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Fair Lawn & Ridgefield Park, NJ – August 8, 2012 – AnythingIT Inc., (OTCBB: ANYI), a leading information technology electronics recycler and e-waste handler serving both government and commercial markets for over 20 years, and Samsung Electronics America today announced they are entering the sixth consecutive year partnering on the Samsung Electronics Take-Back and Recycle (S.T.A.R.) US Toner Program.
This year marks an important milestone for the S.T.A.R. program as Samsung Electronics and reseller partner NWN Corporation were recently awarded the printer refresh and recycling services contract by the State of California's Department of General Services.
The contract will provide State agencies with new, more energy efficient Samsung printers as well as the S.T.A.R. toner and printer recycling program in partnership with AnythingIT for the next three to five years. It is mandatory for State agencies and is available to all local governments, public educational institutions and special districts throughout California. The totals to be recycled could be up to tens of thousands of laser printers and hundreds of thousands of cartridges over the life of the contract.
"The S.T.A.R. program has been one of Samsung's most successful customer support initiatives in the past five years, and has exhibited consistent and dramatic growth since its launch in 2007," said Tod Pike, senior vice president, Samsung Electronics America's Enterprise Business Division. "This voluntary and environmentally responsible recycling program has been enthusiastically embraced by Samsung printer owners, who appreciate the simplicity and convenience of using the U.S. Postal Service as a return logistics provider. AnythingIT has been an exceptionally supportive and reliable partner for Samsung in deploying and managing the S.T.A.R. program, meeting every performance benchmark we have set while insuring that our customers enjoy a world-class recycling experience."
"At NWN our mission is to help our customers solve business problems through technology, and partnering with Samsung was the perfect solution," said Matt Niemann, vice president of strategic contracts for NWN. "Samsung's S.T.A.R. Program, in partnership with AnythingIT, not only met and exceeded California's standards for technical, service and small business related issues, it has provided us with a partnership that will help solve business, economic and environmental issues for the entire State."
The environmentally compliant S.T.A.R. Toner Recycling program will track the return of spent toner cartridges. Using a specially developed barcode which uniquely identifies every individual cartridge and a backend tracking system, Samsung will record and report to the State the returns of empty Samsung cartridges by individual State agencies and the total weight of the recycled and recovered materials (plastics, metals, cardboard, etc.) which will be reused to make new products. Under the S.T.A.R. program, Samsung and AnythingIT ensure environmentally responsible end-of-life management for empty toner cartridges and also laser printers that can no longer be used for their original intended purpose.
For more information about innovative asset recovery programs managed by AnythingIT, please contact AnythingIT at (877) 766-3050 or via the Internet at www.anythingit.com
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AnythingIT is a leading asset management vendor and E-Waste handler serving OEM's, Equipment Resellers, government and enterprise clients. Services provided by the company include: data scrubbing, shredding, inventory management, repair and remarketing of equipment and recycling of parts and materials. AnythingIT has been operating since 1992 and is a GSA Schedule Holder who has achieved R2 and ISO 14001 certification.
About Samsung Electronics America Enterprise Business Division
As a global leader in Information Technology, Samsung's Enterprise Business Division (EBD) is committed to bringing meaningful innovation to businesses of all types from small and medium businesses to the Fortune 500 elite and public agencies alike. Samsung offers a complete portfolio of solutions including virtualization, printing, displays, notebook and tablet PCs and digital signage that help reduce operating costs, reduce the environmental footprint and encourage dynamic learning. Samsung EBD is a division of Samsung Electronics America (SEA), a U.S. subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Company, Ltd. (SEC) and is among the world's largest technology companies. For more information, please visit www.samsung.com/business or calling 1-866-SAM-4BIZ.
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(CNN) — After Carmen Tarleton's estranged husband doused her with industrial-strength lye, doctors saved her life with a medically induced coma and more than 50 surgeries.
But they could do little about her scar-ravaged face.
She was so disfigured that children ran away from her. When TV news shows did stories about her, they warned that the images might be disturbing and advised viewer discretion.
For four years Tarleton lived with this reality, plus enormous amounts of pain. Then her plastic surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston made a suggestion. He'd recently done the first facial transplant in the United States, and he thought it might work for her.
At first the idea sounded a bit strange — going through life with someone else's face? — but it didn't take long for Tarleton to say yes, and on Wednesday, Tarleton unveiled her new face at a press conference.
