General Questions about Mitch
- Where can I buy your books, films, or plays?
- Where can I find foreign translations of your books?
- How do I obtain permission to use an excerpt from one of your books?
- Where can I find a reading group guide for your books?
- Are your works taught in schools?
- Will you speak at an event?
- Can I have your autograph?
- How can I email you?
- When will you next be in my town?
- Can you support my cause or charity?
- Where can I send fan mail?
Questions About Mitch’s Books and Writing
- I’m writing a book report about one of your books. Where can I get some information about you and your writing?
- How long does it take to for you to write your books?
- Your books address life on a spiritual level—where do you meet these spiritual teachers?
- What interested you in characters like Eddie and Chick, who are in many ways “losers”?
- How do your books affect your own life?
- Why did you write For One More Day?
- Do you have any advice about publishing a book or being a writer?
General Questions about Mitch
To find purchasing options for my books:
To purchase my films:
Purchase the acting editions of my plays:
Tuesdays with Morrie
And the Winner Is
Duck Hunter Shoots Angel
To license performance rights for my plays, please contact Dramatists Play Services, Inc.
You can find information about the foreign editions of my books in the International Editions sections of my site.
To obtain permissions for Tuesdays with Morrie, please contact Doubleday Books at www.randomhouse.com. To obtain permissions for The Five People You Meet in Heaven, For One More Day, or Have a Little Faith, please contact Hyperion Books at www.hyperionbooks.com.
You can find reading group guides, as well as other exclusive content for reading groups and bookclubs, in the Reading Groups section of my site. Click here to find out more.
Yes, Tuesdays with Morrie has been used in many schools in the USA and around the world and it gives me great pleasure to hear from teachers. Morrie would be thrilled to know. If you are a teacher or to read some comments from teachers click here.
Thanks for your interest. Please contact Royce Carlton at 800.532.8873 or RoyceCarlton.com for any inquiry regarding speaking engagements.
Thank you for thinking of me, but with tens of millions of copies of my books sold worldwide, accepting and sending out mail isn’t logistically possible for security and staff concerns. Please visit my calendar for news on future appearances and formal signings.
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You can send mail to my publisher, Hyperion Books.
Questions About Mitch’s Books and Writing
- I’m writing a book report about one of your books. Where can I get some information about you and your writing?
I receive thousands of emails each month from people of all ages. Many, like the young student whose note appears here, ask me what inspired my work. I’ve included this student's questions, and my replies, which I hope my readers and other students and teachers will find helpful.
It took me six years after Tuesdays, to be honest, because I was sort of overwhelmed by the huge reception for that book, since no one ever expected it – least of all me. I finally decided to do something completely different and write fiction - and a story about heaven to boot. That took some time. Once I completed The Five People You Meet in Heaven, the issue became which idea to choose next? That’s why it took me three years. I started about four different books, only to put them aside and get interested in writing another. As for the future, well, those other four are still sitting in the drawer, crying out for attention. I think I will be faster than once every six years, but I can’t ever see cranking books out like some of my very talented colleagues, who can do one or even two a year. I think mine will always take a bit of time to sit in my heart and brain and feel completely right.
I have been taught, emotionally and spiritually, by many people over the years. My parents certainly affected such growth. The clerics in my life have done the same. Some of the people I have gotten to know since Tuesdays With Morrie who are dying themselves and have shared their stories with me have shaped my spirituality. And, to be honest, recently I have become involved with a local homeless shelter. And some of the men I have met there, as wounded as they are, have touched me deeply and affected my view of the world. Your teachers, I believe, can come from anywhere.
Because the world has heard enough about famous people and rich celebrities. I worked for many years with the biggest sports stars in America, and I suppose I grew tired of seeing everyday people feel these athletes were somehow gods and much more important than they were. My belief is that wealth or celebrity doesn’t make anyone more significant than anyone else and that, in truth, the greatest lessons we learn usually come from the most ordinary things and people. Charley and Eddie go through things that most of us go through. I felt that taking these simple men on extraordinary journeys would make the stories easier for readers to relate.
The most profound effect of any of the books I have written has to have been Tuesdays With Morrie. Before that, I was a harried, ambitious sportswriter who never spent five minutes thinking about mortality, how we spend our lives, or my legacy with others. Visiting Morrie, watching him slowly die, seeing him so wise and brave in those final months, really was a life-changing experience. Just the act of writing the book, which was done to pay his medical bills, was probably the first large act that I did for someone else, not me. As it turned out, that act changed my life in so many ways.
Each of my books has taught me something, both in the writing and in the reaction. But Tuesdays, because it is a true story, was the first and most significant turn in the road.
Each of my books has taught me something, both in the writing and in the reaction. But Tuesdays, because it is a true story, was the first and most significant turn in the road.
I wrote it because I had wanted to do something on mothers and sons, that very unique--but not often explored--relationship. I have been blessed with a wonderful mother, a strong, loving, opinionated woman, and I can't imagine what life will be like when she is gone, but I know so many people who have gone through that loss. I also wanted to do something about the terrible effects of divorce on children and this book let me explore how children, when their parents split, chase after the love that eludes them. That chase often haunts you right into adulthood.
As you might imagine, I'm often asked to provide blurbs or offer advice on someone's work, and while I'm flattered you're asking my opinion, but I just don't have time to adequately read all these new works and offer the best advice. There are many guides and websites of organizations (like the Authors Guild) that will explain the basic mechanics of the publishing industry, and important details you need to know as an author. But I believe that it all starts with a story. I once gave a talk to fellow columnists at the Detroit Free Press about writing. Click here to read it. I hope you'll find meaningful insights into finding your voice and reaching your audience.
