"So, how did you two meet?"

  It is one of the world's most-asked questions. It is an ice-breaker for casual conversation. It triggers insightful glimpses into careers and personal lives. For those still looking for that elusive someone, it is a question they are 'one chance meeting away' from being able to answer themselves.

  Crowded Maze is a collection of 25 "how we met" stories, as told by news, weather and sports broadcasters from across North America. Some of them you may know. Some of them you might not. Their true stories - all told firsthand - serve as a reminder of how fortunate we are to have met those most significant to us.

• Which New York City Anchorwoman credits meeting her future husband to his being mugged on a Bronx subway?
  
  
• Which 45-time Emmy-winning Reporter met his future wife while covering a workshop called How to Get a Man to Commit?
  
  
• Which Cincinnati Meteorologist met his wife - a Miss America contestant - only because he stopped in at home to do his laundry?
  
  
• Which Canadian television couple eventually married, despite disliking each other for the first year of their professional relationship?
  
  
• Which veteran Phoenix Broadcaster met his future wife through a personal ad - and discovered they had been next-door neighbors for two years?
  
  
• Which Toronto Sportscaster re-connected with (and married) a former university classmate - after having had no contact for almost a decade?
  
  
• Which California television couple met while appearing together in a university theater presentation of A Good Man Is Hard To Find?
  
  
• Which Chicago News Director met his wife at a Christmas party for the Make A Wish Foundation?
  
  
• Which National Weathercaster received - and immediately accepted - a marriage proposal on a first date?
  
  
• Which Network television couple can attribute their meeting to a broken tape recorder in State College, Pennsylvania?
  
  
• A jammed doorway in Watertown, New York?
  
  
• A re-scheduled business trip to Atlanta?
  
  
• A hastily-assigned TV liveshot in Jackson, Mississippi?
  
  

All these true "how we met" stories - and a dozen more - are in the first-ever edition of Crowded Maze. With a Foreword by Larry Stout, a former RTNDA Documentary Award and Edward R. Murrow Award winner.