She doesn't know her deceased donor's name but said she thinks about her every day.
"I have conversations with her and let her know how grateful I am," Tarleton, 44, told CNN during a visit Monday to her home in Thetford, Vermont. "I'm thrilled. I'm thrilled with what I've got."
Doctor: 'We had some sleepless nights'
Dr. Bohdan Pomahac had never seen anyone like Tarleton.
The director of the burn unit at Brigham and Women's, Pomahac assessed Tarleton's wounds when she came in after the June 2007 attack. The lye had burned more than 80% of her body, and the burns went deep — all the way through her skin.
In 2011, Pomahac and his team made headlines when they performed the nation's first full facial transplant on Dallas Wiens, a Texas man who got too close to a high-voltage line while at work.
Tarleton was approved for a full transplant in December of that year. It took about 14 months — an unusually long time — to find a donor, because she had so many antibodies in her immune system built up from the blood transfusions and surgeries used to treat her injuries.
She had the 15-hour transplant surgery in February, becoming the sixth person in the United States to get a full facial transplant, according to Pomahac. An animation of the procedure done by the hospital shows how surgeons removed her skin, muscles, tendons, and nerves, replacing them with those of the donor.
At first, it didn't go so well. Tarleton's body started to reject her new face — a rejection so strong doctors feared the transplant might fail.
"We had some sleepless nights," Pomahac said.
But a well-tailored cocktail of anti-rejection drugs saved Tarleton's new face.
'He was able to see me through my scars'
Completely blind in one eye and partially blind in the other, Tarleton is still able to live on her own in her apartment in Vermont.
She did have to quit her job as a nurse. Donations she received after she appeared on "The Doctors" television show have helped support her and her two daughters, who were 12 and 14 when they witnessed their stepfather attack their mother. Private insurance and Medicare have paid for her medical care.
Emotionally, Tarleton has recovered by forgiving her ex-husband, who's now in prison, and by giving inspirational talks and publishing a book, "Overcome: Burned, Blinded, and Blessed."
In December, she started taking piano lessons from a local teacher named Sheldon Stein. The lessons were before the transplant, when her face was so badly disfigured, but still he fell in love with her.
"He was able to see me through my scars," she said.
Stein helped her through her February transplant and during her recovery. At first, she had hardly any control over her face, but she can now muster a bit of a smile, and her doctors say with time she should be able raise her eyebrows and make other facial expressions.
She especially looks forward to gaining the strength and coordination to kiss the man she calls "the love of my life."
"I can't pucker and feel yet," she said. "But I am looking forward to that day. I know that day will come."

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Lots of big news in the Emory transplant world as of late. We performed the Southeast's first hand transplant, our 300th lung transplant, and most of you probably heard about the touching story of Wake Forest University baseball player, Kevin Jordan, and his coach, Tom Walter, who came to Emory to participate in a living donor kidney transplant. This last story, more than any other, has brought a tremendous amount of awareness around the notion of living donor transplants. April is Donate Life Month, and as such, we thought it appropriate to highlight another touching living donor transplant story, this one, between a member of the Emory family, Pamela Lesane, and her sister. We recently interviewed Pamela, who works for Emory Healthcare in Guest Services, about her journey as a living donor.
Morgan: Pamela, thanks so much for helping us promote awareness of living donor transplants. Tell us, where did your journey as an organ donor begin?
Pamela: My sister has suffered with kidney disease ever since she was born. At the time of the transplant she was suffering from both high blood pressure and kidney disease. After I started at Emory, I came into contact with a transplant coordinator who asked me if my sister had ever been evaluated for a transplant. She had not yet been evaluated, and a few weeks later my sister came to Emory and was placed on the waiting list. I asked to be the first one tested as a possible donor candidate. It turned out I was a match and the rest is history.
Morgan: What was the actual donation and transplant experience like for both of you?
Pamela: It was a blessing to finally be able to help my sister after watching her suffer her whole life with kidney disease. My sister often tells me that it's like her life has started fresh since the transplant. Her recovery time was short, only about 2 weeks, and she was able to notice an improvement in the way she felt within just a couple of days. Overall it was a wonderful experience for the both of us and brought us even closer than we already are.
Morgan: You mentioned you and your sister are closer now, specifically, how has the organ donation and kidney transplant affected your relationship with your sister?
