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Ongoing Exhibits Illustrator of the Century Garth Williams, Abilene, June 8–September 1 George Catlin’s North American Indian Portfolio, San Antonio, June 23-September 4 In His Own Words: The Life and Work of César Chávez (a Humanities Texas exhibit), Plano, August 7-September 15 Voces Americanas: Latino Literature in the United States (a Humanities Texas exhibit), Plano,…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 9.3.2017   Author cooks up new endings to fairy tales Abilene children’s author Penny Parker Klostermann has teamed up with illustrator Ben Mantle for another delightful children’s picture book, A Cooked-Up Fairy Tale (Random House, $17.99 hardcover). Two years ago Klostermann and Mantle produced a hit with There Was an Old Dragon…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor FICTION Jan Reid Sins of the Younger Sons TCU Press Hardcover, 320 pages, 978-0-87565-428-7 (ebook also available); $32.50 June 2017 Reviewed by Si Dunn During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, thousands of Basques left their economically and politically troubled homeland along the border between Spain and France. Many…

Sambuchino to lead off Permian Basin Writers’ Workshop, Sept. 15–17 in Midland Hurry — a few spaces are still available! The Third Annual Permian Basin Writers’ Workshop will be held Sept. 15-17, 2017, at Midland College. Administered by the Permian Basin Bookies, a nonprofit organization of West Texas writers, and the Midland Public Library, the…

FICTION Jan Reid Sins of the Younger Sons TCU Press Hardcover, 320 pages, 978-0-87565-428-7 (ebook also available); $32.50 June 2017 Reviewed by Si Dunn During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, thousands of Basques left their economically and politically troubled homeland along the border between Spain and France. Many of them resettled thousands of miles away,…

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.…

TEDx Sugar Land, August 26 Ongoing Exhibits Illustrator of the Century Garth Williams, Abilene, June 8–September 1 George Catlin’s North American Indian Portfolio, San Antonio, June 23-September 4 In His Own Words: The Life and Work of César Chávez (a Humanities Texas exhibit), Plano, August 7-September 15 Sunday, August 20 Austin 4th Tap Brewing Co-Op,…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 8.27.2017   Story for grandson to become seven-book fantasy series Plano police captain Steve Copling is the author of the first book in a new series of young adult fantasy novels, Sage Alexander and the Hall of Nightmares (Brown Books, $18.99 hardcover). The 400-page novel was Copling’s response to a request from…

Kay Ellington, Editor and Publisher 8.20.2017  Joe Tone on Bones, breaking through from journalism to the publishing deal, and the smell of new books In his debut book, Joe Tone tells the story of how two brothers, one immigrating to the U.S. and the other joining the Zeta cartel of Mexico, crossed paths later in…