and then get them in the mail to you that same day or the following business morning.
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The Back Cover Blurb
“At a university in the southwestern United States, Felice
LeCroix, a coed, and Kevin Hart, a football star, fall in love.
But a simple, everyday relationship is complicated by the
fact that he’s white and she’s black.
“Their navigation between family, friends and even enemies is
sometimes smooth; but at other times, life is rockier than
either ever imagined life to be.”
Delay Almost Over!
Check this space in the next week for news about Tale of the Tigers at last.
For Your Viewing Pleasure
Check out the new promotional video for Tale of the Tigers produced by Carmel Coast Publishing Enterprises!
Interview
I’ll be on The Ed Morrissey Show today at 12:15 PST to talk about Tale of the Tigers. Go to Hot Air or to UStream.
UPDATE: If you missed the show, you can listen here. Start at 18:40.
It Begins
Welcome to the website designed to promote my novel, Tale of the Tigers. For those of you who are used to reading my missives regarding current events at baldilocks, Tale will give you a good idea of what else is going on in my shorn noggin.
Glad to have you here.
