For a while, when we were getting nuisance calls on our cell phone, we began answering unknown callers by saying, "Good Afternoon, Ruess Writer's Group, may I have your account number?" The nuisance caller hung up, and the calls stopped after a while ... Fortunately, we do take our writing more seriously than we take phone calls. Sand is Managing Editor of the weekly ezine "Piker Press" and is working on finishing her next four novels; Bernie is carefully constructing his second novel during his early retirement. Both the Pilarskis think there is no better place to write than California.