It was spring of 2002, and I was in the middle of a radio interview, talking about my new book, The Right Words at the Right Time, in which I had asked 108 famous people -- people I admired -- to write about the words that changed their lives. Halfway through the interview, a listener called the station and told a story that would stay with me.

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Last year you submitted a personal essay to us for consideration in Marlo Thomas’s upcoming book, THE RIGHT WORDS AT THE RIGHT TIME, VOL, 2: YOUR TURN!

To say that we were delighted with the response to our call for stories is an understatement. In all, we received more than a thousand submissions, from every corner of the nation and three continents. Unfortunately, because we were limited to selecting only 101 stories for the book, we were unable to use yours. This is not to say that we didn’t appreciate your submission. To the contrary, each and every essay we received was given the highest consideration -- and as Marlo comments in her acknowledgments in the book, “your words never failed to touch our hearts.”

Therefore, we wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for submitting your story to us, and we hope you’ll get a chance to read RIGHT WORDS, VOL. 2 when it is released on April 25th. We also encourage you to log onto www.rightwordsbooks.com to follow the latest developments in the Right Words project, and any subsequent story searches we may be conducting.

Once again, we sincerely thank you for your interest in the Right Words books, and we wish you the very best.

Sincerely,

The Editors
The Right Words at the Right Time, Vol. 2: Your Turn!