ending the year with a great review!

We were pleased to see this review in the recent Bellingham (Wa.) Herald, check it out!

http://www.bellinghamherald.com/600/story/1217943.html

iVillage blogger Sharon Naylor mentions P.S.!

Check out wedding expert Sharon Naylor’s blog on iVillage, where she mentions P.S. today…

http://weddingstress.ivillage.com/weddings/archives/2009/12/a-great-read-to-re-connect-wit.html

editor Megan McMorris interviewed by radio host Debbie Mandel

Listen on-line to wellness expert Debbie Mandel’s hilarious interview on her radio show Turn On Your Inner Light, where she’s refreshingly honest about female friendships. Thanks Debbie for a fun interview!

http://www.turnonyourinnerlight.com/page3.html

Bitch magazine reviews P.S. in winter issue!

Check out page 64 of Bitch magazine’s winter issue for a great review of P.S.!

womansday.com interviews us about the 6 friends every woman needs!

P.S. contributor Denise Schipani pens a story about the “6 Friends Every Woman Needs” and asks editor Megan McMorris to weigh in…here’s the result!

http://www.womansday.com/Articles/Family-Lifestyle/6-Friends-Every-Woman-Needs.html

Girlfriendology.com interviews editor Megan McMorris

Tune in to http://www.blogtalkradio.com/girlfriendology Friday November 20 at 2 pm EST as editor Megan McMorris talks about common friendship faux pas and all the juicy contents of P.S. What I Didn’t Say!

Powell’s guest blog this week

Editor Megan McMorris will be the guest blogger at powells.com this week, look for us there!

kicking off our West and Midwest book tour!

The Pacific Northwest mini book tour is over, and now we’re heading to Denver to kick off our mini book tour in the West and Midwest…two cities in our tour!

DENVER
November 10, 7:30 pm
Tattered Cover Colfax (www.tatteredcover.com)
Join editor Megan McMorris and contributors Bevin Wallace, Jill Rothenberg, and Dimity McDowell as we read our “unsent letters” to our female friends!

CHICAGO
November 11, 7 pm
Book Cellar Inc. (www.bookcellarinc.com)
Join editor Megan McMorris and contributors Anna Cox, Judy Sutton Taylor, Margaret Littman, and Shannon Hyland-Tassava as we read our “unsent letters” to our female friends!

editor Megan McMorris gets female-friendship column!

We’re excited to announce that editor Megan McMorris will be rapping about female friendships as they relate to current events on the wonderful AOL site Lemondrop (www.lemondrop.com). The column will appear twice a month. Stay tuned for more details!

author spotlight: Denise Schipani

In her tear-jerker letter “What I Wish I’d Told You the Last Time I Saw You,” Denise Schipani admits a long-held secret, and offers an apology, to a friend who died.

“I’m still upset about the last time I saw you. I know, I know, it was more than a decade ago by now. And it’s taken me forever to apologize, but just know that all this time, I’ve not been pleased with myself because of it. I let you down. I haven’t even been to your grave yet, and I can no longer keep making the excuse that I’m here in New York and you’re buried way up in Maine, near your parents’ cabin and that lovely lake. I wonder if it’s because going to that part of the world–which is just so beautiful–makes me think of the nagging, not-so-nice reason I didn’t see you more, devote more time to you, at the end. When you were dying. When I last visited you, you were getting still more chemo, but this was not the same as your eight-months-earlier, gung-ho, all-guns-blazing, first try at kicking cancer’s ass. In that eight months, you’d already had several rounds of poisonous chemo, plus radiation, plus surgery, and the cancer’s ass was not kicked. When I saw you that January morning, you had received the news that new tumors were growing–in your lungs, in your pelvis. This was your last-ditch effort. I remember your face that day, exactly, like I’m looking at a photograph. You always had beautiful eyes–big, deep-brown eyes–and they only looked more intense and fierce in your thinner face, and without your lashes and brows. You said, ‘You heard?’ About the new tumors, about the dismal new diagnosis. ‘Sucks, right?’ In my dreams, you’ve forgiven me for not coming again. You show up at my wedding, wearing the short summer dress and pearls you wore to Chari’s wedding, and it doesn’t even seem out of place at my autumn reception. I’m always surprised, in the dream, to see you across the dance floor. I work my way through a sea of dancing guests to find you, to grab your hand. ‘You’re here!’ I exclaim. ‘You came!’ And you say, ‘Of course I’m here,’ and keep dancing…”

DENISE SCHIPANI became a writer in part because of Karen, the friend she wrote to in P.S. A former editor for such magazines as Bridal Guide, American Baby, Child, All Woman, and Zest in the U.K., Denise is now a freelance writer and editor. EDITOR’S NOTE: Many freelance writers were harmed in Denise’s shift from editor to writer, as Denise is a fabulous editor, sniff sniff, but it’s also been fun having her climb over to our side of the fence too. She’s written features, columns, and essays for American Baby, Parents, Parenting, Parent & Child, Redbook, Real Simple, Family Circle, Woman’s Day, Women’s Health, and The Washington Post, among others. She and her husband, Robert, are raising two sons, Daniel and James, in Huntington, New York. Read more of her work at www.deniseschipani.com and www.confessionsofameanmommy.com.

Read more of Denise’s letter, and 35 others, in P.S. What I Didn’t Say: Unsent Letters to Our Female Friends, now available on Amazon and bookstores nationwide!