After a well-deserved hiatus, best-selling and award-winning comedienne Chonda Pierce is back and ready to return to the comedy stage. Within the next year, Pierce will be releasing a brand-new DVD, a book, as well as a 23-city nationwide tour. Even though she has appeared at numerous Women of Faith conferences, Pierce has spent the majority of 2005 taking time off to spend with her family and to travel while preparing for the coming year’s releases.

In Pierce’s own unique words, she shares, “Jesus had to take a boat to get away from the crowd once in a while and he still wound up having to walk on water, in the middle of a hurricane no less. I’m embarrassed to say, I don’t have that kind of faith – to walk on water. But, a few months fishing and chatting with Jesus has certainly helped! Now, I can’t wait to head back to work and tell you what we’ve been talking about! I never could keep a secret!”

Her upcoming book, titled "Road Kill On The Highway To Heaven," will be published by Zondervan and available in July of next year. The book is a compilation of Pierce’s well-known Road Kill Report e-newsletters, which are periodically emailed to her fans and also found on her website, www.chonda.org. The stories found within "Road Kill On The Highway To Heaven" share a combination of Pierce’s life experiences, along with her talents of humor and spiritual insights.

”I tell jokes for a living,” Pierce explains. “It’s adventurous. But to do that I have to fly for hours, I have to take a bus for days, I have to walk up steep stairs in skinny heels. In short, I sometimes take a beating like Road Kill on a country highway! This book is about some of those adventures. Life really is one long journey to heaven even if you’re a comedian. My travel journal is filled with what I’ve learned along the way—the hurts, the laughter, the victories, the failings, the crowds, the loneliness, and mostly the times I’ve seen God at work.”

The new DVD, yet to be titled, will be filmed in November and slated for release February 14th, 2006 on INO Records. Pierce’s Women of Faith appearances and dates for her own tour are listed below.

Pierce is definitely an act not to miss. In fact, in just the past two touring seasons, over 400,000 people have been able to experience her live and unique concert. The concertgoer is touched by her endearing stories while laughing like crazy from her humorous tales.

According to Charles Dorris, Vice-president, Head of Christian Music at the William Morris Agency, "Chonda remains one of the most in-demand artists for women's events while also being one of the top concert ticket sellers in Christian entertainment/ministry. Her last tour was one of the five best attended tours of the year, averaging approximately 3,000 tickets sold per city, across a 40-city tour."

With an enormous following nationwide and all five of her videos as gold-certified, Pierce has been wowing audiences across the country appearing with Billy Graham, The Gaithers, and even on stage at the Grand Ole Opry. In addition to numerous television appearances, Pierce has written numerous books and joined with fellow comedians Mark Lowry and Dan Rupple (Isaac Airfreight) to form the Christian Comedy Association. She and her husband David have been married for 22 years and have two children. They reside outside of Nashville, Tennessee. For more information, please visit www.chonda.org and www.inorecords.com.