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Special Events
The most comprehensive listing of book and author events, festivals, readings, lectures, and signings in the Lone Star State Bookish Texas • Events Around the State The most comprehensive listing of book and author events, festivals, readings, lectures, and signings in the Lone Star State Don’t see your book or literary event here? Email Events@lonestarliterary.com with your complete…
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Forrest Fest (The Loft Poets) (Lamesa)Writers’ conferences and groups
Forrest Fest (The Loft Poets) (Lamesa)Writers’ conferences and groups One of the most fruitful moves most writers make is to join up with a group of likeminded scribes, for critique, learning, networking, and socializing. Texas is fortunate to have more than a hundred of them—general, poetry, romance, children’s, Christian, ethnic, songwriting, screenwriting, mystery, technical writing,…
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Lone Star Literary Life
There are nearly 400 independent and chain bookstores in Texas—not counting gift shops that just happen to sell books, or museum stores, or book sections of large department or discount stores. They run the gamut of specialties: children’s bookshops, college bookstores, used and rare booksellers, bookstores for art, architecture, comics, ethnic interest, religion, philosophy. Bookstores…
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Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC,
Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor CHILDREN’S FICTION Mary Pope Osborne (author), AG Ford (illustrator) Hurricane Heroes in Texas (Magic Tree House #30) Random House Books for Young Readers Hardcover, 978-1-5247-1312-6 (also available as an e-book and an audio-book), 112 pgs., $13.99; August 7, 2018 Mary Pope Osborne’s beloved Jack and Annie return to…
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Review: Bennett Donovan’s Devil’s Sinkhole
Bennett Donovan’s first book, Devil’s Sinkhole, is an intelligent, entertaining short novel with two key settings, Austin’s famed hipster-slacker scene and, 170 miles to the southwest, the Devil’s Sinkhole State Natural Area near Rocksprings, Texas.
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Meet the new publisher of Lone Star Lit
Kristine Hall has criss-crossed the state pursuing her love of books. From attending the TLA conference in Houston, to volunteering at the Fort Worth Book Festival, to meeting up with authors in events in Dallas and Austin, she has pursued her love of Texas literature in person and online — as the blog tour coordinator…
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Bess W. Scott Scholarship Fund marks 28 years of scholarships for journalists and writers
Since the Bess W. Scott Scholarship Fund’s first scholarship in 1991, $72,800 has been granted to sixty promising reporters, writers, and authors. See this year’s recipients.
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Lone Star ListensAuthor interviews by Kay Ellington, LSLL Publisher
Thomas H. McNeely is a former Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer in fiction at Stanford University whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, Ploughshares, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and Epoch, and has been anthologized in The Best American Mystery Stories; What If?: Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers; and Algonquin Books’s Best of the South:…
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Review: Sylvia Sánchez Garza’s Cascarones
Edinburg, Texas, writer Sylvia Sánchez Garza’s Cascarones is an entertaining, informative short novel best classified as a bildungsroman, a coming-of-age story focused mostly on one character’s formative years.
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