• Houston Poetry Fest, October 13-15
• Indiepalooza, Houston, October 13-15
• 9th DFW Metroplex Linguistics Conference, Fort Worth, October 20
• George H.W. Bush Presidential Library Center 20th Anniversary, College Station, October 20-21
• Iran in the World Conference, San Antonio, October 20-21
• Houston Writers Guild Masquerade Gala Evening, Houston, October 21
• Tweens Read, South Houston, October 21
• Mid-Cities Teen Book Fest, North Richland Hills, October 21
• 4th Annual Edgar Allan Poe Victorian Halloween, Dallas, October 21

Ongoing Exhibits

• National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature 20th Anniversary Exhibition: Celebrating 20 Years of Art, Abilene, September 14–October 27
• Fact, Fiction, and the New World: The Role of Books in the Making of America (a Humanities Texas exhibition), Midland, October 1-December 1

Sunday, October 15

Austin

• BookPeople, CHAD CONINE speaking & signing Texas Sports: Unforgettable Stories for Every Day of the Year, 2PM
• Malvern Books, Kurt Heinzelman’s reads from his new book of poetry, Whatever You May Say, with Danielle Sellers, 4PM
• Resistencia Books, Virginia Grise reads and signs Your Healing Is Killing Me, 5PM

Dallas

• Half Price Books Mothership, retired decorated combat cavalry soldier and local author Tank Gunner will sell and sign his books Prompts and Prompts, Too, and local author Wayne Peterson will sell and sign his sci-fi book Canopy of Hope, 1PM
• The Mix Co-Working Space, Writing Workshop Dallas Seminar: “How To Network Like A B.O.S.S.” with Whitney Davis, 3PM

Houston

• Rudyard’s Pub, Public Poetry’s PM Show: open auditions, 2PM
• Writespace, Workshop: “How to Start a Story-and Finish It!” with Jason Aydelotte, 3PM

Irving

• Valley Ranch Library, Cowboys Never Quit: Western Author Panel with Johnny Boggs and Clay Reynolds, 2PM

Killeen

• Black World Books, One-Year Anniversary At Black World Books, 1PM

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, Laura Hudgens signs A Day at the BERns Family FARm, 11AM

Monday, October 16

Austin

• BookPeople, EDITH EGER speaking & signing The Choice, 7PM

Dallas

• Interabang Books, Brit Bennett reads and signs THE MOTHERS, 7PM

Frisco

• B&N – Stonebriar, Never Say Die book signing with Anthony Horowitz, 7PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Jennifer Mathieu reading and signing MOXIE, 7PM
• The Junior League, World Affairs Council of Greater Houston hosts Mustafa Akyol, author of Islam Without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty, 7PM

Richardson

• Richardson Public Library, Writers Guild of Texas workshop: “Fighting Demons: Internal vs External Conflict” with Jaye Wells, 7PM

Tuesday, October 17

Austin

• Austin History Center, Donna Miller, along with James and Annetta White, tell stories from Miller’s new book, The Broken Spoke: Austin’s Legendary Honky-Tonk (plus music from Ben Stafford Rodgers), 6:30PM
• BookPeople, ZOË QUINN speaking & signing Crash Override, 7PM
• St. Edward’s University, Marcia Kinsey Visiting Writers Series hosts poet NATALIE DIAZ, author of When My Brother Was an Aztec, 6PM
• Spiderhouse Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam hosted by Jomar Valentin, 7PM

Canyon

• Western Texas A&M University, Distinguished Lecture Series: Dr. Emily Skidmore, author of True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, 7PM

