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Contributing Editor CHRISTIAN FICTION / WOMEN’S FICTION Vannetta Chapman Joshua’s Mission: A Novel Harvest House Publishers 978-0736956055, paper, 352 pages, $14.99 (ebook also available) February 2016 In the fictional Amish farming town of Cody’s Creek, Oklahoma, twenty-year-old Becca Troyer ponders whether she’s the kind of woman a good man will ever love, when others her…

Writefest gathers editors, emerging authors in Houston Feb. 22–28 Writefest is a week-long writers’ festival taking place Feb. 22-28, 2016. in Houston. It is hosted by Writespace, Houston’s grassroots nonprofit literary arts center. The festival kicks off with a series of Monday-Friday workshops and culminates in a weekend filled with presentations, critique sessions, panels by…

Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com Vannetta Chapman writes inspirational fiction full of grace. She has published more than one hundred articles in Christian family magazines, receiving more than two dozen awards from Romance Writers of America chapter groups. She discovered her love for the Amish while researching her grandfather’s…

ConDFW XV, Dallas, February 12 – 14 Dallas ComicCon Fan Expo, Irving, February 13 – 14 The Dallas Festival of Ideas, February 19 – 20 Houston Authors Bash, February 20 Denton Zine Fest, February 20 Teen Book Fest by the Bay, Corpus Christi, February 20 Ongoing Exhibits Long-Bin Chen’s The Book Garden sculpture exhibit, San…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 2.21.16   Cookbook features variety of Texas favorites Home cooking, says fourth-generation Texas author Jessica Dupuy, “is the language of our family.” “Every weekend gathering or holiday get-together,” she recalls, “revolved around one conversation: What are we eating, and who is bringing what?” Dupuy is the author of a wonderful new full-color…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor Special Valentine’s Day Guest Chat with Jodi Thomas>>READ MORE CONTEMPORARY WESTERN ROMANCE Jodi Thomas Rustler’s Moon Ransom Canyon (Book 2) HQN Books (January 26, 2016) Mass market paperback, 978-0373788620, 368 pages, $7.99 A rustler’s moon, explains tall, good-looking, and heartbroken Wilkes Wagner of the Devil’s Fork Ranch, provides…

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,…

Lone Star Literary Life thanks supporters of our Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign — you’re keeping us going for a second year! On February 2, 2015, Lone Star Literary Life published its first issue of Texas’s only comprehensive statewide books-news coverage. And to celebrate our first anniversary and raise funds for more powerful software features and more…

Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com New York Times and USA Today’s bestselling author Jodi Thomas has published over 30 books in both the historical romance and contemporary genres, the majority of which are set in her home state of Texas. Publishers Weekly calls her novels “Distinctive… Memorable,” and that…

ConDFW XV, Dallas, February 12 – 14 Dallas ComicCon Fan Expo, Irving, February 13 – 14 Ongoing Exhibits Long-Bin Chen’s The Book Garden sculpture exhibit, San Antonio, December 10, 2015 – February 20, 2016 Shakespeare in Print and Performance, Austin, December 21 – May 29 Encounters and Discoveries in Literature: Celebrating Arte Público Press and…