• Paragraph Ranch Weekend Writers’ Retreat with Tex Thompson, Spur, December 1-3
• Texas Christian University Holiday Book Fest, Fort Worth, December 2
• Houston Writers Guild Gala and Toy Drive, December 2

Ongoing Exhibits

• Fact, Fiction, and the New World: The Role of Books in the Making of America (a Humanities Texas exhibition), Midland, October 1-December 1
• National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature exhibition: The Illustrations of Melissa Sweet, Abilene, November 9–January 27
• Lone Star imPRESSions: A History of Small Press in Texas, Austin, October 27-November 30
• National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature exhibition: The Illustrations of Melissa Sweet, Abilene, November 9-January 27

Sunday, November 26

Dallas

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

San Antonio

• B&N – La Cantera, Joel Salcido signing The Spirit of Tequila, 2PM

Monday, November 27

Austin

• BookPeople, ROB REYNOLDS speaking & signing Wire Mother Monkey Baby, 7PM

Houston

• St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, Walter Isaacson discusses LEONARDO DA VINCI, 7:30PM [ticketed event]

Tuesday, November 28

Austin

• BookPeople, JOEL SALCIDO speaking & signing Spirit of Tequila, 7PM
• Hotel Ella, The Hotel Ella Literary Salon Series: Turk Pipkin’s Book of the Every Other Month Club, 6PM
• Spiderhouse Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam featuring Marcel Price & KFG, 7PM

Dallas

• Checkered Past Winery, Dallas Poetry Slam presents DFW Unplugged, 8PM
• SMU Dedman School of Law, “Explaining Russia’s Contradictory Policies toward the U.S.” with Kimberly Marten, author of Reducing Tensions between Russia and NATO, 12PM

El Paso

• The Black Orchid Lounge, Barbed Wire Open Mic Series featuring Valentin Sandoval, 8PM

Fort Worth

• The Fort Worth Club, Walter Isaacson discusses and signs Leonard Da Vinci, 12PM

Houston

• Black Labrador, Houston Authors House meeting featuring guest speaker Lee Steiner, owner of Domestic Papers, 6:30PM
• Congregation Emanu El, History in Print: Nancy McCoy and David Woodcock discuss Architecture That Speaks, 6:30PM

San Antonio

• Trinity University, Humanities Collective Lecture with Daniel Mendelsohn, author of An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic, 7:30PM
• The Twig Book Shop, Singer and songwriter Radney Foster reads and signs For You to See the Stars, 5:30PM
  

Wednesday, November 29

Austin

• BookPeople, GARY T. MCDONALD speaking & signing The Gospel of Thomas (The Younger), 7PM
• Chez Zee American Bistro, Chez Zee Author Series with Babette Hughes, author of The Secret of Happiness, 6PM

Dallas

• Dallas Museum of Art, Arts & Letters Live hosts Daniel Mendelsohn discussing An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic, 7:30PM
• Hotel Crescent Court, David Ignatius reads and signs The Quantum Spy, 7PM

Houston

• Avant Garden, Write About Now Poetry Slam, 7:30PM

Odessa

• UTPB – Dunagan Library, Latin American Writer Series: Dr. Julio Jensen of the University of Copenhagen presents “Scandivanvia an the Spanish Speaking World Literary and Cultural Exchanges”, 7PM

Thursday, November 30

Austin

• BookPeople, Holiday recommendations from sales representatives from the major publishing houses, 7PM
• LBJ Library, an evening with former Secret Service agent and best-selling author Clint Hill and coathor Lisa McCubbin (preceded by a book signing at 4:30PM), 6PM

Dallas

• Half Price Books Mothership, Collectible Conversations: Steve Leach will discuss “Is It a First Edition—And Does It Matter?”, 6PM
• Deep Vellum Books, Launch party for Reunion: The Dallas Review Volume VII, 7PM
• The Wild Detectives, Andrea Amosson will read and sign Érase una vez Laurides, 7:30PM [Spanish event]

Fort Worth

• Half Price Books – Ridgmar, Marc Cameron will discuss and sign Tom Clancy’s Power and Empire, 7PM

Galveston

• The Bryan Museum, Michael R. Grauer speaks on “Early 20th Century Texas Art” and signs Rounded Up in Glory: Frank Reaugh, Texas Renaissance Man, 5:30PM

Houston

• Blue Willow Bookshop, Jessica Brody will discuss and sign her books for young adults, including her newest novel THE CHAOS OF STANDING STILL, 7PM
• Body, Mind & Soul, Body Mind & Soul’s Holiday Party, 4PM
• Children’s Museum of Houston, Inprint Poetry Buskers, 5PM
• Murder By the Book, Marc Cameron will sign and discuss Tom Clancy Power and Empire, 6:30PM
• Poison Girl, Poison Pen Reading Series featuring Gulf Coast editors, 8:30PM
• River Oaks Bookstore, Ben Koush discusses and signs Constructing Houston’s Future: The Architecture of Arthur Evan Jones & Lloyd Morgan Jones, 5PM
• Talento Bilingue de Houston, Abel R. Garcia releases Market Yourself to the Top Series #5: El Plan de Trabajo, 6PM

