AUSTIN (AP) -- When he's not busy with his day job, Governor Rick Perry is zipping around the state and the country for his new gig -- book author.
This past week found the Republican governor in Abilene and Tyler to speak about and sign his book, "On My Honor: Why the American Values of the Boy Scouts Are Worth Fighting For."
Other recent stops have been in Fort Worth and Houston. Coming soon: Lufkin, Beaumont, Woodville and beyond. Along the way, Perry talks about the virtues of Scouting and what he describes as a "culture war" on the Scouts and traditional values. Perry is a former Eagle Scout and formally launched the book tour in February.
Perry plans to attend a Republican gathering in San Diego this month to promote the book. He has been invited to a meeting in North Carolina. And he's looking to pump up sales at the Republican state convention in June in Houston and the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., in September.
Neither the governor's office nor the book's publisher, Stroud & Hall of Macon, Ga., are saying yet how many of the books have sold or how much money the book has brought in. Net proceeds will be earmarked for the Irving-based Boy Scouts.
