And Hal Wilson is our fiction editor. James O'Sullivan, our assistant fiction editor Bill Gourgey, our Managing Editor. He does things I can't understand because he he's one of those, those tech enthusiasts. And as well as being a writer, and out of the Hopkins program, he also teaches at MIT and elsewhere. And the whatever I have a problem or we have a problem publishing, he's the guy that solves it, usually pretty quickly. And usually, it's because I don't understand what is being said. It's a language problem. The, this is our large—pardon. That's right. We doubled everyone's salary this year was zero for zero. This is our largest issue for over 400 pages. It didn't start off, then our target, our target was a lot less. But when we when we huddled and tried to make final decisions, either in the poetry or fiction or nonfiction arena. We just had an impossible time. The quality of work that has come in has just been fantastic. So for everything good that you read that you like, here, believe me, there is a lineup behind it of very good work that we just couldn't publish. And so we're very thankful for that. The Delmarva Review wanted. The reason we we've started publishing this 14 year, years ago, was that we wanted to provide a a really good place for authors to present their work. For those who are serious writers who really wanted to write their best work, and get it published somewhere. We wanted to give them a good home. And that was our desire, mainly because most of the commercial publications were reducing how much how much work they were taking, or they were going out of business. So the best work of writers was just getting was just languishing. And so we wanted to contribute to fill that that hole. And I think we are to an to an extent. Also, today I'm announcing that the submission period for the 15th anniversary issue is has opened and will remain open until March 31 next year. For and so if you're if you're ready to test the waters with your best wor, this is a great year to do it. Going forward, we divide this book into three sections, three big sections. We start off with nonfiction, and then we go into fiction. And then we end with poetry. Each section is over 100 pages. So each section is almost a book in itself, if you will. We opened it with a, an interview with one of the writers, which helps get into the genre, if you will. And we tried that last year, and it seemed to be successful with our readers. And this year, we did it a little, a little more. So in the non, in the nonfiction, for example, we start off with an interview that I had with George Merrill. And it's about an incident with his father, when he was 12 years old, and something that he couldn't talk about for his entire life. But he developed leukemia. And now his time had come to talk about it. And that's the opening piece in the in the, in the nonfiction arena. So there, there's a lot of strong work in here. But that's, that's enough of me talking. It's available if you want to buy it. Of course, if you're here, and if you're a contributing author, you can buy it and almost half price. And otherwise, it's $18 a copy. Or you can go to Amazon or any of the large retailers and they'll sell it as well. But I'd like to go now to the writers themselves. They're the ones that we're, we're so excited about. And the first one—you have the bios. So what I'm going to do, we're everything's being recorded. So what I'm going to do is just introduce the name of the writer, you have the the biographical information. The first is a nonfiction writer, Caroline Bock.