The Other Thief by Frank McKinney Book Tour!

About the Book: 

Francis Rose, lead singer for a meteorically popular Christian rock band, has it all—fame, fortune, family, and deep faith. With the support of his loving wife, young daughter, and Down-syndrome blessed son, he’s gone from performing for an audience of 20 at his tiny Lutheran church in Keeler, Indiana, to selling out 20,000-seat arenas. His impact is global, soulful, and seemingly unstoppable. 

The seven deadly sins don’t stand a chance against a man of Francis’ character, morality, and faith. Or do they? Their alluring assault is relentless as Francis encounters each of them along his ascending path to superstardom. 
When the imagination of a writer, the expertise of a real-estate marketing guru, and the passion of a lover of Jesus cross-fertilize, the result is a novel on the order of The Other Thief.

About the Author: 

Frank McKinney is a true Renaissance man: a five-time bestselling author (in 4 genres), real estate “artist” (creates multi-million dollar oceanfront homes on speculation on the sun-drenched canvas of the Atlantic), actor, ultramarathoner, aspirational speaker. 

The mediagenic author has been featured in countless TV & print articles, including Oprah (twice), 20/20, and the cover of USA Today.  Frank’s other books include: The Tap, Dead Fred, Flying Lunchboxes, and the Good Luck Circle, Burst This! Frank McKinney’s Bubble-Proof Real Estate Strategies, Frank McKinney’s Maverick Approach to Real Estate and Make it Big! 49 Secrets for Building a Life of Extreme Success.

A “philanthro-capitalist,” Frank has made an enormous humanitarian impact in Haiti through his Caring House Project, where he has created 27 self-sufficient villages in 24 cities in the last 16 years, impacting the lives of 11,000+ children and their families. Frank, his wife, Nilsa, and their daughter, Laura make their home in Delray Beach, Florida, where Frank wrote The Other Thief in his oceanfront treehouse office.
Connect with Frank:   
Book website: http://www.TheOtherThief.com 
Author website: http://www.frank-mckinney.com/ 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/frank.mckinney.10 
Twitter: https://twitter.com/FrankMcKinney 
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/FrankMcKinney1 
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefrankmckinney/   

19 Facts about Frank!

1) On the first night when I arrived in Florida from Indiana as an 18 year-old without the hope of education beyond graduating high school with a 1.8 GPA, I slept under a pier because I didn’t have a place to stay. I chose the soft sand under the pier over the hard concrete of sleeping under a bridge.

The next day I began work as a golf course maintenance worker, waking at 4am to take a taxi from the pier to meet my coworkers. I was scared to death, and when I arrived I realized I was the only white person who would be working on that Deerfield Beach golf course. I worked amongst Haitians, and quickly earned the nickname “the white Haitian” because of my strong work ethic. I may believe in the welfare system, but I don’t believe in an entitlement mentality. I’ve never been afraid to work hard.

Fast forward to today, where, through our Caring House Project Foundation (CHPF.org), we’ve built 28 self-sufficient villages in 25 Haitian cities over the last 16 years. We’ve provided a self-sustaining existence to 12,000+ children and their families who were living in mud or tin shacks covered in palm fronds for a roof with rodents the size of cats running across their dirt floors.

Our Haiti villages contain 40-50 brightly pastel colored concrete homes for families of eight, a community center that houses a school, church and clinic, clean drinking water, renewable food and some form of free enterprise so the village can be self-reliant. In addition, we provide meals in our schools and orphanages (2 part protein, 1 part carbohydrate).

Knowing that for each copy of The Other Thief we sell we’ll be able to provide nearly 200 meals to the hungry children in our Haiti villages and orphanages made me anticipate the 70,000 words I would write with joy and purpose. As I was writing I often thought back to my Haitian coworkers on that golf course, and the deep love I still have for them and the place they came from.

2) Every word in The Other Thief was written in my oceanfront Treehouse office. I’d never written a book until I built it in 2001. Since then I’ve written six books in five genres. My treehouse has a spectacular oceanview out of 12 windows. It also has a shower, bathroom, sink, air-conditioning, hardwood floors, cedar walls, bamboo desk, loft with a king size bed, and a suspension bridge that connects to our master bedroom of the main house – all in a tiny 180 square feet! My wife Nilsa wouldn’t allow a stove or microwave because she said I’d never come home. I’m a firm believer in finding a space that draws out your creativity and ingenuity. I found mine.