Pamela: While my sister was on dialysis she was never able to travel as she had to come into the hospital three times a week. After the transplant, we were able to reach a new connection as we were able to travel and spend more time together. We have always been close but through the whole transplant experience we grew closer and are now able to spend more time together, which is wonderful.
Morgan: That's wonderful to hear. Would you serve as her living donor again? Do you have any regrets?
Pamela: If I could go back in time I would do the transplant over and over again. I have absolutely no regrets, I was able to better my sister's quality of life and we became closer as a result.
Morgan: Do you now encourage other people to consider being a living organ donor? If so, why?
Pamela: I do encourage other people to consider donation because it truly gives one individual the opportunity to provide someone with a second chance and a new lease on life. Especially if that person is a loved one, the satisfaction of being able to help a family member or friend get a fresh and healthy start to life is a wonderful feeling.
Morgan: How has working in health care changed your awareness and comfort levels with organ donation?
Pamela: If I hadn't started working at Emory, I would never have come into contact with the people who made the transplant possible. Working in the health care field made me feel more at ease with the whole transplant process, because it was my peers who were looking out for both myself and my sister. I was able to listen to the doctor with a high level of comfort and was able to easily move forward with the transplant. That's part of why sharing this story was so important to me. I realize that not everyone has the opportunity I did to be informed of the possibility of being a living donor. If you know someone in need of a transplant, it's certainly worth looking into.
Morgan: Is there anything else you'd like to tell us about the experience?
Pamela: I would just like to thank the Emory community and specifically the transplant team because they truly changed my sisters life and our relationship.
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Well, it doesn't look like my petition on the White House petition site is going to gain any traction.
Perhaps that's why the Democrats say they do not view the non-religious as a constituency. The act of signing a petition which simply asks the administration to acknowledge our existence and our freedoms as guaranteed in the Constitution is apparently too much.
Yes, I am disappointed. The petition will drop dead on January 10 if it doesn't get twenty-five thousand signatures. It needs one hundred fifty to become visible on the Website. I have spread it as far as I can on my own.
Apparently there are only forty-six people out of three hundred million that care about this issue. No wonder no politician will address our issues.
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I'd sign the darn thing again if I thought that would help! [chuckle!]
Well, being out here on the High Plains two kilometers from civilisation doesn't help much in the stumping for rights bit. The tumbleweeds aren't interested in my diatribes.
Unless I can parlay my political career as a village trustee into taking over one of the political parties, I doubt I can do much there either.
Do you suppose Nebraska is ripe for a coup d'etat? No, I didn't think so, either! [chuckle!]
I clicked on the link and it says "Page not found" - where's the petition?
I was going to ask the same thing.
Maybe that is why there are only forty-six signatures. Perhaps this link will help.
SIgned it, but still only up to 47 now...
This link worked. Have you tried communicating with the organizations listed near the top of the Atheist Nexus site? Getting a few of them behind you could make a difference.
I just cant believe that even after becoming the first president in history to recognize atheists as citizens, Obama just alienates us. Lets face it, religion is just too deeply ingrained into mainstream America.
Religion is an in-group matter. It brings people together like just about nothing else. There's a reason we say "God and Country". And if you want to unite people to your bull shit cause, make it god's cause, and the sheeple will follow.
EDIT: Just signed this. Took less than 100 seconds, INCLUDING time spent signing up for an account at their site. I think we should really be pushing this one. If you are on this thread and haven't signed yet, please do! And ask all your friends to do so as well!
I'm the 71st person
I don't know if there's enough time but I'll throw my hat in, so to speak.
I do think this is the same as asking the political leaders to remember the oath they took.
The petition has expired. It did not reach the required twenty-five thousand signatures. (It got to seventy-two.) It no longer appears on the Website.
Thanks to those here who did sign it though. We tried.-James.
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California Supreme Court Justice Marvin Baxter, a staunch conservative influence on the law for more than two decades, will retire at the end of the year, giving Gov. Jerry Brown an opportunity to dramatically reshape the state's high court.
The 74-year-old Baxter announced Wednesday that he will not seek re-election to a 12-year term on the November ballot, making him the second justice to depart the Supreme Court this year. Baxter, an appointee of former Republican Gov. George Deukmejian, has spent 24 years as a justice and is arguably the most conservative justice remaining on the seven-member court.
"It just seemed to be the right time to do this," Baxter said in an interview with this newspaper. "It really came down to a very personal decision that I made."
