• The Great Fables Wake, Austin, August 14 – 16
• David (Shannon) Goes to the Museum exhibit, Abilene, National Children’s Center for Illustrated Literature, through September 25

Sunday, Aug. 9

• Austin
• Garland
• Houston
• Round Rock
• The Woodlands
• B&N – Woodlands Mall, Natasha Preston signs Awake, 2PM

Monday, Aug. 10

Apparently everyone is reading at home today. You can read in public, though, if you’d like.

Tuesday, Aug. 11

Austin

• BookPeople, MysteryPeople Presents: MURDER ON WHEELS: 11 TALES OF CRIME ON THE MOVE readings with Reavis Wortham, Kathy Waller, and Scott Montgomery, 7PM
• Home Slice Pizza, The Bat Cave’s Story Department presents: Air Your Dirty Laundry with Jack Kaulfus, Jennifer Robenalt, Elena Eidelberg, and Carrie Carter, 8PM
• Spider House Cafe & Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam, 8PM

Bellmead

• Texas State Technical College, Richard Paul & Steven Moss discuss and sign We Could Not Fail, 7PM

Dallas

• British Beverage Company, Art House Dallas presents For the Love of Words, 6PM

Fort Worth

• B&N – Hulen, Julia Heaberlin discusses and signs Black-Eyed Susans, 7PM
• The Dock Bookshop, BLACK LIVES MATTER DISCUSSION AND OPEN MIC, 8PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Tristan Smith discusses and signs HOUSTON FIRE DEPARTMENT, 7PM
• Houston Maritime Museum, HMM History Lecture: Richard S. Hall, Ph.D., presents Texas Lighthouses: Gulf Coast Lighthouse Styles + book signing, 7PM
• Murder By the Book, Christopher Farnsworth will sign his new book, The Eternal World, 6:30PM

Wednesday, Aug. 12

Austin

• BookPeople, City of Austin Archivist MICHAEL C. MILLER speaking & signing Austin’s First Cookbook: Our Home Recipes, Remedies and Rules of Thumb, 7PM
• Cheer Up Charlies, Five Things presents: The Teen Years with readings by MEG FREITAG, ASHER PRICE, DIANA LYNN SMALL, TIMOTHY WILLIS SANDERS and STEPHANIE NOLL (bring a few dollars or gently-used books for Old Books for New Teachers), 7:30PM

Dallas

• Highland Park United Methodist Church, Paula McLain presents Circling the Sun, 7PM
• The Wild Detectives, Artist and author Roger White presents The Contemporaries, 7:30PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Summer of Shakespeare: The Tempest (with Houston Shakespeare Festival), 7PM

North Richland Hills

• North Richland Hills Public Library, Behind the Book: Lunch with Paula McClain, 12PM

Thursday, Aug. 13

Austin

• AGE of Central Texas, Austin Poetry Caravan reading, 2:30PM
• BookWoman, Second Thursday Poetry Open Mic featuring Kaye Voigt Abikhaled, 7:15PM
• Malvern Books, Novel Night with Donna Birdwell & Steven Metze, 7PM

Dallas

• Dallas Museum of Art – Horchow Auditorium, Arts & Letters Live: Liza Klaussmann presents Villa America, 8PM

El Paso

• Unitarian-Universalist Community of El Paso, Song Giver: Gene Keller will perform original poetry and music in celebration of his 70th birthday (from Tumblewords Project), 7:30PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Fady Joudah & Anis Shivani discuss and sign OTHERS WILL ENTER THE GATES, 7PM
• Murder By the Book, Linda Fairstein will sign and discuss Devil’s Bridge, 6:30PM

Friday, Aug. 14

Austin

• BookPeople, Girls Night Out with Bestselling Author JENNIFER WEINER speaking & signing Who Do You Love, 7PM

Dallas

• Lucky Dog Books – Oak Cliff, Poets on X+ featuring Johnny R. Olson, 8PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Scott Wilbanks reads and signs THE LEMONCHOLY LIFE OF ANNIE ASTER, 6PM
• River Oaks Bookstore, Matt Minor reads and signs The Representative, 5PM

