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David (Shannon) Goes to the Museum exhibit, Abilene, National Children’s Center for Illustrated Literature, through September 25 Sunday, Aug. 23 Austin BookPeople, Austin Children’s Author CYNTHIA LEVINSON speaking & signing Watch Out for the Flying Kids!: How Two Circuses, Two Countries, and Nine Kids Confront Conflict and Build Community, 2:30PM Dallas The Wild Detectives, Jenny…

Jennifer Hamburg is an Emmy Award-winning children’s television writer and story editor whose work can be seen on Doc McStuffins, Henry Hugglemonster, Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, Super Why!, Little Einsteins, Blue’s Clues, Creative Galaxy, Jack’s Big Music Show, and Between the Lines. She is the author of two children’s books A Moose That Says Moo (FSG,…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 8.30.15   Panhandle 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 Books, $25.99 hardcover), a tornado rips…

Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archiveRansom Canyon series of novels set in West Texas Friendship that may blossom into romance is a major theme in Ransom Canyon, the first book in a new series by best-selling Amarillo author Jodi Thomas (HQN Books, $7.99 paperback). The book goes on sale Tuesday. The setting is the fictional small…

Texas-based writer Rod Davis is the author of the novels South, America and Corina’s Way and the nonfiction American Voudou. www.rodavisauthor.com Gerald Duff is a winner of the Cohen Award for Fiction, the Philosophical Society of Texas Literary Award, and the Silver Medal for Fiction from the Independent Publishers Association. A member of the Texas…

Above, from left: Antonio Ruiz-Camacho, Thomas H. McNeely, Michelle Newby at 2015 East Texas Book Festival Hundreds turn out for East Texas Book Festival By Michelle Newby, LSLL Contributing Editor The 7th annual East Texas Book Festival, a collaboration among the University of Texas at Tyler, Smith County Public Libraries, and Tyler Area Partners for…

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,…

The Great Fables Wake, Austin, August 14 – 16 East Texas Book Festival, Tyler, August 21 – 22 David (Shannon) Goes to the Museum exhibit, Abilene, National Children’s Center for Illustrated Literature, through September 25 Sunday, Aug. 16 Mansfield Half Price Books, local children’s author David D. Dye, Sr. will sell and sign his children’s…

Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole 8.23.15   Ransom Canyon series of novels set in West Texas Friendship that may blossom into romance is a major theme in Ransom Canyon, the first book in a new series by best-selling Amarillo author Jodi Thomas (HQN Books, $7.99 paperback). The book goes on sale Tuesday. The setting is the fictional…