Baxter's retirement paves the way for perhaps the most profound shift in the state's high court since it turned conservative in the late 1980s. Justice Joyce Kennard retired in April, and Brown has been vetting candidates for that seat. Coupled with the previous appointment of Justice Goodwin Liu, Brown would have three of his picks on the court once he replaces Baxter if, as expected, the governor is re-elected in November.
By announcing his decision now, Baxter, a lifelong Republican, has given the Democratic governor an opportunity to ensure that a successor is on the November ballot if a new justice is nominated by Sept. 15. Brown's appointment would then go before the voters as an incumbent for election to a 12-year term.
Evan Westrup, a spokesman for the governor, said the administration is "moving expeditiously to fill these vacancies."
Brown is already under pressure to name a Latino or African-American to the state Supreme Court, which is currently without such representation. There have been a host of possibilities mentioned for Kennard's seat, including San Jose appeals court Justice Miguel Marquez, Stanford University law professor Mariano-Florentino Cuellar, UCLA law school dean Rachel Moran and San Francisco appeals court Justice Martin Jenkins.
Before joining the state Supreme Court, Baxter was an appeals court justice in Fresno and previously served as Deukmejian's appointments secretary, including for the judiciary. Deukmejian also was a lawyer and prosecutor in Fresno.
Baxter called his Supreme Court service "a privilege," and said he planned to spend his retirement with family, traveling and on hobbies. Asked where his first trip might be, Baxter joked that he'd have to consult with his wife, Jane, a retired schoolteacher, before that decision is made.
Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye said she would miss Baxter's "sage advice and counsel."
While on the court, Baxter, soft-spoken and known for being courteous in his grilling of lawyers during arguments, seldom broke from the court's entrenched conservative wing, regularly upholding death sentences and generally siding with prosecutors in criminal cases.
Baxter also was part of the dissent in the 4-3 decision in 2008 that struck down California's laws barring same-sex marriage. Voters later restored the gay marriage ban with Proposition 8, which the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated last year.
Baxter has written many notable opinions, including the so-called "Friends" sitcom case in 2006. In that ruling, he determined that sexually vulgar language is often a central part of the creative process, tossing a sexual harassment case brought by a former assistant on the popular TV show.
Last year, Baxter wrote the unanimous ruling in a case that upheld the right of local governments to ban medical marijuana dispensaries. He also wrote the majority opinion in a 4-3 decision in 2006 finding that people infected with the virus that causes AIDS are obligated to inform partners about possible exposure. And in 1995, Baxter wrote a ruling upholding a Santa Ana no-camping ordinance that targeted the homeless.
Baxter declined to characterize his tenure on the state Supreme Court, or single out any particular cases of note.
"I haven't really kept a so-called hit parade of cases," Baxter said. "I've never thought in those terms. I'll leave that to others to assess."
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Israeli law allows someone with a Jewish great-granddad to have "Jewish" written in his identity papers. Naturally, many Jews don't accept so wide a definition, and would be loathe to marry an 88 percent Slav. Living in Israel and fighting Arabs in order to marry a practical Slav is somewhat odd. "Jewish" products of instantaneous Reformist conversions (which have been stopped by now) also do not make a welcome marriage prospect. Some Jews have a problem with non-halachic Jews by paternal lineage.
The official documents don't show the real information that establishes someone's Jewishness, which is presumably important in the Jewish state. If one wants to live in the Jewish state, he or she naturally wants to marry a Jew rather than someone whom the government's trickery made into a Jew. The situation is dangerous as there's no positive way to ascertain the true Jewishness of a prospective spouse. There is a small step from being ready to marry an 88 percent Slav to marrying a 100 percent one.
The Israeli government will continue diluting the Jewish identity, as that is the simplest way to counter the Arab demographic threat: by bringing fake Jews in. A politically correct state may as well drop religion from the ID cards: the inclusion of such information in an official document is indeed abusive by the standards of ethnic-blind democracies. Jews decried similar requirement for Soviet passports, as it somewhat inhibited their attempts to mix into the core population and assimilate.
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The Vermont Farm Show, founded in 1931, is an annual gathering that allows both agriculture professionals and the public to meet with vendors, preview products and machinery and network with the farm community at the Champlain Valley Fairgrounds in Essex Junction. This year�s Show begins tomorrow, January 30th at 9am, and runs through Thursday, February 1st at 4pm. On Wednesday night, January 31st, the 7th annual Consumer Night will take place, which celebrates the diversity of Vermont agriculture with the Winter Buy Local Market and Capital Cook-Off.
