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Houston author DiAnn Mills on Christian romantic suspense—and real life DiAnn Mills, Christian suspense author from Houston, takes listeners behind the scenes of her books and her writing life in this week’s podcast interview with Ally Bishop.  >> LISTEN NOW (mp3) Bestselling author Lisa Wingate on The Sea Keeper’s Daughters and the Huckleberry Report Lisa…

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,…

Lubbock Comic Con, Lubbock, Aug. 29–30 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 Big Bend Comic Con, Alpine, September 5 David (Shannon) Goes to the Museum exhibit, Abilene, National Children’s Center for Illustrated Literature, through…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 9.6.15   “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…

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archivePanhandle author’s mysteries set in Amish country Texas author Linda Castillo writes fast-paced, best-selling mysteries set in the Amish country of northeastern Ohio and featuring Kate Burkholder, police chief in the small town of Painters Mill. In her newest novel, After the Storm (Minotaur…

20th ANNIVERSARY TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL, 2015 Margaret Atwood, Taye Diggs, Scott Simon to be featured presenters at Texas Book Fest Gala Oct. 16 AUSTIN—Acclaimed novelist Margaret Atwood (below, right); actor, Broadway star, and children’s book author Taye Diggs (center); and National Public Radio host and author Scott Simon (left) will be featured presenters at the…

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,…