Monday, September 20, 2010  No, Really. It's Fiction.  by Hank
Phillippi Ryan        Silence on the other end of the phone.
Okay, Mom?           1. My mother once rang me totally
distraught. She was troubled by the stories in The X-Files. "How
could the FBI keep this stuff from us?" she asks. "Uh mom ...
you know it's all made up right?" "Really?" was her response.
*sigh*    2. Hank, Thanks for the wonderful laugh this morning!
When my first book came out, my sister insisted she was one of
the secondary characters. When I told her, "No, that isn't you,"
she replied, "But she makes up words like I do." Silence. "Okay,
so maybe I got that trait from you, but the character isn't
YOU." I know she never believed me:)      I've always wanted to
read your books so I'd love to win one!    3. In the 80's a
waitress at my favorite lunch place was telling all her favorite
customers she would be gone for a week on her first cruise. One
elderly lady told her she would watch for her on that week's
episode of "