The Winter Buy Local Market, which takes place in the Blue Pavilion from 4-7pm Wednesday, will feature nearly fifty farmers and producers of local cheese, meat, milk, maple syrup, jams, culinary oils, honey, wine, beer, spirits, wool, and handmade crafts. Ready-to-eat prepared foods such as Vermont-made gluten free sp�tzle and ice cream cones from Kingdom Creamery will also be served. The addition of a �crepe happy hour� this year promises culinary delights. Hosted by Skinny Pancake from 4 to 5pm, they will share tastes of both sweet and savory crepes. Shoppers who post a photo of their Buy Local Market experience to social media with the hashtag #RootedInVermont or #VTFarmShow18 during the event will be entered into a drawing for one of three great local prizes.Beginning at 5:15 PM, watch Vermont State Representatives, State Senators and Agency of Agriculture staff battle in a contest to showcase local foods in the Capital Cook-Off, hosted by the Secretary of Agriculture Anson Tebbetts. This �Iron-Chef� style competition gives teams a chance to shop the Buy Local Market and prepare an attractive, delicious, and #RootedInVermont dish featuring a secret local protein unveiled only moments before the competition begins. After a demanding hour of cooking, all three teams will submit their dishes to a panel of judges comprised of local chefs, restaurateurs and public officials; dishes will also be submitted for sampling by attendees to choose the �public pick� winner. For images from the 2017 Vermont Farm Show visit: Editors: https://goo.gl/photos/WWSHTKuwLn1Ym132A For more information about the 2018 Farm Show visit: http://www.vtfarmshow.com/ For more information about Consumer Night, visit: http://bit.ly/ConsumerNight2018


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smcilreavy needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
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could not find or load main class com.javasrc.webphotogallery.LoadImage
Hello there!
I have a project in Enterprise Architecture called "Photo Gallery Management" .
I decided to create a web photo gallery.As I am "new" in Java i decided to follow a step by step tutorial which is : Java Reference Guide | Project: Building a Web Photo Gallery | InformIT
I installed Jboss,configured it on Eclipse.Then installed MySQL and MySQL Administrator becouse i have to build the database and so on.
I created the webphotogallery-ds.xml and stored it in the deploy folder of Jboss then I had to create a java code to put an image to the database table named ' images' .The code is:
package com.javasrc.webphotogallery;
import java.io.*;
import java.sql.*;
public class LoadImage
public static void main( String[] args )
if( args.length < 3 )
System.out.println( "Usage: LoadImage <image-filename> <album-id> <desc>" );
System.exit( 0 );
String filename = args[ 0 ];
int albumId = Integer.parseInt( args[ 1 ] );
String desc = args[ 2 ];
Connection conn = null;
PreparedStatement ps = null;
Class.forName( "org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver" );
String url = "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/webphotogallery";
String username = "root";
String password = "";
conn = DriverManager.getConnection( url, username, password );
ps = conn.prepareStatement(
"INSERT INTO Image (album_id, image_desc, image_full) VALUES( ?, ?, ? )" );
ps.setInt( 1, albumId );
ps.setString( 2, desc );
// Insert the image into the second Blob
File image = new File( filename );
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream( image );
ps.setBinaryStream( 3, fis, ( int )image.length() );
// Execute the INSERT
int count = ps.executeUpdate();
System.out.println( "Rows inserted: " + count );
catch( Exception e )
if( ps != null ) ps.close();
if( conn != null ) conn.close();
catch( Exception ee )
To execute the LoadImage class, I need to include the MySQL JDBC JAR file in my CLASSPATH as follows:
set CLASSPATH=.;<path-to-mysql-jdbc-drive>\mysql-connector-java-3.0.11-stable-bin.jar
And then execute it as follows:
java com.javasrc.webphotogallery.LoadImage myfile.jpg 1 "A picture of me and my friend"
If i had been successful i would have seen sth like this: "Rows inserted: 1"
But as i am not a successful one i get this error message from the command line:
"could not find or load main class com.javasrc.webphotogallery.LoadImage".
I also changed the directory to where this class resides...
Help me please.
I have 5 days with this problem...
Thanks in advance
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The American Bar Association Magazine Steals Website Article, Tells Protesting Author She Needs Lesson in Public Domain
" This is classic: "To say this has hurt our business is an understatement. But worse, it is harming the very people we are here to assist."
