continue our coverage on ratings literary culture we speak with author steve callan about his time in the state of california. >> i grew up as the son of a game warden. so the first for my teenage years i spent a lot of time writing on patrol with my dad. so had all of these great adventures working with him as well. so that's where the name of the book came. and then later on i became a game warden myself.and i continued writing stories about my generation. so the book is called the game warden's son. being in those years of my dad when he was a game warden, it was like having storybook childhood i did things most kids were dream. when he started out he was on what you call marine patrol and his duty was patrolling the california channel islands. there fantastic. from 26 miles across the city like this or clear out way in the ocean. so i got to go on these excursions or these patrols out into the, out into the channel islands and see things that most kids would only dream of. there was one particular chapter i wrote about in the book." the trip to the islands. we went out and we took