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Voces Americanas: Latino Literature in the United States (a Humanities Texas exhibit), San Antonio, September 1 – October 8 Georgetown Poetry Festival, October 2 – 4 The Edgar Allan Poe Victorian Festival (OkPoeberfest), Dallas, October 3–31 Buns and Roses: Romance Tea for Literacy, Richardson, October 4 North Texas Book & Paper Show, Grapevine, October 9…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 10.11.15   New Wingate novel weaves intriguing family saga Lisa Wingate’s new novel, The Sea Keeper’s Daughters (Tyndale House, $19.99 hardcover, $14.99 paperback) revolves around family secrets that gradually come to the surface. Whitney Monroe owns two restaurants in Michigan that are in financial trouble because a ruthless competitor is trying to…

Highland Park presents Sinatra biographer Kaplan in Authors LIVE! Oct. 29 The Friends of the Highland Park Library, the Highland Park United Methodist Church, and the Friends of the SMU Libraries will host James Kaplan in an Authors LIVE! program 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 29 at Wesley Hall at Dallas’s HPUMC. Kaplan’s new biography, Sinatra: …

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,…

Voces Americanas: Latino Literature in the United States (a Humanities Texas exhibit), San Antonio, September 1 – October 8 Waco Wordfest, September 26 – 27 Banned Books Week, September 27 – October 3 Georgetown Poetry Festival, October 2 – 4 The Edgar Allan Poe Victorian Festival (OkPoeberfest), Dallas, October 3–31 Author Extravaganza, Llano, October 3…

Sandra Brown is the author of more than sixty New York Times bestsellers. Brown began her writing career in 1981 and since then has published over seventy novels, bringing the number of copies of her books in print worldwide to upwards of eighty million. Her work has been translated into thirty-four languages. A lifelong Texan,…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 10.4.15   Texas books for Texas kids make good reading Benny the Bat: Maurice Parsley Mallow of Brady is the author and Debra H. Warr of Fort Worth the illustrator of a wonderful children’s book about a bat who is afraid to fly. Benny: The Bat Who Would Not Budge! (MasAir Publications,…

Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archiveSandra Brown keeps the pages turning in “Friction” Sandra Brown packs plenty of conflict into her aptly named novel Friction (Grand Central Publishing, $26 hardcover). Wherever he goes, Texas Ranger Crawford Hunt seems to create or cultivate friction — defined as conflict or animosity caused by a clash of wills, temperaments,…

Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archiveTexas books for Texas kids make good reading Benny the Bat: Maurice Parsley Mallow of Brady is the author and Debra H. Warr of Fort Worth the illustrator of a wonderful children’s book about a bat who is afraid to fly. Benny: The Bat Who Would Not Budge! (MasAir Publications, $10.99…