Dallas

• CBS Performance Showroom, World Affairs Council-DFW hosts Francine Klagsbrun discussing and signing Lioness: Golda Meir and The Nation of Israel, 6:30PM
• Interabang Books, “Artistic Detours: Unexpected Art Careers” panel discussion with graduates of Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and Susan K. Hamm and Vonda Klimaszewski, author and photographer/editor, respectively, of FULFILLING THE VISION: CELEBRATING ONE DALLAS ART SCHOOL’S IMPACT ON THE WORLD, 7PM
• SMU – McCord Auditorium, “Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and our Fate on Earth” with Adam Frank, author of About Time: Cosmology and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang, 5PM
• SMU – Owen Arts Center, 18th annual Sammons Media Ethics Lecture with attorney Bruce Sanford, author of Don’t Shoot the Messenger: How Our Growing Hatred of the Media Threatens Free Speech for All of Us, 8PM
• The Wild Detectives, best-selling author Jami Attenberg reading and signing All Grown Up (with local author Sarah Hepola), 7:30PM

Galveston

• The Bryan Museum, Carolyn Boyd, PhD, will give a talk on “Pecos River-Style Rock Art (Earliest Dated Art in North America),” followed by a book signing of Rock Art of the Lower Pecos and The White Shaman Mural: An Enduring Creation Narrative, 5:30PM

Houston

• The Black Labrador, Spider Road Press birthday party and flash awards ceremony, 7PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Tom Batiuk discusses and signs LISA’S STORY, 7PM
• Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, CAMH Lecture “Annabeth Rosen in Context: Ceramics in the 1980s and Beyond” with Jenni Sorkin, author of Live Form: Women, Ceramics and Community, 6:30PM
• Fix Coffeebar, Poetry Fix as Houston Poetry Fest satellite reading featuring Margo Davis and John Gorman, 6:30PM
• MidInMod, World Affairs Council of Greater Houston hosts Mustafa Akyol discussing and signing The Islamic Jesus: How the King of the Jews Became a Prophet of Muslims, 7:15PM
• Murder By the Book, Bonnie MacBird will sign and discuss Unquiet Spirits: Whisky, Ghosts, Murder, 6:30PM

San Antonio

• The Korova, Puroslam with DJ Donnie Dee, 9:30PM
• San Antonio Public Library – Memorial, Barbara Renaud Gonzalez reads and signs Las Nalgas de JLO/JLO’s Booty, 6:30PM

Wednesday, October 18

Austin

• BookPeople, JOYCE MAYNARD speaking & signing The Best of Us (in conversation with Amanda Eyre Ward), 7PM
• Chez Zee American Bistro, Chez Zee Author Series: Kristin Schell discusses and signs The Turquoise Table, 6PM
• Malvern Books, an evening with award-winning Puerto Rican writer and artist Eduardo Lalo, author of Uselessness (hosted by César A. Salgado), 7PM [bilingual event]
• The North Door, Storytelling: BedPost Confessions presents Rapture, 8PM
• Olamaie, Erin Ashford and co-author Jerry Salter will have an evening of cocktails to celebrate the release of the Southern Foodways Alliance Guide to Cocktails, 5PM

Ballinger

• Carnegie Library, Dana Glossbrenner, author of The Lark, presents “One Writer’s Trip” for the Ballinger Women’s Club, 9:30AM

Dallas

• Deep Vellum Books, Funky Winkerbean creater Tom Batiuk presents two new titles: Prelude: Lisa’s Story and The Last Leaf: Lisa’s Story Concludes, 6PM
• Interabang Books, David Bush & Jim Parsons will discuss and sign DFW DECO, 7PM
• SMU – Prothro Hall, “Cuba After Castro” Professor of Comparative Literature José Quiroga, author of Cuban Palimpsests, 5:30PM
• UT Dallas, “Time in a Bottle: Humanity’s Quest for the Elixir of Youth” with Bill Gifford, author of Spring Chicken, 7:30PM
• The Wild Detectives, launch party for Robyn O’Neil: 20 Years of Drawings. 7:30PM

Houston

• Avant Garden, Write About Now Poetry Slam, 7:30PM
• Murder By the Book, Penguin Random House Night, 6:30PM
• Platypus Brewing, Tintero Projects presents “Poets Unidos: Bodas y funerales,” a Houston Poetry Fest satellite reading, 6PM

