The author relates incidents in his life and how they inspired parts of his books about the character, Brian Robeson. In Guts, Gary tells the real stories behind the Brian books, the stories of the adventures that inspired him to write Brian Robeson's story: working as an emergency volunteer; the death that inspired the pilot's death in Hatchet; plane crashes he has seen and near-misses of his own. He describes how he made his own bows and arrows,...

Continuing his search for fame as a writer, Howie the wire-haired dachshund creates a story remarkably similar to the popular one he has heard about a heroic boy wizard.

"Charlie Joe Jackson is back and he's at academic summer camp trying to convert all the other kids to non-academics."--