You sound pretty angry. Let me just give you some information so you can hopefully let that go.

First of all, yes of course we mentioned the charity and information about it is included in our book. That was our whole intention in creating the book-to give the proceeds to a charity. We did not write the book in order to make money at all. It was a labor of love, and a great learning experience for both of us.

Unfortunately, the book has not yet made any money, therefore there has been no money to give. As authors we are still in debt to the publishers. There is no guarantee that anything you do will reap financial reward, but I don’t believe that should prevent you from at least trying. Other than organizing some basic interviews, our publishers were not interested in promoting our book. There was no book tour arranged. They did not have any budget set aside for promotion of our book. I think they printed it merely because they inherited it and we were half way through writing it when they bought the company that originally signed us.

The book signings we did were organized by Margie and myself (at our own cost) and although they did very well, they did not create enough sales to pay back what the publishers spent in making and printing the book. In fact, I personally paid out of my own pocket for an outside publicist to also work on our book. She helped with our LA book signing and she organized a lot of interviews for me (and sometime David too) within the music industry. Margie did her part by getting interviews from the cookbook realm, as she had written a few cookbooks prior to ours. In the end, it just didn’t go and become the great success we had all hoped for.

So there you go. I think you owe me, my co-author, and the musicians who contributed and/or participated in book signings, an apology. Everybody involved gave freely of their time… hoping to be able to make a difference. And maybe we weren’t able to pass on a big check to our designated charity, but we were able to put some smiles on peoples faces (obviously not yours!). So in no way do I consider it a failure. I’m still very proud of it and grateful I was able to participate in it.

I don’t get it.

Did you actually sell this idea based on the fundraiser you never gave any of the money to? That’s like me going door to door in the name of MDA and asking for donations. Giving interviews and booksignings … did you two mention the charity you were suppose to give money to in order to advertise this p.o.s.?

I am just shocked.

I mean honestly if you hadn’t of thrown in the charity and then been blonde enough with the admission that you didn’t give them any money… the book might have been more interesting and more accepted.

What a stupid and shitty thing to do.

You owe them a fucking check.