You can now embed the first thirty pages of A Million Mils on your website. Just visit this site, and embed the code like you would a YouTube video. You can also put it on your Facebook page. Thanks for all the help spreading the word. The book will be shipping from Amazon and Barnes within a very few days, and will be at your local bookstore within a couple weeks. Here we go!
The First Thirty Pages of A Million Miles
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Great first 3 chapters. I am disappointed, though, because I’ve been drawn in and can’t continue reading. Can’t wait for it to come out!!!
Any chance you will be hiding a manuscript in Ann Arbor, MI or the Detroit metro area???? You would love Ann Arbor. BAsed on your writings, it’s your kind of city.
Alright…alright! I’m going out to buy it! This looks like it’s gonna’ be good! Thanks for posting a tidbit!
Lori
I’m posting about this (including the 30 pg. reading) on my site on Wednesday.
Sounds another another excellent read!
I think 2 weeks will be a long wait for this book!
Much success to you- your BLUE LIKE JAZZ was life changing for me.
Just read through this sample … very engaging, can’t wait to read the book!
Fyi, the last sentence on p.21 says “I was going to said I needed a couple weeks to consider …”
Hey Don:
Thanks for posting those chapters. It reads really well. The first two chapters you have of course posted before. Some of it even like a year and a half ago. I’m disappointed in myself though. I still just don’t “get” the Reeses joke like others say they do. Which either means I’m clueless or perhaps they are all lying and making up some inside joke to pretend they are special.
It is the first time to read that third chapter. It is funny. To hear you all acting like teenage boys. And it puts some words to go with old images I have in my head of photos you posted of your kayak adventure long ago.
I am a bit disappointed that you dropped all the dog stuff. Maybe you just moved it to another part of the book. Maybe all that will instead mark the beginning of a new book. Lucy seems to teach you a lot. And I think there is a big market for books written about dogs.
I finally went and just ordered your damn book on Amazon. Was so sure that I was destined to find my way to an early copy. Oh well.
Hope to see you out on the road. Bring Lucy.
What? How can you have no comments?
I Googled your name because I wanted to see what memoir took away your insecurity, for a short breath of time. Google pulled up this blog. Which is fun. I love blogs! Anyhoo, I am a brand-new official Thomas Nelson reviewer (no badge), but by the time I got a chance to review your newest book, all the review copies were flapping their wings to perches other than my hands. Dang! So, I’m reading an excerpt on Thomas’ book widget (is that what it’s called?). So far, I have two paragraphs that I liked copied into my journal (do I need permission for that?), and this one phrase makes me laugh: “…so I’m insecure again and things are back to normal.” Diets are like that, too, by the way! Anyhoo, onward ho with my searching. Still gotta find that memoir you wrote!
It’s beautiful, Don! Thought-provoking and challenging and funny. I can’t wait to read the whole thing.
Slickly written, very evocative and with plenty of that wry, self-deprecating humour you’re loved for.
I have to wait for my copy. A dear friend…Abbie is her name…will be attending your talk in York, PA on October 23rd. My birthday is September 17th, so she is going to attempt to purchase the new release and hopefully get a signature, if you could oblige, and send as a belated birthday gift. ‘Here’s hoping. ‘Would love to have you return to New York State again – saw you speak @ Houghton College while I was in grad school there! ‘Greatly looking forward to the new book – it is so great to stay up and read your books in one sitting and absorb it all.
Well, I have to say…a little disappointed. So much hype, yet it just isn’t meetin’ it…
Just Kidding! I really liked it. Laughing straight away. I can tell it’s going to really impact me on many levels.
BUT technically, it’s only 20 pages of the book. You counted like you back in school and had to read a certain amount of pages over the summer. As a teacher I would say to you, “The cover and the copyright pages don’t count…you might have READ them, but it doesn’t count!”
Sorry, but I had to give you a hard time because I am bummed that San Antonio got the shaft today.
Austin and Waco…really? Sucking up to college kids eh? I see how it rolls around here. Baylor folk couldn’t even get their act together to go look for it. “The Harvard of the south”…ya right.
Just kidding you Baylor Bears. I’m just jealous.
This girl will just wait with the rest of America. Max told me he texted you, but I guess the “power of who” didn’t come through.
awesome.
i will be in london on the release date, here’s hoping i will stumble upon a copy while in the book stores over there…
I placed the preview on my site today:
http://matteroffactsite.blogspot.com/2009/09/calling-all-book-lovers.html
Can’t wait to read the rest .
don, i love it. i have been hung up on metaphors since i read robert mckee’s STORY two years ago. i can’t wait to read the rest of this.
I like it.
I’m encouraged by the honesty in your writing and I’m pumped to read the rest of this very soon.
What is the average # of words in your books?
Nice! You said (in the excerpt) that you wrote some other books that didn’t sell. Can we, um … see them? Please?