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January 5 - Rachel turns 16. This is fine but it means in just weeks, count them -- weeks, Ms. Rachel will try out for the driver's license. Send wine for this one.
January 31 - Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral is released. How wonderful is this? Keep watching for details on events, signings and something really fabulous - Radish and her traveling funeral.
Join Kris at one of these fabulous events as she travels throughout the country with the women in Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral.
February 1 - Martha Merrell's Books & Café - Waukesha, Wisconsin - 6 p.m. dinner - 7 p.m. event and signing.
262-547 -1060
February 2 - Books & Company - Oconomowoc, Wisconsin - 7 p.m.
262-567-0106
February 3 - Kris rests her lips.
February 6 - Vero Beach Book Center - Vero Beach, Florida - 6 p.m.
772-569-1153
February 7 - Women and Children First - Chicago, Illinois - 7:30 p.m.
773-769-9299
February 8 - Book Case - Wayzata, Minnesota - 7 p.m.
952-473-8341
February 9-11 - Sagebrush research with wise desert women - Susan Wasson & Company.
February 12 - Bookworks - Albuquerque, New Mexico - 3 p.m. - event and tea
505-344-8139
February 13 - San Francisco, California - Book Passage - 1 p.m. - lunch event - Barnes & Noble, Walnut Creek - 7:30 p.m. - event and signing.
Book Passage - 415-927-0973 Barnes & Noble -925-947-0373
February 14 - San Francisco, California - Private Event and Lunch
February 15 - Seattle, Washington - Costco Signing - 11 a.m. - Third Place Books - 7 p.m.
Costco - 206-542-0496 Third Place Books - 206-366-3316
February 16 - Mequon, Wisconsin - Schwartz Bookshop - 7 p.m. - event and signing
262-241-6220
February 21 - Bay View, Wisconsin - Schwartz Bookshop - 7 p.m. - event and signing
414-481-3401
February 27 - Madison, Wisconsin - 7 p.m. - event and signing
608 - 232-2600
February 28 - Kris washes clothes, dusts off her office computer, drinks coffee all day and gets ready for March events.
March 7 - Daughter's road test at 8:50 a.m. Keep eyes posted for fast red car.
March 11 - Son heads out for state chess tourney with his good luck bandana, 16 sandwiches and his mother's smart mouth.
March 23 - Kris joins numerous book clubs at Martha Merrell's in downtown Waukesha for a fun and lively discussion about Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral. 7 p.m. 262-547-1060
March 26 - The spirit of Annie Freeman and Kris travel to Madison for an apppeareance, signing, discussion and who knows what else at A Room of One's Own - 608-257-7888. The fun starts at 2 p.m. and could last for hours.
March 27-29 - Kris washes two months worth of clothing, cleans out frig, washes car, changes sheets, cleans office and sighs before doing final edits on fourth novel - The Sunday List of Dreams. Donations of wine are always welcome.
April 22 - Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral goes into its third printing…!! Annie continues to break hearts and make readers laugh all over the place. Go Annie…~!
May 6 - Kris will be the keynote speaker for Wisconsin Regional Writer's Association spring conference in Appleton, Wisconsin where she will no doubt be talking about the perils and joys of creating characters who can crawl under the table and bite your ankles.
May 8 - High School scholar athlete banquet - whooo! Both kids get good grades and can hit balls with their feet (soccer-Rachel) and a racquet (tennis-Andrew.)
May 10 -14 - A wild and wonderful research trip to Honduras (Kris is hoping anyway) that will become part of the fifth novel - which is coming along at a rapid and riotous pace.
May 22 - Kris braces for next month's high school graduation of her first born by attending the senior honors awards night. Please pass the tissue.
May 24 - Book club discussion with hard working women from the East Coast.
June 4 - Son Andrew graduates. The college bills begin arriving. Kris cries all day and tells stories about when son put things in his ears and she changed his diapers.
June 16 - Children leave for foreign country where they will wow audiences with their acting, singing, wiseacre comments and back home the bathroom will stay clean until they return.
