Random House has announced American Idol fifth-season winner Taylor Hicks’ memoir “Heart Full of Soul” will be released on Tuesday, July 10.

The 30-year-old Birmingham, AL-native signed the deal with Random House’s Crown imprint early last August.

At the time, the New York Post reported Hicks was paid an estimated $750,000 advance for the memoir, adding it was ghostwritten by David Wild, whose previous work has appeared in Rolling Stone.

The 272-page book is described as an “inspirational memoir about finding your voice and finding your way.”

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Taylor will be appearing at Six Flags Over Georgia on June 28th!!!! It is part of a concert series which will also feature Teddy Geiger and Cheyenne (June 21), Cartel (July 5), Jordan Pruitt and The Jonas Brothers (July 12), Bobby Valentino and Paula DeAnda (July 26) and Ryan Cabrera and Click Five (August 9).

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I can say that Taylor has been my favorite winner of the show by far. I hope he maintains his down to earth personality and demeanor with all the publicity and media attention.

Bob Sassone at TV Squad doesn’t seem to be too excited about the book. I don’t expect to see him lined up at Border’s for the autograph session next Spring when the book is released.

Is there anything about Hicks that we don’t already know from all of the interviews he’s given and all of the family and behind the scenes stuff we’ve seen on Idol?

This article in People gives even more information about the deal, and more interesting to me is that the Alabama Department of Tourism and Travel is taking a step to market their American Idol successes:

Rounding out Hicks’s multimedia presence, the singer – already a pitchman in Ford TV commercials – will appear alongside fellow Idols from Alabama Ruben Studdard (another winner) and Bo Bice (a finalist) on a new billboard from the state’s Bureau of Tourism and Travel.

The billboards will feature photos of the three and the message, “Where America finds its voice. Alabama,” the Associated Press reports.

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