Sonny Long has been a newspaper reporter for more than 20 years, dabbled in radio announcing (including an 18-inning high school baseball playoff game), and served as a master of ceremonies for numerous public events. He is the co-author of “Bad News for McEnroe” (St. Martin’s Press 2004), and two independently published books, “A Long Look” – a collection of poetry and short stories and a collection of newspaper columns. In his career, Sonny covered the opening ceremonies of the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid while in the U.S. Army and has met eight Heisman Trophy winners. While at Auburn University, where he graduated with a degree in journalism, Sonny worked in the school’s sports information office and wrote about such sports superstars as Bo Jackson and Charles Barkley. He later worked in the Southeastern Conference Commissioners Office in the public information office. He has a masters degree from the University of Texas at Austin. After graduate school, Sonny worked with Host Communications producing media guides and game programs for UT athletics. He later won an East Texas Press Association award for column writing while sports editor at the Atlanta Citizens-Journal. While in Atlanta, he operated the Pine Country Bulletin, a community newspaper in newsletter format from 1991-2005. Pine Country Media later included a four-color quarterly magazine and a regional news website, eTexasnews.com. It was in Atlanta that Sonny's reporting of the 1992 triple homicide of a mother and her two young daughters culminated in his new book, "Among Murderers and Madness." Sonny is currently the senior reporter for the Victoria Advocate, a daily newspaper in South Texas, and has covered the trials of the Twilight Rapist, the murder of a Texas game warden and the starvation death of an eight-year-old girl. At the Advocate, he was part of a team of reporters that won a Texas Managing Editors award for coverage of a scent-dog controversy. See more at www.sonnylong.com, Facebook and Twitter.