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Tom Kimmel's November 2006 News & Tour Dates

Contents

1. Greetings!

2. News (Music & Book News + Christmas Sale...)

3. Recommended

4. Acknowledgments

5. Food for Thought

6. Tour Dates: Colorado, Georgia, Tennessee

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1. Greetings!

-Greetings from a fast train somewhere between

Copenhagen and Stockholm! I am very much enjoying my

second tour of Scandinavia.

2. News: Music, Book & Christmas Sale

--Music News

Just Plain Folks Award -- I just received an email

from my friend and sometimes co-writer Melody Guy that

our song "Mistakes Like Me" just won the Just Plain

Folks Country Song of the Year Award! Also Melody has

won Female Vocalist of the Year! Thanks to Just Plain

Folks and to everyone who voted for the song. It's a

special one to me and Mel; we wrote it for someone

dear to her.

For more on Just Plain Folks and the Awards, visit

www.jpfolks.com

And please check out Melody's music at

www.melodyguy.com

Workshops -- I just completed teaching a 5 day

workshop in Copenhagen for the Danish Artist Forbund

-- a musician's union. Brett Perkins made the

arrangements and provided expert support throughout

the workshop. Interestingly, I'm having an escalating

number of opportunities to teach my peculiar approach

to songwriting, and I am enjoying that tremendously.

BTW Brett, who is a fine singer/songwriter in his own

right, is masterful at planning and facilitation

workshops, and I highly recommend his retreats in

Sweden, Denmark, Ireland, California and other exotic

locales.

Check him out at www.brettperkins.com

Christmas Sale -- ALL TK CDS AND BOOKS PURCHASED FROM

MY WEBSITE ARE ON SALE TILL THE END OF THE YEAR! All

CDs and my soft cover book are 20% ($3.00) off list,

and the new hard cover edition of the book is also

$3.00 off list.

--Book News

Yes, the new HARD COVER EDITION of "The Sweetest and

the Meanest" is available now, and SIGNED COPIES ARE

AVAILABLE AT MY WEBSITE.

In fact, I have signed all copies (soft and hard

cover) stocked for web site orders!

Christmas Sale -- As with my CDs, all books purchased

from my web site are on sale now. (Sale ends December

31.)

[Note that I'm not able to reduce price for the eBook

edition, but it is listed at $10 as it is. And if

you're into downloading eBooks, note that 'The

Sweetest & the Meanest' is available at several online

outlets! Visit my website and click the 'Poetry' tab

for a link to those sites.]

"Look Inside the Book" -- YOU CAN GET A GREAT PEEK AT

THE BOOK (cover and interior) by visiting Amazon.com

and checking out the "Look Inside the Book" feature on

the page listing my book.

BTW print editions may be purchased at amazon.com,

barnesandnoble.com and most online book outlets... or

ordered from your local bookstore. I am not however

able to sign those copies prior to purchase.

BOOK READINGS -- I have so enjoyed giving recent book

readings, and I welcome more of opportunities. I'm

happy to read at bookstores or schools or elsewhere

while I am on tour. Please email me from the Contacts

page on my website if you have an inquiry or

suggestion for me.

3. Recommended

As Christmas gifts go, you can't go wrong with a copy

of Truman Capote's "A CHRISTMAS MEMORY" -- perhaps my

favorite piece of short fiction ever. It's simply a

masterpiece. Incidentally, it is a true

autobiographical story set in Monroeville, Alabama, my

home town.

(Hint: avoid the illustrated version! The

illustrations seriously detract from the work, which

is pure poetry.)

Check out Eva Hillered's music. I just performed in

Stockholm with Eva, and I am a real fan. Visit her

unique website and listen to songs at

www.evahillered.se (Click on the Union Jack for the

English language version.) Her most recent album "Life

Line" is a joy, and you can avoid paying import

shipping by ordering it from

www.cdbaby.com/evahillered

4. Acknowledgments

Everyone who tours or attempts to make a living in

the arts knows that a lot of helping hands are

required.

Thank you to Richard Mekdici & Sue Kroupa-Riley at

Itoi Ministries wwww.itoi.com and best wishes with

their ongoing work -- their own music and their

support of New Thought Music and all

music-from-the-heart.

Thanks to Michael Boesen for lodging me in

Copenhagen, making me feel right at home. (Michael is

also a talented singer/songwriter. Check him at

www.michaelboesen.dk)

Thanks to Klaus Caprani & Laila Jensen for arranging

national radio exposure for me on Danmarks Radio, and

to deejay Kurt for the live performance, the spins and

the great interview.

Thanks to Reed's Bookstore in Tupelo, Mississippi --

one of the finest independent bookstores in the South.

It was an honor to read and perform there last month.

Thanks again to Brett Perkins for booking my return

tour dates and workshops in Denmark and Sweden. Thanks

too to Geordie Garriock, John Lansner, Eva and Peter,

Ninna Milner with the DAF, Martin Hoybe and others too

numerous to mention for hosting shows or otherwise

taking care of me in Scandinavia.

Special thanks to my sister Helen Monts. Helen gives

so much and so quietly to her family, friends and

community, and I often forget to thank her enough for

her ongoing support of my music and poetry. Thanks,

Hebbs.

5. Food for thought

"I think that people want peace so much that one of

these days governments had better get out of the way

and let them have it."

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)

Peace,

Tom