No sh*t Sherlock. And it's all on your diminutive organization as you brought it on then fanned the flames with the non apologies.
The internet won. They beat you down like the plagiarizing thieves you are and you have the nerve to complain about hackers when you have no concept, no idea, no clue as to what a hacker really is?
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Cooks Source Magazine editor Judith Griggs is probably regretting sending this email to a food blogger. The Internet firestorm of flames began when Monica Gaudio discovered that Cooks Source had recently published an article written and published on the web 5 years ago titled "Tale of Two Tarts." Gaudio e-mailed the magazine's editor, Judith Griggs, to complain, asking Cooks Source to post a public apology on its FaceBook page and make a $130 donation to Columbia School of Journalism.
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Picked up om one of my favorite websites, The Consumerist
Original Source of the recipe A Tale of Two Tarts
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Cooks Source Copyright Infringement Becomes an Internet Meme (Wired)
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Norah Wilson, Romantic Suspense Writer, Guest-Blogs with Mike Angley
MA: My guest-blogger today is Norah Wilson. Norah lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada with her husband and two adult children (both in university), a Lab-Rotti mix dog and five rats (the pet kind). She has been writing romance a long while, and has finalled multiple times in the Romance Writers of America's Golden Heart contest. She also won Dorchester Publishing's New Voice in Romance contest in 2003. Norah writes, among other things, sensual romantic suspense. Currently, three of Norah's four books are among the Top 10 highest rated romances at Smashwords. She was also mentioned by Smashwords CEO Mark Coker as one of the Top 50 indie authors to watch on Smashwords. Norah loves to meet fans and make friends on Twitter and Facebook.
Welcome, Norah! Tell us what you did before jumping into the literary world.
NW: I went to work as a legal secretary before I was legally old enough to witness documents. The work was fascinating and varied, but it didn't pay very well. So after 9 years of that, I got licensed as an official court reporter, thinking I would launch a private business. But before I got serious about that, another opportunity came up in a completely different field. I switched streams to go to work for a provincial hospital association as executive assistant and secretary to the board of directors. Twenty years later, I'm the organization's administrative officer.
MA: Congratulations on your successful career. How did you make the transition over to writing?
NW: I've always been fascinated by communication and by the challenge of persuading people with the written word. If I'd actually gone into communications or ad copy writing or some such career where that need was being fulfilled, I probably never would have written that first novel. But as it was, I had a burning need to write something and write it so convincingly that the reader would be transported. Since I'd been reading romance novels all my life, I naturally tried my hand at a straight contemporary romance. It was a disaster. Oh, I could string words together in very readable way, but the plots were boring, even to me. I needed something more. Then I discovered romantic suspense. The suspense plot finally gave me the "clothesline" on which to hang my story.
MA: Smiling. How did the romantic suspense realm progress for you?
NW: After years of writing and not selling, I'd gotten a little jaded about an industry that seemed to want only babies, brides and cowboys. Since I knew babies and brides would bore me to tears, I settled on cowboys. Because paranormal was starting to gather steam, I tossed in a psychic heroine. Thus I set about very cynically to write a book that New York might buy. Except when I started to research cowboys, I fell in love with them. That's probably what rescued the book (LAUREN'S EYES)! In any case, New York did buy it. It won the New Voice in Romance contest in 2003 and was published by Dorchester Publishing in 2004. Since then, I've written a series of connected romantic suspense stories featuring cops. Again, my stories didn't impress New York publishers overly much, so in the fall of 2010, I self-published them. They're currently doing very nicely. I may not be topping anyone's bestseller list yet, but three of them are consistently in the top 10 most highly rated romances on Smashwords, and all have been well reviewed. I've also written two paranormal romances (dark vampires) which my agent has. As well, I write with a writing partner, Heather Doherty, who is published in dark literary. Together, Heather and I have written half a dozen young adult (YA) books and two humorous cozy mysteries, all of which our agent is shopping around.
MA: Congrats on the Dorchester Publishing award! How do you develop your protagonists in the romantic suspense genre?
