Introduction

“Once upon a time, there was a little lonely writerling. A writerling, one of those creatures that roam the world armed only with a pen and paper. He wandered through the forest, desert and fields. Lonely, he filled his pages, lonely, he journeyed, until one day he saw a small glimmering fire in the city they called Austin. He walked toward that fire and to his surprise, other writerlings were there, sitting, talking, drinking around this fire that felt like home, like the place to be…”