Edmund Conti is about to become an author. How does he know? Maverick told him so. What has Edmund done to deserve authorship besides not being a governor of Alaska? He could name the other 49 states he has never governed, or perhaps name the 500 poems that he published. But that was long ago when editors were smarter or perhaps his poems were better. Edmund could type another 116 characters into his biography, but he would just be repeating himself.