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Austin SCBWI Authors & Illustrators Working Conference, May 20-21 Boldface: A Conference for Emerging Writers, Houston, May 22-26 Annual Meet the Authors: New Writers Event, San Antonio, May 27 Lubbock-Con 2017, May 27 plus fest: everything plus poetry festival, Houston, May 27 Texas Writer’s Month Workshops with Sisters in Crime, Austin, May 27 Ongoing Exhibits…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 6.4.2017   Son learned from his father’s coaching Just in time for Father’s Day comes a book with probably the best title of the year — Son of Bum by Wade Phillips (Diversionbooks, $25.99 hardcover). The subtitle is “Lessons My Dad Taught Me About Football and Life.” The author’s father was Bum…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 5.28.2017   Mahon served forty-four years as West Texas congressman Lubbock author Janet M. Neugebauer has written a comprehensive political biography of longtime U.S. Rep. George H. Mahon, who represented West Texas in Congress for 44 years before retiring in 1978. A Witness to History: George H. Mahon, West Texas Congressman (Texas…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 5.21.2017   Baron creates quite a stir in Fort Griffin novel When Baron Jerome Manchester Paget, claiming to be a fifth cousin to the Queen of England, steps off the stagecoach in Fort Griffin carrying a satchel full of money, life in the frontier town will never be the same. Nearly everyone…

Vote for your Favorite Texas Bookstore: Finalist Round! through midnight Sat., May 27 Lone Star Lit’s second annual Texas Readers’ Favorite Bookstores voting continues through May 27, 2017. In Round 2, book lovers in Texas and beyond narrowed the list: from among the state’s nearly 300 independent, chain, and specialty bookstores, your top 20 favorites…

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.…

Comicpalooza 2017, Houston, May 12-14 Texas Design Week, Houston, May 14-19 Children’s Book Writing Seminar, Austin, May 18-19 Austin SCBWI Authors & Illustrators Working Conference, May 20-21 Ney Day, Austin, May 20 Ongoing Exhibits Stories to Tell: Selections from the Harry Ransom Center, Austin, February 6–July 16 The Human Experience: From Texas to the World…

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…