Ok, so I have set aside time this morning to filling out forms and money orders for various fall events. Yes, it is that time of year again – and as a matter of fact it is starting for me this week, with the 10th Annual Texas Word Wrangler Book Festival in Giddings this Thursday and Friday. This is all happening at the Giddings Public Library & Cultural Center, 276 N. Orange Street, Giddings. I’ll take the camera and make another Road Trip adventure out of it. We are planning to stop at Buckee’s in Bastrop, by the way. Besides having the funniest roadside advertising around, they also have the most palatial restrooms on the planet outside of some dump like … Versailles or Buckingham Palace.

October 3 – another road trip; this one for the Author Extravaganza at the Llano County Library, which will be all day at Llano County Library, 102 E. Haynie in Llano.

November has two events – the Bulverde-Spring Branch Craft Fair, which will be in the Activity Center at 30280 Cougar Bend, Bulverde, on Saturday the 14^th. This is just as much for my daughter’s origami creations as it is for my books.

And then on the 20^th and 21^st, I’m planning on a table in the Hall of Authors – which is the corridor at the New Braunfels Civic Center for Weinachtsmarkt. So – yay, and wish me fortunate traveling. Likely there will be at least two more events in December, but they are not firmed up at this point. I hope to have two new books out this year – Sunset and Steel Rails, and a contemporary collection of humorous essays and short stories about Luna City, Texas – a place that the railway bypassed in 1885, but which has grown in eccentricity ever since.