The Million Miles in a Thousand Years book tour is leaving the Pacific Northwest and heading to California, Arizona and Colorado. The book releases in one week, though you can already get it on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and even some stores, but the live event has been running for a week.
The crowds have been great so far, and we are certainly having a good time on the road. When you come to an event, you’ll be treated to Susan Isaacs who performs a piece from her one-woman show Angry Conversations with God, then a full hour in which I talk about my experiences since writing Blue Like Jazz, writing the movie and what I learned about life while editing a fictional version of myself. Search Twitter if you want to see what people are saying about the tour.
Our next few dates take us through the San Francisco area and into Los Angeles. If you’re looking for a fun night, we’d love to see you in person. Here are the next few dates:
Freemont, CA 9/24 TICKETS
Azusa, CA 9/ TICKETS
Irvine, CA 9/27 TICKETS
Hollywood, CA 9/28 TICKETS
Mesa, AZ 9/29 TICKETS
Denver, CO 10/2 TICKETS
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Hoping to make it to the AZ date. Glad to hear it’s going well. Can’t wait.
Come to Utah!!!! Please
I really loved the book! I hope that you will be coming to the East Coast sometime soon. Blessings!
Don – my husband and I were at the Grace Chapel tour stop in Wilsonville last Saturday. It was truly inspiring. We both took away so much from the evening – thank you!! And it was so great to get to ask you a question (I asked you about how a person overcomes fear when trying to change their story). Your writing means a lot to both of us. We wish you all the best on the road!!!
I went to the event in Bothell – it was great! Thanks so much for sharing your wisdom/the things you’ve learned. You mentioned something about how after Blue Like Jazz, people wanted you to do tie-ins, action figures, etc….I have to say, a Tony the Beat Poet action figure would have been amazing!
And somehow you missed Las Vegas…..
So exctied for Denver…traveling from MS to hear you speak and see friends…yea!
it is a shame. new york will miss you dearly.
Can you come to Wisconsin please? Ideally the Fox Valley (Appleton) but I’d travel to Madison or anywhere in the State.
So excited to see you in Irvine!!!
Still wishing you’d make it to Raleigh… although I’m thinking Charlotte isn’t TOO far of a drive
Dear Don,
Having visited your home turf (I even went to Imago!), I understand why you think Portland is neato. However, as a resident of The Other Portland (…Maine, not Michigan), I feel the need to extol the virtues of our fair city. We have coffeeshops. Lots of coffeeshops. And microbreweries. Lots of those, too. And bakeries, and seafood, and delightful coastline. And book-signing venues.
Now, as a long-time reader (first-time commenter) of yours, it pains me that you are staying so far from New England on this, your Million Miles book tour.
Please consider a brief stop somewhere within 200 miles of me.
I’ll even buy the beer.
Sincerely,
Chandra
Thanks for swinging through Abilene. We were blessed to have you! Sorry about the bats.
That was so strange. Glad to hear you have been to Machu Picchu. South America has so many special gems (beautiful places and beautiful, loving people) that most people are completely unaware of and it makes me happy when people get to experience them. Hope the rest of your tour goes well.
Hey Don,
Would have loved to check you out while you were in Canada, but I was in the middle of making a documentary!
On another note- I think I found you a potential wife. Seriously.
She’s 30. Pretty. High level Democrat. GODLY. Helped plant a church in college. You don’t get that mix every day!
Best part: she hasn’t yet read your work- so you can either turn her into a raving fan, or…!
Email me and I’ll set something up.
can you, please, repeat the names of the books you mentioned during the ACU talk?
Hey, Don!
Glad you’re coming back to Ecc on Mon! Can’t wait to see you and hear what about the new book!
Already read Susan’s book. She knocked my socks off. Can’t wait to see her in person.
Naomi
Gonna see you tonight! And it’s Fremont, not Freemont. But what’s important is that you’re there!
Woohoo, can’t wait to see you tonight in Fremont! I’m trekking it all the way from San Francisco without a car. Involves one shuttle, one train, one bus, and then a ride with my sis
I really wish you were coming to Massachusetts Don! I’m almost done reading your new book and it has really inspired me. Thank you for writing books as part of your story.
