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Texas Heart in California Meets Schnitzel

Profiles are to highlight people we meet along the way.  Documenting our conversations with them about food and its role in communities and families.

A home cooked meal is a treat.  It is an absolute delight to have Texas home-cooking 1,500 miles from home.  Matt and I were in San Diego for the weekend when Matt’s college roommate, Jason, texted us that Josh’s mother was in town from Texas and cooking chicken fried steak for dinner.  There’s no contest – when it comes to chicken fried steak, Texans do it best.  And in a full-circle, small-world moment, two Austrians experienced their first taste of a Texan interpretation of a quintessential Austrian dish: Weiner Schnitzel1.

When Josh’s mother, Becky, came to visit, the boys immediately requested that she cook their favorite meal from home.  Cooking Chicken Fried Steak in San DiegoBecky already had the German chocolate cakes cooling and the potatoes boiling when I walked into Jason’s apartment at 5:45PM.   Becky, a bona fide southern cook, and Josh, a professional chef, gave me tastes as I watched the mother son duo cook together for the first time since he’s moved to San Diego.  The warm background sizzle from the frying pan is audible as I played back the recording from our conversation.

Becky: “I grew up in a family with 9 brothers and sisters, and my mother always cooked dinner for the family.  My favorite meal was Mexican because I knew about all the time and love that went into preparing the meal.  My mother made everything from scratch; the tortillas were from homemade, the beans were homemade, even the Spanish rice was homemade.”

Becky is the family food historian and keeps the recipes passed down from her mother alive.  The most frequently food request is for homemade tortillas, just the way her mother made them in her childhood. When I asked Josh about the family tortilla recipe,

Josh: “I don’t think she’ll give that recipe up yet.  [Even if she did], I don’t think I could duplicate it. She could write it down and you can do it exactly like that, but it won’t turn out the way she does that.  When she makes them in [Texas], I get upset that I’m missing out.  She sent four dozen tortillas out here and they were gone in two days.  Whenever she was in the kitchen cooking, it would be sometimes her entire family – her 9 siblings and their kids.  She’d be cooking sometimes for up to 20-25 people.  The kids were all playing and the big dinners really brought everyone together.”

Even away from the extended family, Becky did her best to make sure dinner time was spent together with her children.  While wrist-deep in buttermilk and flour, battering each steak, Becky spoke with a wistful nostalgia about mealtime with her children:

“It was hard as a single mom, but I tried cooking for Josh and his sister when they were growing up.  Jason and Josh are like brothers because his family would have dinner with us – either we’d go over there or they’d come over here and we’d all have leftovers or I’d cook dinner.”

Chicken Fried Steak Thumbs Up in San DiegoBecky’s warm and caring nature makes her want to nurture those around her, even through trying times.  Cooking for others has been one of the many ways she displays her love to those around her.  Josh proudly showed me the tattoo on his chest, written in script: ‘Things will get better, they always do.’

Josh: “[My mom] would always say when we were younger growing up.”

Becky: “[Josh] would always ask WHEN are they getting better? Look where we were a few years ago, look at where we are now.  You have to always look on the bright side.”

Josh used the bottom of a plastic cup to mash the potatoes directly in the pot and added heavy cream, butter and sneaks me a taste. All the chicken fried steaks have gone into the oven to keep warm while Becky thickens the frying oil with flour to make a white gravy.  As she thins out the gravy (opting to use milk in the place of heavy cream), Becky shares that she wishes she had cooked healthier meals at home as the kids were growing up. She emphasized that today was not a typical meal, as it was her gift to the boys.  Back in Texas, Becky and her daughter peruse Pinterest to discover new healthy recipes.  She gave rave reviews for a new chicken breast recipe and was excited to try others that she had Pinned.

And then for the tastiest part – Josh announced that it was dinnertime!  Becky did not have to wait long for people to get a taste (in Cooking German Chocolate Cake in San Diegomany cases, seconds!) of the thoughtfully prepared meal.  Becky relishes in her favorite mealtime moment:

“When we’re all sitting down, and hearing, well hoping that I hear ‘oh this is just what I wanted’.”

Jason had other special guests in town – he invited two Austrian friends he met while they were all backpacking through Australia, Armin and Walda.  Armin and Walda had never even heard of chicken fried steak.  Becky’s association with wiener schnitzel was only to the US hot dog chain.  Life has a funny way of coming full-circle in which an Austrian got to try this southern favorite only to be a Texan twist to one of his staple foods while in California.

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Communication Solution GmbH developed an integrated, multi-faceted project focused on the needs of the expatriate community living in Frankfurt-Rhein-Main. The goal of our cross-media activities is to enhance the region’s image as a location for foreign investment. The results:

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Communication Solution GmbH created an innovative online community to reach international young professionals living and working in Frankfurt. Entitled “International Stammtisch”, the monthly event takes place at the English Theatre and attracts upwards of 200 visitors.

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On the terrible doubt of appearances

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Of the terrible doubt of appearances,

Of the uncertainty after all, that we may be deluded,

That may-be reliance and hope are but speculations after all,

That may-be identity beyond the grave is a beautiful fable only,

May-be the things I perceive, the animals, plants, men, hills, shining and flowing waters,

The skies of day and night, colors, densities, forms, may-be these are (as doubtless they are) only apparitions, and the real something has yet to be known,

(How often they dart out of themselves as if to confound me and mock me! How often I think neither I know, nor any man knows, aught of them,)

May-be seeming to me what they are (as doubtless they indeed but seem) as from my present point of view, and might prove (as of course they would) nought of what they appear, or nought anyhow, from entirely changed points of view;

(Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass)

How many take part in a circle of concepts? My mind feels dizzy circling around with them. Doubts sometimes are stronger than beliefs and cast a shadow on the resolve to carry on, for the mind can’t discriminate fundamentals of reality. When building a model of the Universe, I wonder what input should be prioritized? There never seems to be one particular thing that can synthesize it all.  If information were the “most fundamental aspect of reality” (1), I can’t help but think that it would involve a relationship between an informer and an informed, a sender and a receiver, an agent and a patient, which, in my mind, would bring some sort of consciousness to the forefront before the stirring of energy and the emergence of matter. I somehow see something oddly similar between neuroscience and cosmology, for I am unsure that there would ultimately be a difference between a mathematical model of the Universe and a mathematical model of Consciousness. I still intuitively believe that a dream of a final theory can only include a theory of consciousness.

