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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 4.22.2018   Lisa Wingate novel a best seller for six months Texas author Lisa Wingate’s novel Before We Were Yours (Ballantine, $26, hardcover) has been on the New York Times Bestseller List every week for more than six months, much longer than the latest novels from such authors as John Grisham and…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 4.29.2018  Latest Hank the Cowdog novel inspired by 2017 wildfire The 71st novel in the popular Hank the Cowdog series is The Case of the Monster Fire (Maverick Books, $5.99 paperback). The story grew out of the March 2017 wildfire that burned more than a million acres in the Texas Panhandle,…

Contributing Editor Minotaur Books Hardcover, 978-1-2500-7288-7, (also available as an e-book, an audio book, and on Audible), 336 pgs., $26.99; April 17, 2018 A pair of human feet are found in a Styrofoam cooler in the middle of a judge’s living room in El Paso, Texas. Another pair are found in a defense attorney’s living…

17th annual Poetry at Round Top presents nation’s leading poets Fri.–Sun., April 20–22, 2018 Poetry at Round Top is an annual festival presenting the nation’s most exciting and prominent poets over three days of readings, workshops, and conversations on craft. Featured poets in the 2018 event include Naomi Shihab Nye, Coleman Barks, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Roger…

Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com ABOUT THE AUTHOR Glen Larum, whose lengthy resume includes a stint as managing editor of the Fort Stockton Pioneer during the George and Frank Baker era, has written his first novel, “Waltz Against the Sky,” published by Walking Three Bar T Publishing, Inc. A…

MYSTERY/SUSPENSE Spencer Kope Whispers of the Dead: A Special Tracking Unit Novel Minotaur Books Hardcover, 978-1-2500-7288-7, (also available as an e-book, an audio book, and on Audible), 336 pgs., $26.99 April 17, 2018 A pair of human feet are found in a Styrofoam cooler in the middle of a judge’s living room in El Paso,…

Edible Books Festival, Denton, April 9 Edible Books Festival, Kerrville, April 9 2018 Texas Writers Conference, Kerrville, April 11 LATINA POETRY ACROSS THE AMERICAS—2nd Annual Madrid Lecture and Symposium, San Antonio, April 12 Canadian River Valley Writer’s Workshop, Canadian, April 13-15 El Paso Comic Con, April 13-15 American Christian Fiction Writers-DFW 3rd Annual Spring Conference,…

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 4.15.2018   Texas cookbooks appeal to wide range of taste buds Every year Texas chefs produce mouth-watering cookbooks, and four have come across my desk already in 2018. They are: Hard Core Carnivore: Cook Meat Like You Mean It by Jess Pryles (Surrey Books, $29.95 flexbound). The Austin Cookbook: Recipes and Stories…