Authors Supporting Our Troops is a great cause and one I'm proud to be involved with. I served eight years in the Navy myself and my oldest son is recently returned from a tour in Afghanistan. If you can be a part, please do.
It makes a world of difference when you're half a world from home.
Authors Supporting Our Troops
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Posted by Armand Rosamilia on January 14, 2014
When you meet your idols
sometimes they don’t live up to the hype. Sometimes they are grumpy and ornery
and couldn’t care less about you. Such is definitely not the case when it comes
to Joe McKinney. I met the man at World Horror Convention in New Orleans last
year and he was even better in person than in my mind. Yes, I did the Fanboy
thing at first but he ended up being a great guy with a genuine love of what he
was doing and everything around him.
Why am I telling you this?
Because when he asked me (and many other authors) to help him as he collected
books from us to ship overseas to some of our troops, I jumped at the chance.
And so did so many others. He was able to put quite a few books into the hands
of our military overseas. I never forgot about it, and decided to do my own
event this year, especially when I found out from Joe he didn’t have the same
contact overseas.
But I did.
My girlfriend Shelly (Special
Gal to those in the know) had a great contact she’s known for years, someone
she considers her family. I’ve been lucky enough to meet him and he is quite
impressive. He’ll be coming back to the States in late March and then shipping
overseas, at which point he’ll be my contact for this book drive. But let
Shelly give you more detail about him:
Shelly: “I met James about 8
years ago when he was 17, while working in a youth department of the church I
was attending. He was a quiet young man living in a rough situation. I
starting getting to know him and over the years he has become like a son to
me. We got him through high school and he started working and then he
started thinking about the military. I support him 110% and he has turned into
a wonderful young man who celebrated his 25th birthday this
past December. He refers to me as his godmom and I couldn’t be prouder of him
if he were mine.”
He is currently a Private First
Class serving at Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany but will deploy to Kuwait
in April.
Here is the main idea behind
everything…
I’ll be collecting fellow
author’s books to send to our troops stationed in Kuwait in April. Interested
in donating some of your books? The men and women of the Armed Forces love
receiving signed books from authors to read and pass around while they’re over
there! If you’re an author and want to help, join this Facebook page and
then get in touch with Armand for
the address to send your copies. Let’s do something positive for someone
else!
I want to thank everyone who’ve
already committed to helping with the event and are sending me packages so i
can gather the books and box them for the troops.
Quite a few non-authors have asked how they
can help… get in touch with me, I will gladly collect donations to offset the
shipping costs from me as well as purchase more books from authors I know at
cost so there will be more books in the boxes to ship.
At this time I am only interested in
author-signed books to ship overseas. I think the troops will love the read and
also knowing the actual author sent the books or the actual publisher. I’m not
looking for your used books to donate or perishables or anything other than
print books. This is not an eBook event, and not a forum for your political
statements. It is simply to help those in the trenches who might want to read a
book they can’t get their hands on right now.
Come and help out as an author
or as a supporter!
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