I receive about  one hundred emails a day. And I have no staff - it's just me here. So please make your subject line descriptive. I'm more likely to open emails with subjects like this:

Article for Deutsche Welle

Interview for CNN - DEADLINE TODAY!

Than I am click bait subjects like:

Note: I'm on the West Coast of the USA - same time as Los Angeles.

Please check my What's New page if you are on deadline and need to hear from me quickly - I note there when I will be away from email for any reason (if I am on vacation, I rarely read my email whilst I'm gone). View my public calendar for my best availability.

If you see that I am on vacation and you need to reach me urgently, or you've emailed me and I still haven't responded, here is the trick to getting my attention quickly: send a DM on Reddit to jcravens42 or a DM on BlueSky to coyotebroad. Unless I don't have Internet access at that moment (which is possible - I love to go camping where there is NO cell phone reception at all), I'll get back to you the same day.

If you would like to try talk online via voice or video conference, I can use Zoom, GoogleTalk, Teams, whatever.