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Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com Melissa del Bosque is an award-winning investigative journalist who has written about the U.S.-Mexico border region for the past two decades. Her work has been published in international and national publications including Time, the Guardian, and Marie Claire. Her work has also been featured…

Permian Basin Writers Workshop, Midland, September 15-17 West Texas Book Festival, Abilene, September 21-23 Texas Tribune Festival, Austin, September 22-24 It’s Your Business: 2017 North Texas SCBWI Conference, Addison, September 23 Brazos Valley Book Festival, College Station, September 23 Ongoing Exhibits Voces Americanas: Latino Literature in the United States (a Humanities Texas exhibit), Plano, September…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 9.24.2017   Two new thrillers from Texas authors Blame: Jane Norton and David Hall grew up next door to each other. As kids they collaborated to create a graphic superhero called Liv Danger. Their mothers and fathers were best friends, until Jane’s father died suddenly three years ago. And then the fatal…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archive Book pays tribute to 2016 Dallas Cowboys Triumph Books has published a 128-page full-color book recapping the Dallas Cowboys’ 2016 season, The Boys Are Back: Dak, Zeke, and a New Cowboys Era in Big D by Jean-Jacques Taylor ($15.95 paperback). As the title…

Barbara Brannon, Content Producer 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…

Schedule posted for Lubbock Book Festival, Oct. 28 S. C. Gwynne to headline with The Perfect Pass; Hank the Cowdog author John R. Erickson keynoter for children Lubbock enters the book festival arena this fall with the all-day Lubbock Book Festival on Saturday, Oct. 28. More than three dozen best-selling authors and regional favorites have…

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.…

Las Lunas Locas Writing Circle Southwest Tour, Austin, September 11-12 Houston Artists Strong Hurricane Harvey Relief Fundraiser, Houston, September 14 Indiepalooza, Houston, September 15-17NOTE NEW DATE: October 13–15, Houston Permian Basin Writers Workshop, Midland, September 15-17 “A Killer Weekend” Writing Workshop, Houston, September 15-16 Ongoing Exhibits In His Own Words: The Life and Work of…

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 9.17.2017   Book pays tribute to 2016 Dallas Cowboys Triumph Books has published a 128-page full-color book recapping the Dallas Cowboys’ 2016 season, The Boys Are Back: Dak, Zeke, and a New Cowboys Era in Big D by Jean-Jacques Taylor ($15.95 paperback). As the title indicates, the tribute book focuses on the…