NW: Because I'd love for people to dive into my Serve and Protect series, I'll focus on the first book in that series, GUARDING SUZANNAH. I should explain that because this is primarily a romance, it doesn't have just one protagonist. It has a hero and a heroine who get equal play. When casting characters in a romance, it's good to begin with two people who should, at least on the face of it, be each other's worst nightmare. So I created a heroine who is the daughter of a former chief justice. She has an impeccable pedigree, but left lucrative private practice to be a public defender working with Legal Aid clients. She's very good at what she does, and earns the undying enmity of the local police force (and the nickname She-Rex) for shredding officers on the witness stand. She has zero interest in forming any kind of social relationship with a cop. I then had to pair her with a cop from much more humble origins who delights in emphasizing their differences and making her feel like a snob. One whose physicality calls out to her in a way that doesn't mesh with her self-concept as a self-possessed and reserved woman.
MA: Earlier you told me about Quigg. Explain who he is to my readers.
NW: Det. John Quigley (Quigg) is probably the least Alpha hero I've ever written. Not to say he's not strong and completely worthy of the hero title. But his strength is a little quieter and he's more reflective and self-aware than most heroes I've written. He's strong enough to think for himself rather than blindly toeing that thin blue line. He's also got a strong protective streak. With most of my characters, I find that at least one of their strengths is also a weakness for them, and I think that's true here with the protective thing. He also has a bit of an issue with their divergent social statuses. As quietly confident as he is, he's still got some niggling issues there.
MA: Do you feature any kind of nemeses to torture your heroes and heroines?
NW: I don't use a recurring nemesis. Rather, each book has its own brand of bad guy. The villain in GUARDING SUZANNAH is your basic (though far from garden variety) stalker, but in the other novels, the bad guys are considerably more high powered. Which means the other novels carry much higher public stakes in addition to the personal stakes for the hero and heroine.
MA: With your background in legal services, have any of your personal experiences factored in to the stories?
NW: I do tend to use real-life stuff, but more to build a believable world than to fuel any key turning points. I do have some experience of the justice milieu from my earlier work life, which I draw on. I also consulted with a lawyer, a crown prosecutor and a cop on this one (thanks Peggy, Hilary and Matt!). However, there is one very real element in this book – the dog, Bandicoot. Bandy was the name of my dog at the time. He was very senior and I knew he wouldn't be with me forever, so I immortalized him in the book. Every quirk and bizarre behavior displayed by the fictional Bandy was lifted directly from my dear, sorely-missed friend. He slept at my feet for thousands of hours while I wrote that and other books, and his portrait and his ashes sit here beside me still.
MA: That's a nice story. Being a dog lover myself, I'm glad you managed to find a place in your stories for Bandy to live on. So what's next?
NW: I had thought I'd finished with this Serve and Protect series, but I've had a lot of readers ask for more. With the success the books are enjoying, I've had to rethink my position. So I'm slowly working away on another. However, with all the other projects I have on the go, it likely won't be released soon. My principle focus will be on the YA paranormal collaborations. Though my partner and I tend to be slow in our original genres, we write very fast together, and hope to break through into that YA market. But we've also written what we think is a very strong dystopian romance for the adult market. Diversification without dilution – that's the goal!
MA: Since you are a series writer – certainly with the Serve and Protect line – will you feature many of the same characters in future stories?
NW: I will definitely keep employing the current characters in secondary roles with future books. Readers love to get glimpses of the hero & heroine from the previous book. And because many of them are cops in the same station house, it's easy to keep them involved. That said, each story stands very well on its own. You don't really need to have read #1 & #2 to understand #3. I must say, I would love to someday write a recurring protagonist over several books, but as long as I'm writing romantic suspense with the emphasis on the romance, I'll just have to keep trading them in for new characters and new chemistry.
MA: We follow the same philosophy about series and standalones. My Child Finder Trilogy flows from one book to the next, yet each can be read out of order as a standalone. I like that. Anything else you'd like to add?
NW: Only a huge thank you for having me! I'm very aware my stuff is somewhat … fluffier … than the usual fare in this very masculine lair! I'm kind of betwixt and between. Some romance readers might find my work a little too gritty and graphic, while your thriller-reading audience might find it a trifle soft. But I do think there's crossover potential for both audiences. I've had quite a few men message me on Twitter or Facebook to tell me how much they enjoyed the stories and how well they do hold up against traditionally published authors. In fact, if any of your reader base take the plunge and read one or more of my stories, I would love to hear what they think on this point.
Again, thanks so much for having me!
MA: It was my pleasure. Thanks for guesting with me, Norah. I encourage my readers to visit Norah's blog for more information about her stories: http://www.norahwilsonwrites.com/