3) I can tell what kind of person you are by the way you treat a waiter, busboy, custodian, maid or fast food clerk. Some people I thought I looked up to dashed my opinion, while others have become best friends because of how they make the invisible feel like they shine brighter than the brightest star.

4) I walked my daughter Laura to school 1,652 consecutive times from pre-k thru 8th grade. Rain, hail, heat or hurricane, for ten years, she NEVER sat in the back seat of a car to go to school. This is one of my most cherished memories and was the inspiration behind my young reader fantasy novel Dead Fred, Flying Lunchboxes and the Good Luck Circle.

5) I cry easily, usually tears of joy. Once, when I was watching The SpongeBob Movie with my daughter when she was little, I cried during the scene when it looked like Patrick and SpongeBob died. But they didn’t.

6) The jacket image of the The Other Thief took 6 months to design and finalize. Each of my last three book covers were painstakingly designed to look like a coming-attractions movie poster. The novel took me over a year to write. The reason it took so long is I went back and rewrote much of the middle and ending after receiving valuable input from my editor, her 24 year-old intern, and from an acclaimed filmmaker.

7)  My daily driver is a 1988 Yugo with 104,000 miles. Many of you reading this won’t know what a Yugo is, but I bet you’ll Google it. My hairdresser has a pair of scissors that cost more than my car (I’m not kidding – she has a $2,000 pair of scissors – the Yugo cost me $1,900). By the way, my Sunday driver is a 1992 convertible Yugo. There were only 72 brought into the U.S.

8) Speaking of hairdresser, I change my hair color every few months. Why not?

9) I’ve finished the Badwater 135-mile Ultramarathon in Death Valley 7 times, a race National Geographic calls the “toughest footrace in the world.” It runs 135-miles non-stop (48hr time limit) through the Death Valley desert in July and starts -282 feet below sea level. Air temperatures can exceed 130 degrees, and ground temps are 200+ degrees, as the race is run on blacktop pavement.

10) In my other life I’m a real estate “artist” where I create multi-million dollar oceanfront homes on speculation on the sun-drenched canvas of the Atlantic. It’s a life I’ve lived 10 years longer than that as an author.

11) I rarely order off the entrée menu when eating out. It’s either two apps or an app plus a salad. My favorite food is pizza and my favorite drink is a Shirley Temple or wheatgrass.

12) I was locked up in juvenile detention multiple times as a youth. It was such a terrifying and scarring experience that, a few times a year, I wake up in a cold sweat thinking I’m still there. Now I give talks at juvenile detention centers across the US and the “7 Deadly Sins | 7 Heavenly Virtues book tour in support of The Other Thief will be stopping at many.

13) I believe in exercising your risk tolerance like a muscle, eventually it will become stronger and be able to withstand greater pressure.

14) Each of us has been blessed with the ability to succeed at some level. Those successes aren’t meant to put more cars in your garage, clothes in your closet, or food in your pantries. They’re meant to assist those whose successes don’t match yours.

15) I’ve spent time with 5,000+ homeless people in the last 20 years. I’ve learned that most just want to be recognized, paid attention to, or acknowledged. Most are lucid, and evenly highly educated. Many are one paycheck away from being off the streets, while some of us could be one paycheck away from living on them.

16) New objects we desire (cars, clothes, jewelry, iPhones, etc) never return the same energy and emotion that we put into their pursuit and acquisition (the exception being your home). Experiences do it for me. The simplest things bring me great joy; walking up and down each aisle in the grocery store in amazement at all my choices and holding hands come to mind.  

17) As a kid in the woods of Indiana I would imagine I was Robin Hood. I had my band of merry men (ok, boys). Now, while I don’t steal from the rich (see #5 above) I sell to them and take the proceeds and give to the poor (see #1 above). I guess I became him.

18) I once participated in a demolition derby. I came in third and won 20 pounds of ground hamburger. 

19) I proposed to my wife of 28 years by taking her to a fine dining restaurant in Boca Raton (out of my league, both the restaurant and Nilsa). I blindfolded her at the end of dinner, put her in the car and pretended to drive for miles (we really just drove in circles). I got her out, and switched on a huge, super-powerful Hollywood searchlight and told her to take off her blindfold. The light was so bright she couldn’t see the banner I had scaled a 140’ water tower to hang that read “Nilsa Will You Marry Me?” Thank God the statute of limitations has run on criminal trespassing. When she didn’t answer I threatened to climb back up and jump. Little did I know it took her eyes 3 minutes to adjust. Once they did, she said “Yes.”