Letters Books Paradise Author Events Readers Photos Reviews Press Home   Host an Author Chat with your book group! Bantam Dell now offers Author Chat, a program that provides book clubs the opportunity to have a featured author participate in an upcoming meeting via telephone. Interested? Click here for the sign-up form, schedule of participating authors, and official requirements. I'd like to invite anyone who wants to connect with other Radish Readers to check out this new forum, The Radish Room, that was started recently by a group of lively, wonderful, fun and very welcoming women. You will need to register, but there is no charge to join. I will be popping in and out of the site on a regular basis myself in between writing my fifth novel (which is going WELL~~~!), running herd on my household, making appearances, and trying to figure out how to re-seed the front yard. The women hosting and moderating the site are doing this on their own, independent from my website, and while I focus on my work -- writing, writing, and writing some more, if you would like to chat with fellow readers they would love to hear from you. As time permits I may put my forum back up....but first, the next chapter awaits. Visit The Radish Room and join in! What is YOUR Sunday List of Dreams? Read what others have listed... My readers are the fuel that keeps me firing out words. The poetic, poignant and always from-the-heart messages I receive are a remarkable affirmation for me. This reader's page is for each one of you. Send me your stories and if you are into sharing them -- let me know and we'll tell the world. Enjoy -- and just a word of caution -- you may need a tissue. I just finished reading "Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral" - fantastic! The moment I finished it I went on Amazon and sent copies to 3 of my closest friends. I cannot wait for them to arrive and be read so we can enjoy the book together. I'm not sure that all of my friends could get along for a week on the road - they're too different - but that's what makes my life richer. I am now working on "Dancing Naked at the Edge of Dawn". Thank you! Thanks for your books. I am 44 and looking at completely changing my life. Your books helped me pinpoint the almost exact moment in time that I gave my life away. I am ready to take it back. Thank you, Teri I just finished reading all about Annie. Wow. I lost my mom March 7, 2005, my dad May 21, 2005 and my bestest brother December 28, 2005. I cannot tell you what this book meant to me. I cried and cried and laughed and wished for such an adventure. We are off to California to scatter my brother's ashes in June.. I will be thinking of Annie and her friends. Your books have touched something in my life. They have made me think long and hard about my life and what I have missed. Dear Kris, I have just this second finished Dancing Naked at the Edge of Dawn and my heart is so full that I am incoherent, but I trust you will sense the spirit of my wonder and gratitude wafting gently to you like the jungle breeze. We spend so much energy keeping ourselves small for fear of being rejected ("You're getting a little too big for your britches, missy!) and yet all the while there are Elizabeths and Dr. C's and Carol Kimbals who are watching and waiting and silently chanting, Hurry up, baby, hurry up. Inscribed on my heart, I have a list of women who have appeared in my life perfectly punctually, starting with my high school English teacher who believed in my greatness, and ending with you, who believes in all women's greatness. Thank you, Thank you, a million times Thank you. Today I found Annie at the local library and I am almost finished reading. I don't think there are words to express what I have felt while reading this book. Both my mother, and aunt (her sister) have died of ovarian cancer. My sister of leukemia. I have friends who have battled and are battling cancer. To say I hate it is an understatement. My mother died 8 years ago this past February. 3 1/2 hours before her 65th birthday. Up until today I hadn't REALLY grieved. I had cried, but while reading your book, I let loose. I cried so hard and loud, I thought my heart was breaking all over again and the neighbors would hear. I am crying as I write this. The pain is still so raw. I've hugged my sisters while they've cried, but hadn't cried myself until tonight. I just wanted to Thank You for a book I will most definitely be passing on. And for helping me. You are a gift from above and I am forever grateful that you have chosen to share your gift with the world. Sincerely, A New Fan I have never been so moved by a book. I just finished reading Dancing Naked.... My husband died two years ago. I spent my whole life afraid of being alone….I started to underline phrases but there were too many. Words to live by from the front of your book "sometimes it takes the shock of your lifetime to get you to start living". Thank you for your book. The more I read of your books the more I longed for freedom but it seemed to elude me at every turn. After I finished "The Elegant Gathering..." I slowly began to look inside. I realized I would never walk anywhere until I addressed 'my secret'. I am a drug addict. Of course because my drugs were written for me from a Dr. and I