June 24 - Signing of every single book Kris ever published and any other ones she wants to sign at Relatively Wilde - 42 South Broadway, Denver, Colorado 1-3 p.m. - 1- 866-77WILDE. This promises to be VERY wild.
June 24 - Signing, Discussion, Questions and Answers - and who knows what else at Hooked On Books - 440 Fourth Street - Castle Rock, Colorado - 4 p.m. - 1-303-688-1186. Please pass the wine and bring the entire book club.
June 27 - Annie Freeman and Kris Dance Naked at McClean & Eakin Booksellers, 307 E. Lake Street, Petosky, Michigan - 7 p.m. - 231-347-1180.
June 28 - Book signing, discussion, questions - A Radish Affair, Saturn Booksellers, 133 W. Main Street, Gaylord, Michigan - 6 p.m. - 989-732-8899
June 29 - Horizon Books, 243 E. Front Street, Traverse City, Michigan, hosts Kris in a special evening of Radish books and stories beginning at 7 p.m. - 234 E. Front Street - Traverse City, Mi. - 231-946-7290.
July 9 - Bantam Dell Book Club Author Chat via phone to Ohio. Check home page to see how this works and hop on board. These discussions are lively, fun, and very intimate.
July 15 - Chicagoland private party and book signing that includes wild croquet game and a very large amount of laughter.
July 17 - Bantam Dell Book Club to Virginia.
July 18 - Book chat with one of the longest running book clubs in Nebraska. Wow.
July 19 - Bantam Book Chat to Massachusetts.
July 20 - Kris attends wild wedding of her former boss, Jim Balistreri, where she worked as a long-legged waitress and where she and her pal, Char, put dark beer into coffee cups at the end of the Friday night shifts.(Well - okay - every shift)
July 26 - Kris begins watching calendar to see when teenage daughter goes back to school and son packs up for college following the 27th poker party and sleepover of the summer.
August 5 - Cigar Babes Honduras trip reunion….alert police officials.
August 10 - Book Club chat with the lively YaYa Bookies in Arlington, Texas.
August 14 - Book Chat with the Lundi book women in St. Louis.
August 16 - Son Andrew begins three-week process of cleaning out his basement suite before packing whatever is left for college.
August 23 - Book signing and presentation with Annie Freeman and friends at Barnes and Noble - Racine, Wisconsin - 7 p.m. - 262-598-9757 - 2710 S. Green Bay Rd.
August 24 - Muskego Public Library, Muskego, Wisconsin - Kris will join summer Dancing Naked at the Edge of Dawn readers in a Dancing Naked celebration that will include a reading, discussion and questions and answers. 7 p.m.- S73-W16663 Janesville Road. - 262-971-2105 - Every brave soul welcome - naked or not.
August 30 - Son Andrew moves to the dorm room. Please pass the tissues.
September 6-10 - Arizona Traveling Funeral Tour - Signings and Events details coming in August.
September 9 - Kris joins the Women's Network Exchange of Arizona as the speaker for their 7th Annual Women's Conference in Lake Havasu city, Arizona - tickets available - 928-505-8612.
September 14 - Women Inspiring Women - Kris will be the speaker for the fall kickoff for the woman's networking and empowering event sponsored by the law firm of O'Neil, Cannon, Hollman, DeJong which focuses on Dreams, Determination and Devotion… and really good dry wine to keep you going "until you get there" and a hell of a laugh - Kris is quick to add.
September 14 - Ale of a Good Book Club - chat on Pawley's Island.
September 28-29 - Kris attends Midwest Bookseller's Association convention in Minneapolis signing and gabbing all the way.
October 1 - Son Andrew turns 19 and must endure the 19th telling of the day he was a born story and was a breach - c-section emergency delivery. Bad, bad boy. Happy birthday you little sweetheart.
October 4 - Kris has her annual mammogram. If you don't get one - get one. If you do - good luck. Consider it a gift to yourself. Get going.
October 10 - Book chat with Prescott, Arizona book club.