Midland

• Midland County Library – Centennial, Permian Basin Bookies meeting: “Legal Issue for Authors” with Manning Wolfe (author of the Texas Lady Lawyer series), 6PM

Tyler

• Half Price Books, performer, writer, radio/TV producer and local author John L. Lansdale will sell and sign his books including his latest western fantasy, Zombie Gold, 4PM

Thursday, October 19

Austin

• BookPeople, NATE BLAKESLEE speaking & signing American Wolf (in conversation with Pam Colloff, former executive editor at Texas Monthly), 7PM [ticketed event]
• BookPeople, Writers’ League of Texas panel discussion: “How to Turn a Mess of Pages Into a Book” with DALIA AZIM, ALISON MACOR, and CORY PUTMAN OAKES, 7PM
• BookWoman, Jennifer Weiss-Wolf discusses and signs Periods Gone Public, 7PM
• Green Gate Farms, Story Bar presents Story Mixer: Farm to Fable, 7PM
• Monkeywrench Books, BOOK LAUNCH: Beautiful Rising: Creative Resistance from the Global South with editor Dave Mitchell, 7PM
• The North Door, Storytelling: BedPost Confessions presents Rapture, 8PM
• Women & Their Work Gallery, launch of Lisa Olstein’s Late Empire and Julie Carr’s Objects from a Borrowed Confession, with readings by Olstein and Carr, followed by food, drinks, and signings, 7PM

Brenham

• Unity Theatre, 9th Annual Washington County Read & Reception: meet Paulette Jiles and enjoy a dramatic reading of her novel News of the World, 5:30PM

Bryan

• SEAD Gallery & Bookshop, Author Talk Series hosts Rhonda Brinkmann, author of the Darla King mystery series, 6:30PM

Canyon

• Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Garry L. Nall Lecture: “The Texas Gun Frontier and the Travails of Mexican History” with Professor Brian DeLay, author of War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War, 7PM

Dallas

• Deep Vellum Books, Francis and Bronwen Percival discuss and sign Reinventing the Wheel: Milk, Microbes, and the Fight for Real Cheese, 6:30PM
• Hotel Crescent Court, World Affairs Council-DFW hosts Lawrence Freedman discussing and signing The Future of War, 6:30PM
• Interabang Books, Joyce Maynard discusses and signs THE BEST OF US, 7PM
• Kessler Theater, WordSpace and Dallas Poetry Slam present writer and slam poet Saul Williams, 8PM
• The Wild Detectives, Melissa del Bosque discusses and signs Bloodlines: The True Story of a Drug Cartel, the FBI, and the Battle for a Horse-Racing Dynasty, 7:30PM

Galveston

• Galveston Bookshop, former Galveston resident Mylene Dressler signs The Last to See Me, 6PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton reading and signing A KIND OF FREEDOM, 7PM
• Children’s Museum of Houston, Amy Costales presents her bilingual picture book for kids, Sundays on Fourth Street / Domingos en la calle Cuatro, 6PM
• The Health Museum, Salvadoran-American physician Juan Guerra presents his first bilingual picture book for kids, The Little Doctor / El doctorcito, 5PM

Midland

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

San Antonio

• B&N – La Cantera, Warrior Pups: True Stories of America’s K9 Heroes book signing with Jeff Kamen, 7PM

Sugar Land

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

Friday, October 20

Austin

• BookPeople, poet ATTICUS speaking & signing LOVE HER WILD, 7PM
• Malvern Books, launch of Alisar Eido’s novel, Fate of Smoke (The Soulfire Series: Book 1) (with David Tucker and Brennan Utley), 7PM
• St. Edward’s University, Marcia Kinsey Visiting Writers Series hosts playwright Virginia Grise reading from Your Healing is Killing Me: a Performance Manifesto, 1PM

Cedar Park

• Half Price Books, local author Anne Odom will sell and sign her historical romance, The Colonel’s Lady, 7PM

