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Austin Cheer Up Charlie’s, Everything Is Bigger presents: Matthew Salesses, Cecily Parks, Becca Liu, & Noel Gaulin, 7:30PM Malvern Books, Fantastical Fictions with Howard Waldrop, 2PM Neill-Cochran House Museum, Debra Winegarten presents Oveta Culp Hobby, 2:30PM Round Rock B&N – La Frontera, Twelve Cowboys Ropin’ book signing with Susan Holt Kralovansky, 2PM San Antonio B&N…

In her early forties, Mica Mosbacher married Robert Mosbacher, Sr., the man she describes as her prince and soul mate — only to lose him to pancreatic cancer, leaving her heart broken. But instead of wallowing in pain, she decided to “grieve forward.” Her brother, a race car driver, inspired her to learn to race…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 11.29.15   Indians, buffalo hunters head for a showdown Buffalo Trail: A Novel of the American West is Fort Worth author Jeff Guinn’s second book in a historical fiction trilogy featuring Cash McLendon, who is on the run from a man who wants to kill him (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, $27 hardcover). McLendon…

Contributing Editor RECIPESLois Winston, editor We’d Rather Be Writing: 88 Authors Share Timesaving Dinner Recipes and Other Tips 978-1940795348 Paperback, 200 pages; time-saving recipes and tips from authors, $10.29 (also available as e-book: $0.99) October 28, 2015 Reviewed by Rashda Khan In today’s world, time is a precious commodity for everyone. This is even truer…

Texas Poetry Calendar contributors to read in Austin Dec. 5 On Sat., Dec. 5, 2015, Dos Gatos Press editors Wade Martin and Allyson Whipple will host the last reading of the year from Texas Poetry Calendar contributors, 3:00 p.m., at Malvern Books in Austin. Always the press’s biggest reading of the year, it features a…

COOKING/TIME-SAVING TIPS Lois Winston, editor We’d Rather Be Writing: 88 Authors Share Timesaving Dinner Recipes and Other Tips 978-1940795348 Paperback, 200 pages; time-saving recipes and tips from authors, $10.29 (also available as e-book: $0.99) October 28, 2015 In today’s world, time is a precious commodity for everyone. This is even truer during the whirlwind of…

Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com First-time novelist Diana Finfrock Farrar is a native Texan and financial adviser representative who loves snow skiing and traveling, she is an advocate for social justice issues and an ordained deacon and elder in the Presbyterian church (PCUSA), where she sings in the choir…

Ann & Stephen Kaufman Jewish Book & Arts Fair, Houston, November 1 – 15 NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), November 1 – 30 Voces Americanas: Latino Literature in the United States, Wichita Falls, November 1 – December 1 12th Annual Texas Author Day, San Marcos Public Library, November 15 Sunday, Nov. 15 Austin BookPeople, Austin…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 11.22.15   Another Christmas romance set in Twilight, Texas Twilight, Texas: Prolific Texas romance author Lori Wilde, with seventy-eight titles to her credit, has produced another Christmas novel from her fictional town of Twilight, Texas, loosely based on the real town of Granbury. I’ll Be Home for Christmas (Avon, 2015) features runaway…