Information could take the form of a language of geometry and numbers ingrained in the fabric of spacetime, a code to explain the “hidden order”(2)  that stems from the fact that nearly 96% of the total energy density is coming from the dark sector with an hypothetical dark energy -- of which we have very little evidence -- counteracting gravity and hiding in a phantom field. Such information would need to use a shared frequency. In so doing, it would create echo effects and resonance structures. But, to the best of our knowledge, the Universe as a whole doesn’t act that way. If such information were sent, resonance patterns would depend upon the ability to receive it.  Cosmic consciousness could be understood as a web of resonance chains if it were to exist.

How does energy -- that which moves (3) -- fit in the infinite game of time, space, and gravity? Energy is the brisk airflow that enters all the rooms when I open the windows early in the morning. It is the sound of the rain falling. It is the vibrational energy that artists convey in their medium, chased by poets who lose themselves in the moment.  In the flow of spacetime, curls and ripples of energy compete with each other. Energy creates waves, resonance, electrical activity, gamma oscillations, and magnetic signals. There seems to be a continuous transfer of energy and momentum from one event to the next that time carries through space.

About 14 billion years ago, matter, energy, time, and space came into play. “300,000 years after their appearance,” (4) matter and energy started to combine in the canvas of spacetime, making time and energy an interdependent pair within the flow of things and the things that make up the flow. On the matter of energy, frequency, and vibration, Anirban Bandyopadhyay said that the Universe and human minds are frequency fractals that generate frequency wheels and that inside the giant frequency wheel of the universe, our human minds are a simple subset. Twelve different kinds of frequency resonances were identified to create a model of the human mind.

The discussion about energy naturally leads to the question of what life is and how life came to be. Living cells are “the outcome of growth and replication, natural selection and evolution, none of which is possible in the absence of a continuous energy”(5). Eukaryotes have up to 200,000 times more energy per gene than prokaryotes, which would explain their leap in evolution. Cells spend as much as 80% of their total energy budget on protein synthesis.  All cells derive their energy from “just one particular type of chemical reaction known as redox reaction in which electrons are transferred from one molecule to another”. Energy is no less present in a leaf of grass than in the journey work of the stars

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The drive to become more conscious is the primary drive in the universe, and this drive to become more conscious thus drives evolution. To be more conscious or more profoundly resonating with the universe is the objective of a living system. This drive results in structural modifications and we call this process evolution.

Anirban Bandyopadhyay

The empty space contains an immense background of energy whose density fluctuations contribute to the emergence of gravity. Waves of charged particles battle the Earth’s magnetic field which is currently observed to be weakening in the South Atlantic region. We witness bursts of energy when photons are released in the shape of an aurora borealis and when storms are endlessly raging in the geometrical figure of a six-sided jet stream at Saturn's north pole. They may be stacked haze layers formed by condensation of hydrocarbon ices. Even the ice worlds of Uranus and Neptune, where bands of cool and warmer temperatures are difficult to assess, display deeper mechanisms of energy. The study of weather patterns and energy conversion shows how seemingly alive planets are and how similar they are to Earth.

Saturn's hexagon (photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov)

Saturn's hexagon (photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov)

Although pressure varies substantially depending on location, researchers attempt to explain, based on observational data gathered, the complex circulation and distribution patterns of the gas-enriched air, what their source is, and what sustains them. Energy manifests itself in wind speeds, in Rossby waves, in an active plume eruption on Europa, in Hadley-like cells, in optical flashes that illuminate the clouds from below and cyclonic features on giant gas planets associated with upwelling over great depth and a “charge-recharge” cycle for water over multiple years. Lightning, too, is detected in the form of radio emissions and microwave sferics

In a March 2020 paper entitled How Well Do We Understand the Belt/Zone Circulation of Giant Planet Atmospheres?, it is said that the transfer of energy takes place from the smallest (eddies) to the largest (zonal) scales. Could it be what is defined as a shared resonance by Tam Hunt and Jonathan W. Schooler? In their paper entitled  The Easy Part of the Hard Problem: A Resonance Theory of Consciousness, they write that, in many circumstances, things resonating in proximity will start resonating together at the same frequency, achieving a shared resonance that is what leads micro-conscious entities to combine into macro-conscious entities

Doubt fuels the quest. It gives a boost of energy to the wandering mind.

(1)Vlatko Vedral, Decoding Reality: The Universe as Quantum Information

(2) Stephen Skinner, Sacred Geometry

(3) Werner Heisenberg, Physics and philosophy

(4)Yuval Noah Harari,  Sapiens

(5) Nick Lane, The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life

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CV Writing is not the best factor. CV writing certainly not specifically one thing to be taken lightly. Still, some jobseekers will certainly approach it with that said serene, nearly 'I do not provide a hoot' mindset.

As if to point out, it's absolutely nothing special, it is actually merely writing down a lot of days, work history, colleges and also whatever else. You have actually acquired it-Resume writing!

Right now let me back up and also say that it is actually a really good, strong, persuasive Resume that will certainly acquire you that job interview. Now on the flipside, I have actually known jobseekers who don't take the production of a Resume lightly at all-in reality, some are downright horrified of it, website.

One person I talked with, that's in fact a close friend of mine, pointed out, "no way, not me-I can certainly never manage creating my very own CV." He was actually so tense and soured against the job, he almost missed a fantastic task option due to his worry of developing his personal CV.

Therefore if creating a Resume is actually an activity that you 'd rather certainly not try and address, what are you to carry out?

Seeking the Help of a CV Writing Solution

Searching for a dependable, specialist, excellent quality Resume writing service could be a chore by itself, an additional challenge added to the presently difficult job search. All I can easily point out is actually that when you're seeking a specialist writing company, take care. Don't regularly group to the ones that will certainly use you the most inexpensive writing.

Acquiring a bargain is a terrific thing, a wonderful thing, yet you must make certain that fantastic, premium, attention-grabbing CV writing possesses this stunning deal. Cheapest alone isn't always greatest.

On the other side, you possess the form of Resume writing solution that is going to charge you hundreds to generate an average, attempt I claim, even shotty CV, sometimes without a cover character! That pointed out, the best expensive offer to generate your Resume isn't always the greatest.

So below is actually an idea: take a while away from your routine, get on your own a mug of your favorite, most flavorful tea, coffee, shake or even whatever you will just like, and also begin your search online. When you begin trying to find a professional Resume writer, right here are a couple of things you ought to try to find:

A Resume writing company that answers your inquiries. If the service you find out is actually trusted, they'll be glad to address concerns you could have concerning the general writing process, or maybe an inquiry you could possess about submitting Resumes & cover letters typically. This would certainly present that this writing company values consumer partnerships, and are certainly not just out bring in a rapid profit and jog, read more.

