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This is not something that a person kills themself over. Tomorrow start by getting on the phone to radio stations and tell them your story. They may just help out. Try to be brave and see this through.

I thought that at Radio Stations someone is there 24/7. There are also interview transcripts available but, that’s basically like cheating. I feel bad Porterman that you are in a bind like this.

Also, try the newspapers they are open on Saturday’s and Sunday’s. Maybe they can help.

I wouldn’t give up on the studio phone… just keep hanging on.

Call one of the newspaper columnists. Their numbers are in the newspapers. Hopefully you won’t have to ask too many questions. I know they are there tomorrow. I live in Michigan so our papers are The Detroit News and the Oakland Press. Sorry I am not of more help.

Can you use twitter to ask your questions? Maybe they let you phone them after a twitter interview. Good luck:)

Mitch Album - A columnist for the Detroit News and Author of two books. What follows is his Bio. The people at Help.com won’t allow me to post the whole Bio. Please go to his website by Googling “Mitch Album”. You can also send emails to him. He’s a great guy with a good heart. Best of luck to you.

I read your books Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven in my language arts class and I want to write my book report about you. I need help getting information about you. My mom said I should email you. Would you please answer these questions Mr. Mitch so I can do my report?

Thank you very much.

1. Where do you get your inspiration from?

I look to the moments in my life when I was overwhelmed by emotion, when I felt tears behind my eyes or when I felt my breath leaving me. And then I think what was behind those moments: what happened to push me to that point? I try to see if it is something universal, something many people feel. If so, I know I am I standing in the soil of something inspiring, and I begin to create a story from that moment.

2. How do you come up with the ideas for your books?

Well, my inspiration tends to come from people I know. For example, obviously, Morrie and his unique personality – and unique approach to dying – was the inspiration for “Tuesdays with Morrie” along with the need to pay his medical bills. The inspiration for “Five People” was my real uncle Eddie, who was much like the character in the book, a man who felt he didn’t matter in life. I wanted to write a story in which Eddie got to know, in heaven, that he did matter here on earth – much as I would like my real uncle Eddie, wherever he is now in heaven, to experience that. The inspiration for “For One More Day” came, again, from a real person, my mother, who stood up for me all my life, even when I didn’t always stand up for her. I have imagined what life will be like when she is no longer here, and I know I will want another day with her. That feeling became the ground floor of that book. It’s a little derivative of the idea “Write what you know” which they always tell you when you begin to do fiction. I’m not so much writing what I know – after all, I don’t know amusement parks or heaven – but I am writing WHO I know. And that gives me a comfort to move ahead with my stories.

3. Are your books true stories?

All of my books begin with feelings and experiences that I have had myself. “Morrie” was an autobiographical experience. Five People was inspired by – and dedicated to - my old Uncle Eddie. For One More Day has a good deal of my own mother and me behind the characters.

You can find out more about this by reading about “my picks” here.

Another Radio Personality is “Dave Ramsey” he has a huge website and also a place to email him. Im my essay I would use the biographic material as a front runner and than add the questions and answers. Good luck.