Just back from the Fort Worth Bookfest’s Books ‘n Boots Soiree at Lou’s Place on the Texas Wesleyan University campus, where I learned the following:

“They say Fort Worth is where the West begins, but the fact of the matter is that Dallas is where the East just kind of peters out.”

I also got the impression that this is going to be a fun weekend.

Three writers with ties to Texas Wesleyan read from their works. Dr. Jeffrey DeLotto read from his novel A Caddo’s Way; Marjorie Herra Lewis read from her novel When the Men Were Gone; and Michelle Hartman read poems from her Disenchanted and Disgruntled (in which we learn what happened to the “eighth and most annoying dwarf, Gropey.”)

So there are three more titles on my To Be Read list. 

Click here to see authors who will appear at the festival, and the covers of their books. Click through the pictures and you’ll eventually see my head shot and the cover of Murder on Wheels. They’re the same pictures you’ve seen before, and I don’t advocate covering old territory, but it’s a heady experience for me to be included with real writers.

I’m not supposed to engage in such defeatist talk, but after listening to the authors read tonight, I did look around the room and wonder what I’m doing here.

No matter.  I’m here.

This is going to be a fantastic book festival.

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Citations: Here’s a picture of my notes. I like to get things right, and since I had nothing to write on but a napkin . . .