Same Kind of Different as Me Momentum Continues
Critically Acclaimed Work Surpasses 100,000 Copies in Print
(Nashville, Tenn.) “After I met Miss Debbie and Mr. Ron, I worried that I was so different from them that we wadn’t ever gon’ have no kind a’ future. But I found out everybody’s different – the same kind of different as me: we’re all just regular folks walkin down the road God done set in front of us.” — Denver Moore
A dangerous, homeless drifter who grew up picking cotton in virtual slavery.
An upscale art dealer accustomed to the world of Armani and Chanel.
A gutsy woman with a stubborn dream.
A true story so incredible no novelist would dare dream it.
Since its release in June 2006, sales momentum for Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore has continued to surpass initial expectations. Thomas Nelson, Inc. has recently shipped the 100,000th hardcover copy of the acclaimed title out into the marketplace.
“I have yet to meet a single person who has read this book and not proclaimed it as one of the finest, most moving stories that they have ever experienced.” said Matt Baugher, Thomas Nelson Vice President and Publisher. “Based on very strong word of mouth success, this current momentum is only the beginning, and we could not be more honored to be the publisher of this fine work.”
Same Kind of Different as Me (Thomas Nelson, Inc., ISBN# 978-0-8499-0041-9, 2006) is a tale told in two unique voices – Ron Hall & Denver Moore – weaving these two completely different life experiences into one common journey where both men learn “whether we is rich or poor or something in between this earth ain’t no final restin place. So in a way, we is all homeless-just workin our way toward home.”
Meet Denver, raised under plantation-style slavery in Louisiana until he escaped the “Man” – in the 1960’s – by hopping a train. Non-trusting, uneducated, and violent, he spent another 18 years on the streets of Dallas and Fort Worth.
Meet Ron Hall, a self-made millionaire in the world of high priced art deals — concerned with fast cars, beautiful women, and fancy clothes.
And the woman who changed their lives — Miss Debbie: “The skinniest, nosiest, pushiest, woman I ever met, black or white.” She helped the homeless and gave of herself to all of “God’s People,” and had a way of knowing how to listen and helping others talk and be found – until cancer strikes.
The story takes a devastating twist when Deborah discovers she has cancer. Will Deborah live or die? Will Denver learn to trust a white man? Will Ron embrace his dying wife’s vision to rescue Denver? Or will Denver be the one rescuing Ron? There’s pain and laughter, doubt and tears, and in the end a triumphal story that readers will never forget.
RON HALL AND DENVER MOORE ARE AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEW.
Hardcover, ISBN 9780849900419, $19.99
Audio, ISBN 9780849963957, $16.99
Trade Paper, 9780849919107, $14.99, available March 11, 2008
Contact: Stephanie Newton
Publicist II
tel: (615) 902-2320
fax: (615) 902-2129
email: snewton@thomasnelson.com
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