So enjoyed seeing and listening to you in Fremont, CA last evening. The friend I attended with wants to get the CD when available to have her shut-in son listen to what you had to say–you are God’s inspiration to young and old males alike, as well as the rest of us in general to get off our rears and do something for The Kingdom. Like we really mean it. Because as individuals, it IS our personal story about our own, individual personal relationship and walk with our very own personal Savior who put us here for a particular purpose suited just to each of us. The correlations and illustrations you use are really thought-provoking and appreciate that they all tie back to Scripture. Thanks so much for listening to God’s call in your life with The Mentoring Project–I’m telling everyone I know about it to spread the word (I already have 4 kids with World Vision–one is soon to “graduate” and then I’ll be free to support your project).
my sister, who normally rushes around all week, teaching pilates and so on, was bed-ridden for a while lately due to some health problems. She wrote this in an email to friends, about my lending her “Million Miles.” It shows clearly how infectious your thinking and writing style are, Don,
“I started reading a book from my brother by some guy who had some stuff to say about life and its relationship to story. I like metaphors and symbolism and humour so I decided I would read it. I read it in a week which is amazing because normally I begin reading a book and then I put it down and pick up another and then another until I have so many books on the go that I give up reading all together. I would rather be running around all over really busy like, not sitting still reading. I liked this idea that I was a character in a story and that I had a great deal of creative license in my story. I could scene by scene choose a better story, be a better character and on top of that the voice over guy, God, could tell the angels what he was going to introduce to my scene to help the story a long, to create a more rounded character. A character rarely changes without a challenge thrown in. A character rarely challenges themselves until they feel ready. That is why God throws things at us that we are not ready for, so we will have to improvise and by improvising we create a dialogue with him and we will grow. We become better on the inside and that is where God looks. The outside changes the inside and that is why God loves a great story.
My story is still being written and this collaboration with God is really fun and really terrifying and really fascinating. I am sure that when we are done writing He will say let’s watch the movie and when we watch the movie we’ll have sushi and tempura and green tea and we’ll laugh at the funny parts, cry at the sad parts and we will be changed forever and we will love the way God is love and there will be lots of light flooding through huge windows.
Mike, that is a very encouraging review from your sister. And I certainly hope she is feeling better. Thanks so much for sharing it with me!
Don
Thanks, Don. I do feel better in spirit for sure!
Debbie
Have heard nothing but good about your latest! Congratulations on the tour; next time you’re in DC maybe you can swing by Lynchburg :p
I just recently finished To Own a Dragon. Thank you for writing it, and better yet, thank you for sticking through the rough times to do the work you do today. And thanks to all the guys who helped you out, John in particular.
Hi Don,
I just got back from your conference in Irvine and really enjoyed it! I got too nervous to tell you when you were giving your autograph, but I wanted to say how much I enjoy reading and re-reading your books. I especially enjoy Through Painted Deserts/Prayer and the Art of Volkswagon Maintenance. Keep up the good work!
I am glad to see you doing soooo well. I saw the stuff on Blue Fish and thought… “No Way! My Buddy Donald!” I don’t know if you remember me in that nasty church gym at Pearland FBC with the roof about to fall apart from asbestos and other unmentionables! Write me if you got a chance. I am currently in Arkansas doing youth ministry at a small rural church 45 min. south of Ft. Smith. God Bless Donald.
Bobby
Dear Don: We just attended tonight’s Million Miles event in Newport Beach, CA, at the Mariner’s Church. A truly wonderful evening that we will always remember.
Thank you for everything you are doing. It was so good seeing you in person. Your books have impacted my life and that of my family members in a powerful way. We thank God for you!
All the best to you on this tour!
Hello Don,
(Please imagine Augustana’s lovely vocals belting “I think I’ll go to Boston” as you read this.) I live in an amazing Christian community in Boston. Four houses with 6 bodies of all ages packed into each one. We play. We pray. We love. We serve. We read. We cordially invite you to come stay with us at “Hotel Jesus” and make Boston a stop on your tour. Some of us are a little weirder than others, but I think you’d still have a great time and feel loved in the process.
