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Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archive New Jodi Thomas novel debuts this week Amarillo author Jodi Thomas’s new standalone romance, Mornings on Main set in the fictional town of Laurel Springs, Texas, officially goes on sale Tuesday (HQN, $15.99 paperback). Jillian James is always on the move, searching for clues to her peripatetic past. She lands…

Texas Book Festival 2018 Library Grant Winners The Texas Book Festival last week awarded more than $100,000 in grant support to 48 Texas libraries. The recipients are: 1. Allen Public Library 2. Alpine Public Library 3. Bandera County Public Library 4. Benbrook Public Library 5. Bonham Public Library 6. Boyce Ditto Public Library 7. Camp…

Anime Matsuri Convention, Houston, March 29-April 1 16th Annual Austin Edible Book Festival, April 1 Mega Corazón 2018 Spoken-Word Marathon, San Antonio, April 2 Texas Library Association Annual Conference, Dallas, April 3-6 Dallas Lit Hop 2018, April 5-29 26th Annual Austin International Poetry Festival, April 5-8 Latinx Shakespeare: A Borderlands Drama Symposium, San Antonio, April…

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 4.8.2018   New Jodi Thomas novel debuts this week Amarillo author Jodi Thomas’s new standalone romance, Mornings on Main set in the fictional town of Laurel Springs, Texas, officially goes on sale Tuesday (HQN, $15.99 paperback). Jillian James is always on the move, searching for clues to her peripatetic past. She lands…

Contributing Editor MUSIC BIOGRAPHY Roy Orbison Jr., Wesley Orbison, and Alex Orbison, with Jeff Slate The Authorized Roy Orbison Center Street Hardcover, 978-1-4789-7655-4 (ebook and audio versions also available), 264 pages, $15.99 October 2017 Reviewed by Si Dunn Texas native Roy Orbison remains a major name in popular music nearly thirty years after his untimely…

International Edible Book Festival delights foodies and bookies, April 2018 Events this week in Austin, Denton << SANCHO PIE-NZA, ANYONE? Don Quixote dish celebrates Cervantes novel (photo provided) Starting in the year 2000, bibliophiles, book artists and food lovers around the world have gathered to celebrate the art of books through food. Participants create an…

Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com ABOUT THE AUTHOR Gary P. Nunn is a renowned Texas country music singer-songwriter whose career began in the 1960s with the Fabulous Sparkles. Today he is a Texas institution and is considered one of the fathers of the progressive country scene that started in…

Michelle Newby is a reviewer for Kirkus Reviews and Foreword Reviews, writer, blogger at TexasBookLover.com, member of the Permian Basin Writers’ Workshop advisory committee, and a moderator for the Texas Book Festival. Her reviews appear in Pleiades Magazine, Rain Taxi, Concho River Review, Mosaic Literary Magazine, Atticus Review, The Rumpus, PANK Magazine, and The Collagist.…