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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 7.23.2017   Wingate novel based on children’s home scandal Lisa Wingate’s new mainstream novel, Before We Were Yours (Ballantine Books, $26 hardcover), is a troubling, powerful story that revolves around a children’s home in Tennessee that kidnapped poor children, abused them, and sold them to rich families for a huge profit. The…

sponsored by Blue Wilow Bookshop From read-to-me books to early readers, chapter books to middle readers to YA, you’ll find these terrific new titles at your neighborhood bookshop or online. >>READ MORE LONE STAR LISTENS interviews   >> archive Kay Ellington, Editor and Publisher 7.16.2017  Mystery novelist Bill Crider: More than a hundred books later, still…

West Texas Book Festival scheduled for Sept. 21–23 in Abilene 17th year for event, presented by Friends of the Library ABILENE—The 17th annual West Texas Book Festival, presented by Friends of the Abilene Public Library, will celebrate reading and writing with three full days of activities, Sept. 21–23, 2017. Fourteen authors will be featured 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.…

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 7.16.2017   Author tells story of ’68 football champions Veteran sports journalist and broadcaster Al Pickett is the author of Mighty, Mighty Matadors: Estacado High School, Integration, and a Championship Season (Texas A&M University Press, $24.95 hardcover), about the 1968 state football AAA champions coached by Jimmie Keeling. It’s Pickett’s fifth book,…

Texas Shakespeare Festival, Kilgore, June 29–July 30 The LaNana Creek Press Summer Letterpress and Book Art Intensive, Nacogdoches, July 8-August 5 Barrio Writers Summer Workshop, Austin, July 10-15 10th Annual Wild West History Association Roundup, Fort Worth, July 12-15 Archer City Story Center Weekend Workshop: Writing the Nonfiction Book Proposal, July 14-16 ArlingCon: Arlington Public…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor POLITICS/BIOGRAPHY Janet M. Neugebauer A Witness to History: George H. Mahon, West Texas Congressman Texas Tech University Press Hardcover, 978-0-8967-2988-9, $45.00 Reviewed by Si Dunn Weighing in nearly 2.5 pounds and 576 pages, this impressive political biography of U.S. Representative George H. Mahon should be engrossing summer reading…

Archer City Story Center offers two workshops in July ARCHER CITY — The Archer City Story Center is offering two workshops in July. “Writing the Non-Fiction Book Proposal” will be held July 14–16, 2017, and “Literary Nonfiction Workshop” runs from Sun., July 23 through Sun., July 30. The Archer City Story Center is a program…