Letters Books Paradise Author Events Readers Photos Reviews Press Home   Dear Radish Elves, I know. I know. It's like the holiday season, or Christmas, or whatever is the politically correct thing to call DECEMBER but all I can think of is that December is the month before January and on January 23 The Sunday List of Dreams will be in your hands. Can you tell I am excited or what? Oh my gosh. When you are a writer, it's like you put all your energy and thoughts and soul juice and passion and everything you are into the writing and then all of this other stuff happens and you start on the next book and then holy cow -- the book is about to come out and so many things are spinning at once. The best thing that happens for me is that you will soon be able to read this book. You will be able to meet Connie and her daughters and her best friend and hold her hand on a journey that I hope will touch you in ways that can clear a path for your own passion. The Sunday List of Dreams will be available January 23 and if you check out my appearances you will see that I am going to be covering the country like a rocket to introduce you to Connie and everyone else in this book. If you can -- oh please~! -- I hope you can come see me and spend a little time with the book's genesis on my tour. I also want to remind you that I will continue to be doing book talks via the phone and you can sign up for one of these on this very website. Speaking of that, my web woman, Beth Tindall, and I, will have a new look for you next month. Call it a little kick in the pants, but I think you will like what we are doing. I am also going to ask you to start thinking about your own dreams -- and to watch the site for a chance to win something and a chance to share how you reached your own dreams….because that is what it is all about baby. While Sunday List has been preparing itself for your lovely eyes, I have been working hard on Searching for Paradise in Parker, PA, which will be out in January of 2008. Wow. This book is taking me to me to a new place and as I refine it's final moments I am already hearing you laugh and watching you smile as you turn its pages. I am busy. My October mammogram was a gift of chance and hope. I have a few cysts which we will shine a light on again in May and I followed those tests up with my first ever colonoscopy -- have you done this yet??????? It's a breeze from what I can remember and such an easy way to make certain you are safe. Do it or I will come take you by the hand myself and drag you to the hospital and stay in the room. Do you hear me now? In just a few days I am off to Miami for a series of book signings and then to a WARM spot out in the ocean someplace for a little research for the novel after Parker. If you guess the location before it shows up in the novel I will send you a jar of sand. While I am jotting down notes I'll also be preparing for my tour, going though Sunday List for some readings and revisiting all the alleys and streets and hearts that fill the pages of this very spicy, and I think lovely, novel. Today the greatest thing -- a wonderful profile of me in Publisher's Weekly -- that's the Nov. 27th edition if you can find one at the bookstore or library. The writer, Claire Kirch, did a great job and I consider it quite an honor to be in the magazine. Thanksgiving was great -- we cooked here and nothing burned down. Andrew, my son, was home for four days from college -- and he brought along like 12 loads of wash. I was tempted to throw some away so I wouldn't see it all again during his December break. Rachel is in dance class for her role in The Chorus Line and playing soccer on about 35 teams and looking for a part-time job to feed her clothes, make-up, and coffee habit. Good luck sweetheart. Please stay tuned to the website for book talks, new appearances, your dream come true and whatever else may show up here that will surprise us all. Have a wonderful holiday season and that will happen if you pause, let something go, say something you have been meaning to say and look into the winter sky and see the beginning of everything. Happy days.... Always,
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