To make ends meet, she began working more, and to make use of my time, I went back to college for a master's degree. Two years later, having graduated with the usual layer of student debt, I found work at a wildlife and nature magazine in Austin. For 15 months I saw my family only on weekends. Not until four years after my book went into print did I return to salaried journalism. But I ignored him for the same reasons that I wrote the book.
Journalism is a calling that tries to discover and expose the truth.
As far as I'm concerned, those who don't do their part don't deserve the name of the trade. Now that Waco is back in the news, and I'm back on the TV circuit, people think that I must be getting rich. Nothing could be further from the truth. It is true that in 1998 my book was published in paperback by Syracuse University Press, and after some 40,000 copies had been sold in both hardcover and paperback editions, I did receive a royalty check. Neither the government nor the press has yet agreed that my criticisms were fair, although the day seems to be drawing near.