Dallas

• Deep Vellum Books, Pandora’s Box Poetry Collective, 8PM
• Heroes Lounge, Dallas Poetry Slam featuring Wil Gibson, 8PM
• Hilton Anatole, 2017 Dallas Women’s Foundation Luncheon featuring keynote speaker Dr. Hope Jahren, best-selling author of Lab Girl, 11:30AM
• Interabang Books, Steve Yarbrough discusses and signs LARRY McMURTRY’S THE LAST PICTURE SHOW: BOOKMARKED (in conversation with Chris Vognar of The Dallas Morning News), 7PM

El Paso

• El Paso Museum of History, Focus on Perspectives: Dr. Christina Palmer will discuss her book, For Love of Dance: The Early Years of UTEP Ballet, 6PM

Fort Worth

• The Dock Bookshop, Breast Cancer Awareness with Karla Antoinette Baptiste, author of Dig in Your Heels, 7:30PM

Grapevine

• Embassy Suites Hotel, 88th Texas Archeological Society Lecture with Dr. Dennis Stanford of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, author of The More We Learn the More Interesting It Becomes. A Current of Thought on the Peopling of the Americas, 7PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, An Evening of Poetry with Lisa Olstein and Julie Carr, 7PM
• Murder By the Book, M. Dressler will sign and discuss The Last To See Me, 6:30PM
• Rudyard’s Pub, Gulf Coast Reading Series featuring John Andrews, Chris Murray, Charlotte Wyatt, Sam Thilen, 7PM
• Vincent’s, Chef’s Dinner and Fundraiser: James Beard award-winning chef Rocco DiSpirito will discuss his new healthy cookbook, Rocco’s Healthy + Delicious, 6PM #HarveyRelief

North Richland Hills

• North Richland Hills Library, Behind the Book with Roseanne Montillo, author of Fire on the Track, 1PM [ticketed lunch 12PM]

Plano

• Haggard Library, Roseanne Montillo discusses an signs Fire on the Track, 7PM [ticketed reception 6PM]

San Antonio

• Trinity University Holt Center, Gemini Ink Words Matter Series: Reading, Q&A, and reception with Kevin McIlvoy, author of 57 Octaves Below Middle C, 6:30PM

Saturday, October 21

Austin

• Apanas Coffee & Beer, NeoSoul Poetry Slam, 6PM
• Austin Public Library – North Village, Austin Poetry Society meeting with guest poet Jena Kirkpatrick, 1:30PM
• BookPeople, SCBWI-Austin Monthly Meeting – Speed Drafting and Other Tips for NaNoWriMo Panel featuring Shellie Faught, Deanna Roy, and Jo Whittemore, 10AM
• BookPeople, LAURA WILSON speaking & signing Watt Matthews of Lambshead, 2PM
• BookPeople, MICHAEL HURD speaking & signing Thursday Night Lights, 6PM
• BookWoman, M. Dressler reading and signing The Last to See Me, 7PM
• Malvern Books, an evening with Constance Squires, author of Live from Medicine Park (with Robert Dean, Gabino Iglesias, and Tatiana Ryckman), 7PM
• Paramount Theatre, The hit public radio series Selected Shorts comes to Austin with stories performed by Kate Burton (Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal), Zach Grenier (Deadwood, Fight Club), and Anthony Imperioli (The Sopranos), 8PM
• St. Edward’s University, Writers’ League of Texas workshop: “Project Management for Writers: Finish Your Book On Time with Less Stress” with Allie Pleiter, 10AM

Belton

• McWha Bookstore, Book signing with Henry A. Nash, 1PM

Dallas

• The Writers Garret, Workshop: “Pitch Perfect: Your Push for Publication” with Susannah Charleson, 10AM

DeSoto

• DeSoto Civic Center, DALLAS AREA WRITERS GROUP 2017 “WRITE TO PUBLISH: CLIMBING TOWARD SUCCESS!” WRITING WORKSHOP, 8AM

El Paso

• El Paso Public Library – Memorial Park, Tumblewords Project Workshop: “All About Animals” with Annette Velásquez, 12:45PM

