times best book of the year and was released in audio with wendy mallic, anjelica huston, francis fisher and others. she is also the author of twentynine palms, a los angeles times best book of the year which hunter thompson called, quote, a strange and brilliant story by an important american writer. we have that important american writer with us today, so please give a very warm savannah welcome to deanne stillman. [applause] >> thank you so much, savannah and savannah book festival, c-span, trinity united methodist church and my sponsors. really great to be here. so as you know, i'm here to talk about my latest book, "blood brothers," which is about the strange friendship between sitting bull and buffalo bill with kind of a corollary appearance from annie oakley. and i'm going to read a few excerpts and talk about my journey through this story and then take some questions from you all afterwards. so first i want to talk to you a bit about how i came to write this, this very strange story about a strange friendship. some time ago while working on my book "mustang: the saga of the wild