Sugar Land

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

Friday, December 1

Austin

• B&N – Arboretum, Pix, Volume 1: One Weirdest Weekend book signing with Gregg Schigiel, 7PM
• Malvern Books, Pterodáctilo presents a Poetry & Ptamales Party, 6:30PM

Dallas

• Heroes Lounge, Dallas Slam featuring Marcel “Fable” Price, the Poet Laureate of Grand Rapids Michigan, 8PM

Houston

• Inprint House, First Friday Reading Series: Jeremy Eugene, 8:30PM

San Antonio

• Rendon Photography & Fine Art, Jessie N.M. Simpson signs The King William Area: A History and Guide to the Houses, 6PM
• Rendon Photography & Fine Art, Edna Campos Gravenhorst signing San Antonio’s Historic Market Square, 6:30PM
• The Twig Book Shop, Joe Holley and Peter Brown discuss and sign Hometown Texas, 5:30PM
  

Saturday, December 2

Abilene

• Texas Star Trading Company, Laura Wilson will sign the third expanded edition of Watt Matthews of Lambshead, 1PM

Austin

• BookPeople, JAMES MCCOLLOM speaking & signing The Last Sheriff in Texas, 3PM
• BookPeople, TIM FERRISS speaking on Tribe of Mentors (each book purchased will come with a signed bookplate), 7PM
• BookWoman, poets Roja Chamankar, Emily Beyda, and Jade Fusco discuss and sign Suspended Whispers, 6PM
• Malvern Books, poetry reading featuring Texas-related work, including poems from the 2018 Texas Poetry Calendar, 3PM
• St. Edward’s University, Writers’ League of Texas workshop: “Structuring Successful Screenplays Using the Nutshell Technique” with Jill Chamberlain, 10AM

Comfort

• Comfort Public Library, Writers’ League of Texas workshop: “Texas Writes” with Stacey Swann and Michael Hall, 10AM

El Paso

• El Paso Public Library – Memorial Park, Tumblewords Project Workshop: “Implication” with Kit Wren, 12:45PM

Fort Worth

• Fort Worth Restaurant of the Mind, Emma Gingerich will discuss and and sign Runaway Amish Girl: The Great Escape, 2PM

Houston

• Blue Willow Bookshop, Ann Todd will discuss and sign her new book OSS OPERATION BLACK MAIL, 1PM
• Half Price Books – North Oaks, Local Author Saturdays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, while supplies last
• Murder By the Book, Dana Barney will sign and discuss Half Life, 4:30PM
• River Oaks Bookstore, John Warren Smith reads and signs Goodbye to Innocence, 3PM
• Writespace, Workshop: “How to Run a Successful Kickstarter Campaign for Your Book” with Adam Holt, 9:30AM
• Writespace, Workshop: “Scrivener 101” with Cassandra Rose Clarke, 1PM
• Young Neighborhood Library, Public Poetry Reading Series featuring Niki Herd, Ching-in Chen, Erica Nicole, Henk Rossouw, and RJ Wright, 2PM

Humble

• B&N – Deerbrook Mall, Story time with Lashandra Hall, author of Dancing In My Shoes, 1PM
• Half Price Books, Local Author Saturdays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, while supplies last

Huntsville

• Sam Houston Museum, Ron Rozelle launches EXILED: THE LAST DAYS OF SAM HOUSTON, TBA

Midland

• B&N, Richard Douglas Spence signing Andrew Jackson Donelson, 12PM

Port Neches

• Fleur Fine Books, Kristi Burden will discuss and sign The Village Girl Handbook, 3PM

San Antonio

• B&N – La Cantera, Joe Holley signing Hometown Texas, 3PM
• Central Library, authors Edna Campos Gravenhorst and Al Rendon take you through early San Antonio history as illustrated in their hot-off-the-press books, 2PM
• The Twig Book Shop, Liara Tamani signs Calling My Name, 11AM
  
• The Twig Book Shop, Dr. Dawn Youngblood signs The SMS Ranch, 2PM
  

Webster

• B&N – Baybrook, Meet the Author: Joseph Willis, 2PM

Sunday, December 3

Austin

• Malvern Books, An Afternoon with writers Conor Bracken, Michael Parker, and Karen Davidson, 4PM

Dallas

• B&N – Lincoln Park, Ainsley Earhardt signs Through Your Eyes, 1PM
• Half Price Books Mothership, Local Author Sundays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, while supplies last

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Holiday Open House, 5:30PM

Mansfield

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

San Antonio

• B&N – La Cantera, Phyllis Clark Nichols signing Christmas at Grey Sage, 2PM
• The Twig Book Shop, John Manguso signs Camp Bullis, 11AM
  

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