A Southern Missive

Today was a hot day, but an enjoyable one. I drove to Alexandria and set up book signings at the Books A Million and Waldon Books. The dates:

August 17, Friday: 3:00 p.m. until closing Waldon Books at the Mall in Alexandria.

August 18, Saturday, 10:00 a.m.-12:00. Waldon Books at at the Mall in Alexandria.

August 18, Saturday, 1:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Books A Million in Alexandria.

December 21-22, All Day. Waldon Books at the Mall in Alexandria. This one will be not only for Jim Limber Davis: A Black Orphan in the Confederate White House, but also for Stories of the Confederate South.

Today was also a sad one. My younger brother, Jimmy, is in Baylor hospital in ICU. Very serious condition. Please say a prayer or light a candle or something for him. I’m beside myself in worry.

Here’s a quote I thought I would use for today’s first post. I found it on the jacket of a book I’m reading entitled, War Crimes Against Southern Civilians by Walter Brian Cisco (Pelican Publishing). This is a book that stirs the emotions of sadness and anger that such things could have happened to Southerners then be covered up (or rewritten) by historical revisionists and the ultra-politically correct.

“Of all the enormities committed by Americans in the nineteenth century–including slavery and the Indian wars–the worst was the invasion of the South, which destroyed some twenty billion dollars of private and public property and resulted in the deaths of some two million people, most of whom were civilians–both white and black.”–David Aiken, editor of A City Laid Waste: The Capture Sack, and Destruction of the City of Columbia.

Tonight at 7:30 p.m. I was interviewed for approximately thirty minutes on a live internet radio program. According to the program’s Website, Lillian Cauldwell, the interviewer, “started Passionate Internet Voices Talk Radio, Inc. when she decided to create her own public broadcast radio talk internet station.” This station has a huge audience. Cauldwell is a noted author, speaker, media trainer, mentor,  writing instructor, book reviewer, and CEO/President of PIVTR and Pod-cast Media Broadcast Services. Obviously, she is a sharp and multi-talented lady. I also found her to be an engaging interviewer. In addition to providing me this interview, she has agreed to write a review of Jim Limber Davis: A Black Orphan in the Confederate White House. I studied the Website carefully, and I think I will tune in to their interesting and eclectic programing when I can. Here is the address:

http://www.internetvoicesradio.com/home.htm 

Speaking of sharp ladies, this interview was arranged by my promotion manager at Pelican Publishing, Samantha Perez. Having just graduated from high school, she became a summer intern with my publisher. She has helped me immensely in the promotion of my children’s book. Not only has she done a fantastic job with Pelican in promotion, I found out she is an award-winning writer herself. Specifically, she was the winner of the 2006 Mel Williams Award for Excellence in Writing, the top journalism prize from the Scholastic Press Forum.
A Katrina victim, she relates her family’s and the hurricane’s story in some of the best prose I’ve ever read. To read her account of the Katrina days, and to learn more about this beautiful and talented writer, go to this site:

http://home.comcast.net/~majerus-collins/hurricanejournal.htm