Fort Worth

• Half Price Books – Ridgmar/Westover Village, local author Matthew Gene will sell and sign his sci-fi books, Terminus X and Hope, 1PM

Houston

• The Ballroom at Bayou Place, Scott Kelly reading from his book ENDURANCE, 7:30PM
• Half Price Books – Clear Lake, Local Author Saturdays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, while supplies last
• MATCHouston, Storytelling: Oral Fixation presents “Out from Under the Rug: True Life Tales of Abortion,” 2PM & 7PM
• Murder By the Book, Kevin Hearne will sign and discuss A Plague of Giants, 4:30PM
• River Oaks Bookstore, Judithe Little reads and signs Wickwythe Hall, 4PM
• Writespace, Workshop: Editors’ Extravaganza with with Cassandra Rose Clarke, Elizabeth White-Olsen, Mark Dostert, and Leslie Contreras Schwartz, 9:30AM
• Writespace, Workshop: Writing for Magazines with Katharine Shilcutt, 9:30AM

Irving

• East Irving Library, Meet award-winning author Susan Stevens Crummel as she discusses her books, the western theme, and the writing process, 2:30PM

Port Neches

• Fleur Fine Books, book release party for Roadkill Volume 2, Texas Horror by Texas Authors with editors E. R. Bills & Bret McCormick, along with included authors James H Longmore, Crystal Brinkerhoff, R. J. Joseph, and Hayden Gilbert, 3PM

San Antonio

• Trinity University Holt Center, Gemini Ink workshop: “The Stance of Wonder: Cultivating the Fiction Writer’s Habit of Readiness” with Kevin McIlvoy, 10AM
• The Twig Book Shop, Max Knight signs Palo Duro, 11AM
• The Twig Book Shop, Trita Parsi discusses and signs Losing an Enemy: Obama, Iran, and the Triumph of Diplomacy, 6PM

South Padre Island

• Paragraphs on Padre, Christopher Carmona reads and signs 140: Twitter Poems (Bilingual Edition) translated by Gerald Padilla, 1PM

Southlake

• B&N – Town Square, Michael Dotsikas signing Benjamin Birdie Takes Flight, 11AM
• B&N – Town Square, Dawn Youngblood signing The SMS Ranch, Texas (Images of America Series), 2PM

Sugar Land

• Half Price Books, local author Bruce Henderson will sell and sign his techno-thriller, White Pages, 1PM

Sunday, October 22

Austin

• BookPeople, DAVID LAUTERSTEIN speaking & signing Life in the Bones, 2PM
• BookPeople, WILL KOSTAKIS speaking & signing The Sidekicks, and ADI ALSAID speaking & signing North of Happy (in conversation with Katie of Mundie Moms), 6PM
• BookWoman, Sharon Harrigan reading and signing Playing with Dynamite, and Amanda Eyre Ward reading and signing The Nearness of You, 3:30PM

Dallas

• Half Price Books Mothership, local author JB Bean will sell and sign her book Mister’s Garden, a story about a wild Texas cottontail rabbit, and local author James L. Capra will sell and sign his books including Leadership at the Front Line, 1PM
• Interabang Books, Terry Virts discusses and signs VIEW FROM ABOVE: AN ASTRONAUT PHOTOGRAPHS THE WORLD, 3PM
• The Mix Co-Working Space, Writing Workshops Dallas presents “Scrivener 101 Seminar” with Blake Atwood, 3PM

Frisco

• Frisco Public Library, Sisters In Crime – North Dallas meeting: “What To Expect When You’re Publishing” with Kendel Lynn, 2PM

Houston

• Writespace, Workshop: NaNoWriMo Prep: 10 Easy Steps to Turn News into a Novel with Marian Szczepanski, 3PM

San Antonio

• San Antonio Public Library – Central, Friends of the San Antonio Public Library 2017 Arts & Letters Awards, 2PM
• Witte Museum, Lewis Fisher will have a reception for his book, Maverick: The American Name That Became a Legend, 2PM

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