OUT 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!"
Check out my vid trailers, made by yours truly in the privacy of my monastic "cell"!:
AND INTRODUCING MY BLOG:
ALSO INTRODUCING A 10,000-WORD PERSONAL ESSAY/e-BOOK:
POOR BABY: A CHILD OF THE 60'S LOOKS BACK ON ABORTION:
"I came of age during the ‘60’s and ‘70’s. I’m a former waitress, an ex-lawyer, a sober barfly, a Catholic convert, and a self-supporting writer. I’ve been financially independent all my life. But I’ve never much been able to reduce the mystical to the political. I’ve never been much moved to call myself a feminist. The feminists had said that sleeping around would be empowering. The feminists had maintained that “choosing” would make me free. The feminists had asserted that there’d be no repercussions. The feminists had been wrong"...
From a review by Elizabeth Scalia, aka The Anchoress:
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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!"
Check out my vid trailers, made by yours truly in the privacy of my monastic "cell"!:
AND INTRODUCING MY BLOG:
Musings on Los Angeles, Divine Intoxication, The Writing Life, and the Thin Line Between Passion and Pathology
ALSO INTRODUCING A 10,000-WORD PERSONAL ESSAY/e-BOOK:
POOR BABY: A CHILD OF THE 60'S LOOKS BACK ON ABORTION:
"I came of age during the ‘60’s and ‘70’s. I’m a former waitress, an ex-lawyer, a sober barfly, a Catholic convert, and a self-supporting writer. I’ve been financially independent all my life. But I’ve never much been able to reduce the mystical to the political. I’ve never been much moved to call myself a feminist. The feminists had said that sleeping around would be empowering. The feminists had maintained that “choosing” would make me free. The feminists had asserted that there’d be no repercussions. The feminists had been wrong"...
From a review by Elizabeth Scalia, aka The Anchoress:
"You have to be a pretty interesting person to be able to write three short, funny and spiritually wise biographies before you’re terribly old. Heather King is onesuch. She describes herself as “an ex-lawyer, ex-drunk Catholic convert” and upon reading her book Redeemed, I promptly fell in love with her work”...
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L.A. WRITER'S LAB
I'll be teaching the REWRITE MASTER CLASS for the one and only AL WATT
SFS Theater, 5636 Melrose Ave. LA CA 90038
Novel, memoir, screenplay: SIGN UP NOW!
January 19, 2013, Saturday
Speaker, 1:30-2:45 p.m., talk entitled "Store Up Your Treasure in Heaven"
“Faith Odyssey 2013: Live in the Now; Transform the Future”725 California Ave. Santa Monica, CA 90403
310.566.1500
February 10, Sunday, 8 p.m.
Interview/ "The Catholic Hour"
WDUN AM 550 and FM 102.9
North Georgia, especially the Gainesville areaMarch 2, 2013, Saturday 10:30 a.m.
Lenten speaker, Newman Lecture Series
Street parking!
Free and open to the public.
I will be in residence at the Gailliot Center, which is affiliated with Duquesne University, from Feb. 25 through March 3
April 22, 2013, Monday
Keynote speaker
Wellington Catholic School District Spiritual Development Day
River Run Centre
35 Woolwich St., Guelph, Ontario N1H 3V1, Canada
519.763.3000
Contact: Bill Flaherty
519.836.2170, bflaherty@wellingtoncdsb.ca
May 10-12, 2013
Malvern Retreat House
315 South Warren Ave.
Malvern, PA 19355
I'll be leading a weekend retreat for recovering women alcoholics/drug addicts.
Can't wait to meet the good folks of Pennsylvania!
June 22, 2013, Saturday, 12-3 p.m.
Keynote speaker
ENDOW Luncheon
Omni San Antonio Hotel at the Colonnade9821 Colonnade Blvd., San Antonio TX 78230
For more info, visit EndowGroups.org
September 20-21, 2013, Saturday
Keynote speakerCatholic Women's Conference
Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center
200 E. Market St.
San Antonio, TX 78205
For more info, visit CWCSanAntonio.com
October 25, 2013, Friday, 7 p.m.
Keynote speaker: Thérèse of Lisieux: Radical, Missionary, Martyr
Xavier College Prep
4710 N. Fifth St.
Phoenix, AZ 85012
Reception and book signing to follow.
Contact: Anthony DiStefano, adistefano4@cox.net
CHECK IT OUT!
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
My essay in the August, 2012 issue of The Sun: "Of All the Mothers in the World."
My essay in the Autumn, 2012 issue of Portland, The University of Portland Magazine: "The Really Dangerous Idea Is the Gospels."
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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
My essay in the August, 2012 issue of The Sun: "Of All the Mothers in the World."
My essay in the Autumn, 2012 issue of Portland, The University of Portland Magazine: "The Really Dangerous Idea Is the Gospels."
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