• Texas Shakespeare Festival, Kilgore, June 29–July 30
• The LaNana Creek Press Summer Letterpress and Book Art Intensive, Nacogdoches, July 8-August 5
• 2017 North Texas Comic Book Show, Irving, July 15-16
• Build A Better World “Adventures in Writing” Kids’ Writing Camp, Midland, July 17-21
• Texas Plains Trail Region Tourism & Preservation Roundup, Plainview, July 19–21, with special premiere performance of Marybeth Little Weston’s The Comanche with Blue Eyes, Fair Theatre, July 20, 7 pm
• Gemini Ink Writers Conference, San Antonio, July 21-23
• Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, Grapevine, July 21-23
• Literary Non-Fiction Workshop, Archer City, July 23-30

Ongoing Exhibits

• Stories to Tell: Selections from the Harry Ransom Center, Austin, February 6–July 16
• Of Texas Rivers and Texas Art, Austin, June 5–August 13
• Illustrator of the Century Garth Williams, Abilene, June 8–September 1
• George Catlin’s North American Indian Portfolio, San Antonio, June 23-September 4

Sunday, July 16

Austin

• BookPeople, DUNCAN JONES speaking & signing The Zebra Just Couldn’t Decide, 3PM
• Half Price Books – North Lamar, Unicorn Princess Storytime: Local literary and performance phenom Andrea Eames, a.k.a. Unicorn Princess, will share fables, fairy tales, and original stories, 2PM

Dallas

• Half Price Books Mother Ship, Local Author Sundays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, while supplies last

Houston

• Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center, Daniel Silva discusses and signs House of Spies (in conversation with Houston Public Media’s Andrew Schneider), 5PM
• MATCH Houston, Meta-Four Houston vs Houston VIP: Send off Poetry Slam, 7PM
• Murder By the Book, Daniel Silva will sign and discuss House of Spies, 2PM [line number required]

Pearland

• B&N – Broadway, Jessika Hearne signing Growing Up: Life Behind the Chalkboard, 2:30PM

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, Holly Castillo reads and signs Texas Conquest, 11AM

Monday, July 17

Austin

• BookPeople, P.C. CAST and KRISTIN CAST speaking & signing Loved, 7PM

Houston

• Murder By the Book, Linda Castillo will sign and discuss her newest release, Down A Dark Road, 6:30PM

Tuesday, July 18

Austin

• BookPeople, JEFF ABBOTT speaking & signing Blame, 7PM
• Spider House Ballroom, Austin Slam featuring Houston VIP Slam, 7PM

Dallas

• Dallas Museum of Art, Arts & Letters Live presents naturalist Terry Tempest Williams discussing and signing The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks, 7:30PM
• Half Price Books Mother Ship, Linda Castillo discusses and signs Down a Dark Road, 7PM
• The Wild Detectives, local author panel: “Publishing on Amazon: A Discussion on the Good, the Bad, the Ugly, 7:30PM

Fort Worth

• Funky Town Festival, Fort Worth Writer’s Boot Camp workshop: “The Blinking Cursor” with Mark A. Noble, 6:30PM

Houston

• Blue Willow Bookshop, Story time with author Emma Virjan’s rhyming books, 11AM

Wednesday, July 19

Austin

• BookPeople, ANNE HELEN PETERSEN speaking & signing Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud, 7PM
• The Writing Barn, Workshop: “Essential Elements: Keeping Your Story’s Heart Beating” with Natalia Sylvester, 6:30PM

Dallas

• B&N – Lincoln Park, Jeff Abbott signs Blame, 7PM
• Dallas Museum of Art, Arts & Letters Live presents Kathy Reichs reading and signing Two Days, 7:30PM

Houston

• Avant Garden, Write About Now Poetry Slam, 7:30PM
• Houston Chronicle office, Houston Public Library’s Books & Bylines: “Houston Through Writers’ Eyes” with journalist Mimi Swartz and former Houston poet laureate Gwen Zepeda (moderated by Chronicle books editor Alyson Ward), 7PM

