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Michelle Newby is contributing editor at Lone Star Literary Life, reviewer for Foreword Reviews, freelance writer, member of the National Book Critics Circle, and blogger at www.TexasBookLover.com. Her reviews appear or are forthcoming in Pleiades Magazine, Rain Taxi, World Literature Today, South85 Journal, The Review Review, Concho River Review, Monkeybicycle, Mosaic Literary Magazine, Atticus Review,…

Barnes & Noble B-Fest, statewide, June 10-12 Barrio Writers Intensive Summer Workshop, San Antonio, June 13-18 Comicpalooza, Houston, June 17-19 Ongoing Exhibits Encounters and Discoveries in Literature: Celebrating Arte Público Press and Twentieth Century Latina/o Literature, Houston, January 18 – June 30 Sunday, June 12 Austin BookPeople, MysteryPeople Presents: Around the World With Crime featuring…

Terry Jennings is the CEO and founder of Korban Music Group LLC, a full service management, consulting, and publishing company. Well known for his varied experience at all levels of the music industry, Terry was introduced to the business at an early age through his work as production manager for his father, Waylon Jennings. He…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 6.19.16   Disturbing story of abuse begins in Texas A well-intentioned program that put intellectually disabled men to work on a turkey farm in Texas won a national award in 1968 but eventually became the source of a scandal that rocked Iowa and the nation. Dan Barry tells the disturbing story in…

WHERE IN TEXAS? Don’t miss a reading or a good read! Sign up for our FREE weekly e-newsletter NOW ON TOUR: FICTION THE DARKNESS THAT COULD BE FELTby C. Wayne Dawson Visit with Wayne June 13–22, 2016 6/13 Hall Ways Blog 6/14 Forgotten Winds 6/15 Blogging for the Love of Authors and Their Books 6/16…

2016 Texas Readers’ Favorite Bookstores Texas readers have spoken. More than 1,000 of Lone Star Literary Life’s readers have cast ballots in our statewide contest to recognize Texas’s favorite bookstores. Their selections are as diverse as the state itself, and honorees include big indies, small indies, chain stores, used bookstores, and new bookstores in every…

Coming up June 10-12, 2016, hundreds of authors will appear at Barnes & Noble stores nationwide for B-Fest™, a three-day event celebrating the best books for teens. This will be the biggest weekend of author events in B&N history, plus trivia, sweepstakes, giveaways (while supplies last), and more. Participants will the first to sample upcoming…

West Texas Writers’ Academy, Canyon, June 6-10 5th Annual Children’s Art & Literacy Festival, Abilene, June 9-11 Barnes & Noble B-Fest, statewide, June 10-12 Wimberley Book Festival, June 11 Ongoing Exhibits Encounters and Discoveries in Literature: Celebrating Arte Público Press and Twentieth Century Latina/o Literature, Houston, January 18 – June 30 Sunday, June 5 Austin…

Nathan Hale has written and illustrated several books, including The Devil You Know, Yellowbelly, and Plum Go to School, and The Twelve Bots of Christmas. He is the illustrator of Shannon and Dean Hale’s Rapunzel’s Revenge and Calamity Jack graphic novels. (He is not related to them.) Other books he has illustrated include Animal House,…