Letters from My Readers
Read letters from Audrey's avid fans about the novels she has written, and read her response to them at the bottom of the page:
Dear Audrey Peyton,
I can’t remember when I’ve enjoyed a book as much as I enjoyed “ashes”’. I’ve never written to a writer before, but this time I thought it would be a good idea to tell you how much I admire the way you have put your story together, with such realistic characters, and such drama and constant adventure. And the adventure never seems to stop. As soon as one exciting scene ends, another one begins. It’s absulutely breathtaking. Ashes is a novel that’s fasinating to the extreme.
I found it to be a very timely story, what with all this talk, like, in the movie, 2012 about the end of the world. Is the end of the world really to do with ‘Acts of God?’ Or somethjng else? Like, your reason in “Ashes,” greed, power and control, instead of the ‘Act of God’ reason? The way you’ve written it, we would have a way to make it not happen, wouldn’t we? Because, although we can’t fight God, we can always fight greed, power and control. Haven’t we been doing that since time began?
Your Truly,
John Robertson.
Dear Mrs. Peyton:
I have just finished your book, “Ashes”, and I want you to know that I could not put it down until I had finished the last page. It was an ending that I never expected and I think it was very clever. I thought that the people that were left would also die in the end. Thank you, Mrs. Peyton, for writing such an enjoyable piece of fiction. I especially liked the first chapter when Kit had to spend a hundred days in that shelter with her dog. I kept picturing myself doing that and I thought I would personally die before the hundred days were up. My husband is reading “Ashes” now and I think he will love it too, especially the ending. Do you really think the world is going to end in 2012? I hope not! I’m enjoying my life too much for that to happen!
Yours Sincerely, Sally Anne Wendt
Dear Sally Ann, No, I do not believe the world will end in 2012. That’s something people are promoting for some reason or another, maybe for their own prosperity, for their need to scare the daylights out of everyone, or to encourage people to scurry about making plans for their own demise. (Have you noticed how many cemetaries are promoting their businesses these days by means of the US mail, or by email and/or other means?) Are they implying that we should arrange for our deaths in advance … perhaps with an advance down payment?)
Thanks so much for your delightful letter!, Sally Ann. “Ashes” is barely published and I’m already getting fan mail. I can’t tell you how worthwhile that makes me feel. Please feel free to write me letters any time you read one of my novels as it makes me so happy to have readers who enjoy my work.
Sincerely, Audrey Peyton
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 Dear Readers:
Thank you for your praise of “Ashes”. You are absolutely right about 2012, that we will not be violated by acts of God … nor by acts of terror. “World without end,” goes the saying in many of our churches. And … “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” President Roosevelt said. So let’s stop being afraid and instead be joyful that we live in such a wonderful country (USA) which, with intervention from the common people, keeps us safe from “Power, greed, and control.”
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