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Enjoy your exploration Missed opportunity. I love sharing conversations. Hosting
them is going to require some show prep. My podcasting
platforms feature thousands of guests. Now what you don't have
access to are the missed opportunities. The show prep was
one hundred percent completed the conversation and didn't happen. I
keep all of my notes because I believe paths will
one day cross again. Let me explain missed opportunity. It's
my questions and stays without their answers. I'm leaving open
enough space at the end of every question, hoping they'll
download the talk and insert their answers, and it's happened
four different times. Missed opportunity is a lost piece of history.
It's a message in a bottle that's been tossed out
to see. I hope to locate a destination. This week,
we're putting focus on my missed opportunity with author Michael Rose,
the author of the book Sorting Room, historical fiction. The
critics were unbelievably in love with the story, claiming that
readers will develop a sincere empathy for Unus as well
as her family. The story is compelling, one of those
books that sticks with you long after the final paragraph.
One of those books that not only is eye opening,
but very interesting. During the depression era as well as
the nineteen sixties, The Sorting Room was Michael Rose's debut novel.
Eunice and her brother aren't exactly close. She's alone, living
on the edge. It was her very first job that
Unice discovered Gussie, a mentor of sorts. Well guess what.
She was very young, and she was also very pregnant
working in the sorting room. The invitation to share a
conversation with Michael Rose arrived on September sixteenth, twoenty twenty one.
I wanted to do this conversation due to how real
that the author made each in every scene. It was
disruptive to the point of creating its own smell and embrace.
We would meet the following Monday at one pm Eastern.
A zoom link was sent. The conversation was going to
take place bad. It didn't. A mistake on my behalf.
I'm the one who planted it on the wrong date.
I instantly rode back to him saying, can we please
set up a different time? They rode back to me, Sure,
let's do it on this date. I couldn't prep fast enough.
Coming up next, the questions the statements. Michael Rose, Hey,
thanks for coming back to Missed Opportunity this week. It's
my missed opportunity with author Michael Rose. Do you see
the post COVID nineteen generation as being better readers? They're
more attracted to storylines. The name of your book is
the sorting room. Building up the strength to write a
book of this nature. I mean, you really get authentically real.
What was your most memorable moment while writing the story? Okay,
now I am a writer published at that I know
there are a ton of drafts, so I always want
to hear what other authors are going through. How many
drafts did you make during this entire journey. You have
a way of creating characters that really feel like somebody
that we already know. Okay, let's talk about Unis. Unice
is very pro action. She likes to get stuff down.
Is that somebody in your own personal life, like maybe
you a debut novel. What has the experience been like?
Because these are the valuable lessons that keep us growing forward.
And the final question learning the ability to share stories.
It doesn't just happen. How did you learn how to
do it? And there you have it, missed opportunity, a
lost piece of history. You now know the questions, so
let's locate the reactions. The door is always going to
be open. If you are or no Michael Rose, please
reach out to me at erroc at gmail dot com,
A R. R oe c at gmail dot com. As always,
be brilliant