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Highlights:

“One of the most fun promotions I ever did was for my book Heaven. David Alan Johnson, the winner of the first RT Mr. Romance Contest, was on my cover andoh darn!I had to tour with him. It was a dirty job, but somebody had to do it!

We did autographings at Walmarts all up and down Inter-state 44 here in Missouri. The success of this tour almost had me give up my writing career and start a Rent-A-Hunk firm for authors. The minute the customers saw David, they started squealing and bought books.”

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