A Resume writing solution that will definitely contact you by phone. Some writing solutions standard out refuse to phone their clients, which I assume is actually foolish. Granted, some consumers might favor call by e-mail, however if vital as well as added information are actually required, which is generally the instance, at that point a trusted Resume writing company needs to absolutely be willing to contact you through phone.

A Resume writing solution that will certainly inquire you tailored questions. Some writing companies may gather your money and after that toss out an universal, basic questionnaire that does not dig incredibly deep right into your job history-which is actually unreasonable, since how on earth can any of your special accomplishments end up on your Resume? A personalized set of questions is the answer. By asking you certain questions regarding your profession past history, this is actually the means to extend additional special and personalized info regarding your profession achievements. As well as if you encounter a CV solution that does not also give you a survey, get to running!

A CV writing service that possesses samples offered for you to look over. CV as well as cover letter samples should be accessible on the website-- records that you may comfortably locate and also print out. In this manner, you have the capacity to acquire an idea of the Resume company's style of writing and what they can easily use you.

A Resume writing company that delivers totally free posts, free of charge work search/career pointers, and/or an interesting ezine (or even on the internet bulletin). Going through the articles used to you through a qualified writing service is actually an additional wonderful technique, often an even much better method of acquiring a tip of what the provider knows and the type of writing they can obtain for you.

Free articles also state good ideas about the integrity of the firm. Any sort of Resume writing firm that gives you free posts & relevant information, more than likely, is certainly not an out-to-grab-your-buck-and-run kind of business. They appreciate you, the consumer, and also are actually seeking to make your trust and develop a true service connection with you.

Generally, if producing a Resume is something you find to be confusing, also daunting, your best option is actually to hunt for a reliable, premium Resume writing solution. It is actually reasonable, along with having such a busy timetable, that you would certainly favor to possess your Resume and also cover letter professionally created. I've even listened to some jobseekers state that it relieves a lot of their project search headaches, freeing up their opportunity so they can easily concentrate on trying to find the work they actually yearn for.


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Q&A with CCC’s Customer Account Specialist, Christine Zoro

As part of our series featuring the Customer Experience Team at CCC, we had a chance to catch up with Christine Zoro, who has been with our organization since 2012.

  • Provide some background on yourself – how long have you worked at CCC? Where were you previously? What’s your role at CCC? Fun fact about yourself?

I have worked at CCC for more than six years now. Previously, I worked at Getty Images (Pump Audio) as a music researcher selecting music from our library to accompany internal and external ads, commercials, and so forth. I also worked as a freelancer producing, researching and hosting public affairs programs for PAX (ion) Television, as a morning show host at FM station WKZE, and in several other positions. I am originally from Long Island via Dutchess County via Woodstock, NY.  Yes, that Woodstock.

Fun fact? OK – I lived in England for three and a half years and worked in HR at Sainsbury’s in North Finchley (a suburb of London) and I love Indian food. Also, my sister and I were born on the same date exactly two years apart.

  • What does good customer service mean to you?

Two words: active listening . . . in other words, providing realistic expectations and empathy, while understanding that sometimes you need to let a person vent and strive not to take it personally. In my role as Customer Account Specialist, we are constantly taking calls, chats and emails regarding the full spectrum of CCC services. We work with people across the spectrum in all stages. It could be a publisher or other rightsholder, a scientist, a student, a doctor, anyone and everyone. We receive over 200 chats, emails and calls a day in Customer Service. We are assisting people on our platforms and also instructing them what CCC does, the importance of copyright, why we do what we do. We also support our internal teams.”

  • Tell us about another company you think provides exceptional customer service.

Perhaps you will be surprised: It was Hertz. My story is: JetBlue had an issue — we never really found out much about it — which caused them to cancel our flights from Jacksonville to NY. We were supposed to leave Florida on Saturday and, because of the issue, we couldn’t leave until the following Tuesday and that was only if we got to Orlando, yada yada yada… Needless to say, there were some tense moments involving switching, swapping flights, finding a hotel and returning the rental. During all this, the Hertz staff were incredible and waived any fees that might otherwise have come through for not returning the car back to the airport and delivering it instead to a satellite location in Orlando.

What’s one of your favorite things about working at CCC?

As our organization is a global company, the staff of the customer service department reflects our audience; it really is a true representation of the diversity of our clients!  The Customer Service Department has folks working remotely across the globe and at home base in Danvers, Massachusetts, now 24 hours a day 7 days a week. I had an instance where I needed to be (effectively) in two places at the same time. Long story short— my parents live 7 hours away in Pennsylvania; and they are each managing some serious health issues. Recently, I asked my manager for some flexibility in my location to allow me to be present for them. The result was that I was able to work remotely from Pennsylvania so I could be available to my parents, while continuing to contribute as a regular, full-time member of our team. That sort of anecdote tells you a lot about why so many of us consider CCC to be such a great, supportive workplace.

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2019 house project recap - I am shocked!!

This time of year I like to look back at everything we've done since January... this year I can't believe how far we've come. I looked back at my list of house project goals for 2019--WOW. I forgot my living room used to look like that. And my dining room... and my kitchen....

We didn't get everything on that list done (mostly the big, hire-out stuff--roof, exterior painting, etc.) but we did all the very time-intensive projects like the kitchen and our main bathroom, and having those done has made us enjoy our home so much more.

The first project I finished in 2019 was our dining room makeover... mostly cosmetic, but it really needed some attention and more elements like this DIY $20 painted buffet.

Over spring break we removed the carpet on our stairs and painted the upstairs hall. We never got around to replacing the light switches, putting up the handrail, and replacing the ceiling light fixture, but having it painted is a huge update.

Then, starting first week of June I think, we demoed our kitchen and rebuilt it in about 6 weeks! All the details, including tons of DIYs, and budget, are in that post. This was our biggest, most expensive renovation ever and we touched every inch of this room except the window.

Then we finally also finished the stairwell outside the kitchen. Such a difference for the first thing you see when you walk in to look nice!

Then we were really tired. However, we mustered up the energy (me, barely) to demo and rebuild our main bathroom. We removed SO much tile and glass block, and then did so much new tile and built up a wall. Then installed a shower door! Definitely learned some new DIY skills with this project, too. (All tutorials and budget info here.)

