Howdy, Y’all. I’m Bill Schweitzer. I live in Austin, Texas, where my books and stories are located, with my lovely wife, little faux beagle, Sami (per her DNA, Sami is actually ½ Basset Hound, but you’d swear she’s a beagle), and Sami’s cat. I grew up in Austin and was about the same age as the characters in my novel, Doves in a Tempest, in 1958, when the story takes place. It’s set in the part of town where I grew up, and the characters live in the homes where I and several of my friends lived. The restaurants, schools and shops depicted were real, and the street names of local streets have been changed, but major thoroughfares are unchanged. I’ve tweaked the geography to fit the stories, but only a little.