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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 6.17.2018  Texas children’s author David Davis was a friend I’m sad to report that David Davis, one of my favorite Texas children’s authors and a good friend, died on May 24. He wrote children’s books that adults probably enjoyed and understood more than the children they read them to. Among his…

Contributing Editor TRUE CRIME Kermit Schweidel Folly Cove: A Smuggler’s Tale of the Pot Rebellion Cinco Puntos Press Hardcover, 978-1-941026-82-3 (also available as ebook), 266 pages, $16.95 February 2018 Reviewed by Si Dunn It’s tempting to describe Folly Cove as “Reefer Madness” toked up on steroids. This well-written book offers much more information and entertainment…

Texas Book Festival announces recipients of Harvey relief funds Organization awards a total of $10,000 to five school libraries affected by Hurricane Harvey AUSTIN — The Texas Book Festival this week announced the recipients of its special school library rebuilding grants, awarded to five Texas schools affected by Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Each school will…

LITERARY FICTION Rob Reynolds Wire Mother Monkey Baby: A Novel Outpost 19 Paperback, 978-1-9448-5337-2, 262 pages, $16.00 November 7, 2017 Clayton Draper, attempting to jump-start his stagnating life, moves into a new development in Austin called The Complex, one of a new trend in “all-inclusive” apartment communities boasting sports facilities, restaurants, bars, and cinemas, among…

Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kermit Schweidel, co-founder of a successful Dallas advertising agency, grew up in El Paso, the site of a brief but eventful detour that would bring him face to face with the Department of Justice and result in a felony conviction. It…

West Texas Writers’ Academy, Canyon, June 4-8 Children’s Art & Literature Festival, Abilene, June 7-9 North Texas Council of English Language Arts Conference, Hurst, June 8 Texas Folklife Festival, San Antonio, June 8-10 Fresh Fiction’s Boas & Tiaras 2018, Allen, June 9 Wimberley Book Festival, June 9 Dallas-Forth Worth Writers Conference, Hurst, June 9-10 Ongoing…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 6.10.2018  Astros helped revive Houston’s spirits after Harvey Houston Chronicle editorial writer and columnist Joe Holley relives the Houston Astros’ 2017 World Series championship and the city of Houston’s rebound from Hurricane Harvey in an  uplifting account, Hurricane Season: The Unforgettable Story of the 2017 Houston Astros and the Resilience of…

Contributing Editor FICTION Barbara Taylor Sissel What Lies Below Lake Union Publishing Paperback, 978-1-503-95011-5 (also available in e-book and audiobook formats), 334 pages, $14.95 May 15, 2018 Texas writer Barbara Taylor Sissel’s new novel, her ninth, is a tense, engrossing tale of abduction. It’s also a story in which secrets are held close by key…