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Each week Lone Star Literary profiles a newsmaker in Texas books and letters, including authors, booksellers, publishers. Michelle Newby Lancaster is a reviewer for Kirkus Reviews and Foreword Reviews, writer, blogger at TexasBookLover.com, and a moderator for the Texas Book Festival. Her reviews appear in Pleiades Magazine, Rain Taxi, Concho River Review, Mosaic Literary Magazine,…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 8.26.2018  Adventure story for kids includes maze puzzles Children’s author Travis Nichols, who grew up in Texas, has produced a delightful book that kids (and adults) will find challenging and fun. Maze Quest (Chronicle Books, $12.95 paperback) is an adventure story that incorporates more than 25 creative maze puzzles to solve…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor Touchstone Hardcover, 978-1-5011-5386-0 (also available as an e-book and audio-book), 320 pgs., $26.00 August 21, 2018 “Later, in the glove box, the police found a folder of notes. It said: Notes for the police.” Troy Alan Falconer hasn’t been home to the fictional Texas Panhandle town of New…

Writers’ League of Texas 2017 Book Awards announced The Writers’ League of Texas has announced their 2017 Texas Book Award winners, finalists, and Discovery Prize winners. Each category includes a winner and several finalists and a Discovery Prize. Fiction Winner: Spoils by Brian Van Reet Finalists: Disasters in the First World by Olivia Clare Hollow…

TEXAS SPORTSJeff Fisher High School Football in Texas: Amazing Football Stories from the Greatest Players of Texas Sports Publishing Hardcover, 978-1-6835-8181-9, (also available as an e-book), 256 pgs., $19.99 September 4, 2018 Reviewed by Si Dunn If you’re new to Texas, it won’t take you long to understand that high school football games are a…

3rd Annual Literary Libations Week: a Lit Crawl Austin fundraiser, Austin, August 12-15 Ongoing Exhibits Oliver Jeffers: 15 Years of Picturing Books, Abilene, June 7-September 30 Sunday, August 12 Austin BookPeople, A Science Party for Kids with Lindsay Patterson and Marshall Escamilla, hosts of the “Tumble Science Podcast for Kids,” 2PM Malvern Books, The Lion…

Each week Lone Star Literary profiles a newsmaker in Texas books and letters, including authors, booksellers, publishers. Michelle Newby Lancaster is a reviewer for Kirkus Reviews and Foreword Reviews, writer, blogger at TexasBookLover.com, and a moderator for the Texas Book Festival. Her reviews appear in Pleiades Magazine, Rain Taxi, Concho River Review, Mosaic Literary Magazine,…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 8.19.2018  Middle-school boys set off on great adventure Lubbock author Nathan Dahlstrom writes outdoor adventure stories for middle grade boys under the pen name S. J. Dahlstrom. Black Rock Brothers (Paul Dry Books, $9.95 paperback) is the fifth book in “The Adventures of Wilder Good” series. Wilder, now 13, dreams of…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor AUTOBIOGRAPHY Bill Sarpalius, with foreword by Bill Hobby The Grand Duke from Boys Ranch Texas A&M University Press Hardcover, 978-1-62349-657-9 (ebook also available), 336 pages, $34.95; April 2018 Under normal circumstances, it’s hard to get elected to the United States Congress. Bill Sarpalius, who represented the Texas 13th…

Fort Worth BookFest features Latinx authors and books, spoken word events in second year FORT WORTH — The Fort Worth BookFest’s stated goal is “to raise awareness of the transformative power of literacy.” In its sophomore year, the BookFest will expand its offerings in an effort to embrace differences and celebrate diversity. One of the…