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Voces Americanas: Latino Literature in the United States (a Humanities Texas exhibit), San Antonio, September 1 – October 8 Alamo City Comic Con, San Antonio, September 11 – 13 DFW Literary Soulfest, Fort Worth, September 11 – 13 Friends of Irving Public Library Read-a-Thon, 24 locations in Irving, September 17 American Christian Fiction Writers Conference,…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 9.20.15   Skullduggery, 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…

American Christian Fiction Writers Conference, Sept. 17 – 20, Dallas Each year hundreds of veteran authors and those just learning the craft of Christian fiction come to ACFW. Lone Star Literary Life’s coverage of this national fiction convention in Dallas continues today with Profiles of Texas Christian authors Lisa Wingate and Karen Witemeyer Previews of…

20th ANNIVERSARY TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL, 2015 300 authors coming to Texas Book Fest Oct. 17-18 20th anniversary lineup to feature Margaret Atwood, Taye Diggs, Nick Flynn, Linda Gray, Daniel Handler, Gary Hart, Chuck Palahniuk, and more AUSTIN—A record 300 authors are coming to the 2015 Texas Book Festival, Oct. 17 and 18, the largest number…

GUEST EDITORIAL The State of Christian literature by Rachel McCrae In my role as the senior book buyer for LifeWay Christian Stores, everyone thinks I’m such a well-rounded reader. That I’ve read all of this year’s top new releases from all of the popular writers as well as all of the Christian classics. They expect…

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 Amazing Houston Comic Con, September 4 – 6 Langdon Review Weekend, Granbury, September 9 – 12 Texas Word Wrangler Festival, Giddings, September 11 Alamo City Comic Con, San Antonio, September 11 – 13 DFW Literary Soulfest,…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 9.13.15   Someone’s getting married at the ranch, but who? Lubbock authors Kay Ellington and Barbara Brannon have written the second book in their Paragraph Ranch series, A Wedding at the Paragraph Ranch (Booktrope, $16.95 paperback). In the first novel, Dee Bennett leaves her position as a college professor to return home…

Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archive“Friday Night Lights” twenty-five years later H. G. “Buzz” Bissinger spent a year living in Odessa and following the Odessa Permian Panthers football team in 1988. He wanted to write a book about the importance of high school football in a town “that had seen better times.” Odessa was suffering from…