My first award for screenwriting...

From the Houston International Film Festival, now known as Worldfest Houston. Though to be honest, it's really my second; my first was receiving the Gold Award for Screenplay Adaptation, which this supplanted. It was for my romantic-comedy-western, The King of the Cowboys.

Of course, in typical Hollywood fashion, within 10 days of receiving the award I got a letter from Roy Rogers' estate informing me that the King of the Cowboys was a registered trademark of his and if I didn't change the title, they'd sue my ass. I checked with an attorney, because I knew titles couldn't be copyrighted, but trademark law is totally different...so the script is now known as The Cowboy King of Texas.

Dammit.