"So, how did you two meet?"

  It is one of the world's most-asked questions. An ice-breaker for conversation, it triggers an insightful look 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. 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 'how TV News couples 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.