Hopeful,
Emily (and the other members of 23 Wigglesworth St)
Hi Don,
I was so upset when I looked at your tour dates and noticed a huge hole where Boston should be. If at all possible we would love to have you visit our Christian community in Boston. Your books have fueled some incredible conversations within our group and we would love the chance to meet you. I just read the new book and can’t stop talking about it. I think it’s my favorite of the five. The door is always open on 23 Wigglesworth. Or 21 or 19 or 17 Wigglesworth.
Sarah Matousek
Don, I know this is your blog, but since you are with Susan each day now (I’m supposing) I just thought I would put a blurb on here just for her.
Susan, I finished your book this morning (Angry Conversations with God). I really did enjoy it. I should have been doing something else “productive” (like getting out of bed), but I really wanted to read your story and God’s story with you, so I just sat and kept reading. (I did the same with Don’s book and stayed up till 1:30 one night reading it and got the flu the next day…not bitter about that but haven’t forgotten it either.)
When I read the last few words of your book, my thought was, “Gosh, God, You really are amazing.” I don’t say that in the same way that most “church” women say (with REALLY big smiles)…God is so good or God is so amazing. I say it because He “torched” my life, and yet, I stand here ever so grateful for the travels. Your’s and my stories are quite different, but our God is the same…and He’s one amazing God! (And probably, all those “smiley church” ladies know it too, and it just took me longer to really figure it out.)
Come to think of it, I do tend to be more smiley and I’m sending a message to someone I don’t even know about how amazed I am at how God still makes masterpieces out of the crap we hand Him.
Who knew, I’ve become one of “them.”
(I really did always secretly like them and want to someday know what they knew. My mom was one, and she was incredible.)
“We also have joy with our troubles, because we know that these troubles produce patience. And patience produces character, and character produces hope. And this hope will never disappoint us, because God has poured out His love to fill our hearts. ” Rom 5:3-5
I do believe that my joy became “fuller” as I traveled through the harsh deserts and found out that God really was with me no matter where I went.
His words and promises are true.
He is more faithful than one can imagine.
His love really is greater than life.
Can’t wait to see you in November…hoping Don will be good too. Being the prude he is, I’m not holding my breath.
Just kidding…I’m the biggest prude there is…good call on the fbomb.
Shelly
I attend Azusa Pacific University and I first heard you speak last year during chapel and I was utterly amazed. Prior to this I did not have the slightest clue of what your books were about, I just knew a lot of students at APU loved them. I was excited when I found out you were going to be speaking at chapel again this year. I began to tell all of my friends you were coming to town. When you spoke during chapel about Romeo and Juliet I was shocked with the thought on how the scene on the balcony shows us the way we should be with Christ, I also began to think deeply about theology and Jesus, I will confess I did loose sight of God because I surrounded myself in only theology and not in Him alone. I would like to thank you for opening up my eyes with this matter.
During your A Million Miles in a Thousand Years speaking later that evening. I sat in the front row and I was again amazed with the way you structured story. I began to question myself as a character in a story, I wondered exactly what it was I was searching for, I thought about the climax of my story and where that would be. I even pondered the thought of who and what the antagonist was in my own story. Towards the end of the evening I even thought of myself as possibly a Bryonic Hero. Listening to you speak on Friday really helped me understand myself. I would like to say thank you for speaking at APU and writing these amazing books. I cannot wait for the next time you speak at APU and I cannot wait for your next book.
Blessings
-Oscar Maria
http://middletree.blogspot.com/2009/09/book-review-donald-millers-million.html
I just posted a review of “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years” by Donald Miller.
I decided today that if I am going to ever post something on this blog, I had better do it now. As the tour continues on and legions of new fans hop on the band wagon with us and as “A Million Miles In a Thousand Years” is officially released tomorrow, I figure this site is going to BLOW UP quickly! So its now or never because the (well-deserved) hype has only begun to build!! Even if this is only read by fellow fans, it is important to me to share this all the same. If nothing else, we can see that we all have some great things in common!