October 16 - Surprise Book Club chat.
October 17 - Plainfield Public Library - phone chat. Kris loves her libraries.
October 18 - Lively book chat with Super Moms Book Club in Virginia.
October 19 - Book Club Chat - Please bring your own wine.
October 29 - Daughter Rachel plays her last club soccer match - pray it does not snow.
November 6 - Dress rehearsal for The Crucible. Mom gets nervous.
November 9 - Big event..~! Cigar Babes Fundraiser for Honduras School. Kris and her fellow Cigar Babes host "Treasure Island Fantasy Eve" with proceeds going to help build a school. Open to the public - call 262-646-7530 for tickets.
November 10-11 - Kris participates in The Ultimate Readers Retreat in Kohler, Wisconsin. This weekend event features lots of authors. Check out www.schwartzbooks.com for all the wonderful details.
November 15 - Travel to New York via phone for a chat with the Hilton Book Club.
November 23 - Someone cooks a turkey. Let's eat out…~!!)
December 1 - Drop in book signings at the following stores: Books & Books, Miami Beach, Fl. - 305-864-4241; Books & Books, Coral Gables, Fl., 305-442-4408; Barnes & Noble, Coral Gables, Fl., 305-446-4152.
December 2 - Research somewhere surrounded by water. Guess where and you will receive a bag of sand.
December 12 - Kris's dad, Dick Radish, turns 80 and even though he still has a great head of hair the gray color belongs to his oldest daughter - yes, that would be Kris. Kiss, kiss, daddie-o.
December 23 - Son Andrew arrives home from the University of Wisconsin - Madison for semester break. Please pass the food and laundry detergent.
December 25 - Holiday festivities at Grandma Radish's house. Think great food. Good wine. The counting of many blessings.
December 31 - Private New Year's Eve book reading in Chicago area.
January 1 - Ya-Who. Twenty-two more days until the release of The Sunday List of Dreams.
January 5 - Daughter Rachel turns 17. Mothers throw surprise birthday party. Well it was a surprise.
January 6 - Pat and Dick Radish celebrate 56 years of marriage. Is this wonderful or what?
January 22 - The day before The Sunday List of Dreams is released.
JANUARY 23 - THE SUNDAY LIST OF DREAMS IS READY FOR YOU TO READ.
January 23 - Book launch at Books & Company - Oconomowoc, Wisconsin - 262-567-0106 - 7 p.m.
January 31 - Martha Merrell's Books - Waukesha, Wisconsin - 262-547-1060 - 7 p.m. (This event was filled last year - Come early to start dreaming….)
February 2 - Anderson's Bookshop - Naperville, Illinois - 630-820-2802 - 7 p.m.
February 3 - Books & Co., Dayton, Ohio - 937-429-6302 - 2 p.m.
February 4 - Joseph-Beth Booksellers - Cincinnati, Ohio - 513-731-7770 - 1 p.m.
February 5 - Books-A-Million, Jacksonville Beach, Florida - 904-273-8055 - 7 p.m.
February 6 - Vero Beach Book Center - Vero Beach, Florida - 772-569-2050 - 7 p.m.
February 7 - Tattered Cover - Highlands Ranch - Denver, Colorado - 303-322-1965 - 7:30 p.m.
February 8 - Third Place Books - Seattle, Washington - 206-366-3316 - 7 p.m.
February 9 - Powell's Books - Portland, Oregon - 503-228-4651 - 7:30 p.m.
February 10 - Kris returns to Wisconsin to wash her clothes and take a short nap.
February 13 - Borders Books - Madison, Wisconsin - 608-232-2600 - 7 p.m.
February 18 - Bookworks - Albuquerque, New Mexico - 505-344-8139 - 3 p.m.
February 19 - More sagebrush research with Susan Wasson & Company - Literary Goddess.
February 21 - Schwartz Books - Bayview, Wisconsin - 414-481-3401 - 7 p.m.
February 26 - Book Chat via the phone with Burlington, Wisconsin readers - 7 p.m.
