Titles of books are Facinating!

So yesterday I found myself wandering around a really cute down town...and I ran across a mystical store that intregued me
with various Inner Journey's. I like to just roam around until something strikes me, and on the book shelf was this facinating book
staring back at me, and I thought I think I might have to buy it JUST from the title! Have you ever done that? Just trusting your
instincts?

Dancing Naked...in fuzzy red slippers by Carmen Richardson Rutlen

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1879384531/qid=1085975459/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-2644950-6626251?v
=glance&s=books

And the best part of it, when I got home and opened the book to start reading, the author had signed it! What a treat!
I liked that on the flaps for the cover part of her family has quotes of what they think of the book...and her photo is hysterical!
Made me want to read the book. She has a great sense of fun and silliness and I can appreciate that because my personality
loves the absurd!

I have been enjoying some of the things that she thinks about, and the little things she remembers about her family members
saying to her, they make me laugh, and I can relate to some of them...I can hear my grandmother saying the same things, or
understand the feeling she is writing about. I like the style of the book!

Comments

[carolyn]

I KNOW I've seen that book recommended recently--as in within the past week or two. (I wonder if I was or am dreaming. :) ) I'll have to see if the library has it. It sounds happy. I can always use happy.

By the way, I love the look of your journal! It looks much the same as mine. And what a sweetie pie to link to my nuttiness. :)

[Carmen Richardson Rutlen]

Gypsy,

Hey, it's me, Carmen, the author of "Dancing Naked...in fuzzy red slippers." I just stumbled across your blog and wow, thanks for your kind words about my book!

I'm ecstatic with how well my book has been received! Women seem to like it...a lot.

Although I've been writing all my life, this is my first book.

I had always wanted to write a book. I, like many other women had let my dream get bogged down in real life; baby diapers, working the nine to five job, doing taxes, getting the car tuned up, and picking up dog poop on the weekends. At forty-eight, I asked myself, "If not now, when?" My reply was, "Now. Write the book now."

I began gathering all my writings which were scribbled on dry cleaning receipts, deposit slips and paper napkins. My initial plan was to just organize my writings and put them on my computer. When I began to type, I couldn't get the ideas down fast enough. The book had a momentum of it's own. Within nine months I had the bulk of the book finished.

I am now fifty-five years old and the book just came out in February of this year (2004). It took seven years to get my book published.

I'm so glad I did it. Prior to writing "Dancing Naked...in fuzzy red slippers" I had begun to feel invisible. I was trying to come to terms with getting older, the onset of menopause, plus the loss of power and a special kind of yellow sunshine joy I had when I was younger.

I am now visible. I have discovered a new joy I didn't know existed.

Although I benefitted from the task, I didn't write the book for myself. I wrote "Dancing Naked...in fuzzy red slippers" for women of all ages who also might be feeling invisble. Plus, it makes people laugh. I like that...a lot.

I want to thank you again for including me in your blog...and for the kind words about my book.

Be well...and keep dancing...

Carmen

P.S. Gypsy, you have beautiful eyes! And...keep writing...it's delightful!