Irving

• Valley Ranch Library, Storyteller Ann Marie Newman: stories from different cultures, with an emphasis on creative thinking, 2:30PM

Plainview

• Plainview Country Club, Joe W. Specht, author of The Roots of Texas Music and The Women There Don’t Treat You Mean: Abilene in Song, discusses Texas music as part of the 9th annual Texas Plains Trail Region Tourism & Preservation Roundup, 5:30PM

Thursday, July 20

Austin

• BookPeople, TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS speaking & signing The Hour of Land, 7PM
• BookPeople, Writers’ League of Texas Third Thursday panel: “The Secret to Great Picture Books” with Chris Barton, Jason Gallaher, Liz Garton Scanlon, and Emma J. Virján, 7PM
• Mr. Catfish & More, NeoSoul Poetry ATX, 8PM

Dallas

• Deep Vellum Books, Josué Gabriel de Montemayor presents his bilingual poetry collection, El Vértigo de Camaleón, 7PM
• Interabang Books, Ace Atkins reads and signs The Fallen, 7PM

Houston

• The Heritage Society, Finger Lecture Series: “Fourth Ward Cottage: A building too significant not to have been saved” with author and historian Randy Pace, 12PM
• Murder By the Book, Michael Connelly will sign and discuss The Late Show (in conversation with fellow crime novelist Theresa Schwegel), 6:30PM [line number required]

Midland

• George W. Bush Childhood Home, Laura Bush Literacy Program Reading Event, 4:30PM

Plainview

• Plainview Civic Center, Ryann Ford discusses and signs The Last Stop: Vanishing Rest Stops of the American Roadside (part of the 9th annual Texas Plains Trail Region Tourism & Preservation Roundup), 2:30PM
• Plainview Civic Center, Vicki Hamblen signs The Rim to Rim Road: Will Hamblen and the Crossing of Texas’ Palo Duro Canyon (part of the 9th annual Texas Plains Trail Region Tourism & Preservation Roundup), 11AM

Plano

• B&N – Preston/Park, Dionda Fugitt signs Adjust Your Crown, 12:30PM

San Antonio

• Roosevelt Library, Gemini Ink presents a “Conversation/Interview: Real Women Have Words” with Marilyn Atlas, award-winning producer of HBO’s Real Women Have Curves, winner of the 2017 Jackson Poetry Prize, Patricia Spears Jones, and radio personality Molly Cox, 6PM
• The Twig Book Shop, Jeffrey Hunt discusses and signs Meade and Lee After Gettysburg: The Forgotten Final Stage of the Gettysburg Campaign, from Falling Waters to Culpeper Court House, July 14-31, 1863, 5PM
  

Sugar Land

• B&N – First Colony, Story time with local author Maria Ashworth, 10AM

Friday, July 21

Austin

• BookPeople, ACE ATKINS speaking & signing The Fallen, 7PM

Dallas

• Deep Vellum Books, Night One of “Two Roads A Synesthesia Of Bonfires & Beer” presented by Poets on X+ & Pandora’s Box Poetry Showcase (learn the secret handshake for entrance to night two at a private residence), 7:30PM

Houston

• Murder By the Book, Fiona Barton will sign and discuss The Child, 6:30PM

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, Jan Reid reads and signs Sins of the Younger Sons, 4PM
  

Saturday, July 22

Abilene

• Texas Star Trading Company, Dr. Sandip Mathur signs Cowboys and Indian: A Doctor’s First Year in Texas, 11AM

Amarillo

• Sam’s, Jodi Thomas will sign Indigo Lake, 1PM

Austin

• B&N – Arboretum, Geoffrey Thomas signs The Wayward Astronomer, 2PM
• B&N – Sunset Valley, Expedition Austin: A Kid’s Guide to the Weirdest Town in Texas book signing with Jill Coody Smits, 1PM
• BookPeople, JASON GALLAHER speaking & signing Whobert Whover, Owl Detective, 2PM
• Malvern Books, The Lion & The Pirate Unplugged inclusive open mic, 7PM
• The Writing Barn, Workshop: “Essential Elements: Rhythm, Rhyme and Word Play in the Picture Book” with Susan Kralovansky, 3:30PM

