Ticket to Write

When a thump on the door alerted me that someone was on the front porch, I figured it was the UPS person and it was. Two packages had been dropped on the ground; one was sort of tucked under the doormat and the other was a big flat envelope.

Mr. Fun brought them inside and tore them open. When I saw this book, I had a vague remembrance of it, and I figured that it must have been one of the projects I had been involved with almost 18 months ago. I opened the book to find an envelope with a letter from the authors thanking me for my work as a reviewer.

I then went looking through my computer files and found the six-page guided review that I wrote after the publishing company contacted me to ask if I'd be interested in the project. In the past, I've participated in reviewing numerous textbooks, but I have never received a letter from the authors after the book is published, thanking me for my input. I do, though, receive a check from the publisher as soon as I've submitted my review, and that is a nice little perk and certainly an incentive when a publisher's rep phones me to ask if I'd participate in the project.

So the check has long been spent, but today the goods arrived. I'm looking forward to thumbing through this text and getting reacquainted with it.

Good night from Southern California.
Rosie (& Mr. Fun), aka Carol