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Joyce Scarbrough
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Posted on Friday, October 06, 2006 - 07:39 am:

I recently became an official volunteer at the Books For Soldiers website so that I could donate copies of my own books to deployed soldiers. I encourage all my fellow writers to do the same, but you don't have to be a writer to help. The need among the troops for books and other supplies is so great, and I urge everyone to join this program and send a few care packages of books, magazines, CDs, DVDs, snacks, personal care items, or anything else that will help make a soldier’s tour of duty a little easier.

Please go to http://booksforsoldiers.com and register to become an official volunteer. Once you’re approved, you’ll have access to the list of needs the soldiers post or their families post on their behalf, along with their address overseas. You can also become a soldier’s pen pal and possibly be the only link to home they have. Trust me, the responses you’ll get from the soldiers and their overwhelming gratitude will touch your heart and reward you immeasurably for your efforts.

I also encourage everyone who has bought my books to please send them to a soldier when you’re done with them. If you can't become a volunteer for some reason, send the books to me and I'll ship them to soldiers for you. These brave men and women risk their lives for us every single day, and we all—regardless of our political views or personal feelings about the war—owe these real-life heroes a much larger debt of gratitude than we could ever repay, but this program is a good way to make a worthwhile down payment.

~Joyce Sterling Scarbrough
True Blue Forever
ISBN 0-9722385-9-X
Different Roads
ISBN 0-9722385-3-0
Authors Ink Books
http://www.authorsinkbooks.com

Read the first chapters at http://www.authorsden.com/joycelscarbrough1
Waste time on Joyce's Blog at http://joycescarbrough.blogspot.com

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http://www.champagnebooks.com

priceless1
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Posted on Friday, October 06, 2006 - 11:31 am:

Hi Joyce,
Having a kid in uniform, I couldn't applaud this more. We get returns from bookstores that arrive in abysmal condition - I'm convinced that they hire baboons to pack the boxes. While they're perfectly readable, we can't sell them. We've become affiliated with http://helpingourtroops.com/ in giving them our "hurts." These books have gone all over the world to Army and Marine bases, Navy ships, and, most recently, to the Wounded Warrior Center at Camp Pendleton.
-Lynn

Joyce Scarbrough
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Posted on Friday, October 06, 2006 - 01:01 pm:

That's great, Lynn. It doesn't matter which site the donations go through as long as the troops get the stuff! And the BFS site also has listings for donations to the Wounded Warrior Center, so they're not forgetting about those home-soil heroes either.

BTW, I sent a letter to the editor of my local newspaper that said pretty much the same thing my post here said, but it hasn't made it to print so far. Guess they either didn't think it was a worthy cause or were afraid that mention of my books might interfere with the sales of the Book Page editor's new page-turner about the antique ironwork in Mobile!

~Joyce Sterling Scarbrough
True Blue Forever
ISBN 0-9722385-9-X
Different Roads
ISBN 0-9722385-3-0
Authors Ink Books
http://www.authorsinkbooks.com

Read the first chapters at http://www.authorsden.com/joycelscarbrough1
Waste time on Joyce's Blog at http://joycescarbrough.blogspot.com

Senior Editor
Champagne Books
http://www.champagnebooks.com

Joyce Scarbrough
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Posted on Thursday, October 12, 2006 - 11:47 am:

***FOOT-IN-MOUTH UPDATE***

Someone called from my local newspaper yesterday to verify that I'd sent the letter to the editor, and they're going to run it in the paper either tomorrow or Saturday! I hope the soldiers gets lots of responses because of it.

BTW, I got an e-mail message from the first soldier I sent books to because she'd finished reading DIFFERENT ROADS. She said she loved Jaycee 'cause she was a no-nonsense girl who didn't run from anything or anybody and that they could use more girls like her over there in Iraq! How cool is that?

~Joyce Sterling Scarbrough
True Blue Forever
ISBN 0-9722385-9-X
Different Roads
ISBN 0-9722385-3-0
http://www.authorsinkbooks.com

Read the first chapters at http://www.authorsden.com/joycelscarbrough1
Waste time on Joyce's Blog http://joycescarbrough.blogspot.com

Senior Editor
Champagne Books
http://www.champagnebooks.com

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