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Texas Teen Book Festival draws record crowd in Austin Story and photos by Michelle Newby, Contributing Editor The seventh annual Texas Teen Book Festival was held Sept. 26 at St. Edward’s University in Austin. One of the largest teen book festivals in the country (organizers expected close to 5,000 attendees), this year’s was the biggest…

Llano Library to host Author Extravaganza Oct. 3 The Author Extravaganza and Fair will be an all-day free literary event set right in the heart of the Hill Country at the Llano Library in Llano, Texas, Sat., Oct. 3, 2015, from 11 M to 7 pm. Featuring two New York Times best selling authors, six…

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 American Christian Fiction Writers Conference, Dallas, September 17 – 20 West Texas Book Festival, Abilene, September 21 – 26 David (Shannon) Goes to the Museum exhibit, Abilene, National Children’s Center for Illustrated Literature, through September 25…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 9.27.15   Sandra 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,…

Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archiveSkullduggery, murder explored in true mystery When he was a lawyer, Abilene author Bill Neal spent time on both sides of criminal cases — as a prosecutor and as a defense attorney. But for the past decade or so, he has taken still another side — that of an objective researcher,…

Children’s Art & Literacy FestivalJoin us June 9–11, 2016 with featured illustrator and author Mark Teague  Click here to register LONE STAR LITERARY LIFE   copyright © 2015–18 Paragraph Ranch LLC  •  All rights reserved  •  CONTACT US

Here’s a small sampling of recent and forthcoming titles from five of Texas’s university presses. Click through to learn more, or to order from the publishers’ websites. Texas A&M University Press Houston Cougars in the 1960s: Death Threats, the Veer Offense, and the Game of the Century Robert D. Jacobus Jacobus tells the gripping story…

Llano Library to host Author Extravaganza Oct. 3 The Author Extravaganza and Fair will be an all-day free literary event set right in the heart of the Hill Country at the Llano Library in Llano, Texas, Sat., Oct. 3, 2015, from 11 M to 7 pm. Featuring two New York Times best selling authors, six…

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,…