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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.…

2018 Pulpwood Queen’s Girlfriend Weekend, Nacogdoches, January 11-14 Ongoing Exhibits National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature exhibition: The Illustrations of Melissa Sweet, Abilene, November 9-January 27 Sunday, January 7 Austin Malvern Books, an inclusive (mic-less) open mic for writers and musician in association with VSA Texas and the Pen2Paper Creative Writing Contest (a project of…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 1.14.2018 As announced last week, “Texas Reads” columnist Glenn Dromgoole is taking a well-deserved break for a couple of weeks (and catching up on some choice reading!) >> FROM TEXAS READS, 12.31.17 Big names: Two best-selling books by Texas-related authors I should have gotten around to this fall, but didn’t, are…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor TEXAS HISTORY/BIOGRAPHY Ron Rozelle Exiled: The Last Days of Sam Houston Texas A&M University Press Hardcover, 978-1623495862 (Also available as paperback and ebook), 232 pages, $29.95 December 13, 2017 Reviewed by Si Dunn Most Texans recall how Gen. Sam Houston was a hero of the 1836 revolution that…

North Texas Teen Book Festival 2018 confirms 76 authors confirmed for one of the nation’s largest teen book fests, April 2018 IRVING — The North Texas Teen Book Festival has announced 76 rock-star and debut authors attending the fourth annual event. April 20 and 21, more than 12,000 students, parents and educators are expected to…

TEXAS HISTORY/BIOGRAPHY Ron Rozelle Exiled: The Last Days of Sam Houston Texas A&M University Press Hardcover, 978-1623495862 (Also available as paperback and ebook), 232 pages, $29.95 December 13, 2017 Reviewed by Si Dunn Most Texans recall how Gen. Sam Houston was a hero of the 1836 revolution that brought Texas independence from Mexico. Some likewise…

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.…

WITS Winter Slam Camp (5th-8th grades), Houston, January 2–4, 2018 Ongoing Exhibits Fact, Fiction, and the New World: The Role of Books in the Making of America (a Humanities Texas exhibition), Midland, October 1-December 31 National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature exhibition: The Illustrations of Melissa Sweet, Abilene, November 9-January 27 Sunday, December 31 Dallas…

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…