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Inkstravagaza Gala: The Writers Life, San Antonio, October 18 Teachers, Write! Workshop for Language Arts Teachers, Houston, October 18-19 Texas Grand Slam Poetry Festival, Bryan, October 18-20 West Texas Book Festival, Abilene, October 18-20 Indiepalooza, Houston, October 19-20 The Dallas Area Writers Group (DAWG) Presents“Write to Publish: Climbing Toward Success!”, DeSoto, October 20 Mid-Cities Teen…

Each week Lone Star Literary profiles a newsmaker in Texas books and letters, including authors, booksellers, publishers. Kay Ellington has worked in management for a variety of media companies, including Gannett, Cox Communications, Knight-Ridder, and the New York Times Regional Group, from Texas to New York to California to the Southeast and back again to…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 11.4.2018  New titles from popular Texas women novelists Several of Texas’s popular women novelists have new titles on the market this fall. Let’s start with Sarah Bird’s intriguing novel, Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen (St. Martin’s, $27.99 hardcover), a fictional treatment of a fascinating but little known character from…

Annual Ann and Stephen Kaufman Jewish Book & Arts Festival runs November 3–13 in Houston HOUSTON — From the inner workings of the TV industry to a staged reading of a Yiddish play, the 2018 Ann and Stephen Kaufman Jewish Book & Arts Festival, at the Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center, brings book lovers a…

Michelle Stimpson and Eric Jerome Dickey among the authors at the eleventh annual National Black Book Festival in Houston, October 25-27 HOUSTON — The eleventh annual National Black Book Festival (NBBF) is scheduled for October 25–27, 2018, in Houston and is sponsored by Cushcity.com, one of the leading Web sites promoting African-American literature. The event…

Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ben Montgomery is author of the New York Times bestselling Grandma Gatewood’s Walk, winner of a 2014 Outdoor Book Award; The Leper Spy; and The Man Who Walked Backward, published in September of 2018. He spent most of his twenty-year newspaper…

13th annual Buns & Roses Romance Tea for Literacy, Richardson, October 21 Friends of the Dallas Public Library Annual Gala, Oct 25 2018 Kirkus Awards Ceremony, Austin, Oct 25 National Black Book Festival, Houston, Oct 25-27 East Texas Rose Con, Tyler, Oct 26-28 Lit Crawl Austin, Oct 27 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Oct 27-28 Bloody…

Inkstravagaza Gala: The Writers Life, San Antonio, October 18 Teachers, Write! Workshop for Language Arts Teachers, Houston, October 18-19 Texas Grand Slam Poetry Festival, Bryan, October 18-20 West Texas Book Festival, Abilene, October 18-20 Indiepalooza, Houston, October 19-20 The Dallas Area Writers Group (DAWG) Presents“Write to Publish: Climbing Toward Success!”, DeSoto, October 20 Mid-Cities Teen…

Each week Lone Star Literary profiles a newsmaker in Texas books and letters, including authors, booksellers, publishers. Kay Ellington has worked in management for a variety of media companies, including Gannett, Cox Communications, Knight-Ridder, and the New York Times Regional Group, from Texas to New York to California to the Southeast and back again to…