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Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archive  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…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor COOKING Terry Thompson-Anderson, with photos by Sandy Wilson Breakfast in Texas: Recipes for Elegant Brunches, Down Home Classics, and Local Favorites Hardcover, 978-1-4773-1044-1 311 pages, 8 x 10, 123 color photos, $35.00 April 2017 Reviewed by Angelina LaRue Terry Thompson-Anderson has the ability to reach deep in the…

Vote for your Favorite Texas Bookstore: Round 2, through midnight Sat., May 20 Lone Star Lit’s second annual Texas Readers’ Favorite Bookstores voting continues through May 20, 2017. In Round 1, book lovers in Texas and beyond have spoken: of the state’s nearly 300 independent, chain, and specialty bookstores, each of these 43 received at…

Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com COOKING Terry Thompson-Anderson, with photos by Sandy Wilson Breakfast in Texas: Recipes for Elegant Brunches, Down Home Classics, and Local Favorites Hardcover, 978-1-4773-1044-1 311 pages, 8 x 10, 123 color photos, $35.00 April 2017 Reviewed by Angelina LaRue Terry Thompson-Anderson has the ability to…

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.…

The Writer’s Garret “Beyond 21 Celebration,” Dallas, May 5-7 10th Annual DFW Writers Conference, Dallas, May 6-7 2nd Annual SMU Faculty Book Fest, Dallas, May 9 Comicpalooza 2017, Houston, May 12-14 40th Annual O. Henry Pun-Off World Championship, Austin, May 13 2nd Annual ACFW DFW May Mini-Conference – Fueling Up Your Fiction, Arlington, May 13…

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 5.14.2017   Middle-grade novel: Finding a place to call home Thirteen-year-old Stevie Grace Tanner feels safe, loved and happy on a small farm outside of Taos, New Mexico, where her new age parents run a fruit and flower stand by the side of the road. While Stevie is at school, a drunk…

Kay Ellington, Editor and Publisher 5.7.2017  Join us for Breakfast in Texas with veteran chef and cookbook author Terry Thompson-Anderson To read Terry Thompson-Anderson describe a meal is like listening to Maya Angelou recite a poem: the reader is transformed with depictions of spices, flavors, and aromas. Texas’s most awarded and prolific cookbook author took…

It’s Back! Vote for your Favorite Texas Bookstore Lone Star Lit’s second annual Texas Readers’ Favorite Bookstores voting will be held May 1 through May 18, 2017. Readers, vote as often as you wish for your Favorite Texas Bookstore. We’ll announce the Top 40 finalists on May 7; then, the Top 20 finalists on May…