Since finishing the bathroom we've been winding down, and we do have a good long to-do list of little things around the house--change a light fixture, install that handrail, etc., which we might do over the Christmas break, but then we also have an exciting new project to do upstairs soon. Then for 2020... well, I owe you another post about that soon!!

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Starting an estimation for a new species
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The designation of the Board was changed to the Kendriya Sainik Board at the Centre and Rajya Sainik Board and Zila Sainik Board at State and district level in 1975. The Board now functions under Dept of Ex-Servicemen Welfare in the Ministry of Defence as its attached office vide GoI Notification No. 10(02)/I/D (Res.)/2007 dated 29.1.2009. The present composition of the Board as per Gazette notification dated 26.12.2019 comprises of President (Hon’ble RM), Vice President(Hon’ble RRM), Secretary (Secy KSB) and 45 members which include Chief Ministers/Lt Governors of various States/UTs, MPs, Service Chiefs, Govt. officials and Ex-Servicemen. The Secretariat of Kendriya Sainik Board is headed by a serving officer of the rank of Brigadier or equivalent from the Navy/Air Force.

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i have been craving to eat here for quite some time now and there is one thing that i want to talk about and only this.  i did not have my camera with me....blasphemy! but i did have my phone, so i took the best pictures i possibly could.

its their burrata, roasted cherry tomatoes on the vine with pesto.

i love how the tomatoes were still on the vine!  doesn't this look so mouth watering?!  oh my God...just looking at it makes me wish i could reach out and just take a forkful of it and pluck one of the tomatoes off and pop it in my mouth!  before i give my full review on this dish i will need to show you the accompaniment.

our waiter suggested we order the side of garlic bread to eat with the of course, i got it.

i feel like this picture just does not do it justice.  i swear, when this bread came out it really looked like a giant hunk of italian bread that was just slathered in oil, butter and lots of garlic and just toasted off!, if you have never had burrata cheese, its basically fresh mozzarella with cream inside of it. here's the link in case you want to read more about it.  i love cheese and if you do too and haven't had burrata must go try it.

i am so excited to talk about this dish i'm not quite sure where to start!!  i have so many different emotions running through my body and brain just thinking about this dish.  first of all, the bread was THE perfect compliment to the burrata appetizer, you MUST order the bread to go along with it.  this is something i could eat everyday and i'd be happy and content.  the burrata was so soft, creamy, and oh so decadently buttery...with a lovely sprinkling of salt to season it.  but the pesto added another element of freshness that brought in more herbiness while the cute little roasted cherry tomato popped in my mouth and gave the dish the perfect amount of acidity, so it never felt too rich.  and no, i didn't forget, the was super garlicky, almost a little salty which was perfect with the mellow burrata, chewy and sometimes a bit of crustiness from the toasted edge...whoa!  EVERY BITE was one foodgasm after another in my mouth!!!  i could die a happy woman...

all i can tell each of you is that...this was hands down one of the most delicious things i have eaten in a very long time.  each component of the dish was THE perfect element, balancing out one another.  and what i love is that they are just simple things but put together perfectly.  i will say, i wish i had more of those little tomatoes, but isn't that what is so genius about what they did?  give just enough to make you wish there was more, but because there is only so much, it makes you truly appreciate what you had.  seriously...i couldn't get over how excited this dish made me...for weeks!!!  i kept thinking about ripping off a piece of the garlic bread dipped in that buttery burrata with pesto, then shoving it in my mouth...followed up quickly with a tomato so that i could get that perfect bite all at once.  good Lord...i wish i could snack on that now!  what's totally disgusting is that i'm completely full right now too!  but that's how much i love it!!

if you ever get the chance, please please PLEASE!  do yourself a favor and stop by pizzeria mozza and get this burrata appetizer...and don't forget the side of garlic bread.

  1. Sounds very tasty! I have eaten there and the place is great!

  2. it was! =) glad you enjoyed the food there!

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Tweet Not Your Query, Author, or, Why I Don't Read the Slush Pile Anymore

When I began working in publishing, one of my jobs was to read the slush pile--the stack of unsolicited book submissions that pour into the mailbox of any publishing house. In those pre-email days they poured physically through the mail slot in our office door, five days a week. As a young, optimistic eager beaver, I cheerfully tore open envelope after envelope, imagining I might find something brilliant inside.

Many publishers back then had already declared they wouldn't accept unsolicited, unagented submissions, but I thought authors shouldn't be penalized just because they had not been able to find a literary agent. Perhaps I would find a work too original, too daring for the commercial-minded book peddlers to have picked it up, or discover a rustic genius who had banged out the great American novel at her kitchen table and sent it off to publishers without even knowing what agents were. After all, the tales of bestselling authors who have been discovered in the slush pile (such as Tom Clancy and Martha Grimes) were the stuff of industry legend.

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This is not in the least to suggest I don't recognize how challenging it can be to find a publisher, even for a very good book. I have both respect and sympathy for anyone setting out on that quest. What I'm saying is this: If you are thoughtful and imaginative enough to write a first-rate novel, say, or a gripping historical narrative, you should be able to apply those skills to the process of putting your work in front of an editor. You should not just chuck your query letter into a mailbox addressed to "Editorial Department,  Random House" or "To Whom It May Concern". Rather than just sending your stuff to every house in the Literary Market Place from Abbeville to Zebra Publishing, you should find out whether the publisher you're querying even has fiction, or children's books, or whatever, on its list. You would not believe how often my imprint, which states on its webpage it publishes NONFICTION, receives queries from novelists. If you have a little more common sense and a bit more enterprise, you can probably figure out that it makes sense to query publishers who have been successful with the sort of book you're writing; take it one step further, and you can track down the name of an editor who worked on such a book. I am always receptive to a letter from an author who says, "I'm writing a book that I think will appeal to readers of XYZ Title and I saw that you edited it."

But by definition, writers in the slush pile have not taken these elementary steps. They have not gone through the thought process, or done the legwork, necessary to put a well-targeted pitch into the mailbox of a specific person, they have trusted to luck or perhaps the dazzling quality of their work, or they simply haven't thought about it one way or the other. That doesn't mean they aren't gifted; maybe they are naive, untutored geniuses. But it does mean they're not professionals. They aren't thinking about their work or their careers in a businesslike way. And that simply means the odds  that they can be successfully published are really slim.

