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Dear Reader,
I'm on vacation this week. Some of my friends have graciously offered to fill in for me while I'm gone. Today's column is written by author M.J. Rose.
Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.
Suzanne Beecher
Suzanne@DearReader.com
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Today's guest columnist author M.J. Rose....
Once upon a time (about four years ago) I interviewed a woman for my weekly column on publishing news for Wired.com. Her company was so innovative and so interesting I wanted to bring it to the attention of readers everywhere.
Usually, I interviewed about a dozen people a week for the column, and while many of them had news, very few of them stood out the way she did. She was open and charming and smart and what was even more curious (and rare) was she was as interested in me as I was in her, asking me to tell her all about my novels, which she said she was going to read.
When I called back to fact check a few items for the column, she'd already read one of my books and after telling me how much she liked it, mentioned that she was coming to New York. How could I not have invited her to lunch?
A month later I arrived at the Tabla restaurant in the east 20's on Madison Avenue without any idea of whether or not she'd be anything like what I'd imagined. She was already at our table, wearing the perfect black suit, her blonde hair shining, looking about twenty years younger than her age. (I'd asked over the phone for the article.)
You know how it can be awkward when you meet someone you've never met before?
It wasn't.
You know how so many people just talk about themselves and never remember to ask about you?
She didn't.
You know how you can talk for a half hour or so and then run out of things to say?
We didn't.
Lunch is supposed to take an hour or an hour and a half.
Two and a half hours later we left the restaurant--yup, you guessed it, me and Suzanne Beecher, having bonded over iced tea and Indian food and the fact that both of us who really never made friends easily, had made friends so easily.
She's the best!
Thanks for reading with me, too!
M.J. Rose--author of "The Halo Effect".
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