Pat Conroy!!!!!

Bonnie and I went to the SC Book Festival and the headliner was my favorite author (besides Stephen King)---Pat Conroy!!!! We went to hear him speak and he was amazing. Very humble and down to earth. He said that with his first manuscript he hand wrote it (and hand writes them all even still---amazing....) but his wife said he couldn't send it in that way. He got friends and family to help him type it and they used a mish-mash of paper to do so. The publisher called him and said "Pat---I haven't even read your book yet but it is the cutest thing I have ever seen" with blue and yellow pages and personalized stationary sent in. He also said that after writing "The Prince of Tides" Barbara Streisand kept calling him and he didn't believe it was her. When finally getting him on the phone she was mad and he still didn't believe it. He had her sing "People" so he could verify and then he realized it was her. Love that. Nutty and I waited in line one hour to meet him and have him sign our books and he was so nice and shook our hands and allowed me Mrs. Obnoxious to get a picture taken with him.