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Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com Chad Cartwright was born in San Clemente, California on January 29, 1973 to Gary and Zandra Cartwright. He is an author as well as a father, husband, pharmacist, triathlete and entrepreneur.

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.…

Texas Shakespeare Festival, Kilgore, June 29–July 30 The LaNana Creek Press Summer Letterpress and Book Art Intensive, Nacogdoches, July 8-August 5 Gemini Ink Writers Conference, San Antonio, July 21-23 Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, Grapevine, July 21-23 Literary Non-Fiction Workshop, Archer City, July 23-30 Texas Authors Marketing Event, Houston, July 28-30 2nd Annual Dallas Public Library…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 7.30.2017   Author documents legal hangings in Texas Denton author West Gilbreath has compiled a fascinating book on execution by hanging in Texas. Death on the Gallows: The Encyclopedia of Legal Hangings in Texas (Wild Horse Press,  $34.95 paperback), is a 416-page volume documenting 467 executions in Texas from 1834 through 1923,…

Contributing Editor ROMANCE FICTION Sara Russell Racing Storms North Loop Books Paperback, 978-1-6350-5379-1; ebook also available, 2017 Austin-area writer Sara Russell’s self-described “first foray into fiction” is a smoothly written, nicely plotted romance novel that will entertain many readers who like books with contemporary Texas settings. Racing Storms also is Book 1 in Russell’s planned…

Frisco library’s 2nd annual Grow-a-Reader Workshop slated for August 12 Free day of training for parents and teachers of young children FRISCO—The Frisco Public Library’s second annual Grow-a-Reader Day will help participants learn how to plant the seeds of successful early literacy education. The event, on Sat., Aug. 12 from 9 am–5 pm offers participants…

ROMANCE FICTION Sara Russell Racing Storms North Loop Books Paperback, 978-1-6350-5379-1; ebook also available Austin-area writer Sara Russell’s self-described “first foray into fiction” is a smoothly written, nicely plotted romance novel that will entertain many readers who like books with contemporary Texas settings. Racing Storms also is Book 1 in Russell’s planned “Chasing Desire” series.…

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.…

Texas Shakespeare Festival, Kilgore, June 29–July 30 The LaNana Creek Press Summer Letterpress and Book Art Intensive, Nacogdoches, July 8-August 5 2017 North Texas Comic Book Show, Irving, July 15-16 Build A Better World “Adventures in Writing” Kids’ Writing Camp, Midland, July 17-21 Texas Plains Trail Region Tourism & Preservation Roundup, Plainview, July 19–21, with…