At the last minute, I was blessed to hear about Don coming to Gig Harbor, WA. I was also fortunate enough to very briefly meet him at a book signing after his talk. However, in the midst of that few moments of his time, I could come up with nothing profound or appreciative to say other than, “will you sign my ticket and a book for my sister?” and “thanks for everything.” THANKS FOR EVERYTHING??? Who even says that??
I could ramble on and on about my respect and admiration for Don, and I still just might, but I guess this is the point of the post that I would really hope for him to someday see. I need to thank him.
So, Don (it’s very wierd to call you that, in my head you are Donald Miller, not a personable guy named Don!), I need to thank you on two levels for the genuine, introspective and HONEST books that you have written. First off, reading your work is like having someone put my own thoughts and philosophies (similar ones anyway!) down on paper and in a much more eloquent way than I ever could. Thanks for simply making me feel ok and at peace in my faith. That’s a greater gift in itself than you’ll ever know.
Secondly, thank you for giving myself, my family members, the Young Life girls I mentor, and THE WORLD “Blue Like Jazz.” Your book has equipped me and then those I’ve shared it wth to share things about our faith and faith in general, and about Christ and spirituality that we would have never even thought to share with others or speak about otherwise. The book has been a great ministry tool that has allowed me to watch people’s faiths, understanding and relationships with Jesus grow, all through the gift of one book. (By the way, I have experienced all of this growth myself.) Witnessing it all has been awe inspiring.
Now, after reading, “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years” I am forced to make the executive decision…read “Blue Like Jazz” with this year’s group of YL girls as I have for many years prior or break tradition and read “A Million Miles…” After all, what teenager couldn’t benefit from being motivated to live a better story? (Please feel free to weigh in on this one…your “expert” advice is always welcome!)
After putting this all down on paper (yes, there was a rough draft to this post), I realize that perhaps the few words I shared with you earlier on the book tour were dead on: Truly, thanks for everything.
Here’s to “A Million Miles…” and it’s phenomenal success as well as your own personal story and it’s phenomenal success…one might just argue that you are well on your way!
May the Lord bless you and keep you.
Respectfully and fondly,
Meg
P.S. Here’s a little wisdom that always seems to put a smile on my face and things in prospective (its God’s plan in God’s time!)…I hope it puts at least half a smile on your face too.
“So if you’re waitin’ for love
Well it’s a promise I’ll keep
If you don’t mind believing that it changes everything
Then time will never matter” -Sunny Days by Jars of Clay
New Yyork will miss you dearly. =(
Bloomington, Indiana? you should come.
Don –
We enjoyed your night in Denver! Thanks for stopping on your way through. Particularly, I appreciate your appeal for the fatherless. It was an unexpected surprise during the evening.
Mark
Hi Don,
Let me start by saying I saw you speak in Denver and loved every minute. I wanted to start a Don Miller Groupie group and follow you around the country in a VW bus but my bank wouldn’t approve the loan, they said the business plan wasn’t solid enough. However I am working on a government grant for it and after reading your obama emails I bet the big guy will approve it. Anyway I love your new book and think its your best book yet. So part of my story is that I lead groups 1 week at a time that build homes for people living in Mexico in cardboard houses. I have always wanted to meet you and thought what a great way by inviting you to come and build with next spring. I have not set a date yet and wanted to leave it open for you to let me know if there would be 1 week in Spring of 2010 that you would be interested in helping on the build. You need no construction experience and at the end of the week you give a family keys to their new house with a concrete floor, walls, roof, and electricity. I read in your book about visiting Mexico and helping with building the orphanage and thought you might like to join us this time on our project and as a selfish ambition I get to meet my favorite writer and create another great story in my life.
Thanks for the wisdom,
Mike Galvin
P.S. I live near Manitou Springs (5 square miles surrounded by reality) and worked with a ministry there, the same one you may have. I laughed so hard I cryed in Blue like jazz when I thought you were writing about it!
Any plans to come to Indianapolis, Indiana??