February 27 - Schwartz Books - Mequon, Wisconsin - 262-241-6220 - 7 p.m.
February 28 - A really long Kris nap…..and back to the writing….!~
March 5 - Kris goes to hit golf balls for the first time on a golf simulator. Please duck.
March 6 - Opening night for the big play -- The Chorus Line. Daughter Rachel plays Val - yes, she's the sexy one.
March 13 - Cigar Babes salsa dance night. Send photographers.
March 15 - Second golf lesson with pro Margie Muzik in the covered Chicago area dome. Let's hope it helps.
March 20 - CD release party in Chicago for Sunday List of Dreams CD produced, written and sung by Linda Smith who was inspired by The Sunday List of Dreams.
March 24 - 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. - Kris will be the featured author at the WOMENSPACE event held at Barnes and Noble Bookstore - 6685 East State Street - Rockford, Ill - 815-399-3410 - open to the public.
March 29 - Son Andrew's spring break begins -- prepare the washing machine.
April 5 - Book Phone Chat with Novel Ideas Bookstore in Door County, Wisconsin.
April 7 - Daughter Rachel's spring break begins - prepare the refrigerator.
April 8 - Rachel accompanies author mother on a hopefully sane and fun and not too wild research trip to a location with a beach, flush toilets and a secret adventure or two. Watch the police reports and watch out for the Easter bunny - she is a wild thing.
April 10 - Time to make the six-month appointment for an extra left breast mammogram.
April 13 -15 - Come join Kris at the Kohler Spa for a dinner, talk, book signing and hours of soothing fun. Check out www.destinationkohler.com, click on spa events and there you go. Call 1-800-344-2838 for details. This is a fabulous resort and event. Fun and relaxation is guaranteed.
April 19 - Back to see golf specialist and teacher extraordinnaire Margie Muzik in Chicago where we will hopefully be out of the dome and outside hitting the living hell out of those little white balls. (Margie is sooo patient with Radishes.)
April 20 - One more brutal day of golf work this time with Sharon Smith of Fore Fitness & Rehabilitation in Evanston. Sharon specializes in sports performance training and is a physical therapist. She is a golf miracle worker. Details in the next letter unless she kicks me out.
April 21 - Did I mention it's soccer season? Games all weekend. Go Rachel.
April 22 - Happy Earth Day. Plant something. Pick up garbage. Salute Al Gore.
April 26 - Birthday book club chat to Baltimore.
May 1 - Radish heads to Central America for more research for her sixth novel. Think jungle, bushes, plants and scared locals.
May 15 - Ohio Barnes and Noble book club phone chat.
May 18-20 - Radish Family reunion in Lakewood, Wisconsin -- alert the Highway Patrol.
May 22 - Another golf lesson with Queen Margie and another workout with Sharon. Yes - something about golf will be coming up in a novel…….you got me.
May 31 - June 3 - Kris attends Book Expo America in New York. Details en-route. Hang on kids.
June 4 - Benefit book club appearance for Roger's Memorial Hospital.
June 11 - Rachel heads to Spain - yes, the country Spain, for Spanish (duh) emersion trip and an abroad experience for a broad-to-be.
July 11 - Mother Radish takes daughter Rachel on her first college campus visit. Let the games begin.
July 16 - Kris catches the Lake Michigan Lake Express boat at the crack of dawn in route to her Michigan tour. She will boldly try and golf after driving and not sleeping this very afternoon.
July 17 - The Sunday List of Dreams comes to life at Saturn Booksellers - 133 W. Main Street - Gaylord, Michigan - This event was standing room only last year and very much fun. Call 989-732-8899. The event starts at 5 p.m. and afterwards there is a beauty pageant behind the store - honest. Talk about a perfect evening.
July 18 - Sunday List moves to Petoskey, Michigan at McLean & Eakin Booksellers for an evening of dream sharing, lively discussion and more than a few surprises. This event was also packed last year so get there early for a front row seat and to count the new lines on the Radish face since year. This fabulous store is at 307 E. Lake Street - 231-347-1180
July 25 - Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral phone chat to Northern Wisconsin book club.
