My breakfast with Archer

A couple of months ago, I won the chance to have breakfast with author Archer Mayor. Today, I got to collect my prize.

Lee and I joined archer at the Chelsea Royal diner in West Brattleboro, where we had never been and he knew more or less everybody. It was a fantastic conversation… we talked about our nomadic upbringings, why Vermont is the best place ever, rowing, his writing process, being a cop, molding your own personal and professional place in the world, and a hundred other things.

I presented him with a not-too-dog-eared copy of John Carter of Mars, which wasn’t exactly the kind of signed first edition I won from the auction but which I think he still appreciated. Who knows?? maybe we’ll even see ourselves in one of his future books somehow. Detective Joe Gunther has traveled to some pretty exotic places, like Chicago, IL, and St. Johnsbury, VT… could Mars really be all that far away??