The editor, who otherwise seemed a sensible specimen, suggested that I write it. Her story, I observed, would make a helluva novel. She lived with the Comanches twenty-four years, married, and had three children. At the age of nine Cynthia Ann was taken by Comanches after an attack on her family’s fort in east Texas in 1836. I mentioned Cynthia Ann Parker to this editor though. I already had a respectable job as a librarian in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. I was looking for love, but not an editor. Love got me grinning like a baked possum. In one 12-hour period, I found love and an editor. Sunday morning, Brian and I watched the pastel-and-polyester Easter breakfast crowd collide with Balticon’s google-eyed aliens, Darth Vader wannabes, and industrial-sized lasses in dog collars and leopard-skin bikinis. His editor’s wife blurted out, “He wrote it.” So I took Brian to the hotel bar to mend fences, screwdrivers being the best tool to mend this sort of fence.
Texas connection movie#
I airily replied, no, I didn’t read movie spin-offs. Brian asked me if I had read the new Han Solo novel. There, amidst sword fights raging through the hotel lobby and loathsome ET’s crammed into the elevators, I met the science fiction writer, Brian Daley, and his editor. My Texas connection started innocently enough with arrant lust at a Baltimore science fiction convention on Easter weekend, 1979. You can’t cannonball deeper into debt to someone than that. She changed my life, profoundly and for the better. She sent me off on a course I never could have imagined. The ghost’s name is Cynthia Ann Parker and I have a lot to thank her for. She took me to Texas in 1980 and she keeps me coming back she, and the fact that the rear view of a rodeo roper in tight levis is a deeply religious experience. They’re both partial to a particular ghost. They do have something in common, though. Even as Texans reckon distance, Groesbeck and Crowell aren’t near enough to each other to make an extramural beer run, or send an away- team to the pasture-hockey finals.
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