I don't mean this snidely. Creativity being what it is, it's always the case that there are talented writers out there who are totally naive about what might be involved in getting your work published. And once I even found a pretty talented mystery writer in the slush pile, who went on to write several books. That was one author, though, out of the hundreds and hundreds I sifted through--meaning it wasn't 90 percent, but well over 99.9 percent, whose work had not been viable. Given the state of the marketplace, where it seems to take more effort than ever--by both publisher and author--to make a book work, I've had to conclude that the time I might devote to panning the slush pile for gold nuggets is that much less time that I have to spend on all my other tasks.

The 21st century cousin of the slush-pile submission is the query-by-tweet. Not only do we get "Dear Editor" letters, we see messages like this on Twitter.  Hey, @BloomsburyPress, I've written a teen paranormal romance. Ppl say it's next TWILIGHT-DM me for details!  After seeing one too many of those, I tweeted in response, Dear Authors: Twitter is not the way to query us. And this imprint is nonfiction only. If you want to get published, please do yr homework.  Instantly--this being Twitter--I received a stream of tweets disparaging Bloomsbury Press as arrogant and ignorant of the new world where "publishers need to impress and adapt, not writers. We have other avenues."

Now, I celebrate the fact that authors have many ways of reaching readers. Yet as in any other form of writing, it's important to suit your content to the medium. Twitter, a medium of 140-character blurts, is not a good showcase for your ability to write a work of 70,000 words-plus. And since even our Twitter profile says @BloomsburyPress is a publisher of "140+char serious nonfiction," an author who queries us about his YA novel has failed to clear even a pretty minimal threshold of effort. My abovementioned tweet was not intended to disparage or discourage authors, but to offer straightforward, good-faith advice. Twitter is a great tool for authors--but so was the telephone. Neither of them are the right tool for finding a publisher.

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Fred said...

I'm conviced that the guy who does that show about the nastiest jobs on the planet should include those poor slobs who read daily through a slush pile.

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Peter Ginna said...

@Fred, I never thought of reading slush as a "nasty job." What you find there can be entertainingly awful, and there is always the hope that you'll discover a gem. The worst part of the job is writing the rejection letters and trying to be sufficiently diplomatic, while being discouraging enough not to provoke a new submission...

Jen Smith said...

I'm getting the feeling that less and less time is spent in the slush pile

NinaAmir said...

Great post. The biggest issue with aspiring authors stems from the fact that they can't see themselves or their ideas from the viewpoint of the person they want to contact and impress--the agent or acquisitions editor. They can't see that they must be more than writers. They must be business people. And, indeed, that does decrease their chances of going from aspiring to published author.

Marcus Trower said...

The Tweeted query anecdote is hilarious. I've always wondered whether publishers ever get door-stepped by hungry young authors. You know, they turn up at your offices, tell the receptionist they have the best novel ever in their hands, demand to see the person in charge, refuse to leave till they've been able to deliver their pitch--that type of thing.

Peter Ginna said...

@Nina, thanks for the comment. All authors have the problem from time to time of not having enough perspective on their work--that's one reason why there are editors....
@Marcus, I have never been "door-stepped" by an author, but I'm sure it has happened. I have seen a lot of inappropriate pitches in my time.

JohnO said...

Wow, another "wouldn't it be lovely if people just made my life easier" post from an editor or agent. Forgive my lack of excitement.

Here's the thing:

For maybe 90% of the stuff in the slush pile, the "just do more research" bromide probably applies. But there are reasons it doesn't.

First, many agents simply aren't specific enough about what they're looking for. So if they get stuff they're not looking for, whose fault is that?

Second, there are books that don't fit cleanly into categories. So what do you say to authors in that situation? "Don't query anyone who doesn't SPECIFICALLY MENTION they're looking for a book like that"? No, bad advice.

Third, potential editors and agents who sounded like slam dunks weren't. And ones that had no previous mention of interest in that subject matter were interested.

Yeah, you get spammed. And yeah, no one likes that. But there are good writers out there who do their homework -- and you have to realize the system doesn't work well for them, either.

Peter Ginna said...

@JohnO, I'm sorry for the long delay in posting your comment. It got buried in my moderating queue.

I don't think you have characterized my post fairly. I was not asking authors to "make my life easier." I was encouraging them to make their *own* lives easier by not wasting their time on scattershot queries. I have given up reading random submissions for the reasons I explained, so I have already made *my* life easier.

I'm very sympathetic to the problems authors face in finding a publisher or agent--as I said in the post. If you have approached a long list of carefully targeted agents/editors and they have all turned you down, you may have no choice but to cast your net wider--good luck. That's not an argument for taking the blunderbuss approach from the beginning, though.

A side note: you suggest agents are at fault for not being "more specific" about what they are looking for. But at some level nobody can predict what he's looking for. We are all looking for something terrific--and it might be something very different from what we've done before. With fiction particularly, it's very difficult to know what is going to excite you until you've read it.


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Letter of the vigneron

In 1990, my father  aged 62 retired. I could now set up as a young farmer.

Thanks to financial aids and a bank loan, I was able to plant and buy new materials.

In 1990, the harvest was exceptional both quality and quantity.

We could now give up the rented fields in Andillac.

Although my father was retired he continued selling wine at the markets, as sales had expanded.

1991 was a bad year for the majority of winegrowers in France. On April 20th and 21th, it froze at minus 4°.

All the vines were destroyed. The day before, we had planted one 3.5 acres parcel of « len de l’el » vines.

It was very difficult both for the moral and for the treasury.

However, the following Spring, in May 1992, the bunches of grapes looked nice.

Unfortunately, it rained cats and dogs for three week from May 15th to June 10th. Mildew arrived.

The soil was so soggy that it was impossible to enter the vineyards with tractors. Three weeks later,

a helicopter was used for spraying. Its arrival coincided with the return of the sun.

At the end of the season, we had conducted twelve sprayings instead of six in the previous years.

The month of August and the first half of September were dry and we began to harves on September 19th.

In the evening, however, the sky was thundery and rainy. In less than an hour, 50 liters of water per m2 fell.

The following days, we could not enter the vines with the machines because the soils were so sodden.

Moreover, in Campagnac, the vineyards are very steep and it was too dangerous to harvest by machine.

The bunches of grapes began to rot and it continued to rain, again and again…

A courageous team picked 10 acres of grapes by hand in the rain. We worked liked slaves and said :

« roll on the evening! »

After reading these pages, you will understand that for a winegrower, wine is much more than just a drink.

There is a human endeavour, the fruit of the union between the Earth and Men and Women.

