. >> host: your co-author raymond obstfield, how does your partnership work? >> guest: we work together in a meaningful way. i will put together -- with him and put together an overview of what we want to say and define different areas we want to touch on and i will give him notes and he will write some of the things i want to say and he captured by voice on it and we go back and forth, me writing and giving him things to edit. >> host: is writing easy for you is it a real labor? >> guest: writing is a waiver for everybody. you really have a real set purpose to be a writer but the longer i do it the easier it gets. >> host: next question from chain in california but first delay in new york city. >> caller: i appreciate you accommodator. you raised the question of there being only one woman inventor in the book and i would like to revisit that question for mr abdul-jabbar because i felt he did not answer that. is long basketball history and success but my concern is there's only one woman and there was the fireplace stanford and louise edwards, he really didn't