I can't believe we haven't spoken in so long! Actually, I did send out a newsletter after the holidays, but it slipped through the cracks in making it to my website.

SOooo much has happened since we last chatted. My daughter finally had her church wedding. I limped in on the ankle I'd sprained the Friday before. You should have seen me climbing ladders in an astronaut-sized boot, hanging decorations. But it was a joyous finale to a floating wedding date that moved along from September to January. I should write a book titled WEDDINGS ON THE GO.

My two new precious grandchildren, a boy (5) and a girl (7) stole the show. That's another good reason to wait till after one is married to have children. But in all seriousness, it was a wedding of a family to my daughter. The little ones even helped their dad light the Unity Candle. And the love in their eyes showed for Kelly as much as their dad's did.

Yesterday I had my first grandmother trauma. The little boy had broken his arm a week and a half earlier and it had begun to set wrong in the ER cast. So the ortho surgeon (sounds more like an exterminator, doesn't it? ), had to re-break the two bones in my baby's right forearm and put pins in. It was the lesser of the possibilities, so I am praising God that more invasive measures did not have to be taken. They kept him over night and news this am is that he wants hamburgers for lunch. Kids!

GREAT NEWS: FOR PETE'S SAKE is on the shelves now. Okay, actually, they are officially released April 1st. I've been doing interviews right and left, which is good for getting the news out, but word of mouth from you is the best. So start looking now! (Okay, enough shamelessness.) But do enter my contest for a personalize copy and goodies, too.

APOLOGIES: This was supposed to go on my website as soon as I sent it out in my newsletter, but, better late than never. I received a complaint that WEDDING BELL BLUES, the prequel to FOR PETE'S SAKE had offensive parts in it. I didn't believe it at first, so I looked up the pages specified and it was true. In the brain fog of writing this first book since my husband passed, I'd let my hero have a Rhett Butler moment where he groaned "D_amn, I still love you, Alex." And an unsaved secondary character, Sue Ann exclaimed, "Oh my g_wd!" Actually I'd have more than one instance of the latter with the intention of convicting Sue Ann of its offensiveness in her own book (#4) and then changed my mind and deleted them. But I missed one.

End story is that it's my fault. Not only did I write them in there, even though I didn't remember it, but I turned the book in so late-for obvious reasons-that the editing was rushed.

GOOD NEWS is that these have been removed from any reprints and book club copies. It was all that we could do to correct the problem since the proverbial horse had already left the barn. (I think HarperCollins is talking about packaging Wedding Bell Blues and For Pete's Sake in a two-for deal-the newly edited Wedding Bell Blues, no bloopers, PTL!)

If you have read my work before, you know this is not a Windsor novel trait. Regardless, please accept my humblest apology. It won't happen again.

God bless you for your understanding of just how difficult this book was for me to write at all. I pray that you will help spread the word about this error in case someone else has been offended. I have put it out in every venue that I can think of.

I very nearly stopped writing altogether during this period because I thought I'd lost the ability to "feel" emotion, much less write about it. I thank my editor for giving me the extra time I needed. I praise God for His hanging in there with me during that dark time. And I thank Him for you.