July 26 - Golfarama day in Chicago. Kris works on her short game (Thank Heavens) with patient golf pro Margie Muzik. Margie will also be helping Kris work with her NEW golf clubs which Kris loves so much she keeps them next to her bed.
July 27 - Day Two of Chicago Golfarama continues with the also ever-patient golf fitness expert Sharon Smith, president of Fore Fitness and Rehabilitation, actually being bold enough to play golf with The Radish after a work session.
August 3 - Annual Chicago Summer Private Party in Chicago suburb where Kris will discuss her work and do a summer reading. This is a private party but at least you know where she will be that day.
August 11 - Kris and her manager/partner Madonna hit the high seas of Lake Michigan with friends for a day of charter fishing and most likely a little sea sickness.
August 15 - First of what will be many golf playoffs with Radish's golfer girls - Sharon and Margie at a Southern Wisconsin golf resort. The Radish lost a bet and will be wearing what she is told to wear all day long as she caddies for her golf experts. This may be a long, long, long day.
August 17 - son Andrew moves into his first-ever college apartment in Madison, Wisconsin as he begins his second year of college. Alleluia….~!!!!!
September 4 - First day of school. Please pass the wine.
September 7 - Daughter's first varsity tennis match. No yelling allowed.
September 9 - Fall soccer season starts - again. Get out the chairs and blankets.
September 13 - The Sunday List of Dreams phone chat with wild Midwestern book club.
Sept. 14-19 - New Mexico research trip.
September 18 - Happy birthday to me - yet again.
September 20 - Cigar Babes fall cookout with cigar selling Maria.
September 28 - Private Book Event with a fabulous group of Northern Wisconsin women.
September 29 - Reading, discussion, signing The Sunday List of Dreams, Thyme Worn Treasures, 30 Main Street, Rice Lake, Wisconsin - 715-736-0233 - 10 a.m.
October 1 - Son Andrew turns 20 and what a cute wonderful young man. No, he was not switched at birth.
October 13-14 - Schwartz Books Readers Retreat - Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
Nov. 1 - Cigar Babes fundraiser for Honduras school.
Nov. 2-3 - College scouting trip with daughter Rachel to Chicago.
Nov. 6 - Phone book chat with Wisconsin book club - Dancing Naked for sure..!
Nov. 7 - Kris has her own annual gynecological visit -- Have you had yours yet this year?
Nov. 10-17 - Bye-bye Wisconsin, as Kris heads to a place where people mostly speak Spanish for a little research and okay, maybe one Pina Colada.
Nov. 22 - Thanksgiving dinner will be cooked, and Kris and Co. will see if they can NOT start the dining room table on fire this year. Yes, it really happened.
Dec. 9- 12 - Trip to the Big Apple to meet with agents, editors and all the wonderful marketing and public relations darlings at Bantam Dell. Daughter Rachel gets to come along and have a big city college interview…today Oconomowoc - tomorrow the world.
December 19 - Son Andrew arrives home for holiday break. Stock up on meat, potatoes, veggies and no pizza please.
December 25 - Santa arrives late as the babies sleep in, and then it's a haul over to grandma and grandpa's for snacks, drinks with a kick, a few presents, and the blessing of having everyone around one more lively year.
Dec. 28-30 - The children agree to spend several days in a remote cabin in what could be one of the last family trips for a very long time. Think ice fishing, movies, pasta on the stove and Kris sobbing as her babies fly like the wind.
December 31 - Book talk, champagne, laughter and who knows what else at a private Chicagoland party.
January 11 - Photo shoot with Kris and the totally talented Deone Jahnke who always manages to make Kris look much, much better than she really does.
January 25-27 - BookMania! In Stuart, Florida, as Kris joins a select group of authors participating in a fabulous annual library foundation fundraiser for the Martin County Library System. Check out www.library.martin.fl.us.
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