The Story of Dracula, the Alamo, and a Pair of Texas Legends

The key to Bill and Steve is that Bill is a Bill and Steve is a Steve.

You may know them by their more formal names: William Broyles, the founding editor of Texas Monthly and screenwriter on Apollo 13 and Cast Away , and Stephen Harrigan, among the magazine’s first senior editors and the author of the best-selling novel The Gates of the Alamo and countless brilliant articles .

But when you spend time with them, you see that, thank the good Lord, Bill is a Bill and Steve is a Steve. There’s ego in each of them somewhere, I’m sure. But I haven’t seen evidence of it. Especially not when they’re together.

I’ve been lucky to share in their company the last few days. They’ve been in the office finishing up the first chapter of the novel they’re writing, a story that involves D