Sam Irwin

Sam Irwin is the author of the critically acclaimed Louisiana Crawfish: A Succulent History of the Cajun Crustacean. For the holiday season, he suggests the e-book Louisiana Christmas: Four Holiday Stories from the Bayou State. He is surrently the front man and trumpet player of the Florida Street Blowhards, a traditional jazz band in Baton Rouge. Before he discovered the backspace/delete key on his computer and began writing, Sam Irwin was a: 1. history teacher 2. used car salesman 3. grocery store manager 4. crawfish buyer 5. honky tonk owner(the notorious Corner Bar in Breaux Bridge) 6. plantation home tour guide 7. waiter 8. failed pawnbroker 9. owner of the legendary Paradise Records at the north gates of LSU 10. trumpet player In addition to Country Roads, his work has appeared in Offbeat, 225, Louisiana Film and Video, The Advocate, Teche News and House and Home. His fiction has been published by Dead Mule, Tom's Voice, Gulf Coast Writers Anthology, Spillway Review, Long Story Short, Gris Gris Rouge, Country Roads, Cape Fear Crime Festival Chapbook, Murder in the Wind Anthology, Love is in the Wind Anthology and the Nicholls State Jubilee Anthology. Sam's is blogging now at the www.FloridaStreetBlowhards.com blog.His e-mail is si@samirwin.net. His website is www.SamIrwin.net and www.FloridaStreetBlowhards.com