Saturday, Aug. 15

Abilene

• Texas Star Trading Company, Jenna Marwitz and Nicole Sparks, known as the Crockin’ Girls, will sign their new cookbook, It’s Our Crockin’ Life, 11AM

Austin

• B&N – Arboretum, Meet & Greet Book Signing With Joan Borsten, 2PM
• BookPeople, Actress and Internet Celebrity FELICIA DAY signing You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost), 6PM
• Bullock Museum, Texas Readers Theater: Eugene Lee will read and discuss his plays, 2PM
• Half Price Books – North Lamar, teen mentor and author Lauren Galley will sell and sign her teen book Kissing Frogs: In Search of Prince Charming, 1PM
• Malvern Books, launch of David Parsons’ new poetry collection, Reaching for Longer Water, 4PM

Brownsville

• Stillman House Museum, Debra Winegarten signs Oveta Culp Hobby, 12PM

College Station

• B&N, Author Event: Jim Paris discusses and signs Them Changes, 4PM

Dallas

• B&N – Lincoln Park,  Ali Novak signs Heartbreakers, 3PM
• Dallas Museum of Art – Horchow Auditorium, Oral Fixation: Best of Season 4, 8PM

Fort Worth

• Fort Worth Public Library – Central Branch, local authors of children’s and YA lit sell and sign their books, 1PM

Garland

• B&N – Firewheel Mall, Jeff Wagoner discusses and signs Discover the Unseen, 2PM

Houston

• Blue Will Bookshop, Tom McNeely will discuss and sign his book, GHOST HORSE, 2PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Hank Moore discusses and signs HOUSTON LEGENDS, 7PM
• Katy Budget Books, Local historian Carol Adams signs her book Images of America: Katy, 2PM
• Last Concert Cafe, Transcendent Zero Press Summer Shindig 2015: Dru Watkins promoting his first collection BEING BEYOND RECONFIGURATION, performance poet and publisher BGK, Sharon O, Hawaiian spoken word artist, and Beat poet PW Covington, 7:30PM
• Murder By the Book, Matt Coyle will sign and discuss Night Tremors and David Putnam will sign and discuss The Replacements, 4:30PM

Irving

• Irving Public Library – Valley Ranch, Author Visit with Varsha Bajaj, 7PM

Mansfield

• Half Price Books, local author J.C. Hulsey will sell and sign his Christian Western books from The Travelers series, 1PM

Rock Rock

• B&N – La Frontera, E.C. Murray signs A Long Way From Paris, 2PM

San Antonio

• B&N – San Pedro, New Writers’ Event: local authors present their new books, 1PM
• The Twig Book Shop, Patti Brooks discusses and signs Murder in Montgomery, 11AM

Sugar Land

• First Colony Library, Houston Writers House: Matt Minor Workshop, 10:30AM
• Half Price Books, local author Meena Dhanjal will sell and sign her children’s book Mattie Has Wheels, 1PM

Waskom

• Waskom Public Library, Texas Writes program from the Writers’ League of Texas: Lisa Wingate and Kelli Coates Gilbert, 1PM

The Woodlands

• B&N – Woodlands Mall, Brenda Moore signs What’s Done in the Dark Shall Come to the Light, 2PM

Sunday, Aug. 16

Mansfield

• Half Price Books, local children’s author David D. Dye, Sr. will sell and sign his children’s books The World’s Strongest Human and Beneath the Reading Tree, 1PM

San Antonio

• BiblioTech, Tinta Digital Pachanga with Gemini Ink: celebrate literary education and outreach with Poet Laureate of  Texas Carmen Tafolla, Poet Laureate of San Antonio Laurie Ann Guerrero, Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson and George Garza + FOOD, 2PM
• The Twig Book Shop, Blake Adams discusses and signs Blind, But Now I See, 11AM

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