2010-10-24T16:02:00.000-07:00

OUT OCTOBER 1, 2011 FROM PARACLETE PRESS:

SHIRT OF FLAME: A YEAR WITH ST. THÉRÈSE OF LISIEUX

Middle-aged ex-lawyer, sober drunk, Catholic convert, resident of 2009 Koreatown, Los Angeles, "walks" for a year with cloistered French Carmelite nun who died of TB in 1897, at the age of 24, with no pain medication, crying "I love Him!"

AND INTRODUCING MY BLOG:

SHIRT OF FLAME:
Musings on Los Angeles, Divine Intoxication, The Writing Life, and the Thin Line Between Passion and Pathology

CATHOLICS AT WORK
APRIL BREAKFAST MEETING
TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 2011, 7 a.m.
CROW CANYON COUNTRY CLUB
711 SILVER LAKE DRIVE
DANVILLE, CA 94526
Guest Speaker Heather King
"The Pearl of Great Price: Courage To Face Our Fears And Follow Our Passion"
$20 for members, $25 for non-members catholicsatwork.org

May 10-18, 2011
MARIANIST NOVITIATE BERGAMO CENTER FOR LIFELONG LEARNING
MT. ST. JOHN DAYTON, OHIO
I will be wandering around looking at the wildflowers, a guest of the good brothers' courtesy of my novice friend Brandon Paluch.

JULY 16-23, 2011 I'll be on retreat with Br. Joseph Schmidt, author of Everything is Grace: The Life and Way of Thérèse of Lisieux,
at the Canossian Spirituality Center
5625 Isleta Boulevard SW, Albuquerque, NM 87105

September 6, 2011
Elizabeth Scalia aka The Anchoress
Chatting with Heather King re Shirt of Flame

September 30, 2011, Friday, 7-9:30 p.m.
Reading and signing: Shirt of Flame
The Steaming Bean Coffee House
1651 Shell Beach Road
Pismo Beach, CA 93449
805.773.2222

October 23, 2011, Sunday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Signing/availability for stories, insights, chatting, coffee, prayer requests, and jokes
Holy Family Bookstore
1519 Fremont Ave. South Pasadena, CA 91030 626.403.6133

November 14, 2011, Monday
Guest speaker
Day of Recollection for the staff of Fr. Robert Barron's Word on Fire Ministries
University of St. Mary of the Lake or thereabouts
Mundelein, IL
(not open to the public but I am HONORED, and I'm sure this will go very far toward getting me into spiritual shape...)

November 23, 2011, Wednesday, 9 a.m.

Featured interviewee on "Writers on Writing"

Writers on Writing is a weekly radio program produced and hosted by author Barbara DeMarco-Barrett, with co-host Marrie Stone. Each Wednesday at 9am Pacific, writers, poets and literary agents join her and/or Marrie. The show is broadcast from the studios of KUCI-FM; on your radio in Orange County, CA, at 88.9 and simulcast worldwide at www.kuci.org

CHECK IT OUT!!

INTERVIEW: "CURRENTS"--CABLE TV NET NEW YORK:

Heather King tells her Story – 9/23/10: Currents

"AN EMBRACE AT THE GATES OF DEATH: AN INTERVIEW WITH HEATHER KING" IN THE DECEMBER, 2010 ISSUE OF TRACES (TROLL THE ARCHIVES), THE MAGAZINE OF THE LAY COMMUNION AND LIBERATION MOVEMENT

My essay “One of Us” in the Winter, 2010 issue of Portland: The University of Portland Magazine.

My essay “A Sacrament of Food” in the Spring, 2011 issue of Notre Dame Magazine.

My essay "Stuck with Fred" in the July, 2011 issue of The Sun

Podcast, September 7, 2011: Pat Gohn's "Among Women"--St.Thérèse and Me

CatholicTV: "This is the Day" interview re Shirt of Flame and St. Thérèse (starts around minute 8)

My interview in the Winter, 2011 issue of Dappled Things: A Quarterly of Ideas, Art, and Faith:
“Coming Awake in Love”: A Discussion on the Struggle for Holiness and the Writing of Shirt of Flame: My Year with St. Thérèse of Lisieux

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