purchased them at a squeaky clean well lit pharmacy…. I discovered since quitting pills just over 8 days ago and joining NA and meeting other wonderful women just like myself, that I am not different at all…Thank you for inspiring me and if you wish to post this letter on your site you have my permission because if my journey can help another woman, it will be all the more powerful. Today my friend passed on your new book. Seven months ago my only sibling, a sister, was killed in a horrendous car accident. Her husband survived. The thing is...I haven't been surviving very well. The new book, Kris, holds exactly the words I needed to hear from someone else. It is as though you have been living inside my head. I've had a whole lot of trouble with living "today". Your words...well, your words are just right. I haven't finished the book and it doesn't matter where it ends. What matters is the message you sent me. Every day is a new beginning. Thank you for having such a great impact on my life. Oh, God, how I needed to read those words I am a therapist who specializes in working with people around issues of divorce. I read your book, "Dancing Naked at the Edge of Dawn" Having just finished it, I know that I am going to add it to my list of recommended readings on my website and will suggest that many of my clients read it. Dear Kris, Your book EG has made a profound affect on my life. I am now reading it for the 3rd time in 3 weeks....and I never reread a book!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am in the process of asking 7 other women to also read the book. When each one finishes, we will discuss it and I will give them a stone. I have 7 stones so far. I have asked two women, one said yes, the other said she was too busy right now. I am not sure who will be the 7 women, but I know there will be a group of us What a wonderful book!!!! I just finished it and hope to be dancing one day in the near future. Your book gave me hope that there is a life, alone, after a divorce (which is what I'm contemplating). I hope I can be as brave as "Meg" and move on and just not exist as I am WOW.....you somehow got into my head when you were writing this book. This book is just blowing me away...I am reading it so slowly to catch every word and thought that passes Meg by. I just absolutely LOVE this book. The best I have read in a long time. Every middle aged women should read it. I started reading Dancing Naked while visiting my closest friend this summer.. thank you thank you thank you……and where were you 25 yrs ago when I lost me! I have been on a journey back for quite awhile, and you just gave me the final kick in the ass. Thank you thank you thank you. I will buy your books for every female in my life from my mom to friends & daughters (I have sons and brothers). Can I buy them by the case?????? Seriously. THIS ONE IS FROM A MAN... For two nights now my wife has been standing watch over a dear friend struggling with the many demons of her life and I took this time to read. The book I picked up was 'Dancing Naked at the Edge of Dawn". I did three chapters last night and rest tonight. In its pages I was visited by my own mother and three sisters and all the other women who have been central in my life. My eyes ache from tears and I am sure I scared the cats to death with my sudden fits of laughter. Your books are like cheap therapy...and I mean that with respect and admiration. I am beginning to regain the strength to move forward...it's been a long time. I see a sign at the end of my house's driveway which is actually an utility easement. I can read it right now. It says "ROAD ENDS." This is not where I want my road to end. Thanks for your insight and your incredible way with words. Your book has made me think again. I am not alone. There are others out there. I am not a cruel woman, wife or mother. For my daughter, I must find the true me again, my spirit is out there somewhere. Thank you for writing this book. My angels pointed me to it and I am grateful. After reading about the Reverse Bridal Shower, a wonderful idea came to me! I'm going to send one of your books to 10 - 15 of my friends with an anonymous note telling them to, after reading the book, wrap up something that signifies their own personal point of freedom. Then meet at a retreat center near us on a specified night to share their story and gift with the group. I know it will be powerful and change all of our perspectives and relationships in a wonderful way. Thank you so very much!! I am 46, and on the verge of allowing myself to start over, on my own with just my dog, Molli.. It's been a scary thought, but I know I can do it! I own both novels, "Gathering....and Dancing......" and simply cannot wait until your next is in my hands, and before my eyes! You have blessed my very spirit with great encouragement in your amazing books! Every woman should read them, and let her soul soar to the heights she was meant to travel! I am deep into Dancing Naked and I must let you know you have made my brain and soul bulimic. I am regurgitating 25 years of crap and stuffing myself with new ideas -- and some not so new, just forgotten. I hope I can keep them inside awhile while I learn to think outside of my suburb.
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