Please, great or little, have respect for WINE

    Alain MAROULLE

Dear Website’s readers, we will soon be writing the vigneron’s next letter.

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By the end of the day, the bodies had just kept piling up—her co-worker, a pissed-off fiancé, and a ghost, although technically the ghost was an uncarnate spirit without an actual physical body, so maybe that one didn’t count.

Busy answering the day’s accumulation of emails, Juno Kravitz had grabbed her cell phone when it rang earlier that evening, oblivious to the fact that the world as she knew it was about to go boom

“Where are you?” Evan said, sounding aggrieved, which was unlike him. Her fiancé was the most even-tempered man on Manhattan Island.

“Where am I supposed to be?” she said, surprised.

“Don’t tell me you forgot?”

“Forgot wha . . . Oh, crap. It totally slipped my mind.” She squeezed her eyes shut. The one week anniversary of their engagement. How could she have forgotten?

“I’m here at your apartment,” he said in a dogged tone. “I ordered the four cheese ravioli from Venetto’s. And for dessert, I got the ricotta cheesecake you love.”

Opening her eyes again, she stared with guilt at the ham and cheese on rye—from the deli downstairs—already biodegrading on her desk. “I’m sorry. I know it’s no excuse,” she hurriedly dropped the incriminating evidence in the trash, “but things have been a little hectic this afternoon.”

The other half of the sandwich felt lodged behind her rib cage. With her free hand, she opened her desk drawer and retrieved the super size plastic bottle of antacids she kept stashed there.

“What happened this time?” Evan sounded resigned.

Glancing around, she lowered her voice. “Bill McCutcheon had a heart attack, I think.”

“Why are we whispering? Doesn’t Bill know?”

“That’s not funny, Evan,” she said, nettled into speaking at her normal volume. “We thought he was dead, but thank God, they managed to resuscitate him.” She’d watched as they applied the paddles, her breath jerking along with Bill’s body. She kept willing him to breathe, damn it!

“Sorry, babe.”

Evan’s sober response brought her back to the present. “It’s okay.” Popping a couple of the cherry-flavored tablets into her mouth, she chewed. Only it wasn’t okay. Not for Bill’s wife and daughter. Their lives might never be okay for a long time.

Cameron poked his head over the top of her cubicle. “Are you coming, June bug?” he said. “We need to get going.”

“In a minute, and don’t call me June bug . . . Listen, I can’t talk now,” she told Evan, standing and reaching for her jacket from the hook on the cubicle wall. “We’re going into a meeting to discuss allocating Bill’s workload between us over the next couple of weeks.”

“What time do you think you’ll get home?”

Tucking her phone between her chin and her shoulder, she shrugged an arm into her jacket. “Sometime around eight. You don’t have to wait.”

“I’ll wait.” He paused. “Just so you know, though. For your punishment, I’m eating your dessert, too.”

Three hours later, Juno’s heartbeat had slowed, her breathing had steadied, and the thin film of sweat had dried on her skin. Next to Evan’s heat, she felt warm. His teasing fingers drifted over her sensitized skin, and she tried to let herself relax in the moment, but her brain didn’t work that way. Already she was thinking of the tasks she needed to do tonight. Take a shower, review her project notes—

“How was it for you?” Evan said, just as he always did.

“It was fine,” she said absently, still adding to the list in her head—answer her emails.

To be honest, she’d been distracted. She couldn’t get Bill McCutcheon’s heart attack out of her head. She’d sent flowers to the hospital along with a note, but it hardly seemed adequate. Juno knew firsthand what it was to lose people you loved in one unexpected, devastating blow. There weren’t enough cut flowers in the world to ease that pain.

From now on, his family would feel like they were balanced on the knife’s edge of potential disaster; and that was a very scary place to be.

“Fine? It was just fine?” Evan said.

Turning her head on the pillow to look at him in the shadowy light streaming in from the hallway, she smiled. “What do you want me to say?”

“I don’t know.” He sounded disgruntled. “You heard rockets going off, sirens and flashing alarms in your head, maybe even thought you saw a lunar eclipse.”

Trying for a light touch, she said, “All of the above.”

“Now you’re just pandering,” he said. “If you weren’t beautiful and smart, you’d be a horrible girlfriend.”

She leaned over and kissed him. “But you love me anyway.” As a matter of fact, the big “O” didn’t always happen for her. Her fault, not Evan’s. She hated to disappoint him when it didn’t, because he took it so personally—like a track coach whose star sprinter didn’t make the finish line. Her best friend Bebe could almost orgasm on demand, which seemed so unfair. So what’s wrong with me? Some kind of physical malfunction, like a defective clitoris? Maybe I’m a lemon.

Since this was hardly an uplifting thought—it wasn’t as if she could get a tune-up or even a replacement part—she shifted the weight of his leg where he’d anchored her thighs to the mattress, trying to peer past his shoulder at the alarm clock’s neon orange readout. 10:07.

“You know, if I moved in with you,” Evan said, a persuasive note in his voice, “we could do this every night. Be together.”

“No, we couldn’t.”

“Why not?”

“Because we can’t even do it tonight.” With determination, she rolled away from him and sat up on the edge of the bed, turning on the bedside lamp. “You have to leave.”

Evan blinked at the sudden glare of light. “Why do I have to leave?”
“I have a bridge call at eleven. It could take a while. No use in you sticking around.” She picked up her cell phone from the nightstand.

“What are you looking at?” he said.

“Hmmm? Oh, it’s a text from Walker.”

“He’s always texting you. What the fuck is with that guy? He does know you need sleep?”

“He claims he only needs four hours sleep,” she said with a rueful grimace, her usual reaction to any mention of her boss. “He thinks the rest of us are slackers.”

Tossing the cell back on the nightstand, she moved away from the bed to her dresser. In the mirror, she watched as Evan propped himself up on one elbow, brown hair tousled and blue eyes sleepy with satisfaction, the sheet tangled around his legs. He was definitely worth looking at. All that chiseled, muscular perfection. And he’s mine.

“You know that theory you have about Walker being raised in a lab by human surrogate parents?” he said, grumbling.

“Yeah, what about it?” She’d come up with this theory to explain why her boss was the least convincing impersonation of a human being she’d ever met. To her knowledge, no one else who worked under him had come up with a better hypothesis.

“There’s a flaw. I don’t think he’s human.” He patted the sheet on her side of the bed invitingly. “Where are you going? We still have time to fool around.”

She shook her head and laughed. “Don’t even try to tempt me. I have things I need to take care of.”

