Lawrence Jensen is a disgraced science reporter forced to earn a living working for a tabloid. Then he wins the lottery to pick the journalist who will go on mankind's first interstellar mission. It's his shot at redemption—but can he ever overcome his past? "Tabloid Reporter to the Stars" is a novelette that was originally published in Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, February 2007. Eric James Stone is a Nebula Award nominee and a Writers of the Future Contest winner. He is the author of over two dozen stories that have been published in venues such as Year's Best SF, Analog, and Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show.