Hello Gentle Readers,

The WOW/GOW Newsletter will be suspended until October. I apologize for this disruption in service, but I need to take a break for the summer, and here'a few reasons why...

Beginning in October, the WOW/GOW Newsletter will take on a new look! Graphics and gifs, a new format, and more exciting features will be added. A few regular columns will be replaced, and new columns (with new columnists!) will take their place. All in all, it will be a fabulous change for the better!

In the meantime, I will also be creating my own website in addition to the one here at Authors Den. In it, I want to feature a discussion forum for you to be able to chat with other WOWs and GOWs.

Finally, I will also be working with a co-author on a book just for women dating widowers - you GOWs! It will be a "he said, she said" kind of slant, as my co-author is a widower. Your input to this newsletter over the years has been instrumental in getting this much-needed book on the shelves, and I thank you. If any of you would like to participate, I sure could use your input. Please e-mail me with your full name and address, and I will send you a release form to sign, and a questionnaire from which we may use a quote or two for the new book, tentatively entitled "In The Shadow Of A Saint - A Guide to Dating the Bereaved".

As always, I am only an e-mail away if you need to "talk". I look forward to your letters and I always try to answer them as quickly as possible, but with all this busywork, please be patient with me! :)

Have a blessed summer!

Julie Donner Andersen