“You always do this, you know.” Evan punched his fist into her pillow, then grabbed it and stuffed it behind his head.

“Do what?” She rifled through the drawer until she found one of the oversize T-shirts she liked to wear when she was just schlepping around. She wished she felt as relaxed as Evan about being naked. Even after two years together, she was uncomfortable with her body on display. Naked, she didn’t feel sexy—she just felt exposed.

“You get antsy after sex,” he complained. “I thought women enjoyed afterplay.”

“I did enjoy it. I promise. Now I have things to do.” She plucked panties and a bra from another drawer, then headed toward the bathroom. In her opinion, which she kept to herself, afterplay was like the postgame wrap-up of just about any sport she could name—five minutes was long enough.

The air was sticky with humidity, and she decided to take her shower now, instead of later. All day long, the skies over New York had been overcast with angry, dun-colored clouds. A severe thunderstorm was forecast for later that night.

“What am I supposed to do?” Evan said, still not moving from the bed.

“Go home,” she called over her shoulder as she entered the bathroom. “You should hurry, sweetheart. I don’t want you to get caught in the storm.”

Fifteen minutes later, he was buttoning his shirt and still arguing as she herded him toward her apartment front door.

“Tell me again why I can’t stay the night,” he said, looking mulish.

“I told you,” she said with exaggerated patience. “I have work to do, and I don’t need you distracting me.” Evan had many fine qualities—too numerous to count, really—but he didn’t play well on his own. From past experience, she knew that with the best of intentions, he’d be popping into her office just to chat and with offers to get her something, interrupting her while she was trying to follow the different conversational threads at the other end of the conference call and make notes, and generally making a nuisance of himself.

“I distract you?” he said.

He liked that, she could tell. “If you’re looking for compliments, I gave you a very loud and rave review less than half an hour ago.” Okay. She’d faked an orgasm, but at least one of them was going away happy.

I’m in a somber mood. I need to snap out of it.

“You did, didn’t you?” Grinning, he retrieved his jacket from the metal rack by the door.

“Don’t gloat.” Inexorably, she slid back the bolt lock, opened the door, and stood to one side. A draft of cold air rushed past her, making her shiver and hug her midsection. “You’d better put on your coat jacket. The temperature must have dropped outside.”

“We still need to talk about moving in together,” he said, shrugging into his jacket, “and more importantly, about setting a wedding date.”

“We will. I promise. Just not tonight.”

Evan didn’t look totally satisfied with her response, but he didn’t pursue it.

“Oh, before I forget,” she told him, “Addison wants to know if we want to go with her and Greg to see this new play off-Broadway. It’s getting pretty good reviews.”

“What kind of play?” Evan said with suspicion like she was trying to trick him into seeing experimental theatre.

She’d never make that mistake again. “I think it’s a comedy,” she said.

“Do I have to?”

“It wouldn’t hurt you to allow a little culture into your life, you know.” Juno tried to keep the criticism out of her voice.

“We’re simple folk in the Midwest,” he said good-humoredly. “Our only real culture is sports.”

Tell me about it. With an effort, Juno refrained from rolling her eyes. “So is that a yes or a no?”

“If you really want me to, I’ll go,” Evan said in that foot-dragging voice of male martyrdom every woman knew.

“No, that’s okay.” She wouldn’t enjoy it if she were worried about his enjoyment during the play, which was exactly what he was counting on, the stinker. “Maybe another time.”

“Sorry, babe.” He at least had the grace to appear mildly remorseful as he slid on his tweed sports coat. “Don’t I even get a goodnight kiss?”

“One last kiss and then you go.” The peck she gave him was almost perfunctory, her mind already focused on the next task in front of her.

“I feel so cheap. So used,” he said.

“I’ll call you tomorrow.”

“That’s what they always say.”

She lifted one eyebrow in amusement. “Who always says? Your other girlfriend?”

He scowled. “Yeah. My other girlfriend wouldn’t toss me out of her warm bed.”

Unconcerned, Juno patted his cheek. “She sounds like a gem. You should definitely keep her.”

Closing the door behind him, she reached for the bolt lock, but a spasm of remorse stopped her. Okay, she needed Evan to go away, but not because she didn’t want him around.

The man was so romantic he’d proposed to her on the top deck of the Sea Siren, with the ocean lapping gently against the hull beneath the full moon overhead, and the lights along the shore twinkling like fairy lights amidst the darkness.

Of course, the charter boat was only a day rental out of Montauk, instead of the five-day Caribbean cruise Evan had originally planned, because she couldn’t take off work that long.

I truly am a horrible girlfriend. She opened the door again and shouted, “I love you,” down the hall just as the closing elevator doors hid him from view. Crap.

“I didn’t know you cared, Kravitz,” a masculine voice said from the opposite end of the hall. “Your place or mine?”

She jerked her head around, blond ponytail swinging, but she already knew who it was. Even after only three months, she’d recognize that British accent anywhere, not to mention the velvet rasp of the baritone underneath. Ryder Jamieson. The newest tenant from across the hall returning home to his bachelor lair.

“In your dreams, Jamieson,” she said.

His tall, lean body propped against the door frame, he fumbled in his jeans pocket for his key. He even slouched with a kind of lethal grace, she noted with grudging admiration.

Turning his head, he gave her a considering look from dark, sardonic eyes. “I have some very erotic dreams, Kravitz,” he said. “Maybe we could discuss them sometime over drinks?”

“Too late, Jamieson. I’m engaged.” She flashed her ring finger in front of him.

Ryder looked amused. “Congratulations,” he said. “Am I to assume that means no?”

“Of course it means no.” The glance she shot him was indignant.

“Well, if you change your mind, Kravitz, I’m across the hall.” He inserted his key in the lock and opened the door. Instead of going in, he turned his head and studied her, his encompassing gaze sending a shiver of unwanted feminine awareness down to her toes. “That’s a fetching look for you, by the way,” he said, lips twitching in a half-smile. “You should wear it more often.”

With as much dignity as anyone could convey dressed in an oversize T-shirt and white athletic socks, she said, “Go blow yourself,” well aware it was a look someone could only pull off if they were perky and cute. She’d never been perky and cute, not even in high school, when she would have gladly traded away twenty I.Q. points to fit that description.

Trying not to appear like she was fleeing the scene, she retreated into her apartment and closed the door on his sharp crack of laughter.

