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Glenn Dromgoole’s Texas Reads column appears weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com 2.22.2015  Cowboys survived rugged conditions in winter of 1884 Midland author Patrick Dearen’s latest novel, The Big Drift (TCU Press, $22.95 paperback), focuses on two cowboys—one white, one black—and the brutal conditions they endured during the blizzard of 1884 and the ensuing cattle roundup the next…

Editorial Texcentric on purpose Lone Star Literary Life is dedicated to the idea that Texas readers and writers deserve their own lair—a virtual speakeasy of letters where wordsmiths and bookworms are embraced as part of our state’s reading and writing community. So, howdy and welcome. You seem like our kind of folks. Coverage as diverse…

ASPECTS OF GOOD WRITING Wed., Feb. 25, 10 AM–3:30PM LBJ National Historical Park in Johnson City Registration forms online at www.jclibrarysite.org Call 830.868.4469; email Maggie Goodman at johnsoncitylibrary@verizon.net $40 registration includes lunch 10 am–12 noon   Roundtable discussion with panel 12–1:30   Lunch and networking 1:30–3:30   Workshop with author of choice Directions: Coming in on Hwy 281,…

Glenn Dromgoole’s Texas Reads column appears weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com 2.15.2015  Latest Harmony novel goes back to the town’s beginning Amarillo author Jodi Thomas is winding down her Harmony series, but is working on a new romance series about Texas ranch life. Her latest Harmony novel is A Place Called Harmony (Berkley, $7.99 paperback), which serves…

Connecting Texas books and writers with those who most want to discover them

Special Events Deep in the Heart Author Event, Austin, February 7 Monday, February 2 Austin Book People, bestselling author George Friedman speaking & signing Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe, 7pm Dallas Horchow Auditorium, Dallas Museum of Art Arts & Letters Live, Texas Bound II: Hellos and Goodbyes, 7:30pm Frisco Barnes & Noble Stonebriar Mall,…

Connecting Texas books and writers with those who most want to discover them

Texas A&M University Press has published Growing Grapes in Texas: From the Commercial Vineyard to the Backyard Vine by horticulturist Jim Kamas ($25 flexbound). It is a practical, approachable manual that begins with a question: “Why do you want to plant a vineyard?” “Planting and tending a vineyard can be a rewarding experience,” Kamas writes,…

Lone Star Book Reviews of Texas books appear weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com “The Old English and High German word for building, buan, means to dwell. This signifies to remain, to stay in a place…to preserve and care for…” What does “home” mean to you? Is it a place? A person? A particular period of time when…

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,…