Funny Scribblers
Writers, or at least the ones that produce fiction and poetry, tend to be odd folks. Some are reclusive, and were it not for social media and blogs they'd have no interaction aside from angry communication with agents and editors. Others are social to the extreme. They attend every possible conference, festival, and book reading. One of my favorites, both for his work and for his downright charming personality, tells hilarious stories about writers. Jerry Craven, press director for a couple of East Texas presses as well as a widely published novelist and poet and semi-retired English professor, fits somewhere in the middle of the writer's spectrum of social engagement, but his stories about fellow writers are unparalleled. A recent favorite involves a writer who attended the Texas Book Festival in Austin. The festival has been around for less than twenty years, but for authors and bibliophiles alike it's an event like no other in the Lone Star State. For many writers, ...