Brownsville

• El Hueso Cafe, Brownsville Slam Poetry, 6:30PM

Dallas

• B&N – Preston/Royal, Coleen Rasco signs Annabell’s Talent Search, 12PM
• B&N – Preston/Royal, Derek Sean Carlton signs A Divine Pathway, 1PM
• Lucky Dog Books – Casa Linda, Meet the Author Story Time: Becky Villareal reading from Halito Gianna: The Journey Continues, 10:30AM

Denton

• Emily Fowler Library, Family Chess Challenge: former U.S. women’s chess champion Alexey Root will play 10 chess players simultaneously! Anyone who can win against her gets a free copy of her new book, Prepare With Chess Strategy, 2PM

El Paso

• B&N – Sunland Park, Beverley Blount Signing The Blount Guide to Phonetic Reading, 2PM
• El Paso Public Library – Memorial Park, Tumblewords Project Workshop: “Fudge the World” with Chauncey Lowe, 12:45PM

Frisco

• B&N – Stonebriar, Reavis Z. Wortham discusses and signs Hawke’s Prey, 11AM

Garland

• B&N – Firewheel Mall, Reavis Z. Wortham signs Hawke’s Prey, 2PM

Houston

• B&N – Westheimer Crossing, Karen J. January signs Lessons Mama Never Taught Me, 1PM
• Blue Willow Bookshop, Leah Harper Bowron will discuss and sign her novel COLORBLIND, 1PM
• Clayton Library Center, Speak!Poet with SAVANNAH BLUE and JEREMYAH “THE FLUENT ONE” PAYNE, 2PM
• Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Words & Art: Writing Workshop, 1PM
• Half Price Books – Clear Lake, Local Author Saturdays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release!, while supplies last
• Hogg Middle School, Brazos Bookstore presents Chris Colfer, reading from his new book THE LAND OF STORIES 6: WORLDS COLLIDE, 4PM [ticketed event]
• Murder By the Book, Jeff Abbott will sign and discuss his newest thriller, Blame, and Ace Atkins will sign and discuss his new Quinn Colson novel, The Fallen, 4:30PM
• River Oaks Bookstore, Davonte’ Marshall reads and signs #DefendingBlackwomanhood: the poetic intensities of womanology, 3PM

Irving

• West Irving Library, The Human Library: build a positive framework for conversations that can challenge stereotypes and prejudices through dialogue, 10AM

Nacogdoches

• The Bosslight, Storyteller’s Night #1 at the Main Pecan, 7PM

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, Terra Lynee signs Nathan’s Fate, 11AM
  

Southlake

• B&N – Town Square, Autumn Carpentier signing Walking on Water, 1PM

Sunday, July 23

Austin

• 4th Tap Brewing Co-Op, 2017 REVEL SOLSTICE FEST: “MUSIC FOR STEVE, ELECTRONICS, AND YOU” with poet Nathan Brown, 12:30PM
• BookPeople, OWEN EGERTON speaking & signing Hollow, 3PM
• Malvern Books, “Women Write Hard Sci-Fi: Continuing the Tradition” featuring Nancy Smith and Christy Esmahan, 2PM

Dallas

• Deep Vellum Books, Why Would I Get an MFA in Creative Writing: A Roundtable Discussion, 1PM
• Half Price Books Mother Ship, Local Author Sundays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, while supplies last

Frisco

• Frisco Public Library, Sisters in Crime North Dallas host “Seven Deadly First Page Sins” with Tex Thompson, 2PM

Houston

• Julia Ideson Building, Hip Hop for Literacy with Trae tha Truth, 12PM

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