The Texas book tour was a success! I presented at Southern Star in Conroe, Austin Beerworks in Austin, Rahr Brewing in Fort Worth, and the Oskar Blues Brewery in Austin. Sold books and shared stories with great people at every site. Southern Star has decided to name a beer after a story I told. I will let you know when it is brewed. My presentation at Southern Star was listed in 365 things to do in Houston! Cheap Trick was at Billy Bob's when we were in Fort Worth My brother, Charlie, traveled with me. We brought our guitars and gloves for downtime and found a great place to eat every day. The music in Austin was amazing! We found the best places by talking to the locals. The Saxon Pub had a rhythm and blues band with 3 great singers. It’s only seats about 50 people but they get great musicians to stop in and play, like Willie Neson, Taylor Swift, Jason Isbell and Kris Kristofferson. The Continental had great country music. Antones has some great blues bands. 'Rainey Street was a bit of a disappointment to me. When I visited Rainey Street a decade ago, there were guitars and fiddles on each porch playing music. Now it's lots of lights and piped in music. It's more popular than ever, which was likely the goal, but it was generally less appealing to me. Bangers was still good! We ate at the Salt Lick in Driftwood, Texas (near Austin). Bobby Flay said it was the best barbecue he’s ever eaten, so I had to check it out. It did not disappoint! We went to a Thai cooking school and had an amazing meal.I found a place called Flower Child, which apparently is a chain of health food restaurants, which was great! But the best was going to Galveston with my son, Shane, buying fresh seafood from the gulf and grilling it with Shane and Rachael’s family. I hit the ground running with book sales when I returned. At Battle Lake I averaged signing and selling a book every 90 seconds from the time I arrived, 9:00 a.m. until the event ended at 4:00 p.m. which meant it was all I did for those 7 hours. Left hungry, but happy! The Friends of the Brainerd Public Library host an amazing event called Wine & Words, at Grandview featuring 5 national authors. The event sold out in a day even though this year it was held 3 consecutive days to a different audience. I was blessed to be one of the five authors who spoke this year. I shared my story of trying to split a tree by throwing a hatchet at it (Daniel Boone style. I was age ten) only to send it flying through the kitchen window and over the head of my sister Liz, who was washing dishes. Liz and I now have a great freindship and have "buried the hatchet." Southern Star gave me some of there Buried Hatchet dark beer to take home. Back to forensics next blog!
Thanks for listening! Frank The auditory version of Burning Bridges is now available through Amazon. Thank you actors Jonathan Strait and Sarah Brands for your excellent work!
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AuthorFrank F. Weber is a forensic psychologist specializing in homicide and sexual and physical assault cases. He uses his unique understanding of how predator’s think, knowledge of victim trauma, actual court cases, and passion for writing true crime thrillers. His Award Winning books include "Murder Book" (2017) "The I-94 Murders" (2018) "Last Call" (2019) and "Lying Close" (September 2020). Archives
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