The most annoying thing about Ryder Jamieson, she decided with her back pressed against the door, was she really had no good reason to be annoyed with him. As a neighbor, he was almost invisible, his nocturnal habits keeping him out frequently at night during the hours she was in. All she really knew about him was that he seemed to lack steady employment. Maybe he’s an actor. Especially with that voice. One more black mark to hold against him.

He’s not even classically handsome like Evan. This sudden flash of loyalty was somewhat tarnished by the unbidden thought that while Evan looked refined and polished, Ryder looked like a very bad boy and an even better good time. With his unkempt dark hair and stubble that needed a good barber, expresso-colored eyes, and square, stubborn chin most people probably found it hard to argue with, he exuded a raw sexuality even she wasn’t immune to, or any other woman for that matter. Judging from the parade going in and out, his apartment was like a temp agency for women who came in an assortment of colors, shapes, and sizes, had differing skill sets, but were all destined not to be permanent.

She went into the kitchen to make herself a cup of coffee and grab a blueberry Pop-Tart, reminded that she’d actually met one of his girlfriends when Jamieson had sent over a friendly brunette—dressed in a yellow marigold sari and Birkenstocks—to borrow some fresh garlic.

“Sorry. I’m more of a defroster than a cook,” Juno had confessed.

The brunette, whose name was Selene, gave her a cheerful smile. “Ryder said it was worth a try, although his hopes weren’t high.”

Juno narrowed her eyes. “He said that, did he?”

“Don’t mind him. He’s temperamental when he’s cooking.”

“He cooks?” Somehow, this didn’t fit Juno’s image of Ryder Jamieson. She’d taken him for more of a player than a chef.

“He’s a fabulous cook.” Selene winked at her. “Actually, he’s good at lots of things.”

Since Juno didn’t want to encourage Selene to tell her more, she changed the subject. “That’s a lovely sari. Is it silk?”

Smoothing her hand over the soft yellow sheen of the fabric, Selene confided, “I only wear natural fibers. Synthetic fabrics interfere with my psychic energy.”

Okay. With a monumental effort, Juno kept her expression polite. Definitely a flake, but a friendly one.

Selene threw a vague glance over her shoulder. “I guess I’d better get back.” Before she left, she handed Juno a business card with gold embossed stars and a silver half-moon against a midnight blue background. “I do psychic readings, in case you’re interested.”

“Thanks. I’ll keep you in mind,” Juno had said, then promptly forgot.

Forget Ryder Jamieson, she told herself now as she filled the filter of her French press with fresh coffee grounds. Fortunately, he’s not your problem. She pitied the woman who tried to rope him in. She’d probably need barb wire fence and a shotgun.

A few minutes later, carrying her coffee mug with her, she crossed back through the living room to the second bedroom that moonlighted as her office.

She sat at her dark oak desk, a piece of Americana she’d found on an antique shopping junket in upstate New York, and booted up her laptop. The desk took up most of the space so that she only had room for an olive-colored armchair and matching ottoman in the corner where she frequently read in her spare time. To house her collection of books, she’d hired a carpenter to build wall-to-wall bookshelves along one wall, which she’d painted a soothing sand color.

The storm broke half an hour later with operatic drama, thunder booming in a cascading crescendo while she was wrapping up the bridge call with her project team. Gina Cooley, the application development manager, suddenly demanded in the tone of a cheer squad leader, “Why isn’t April Fenton on the call list?”

“Does it matter?” Juno said, surprised by Gina’s vehemence. Another loud crash of thunder rumbled overhead, making her jump.

“I’m pinging you right now.”

Evidently, it did to Gina. “Fine.”

Forty-five seconds later, she got Gina’s IM. “Why should we be the only ones losing sleep? What’s the deal with April?”

Juno pinged back. “I don’t know. Walker wanted her name removed.”

“Probably because April’s a total screw-up. She never takes responsibility for anything,” Gina responded.

“C’mon. She can’t be that bad.”

If April hadn’t been reasonably good at her job, she could have fellated Walker every day at lunch, and he still would have booted her out of the firm. Walker didn’t tolerate incompetence. Whatever Gina’s grievance was with April, Juno didn’t want to know.

After she had got through with Gina, Juno removed her horn-rimmed glasses and rubbed her forehead to ease the ache that was gathering behind her eyes. Stress related, she didn’t doubt. Sometimes her job description was less project manager and more nanny, trying to get all the kids on the playground to coop—

What was that? Something had moved in her peripheral vision, cutting off her thread of thought.

She’d caught a glimpse of it in the corner of the room. A shadow? Her eyes were tired, and undoubtedly that explained what she’d seen. She reached for her coffee mug and realized her fingers were almost numb with cold. What the hell? Sure, in late August, the nights could turn cool, but the air in the room was almost frigid.

A curious sensation swept over her then. An atavistic sense that someone or something was there in the room with her. She shivered, a crawling sensation on her skin. She slid her glasses back on, more as a delay tactic than because she needed them. Technically, she only needed them for reading; long distance, she could see fine.

When she looked again, she stared slack-jawed in disbelief.

I need a long break. I’ve obviously been working too hard.

At first glance, it appeared as though some amorphous mist or fog was gathering in the corner where the armchair fronted the built-in bookcase. Right off-hand, she couldn’t think of any sort of phenomenon to explain it. Nothing natural that was.

Then as she watched, this thing, this mass, whatever the hell it was, seemed to be trying to form. A cold sensation gathered in her gut, a growing dread, but she couldn’t look away.

Maybe I’m dreaming this. She closed her eyes, hoping when she opened them again, whatever was there would have disappeared.

Seriously, Juno? Closing her eyes to make the monsters go away didn’t even work when she was four.

She forced her eyes open again, almost resigned to finding that not only had the forming apparition not left, but it had also now formed itself into a person. A person she recognized.

Her mother sat in the armchair facing her, which presented a problem.

Her mother was dead.

Juno stumbled to her feet, inadvertently knocking over her coffee mug. “I have to quit drinking caffeine this late at night,” she muttered as she grabbed a handful of tissues from the box on her desk and dabbed at the dark puddle. All the while, her mother sat there in silence, exactly the way Juno remembered her, dressed as though she was on her way to someplace more interesting—her blue dress a smidgeon too tight, a shade too bright, and about a decade too young.

Only this time Mom was slightly more transparent.

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Dr. Frances Verzosa, MD, practices General Practice in Vancouver, WA. Dr. Verzosa received her medical degree from Univ Of Santo Tomas, Fac Of Med And Surg, Manila, Philippines.

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