SEPTEMBER 2005 NEWSLETTER        THE KINGDOM KEEPERS Ridley Pearson's Young Adult novel, a suspense thriller about five teenagers who end up inside Disney World after dark, and must solve a riddle in order to save the park from the dark side of Walt Disney's imagination. Read the first chapter! The tour is on! I'm out on the road speaking to schools and at bookstores promoting THE KINGDOM KEEPERS. Check the appearances page for more information. Support your local independent bookstore, review the book at Barnes & Noble or Amazon, and write me at email@ridleypearson.com to share your comments! I will join other St Louis authors, Michael Kahn, John Lutz, Robert Randizi, Shirley Kennett, Eileen Dryer, Francis Nevins, Scott Phillips, for a Katrina fundraiser in conjunction with the St. Louis County Library (Frontenac, St. Louis, MO) - more on this soon on the site. The event will hopefully come off in mid-October. Dave Barry and I are closing in on the final chapters of Peter and the Shadow Thieves - July 2006. My agent, Amy Berkower (Writers House), and I have just agreed to a two book deal for two crime novels with Putnam/Penguin USA. The first of the novels, is proposed for February, 2007. More to come. Keep reading! And thanks for the support. Previous newsletters, click here!