• The Great Fables Wake, Austin, August 14 – 16
• East Texas Book Festival, Tyler, August 21 – 22
• David (Shannon) Goes to the Museum exhibit, Abilene, National Children’s Center for Illustrated Literature, through September 25

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

Monday, Aug. 17

• Austin
  BookPeople, N+1 Editor RICHARD BECK discussing & signing We Believe the Children: A Moral Panic in the 1980’s, with special guests JORDAN SMITH & DEBORAH ESQUENAZI, 7PM

Tuesday, Aug. 18

Austin

• BookPeople, Music Journalist JON FINE in conversation with Austin American-Statesman writer JOE GROSS and speaking & signing Your Band Sucks: What I Saw at Indie Rock’s Failed Revolution (But Can No Longer Hear), 7PM
• Spider House Cafe & Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam, 8PM

Dallas

• B&N – Lincoln Park, Jamie Tworkowski signs If You Feel Too Much: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For, 7PM

Fort Worth

• The Dock Bookshop, BLACK LIVES MATTER DISCUSSION AND OPEN MIC, 8PM

Houston

• Asia Society Texas Center, A Conversation with Clifton Truman Daniel, author of Growing Up With My Grandfather: Memories of Harry S. Truman and Dear Harry, Love Bess: Bess Truman’s Letters to Harry Truman, 1919-1943, 5:30PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Michael Pitre discusses and signs FIVES AND TWENTY-FIVES, 7PM
• Murder By the Book, Michael Koryta will sign and discuss Last Words, 6:30PM

• The Printing Museum, Director Elizabeth White-Olsen speaks on the founding of Writespace at the meeting of Women in the Visual and Literary Arts [WiVLA], 6:15PM

San Antonio

• B&N – La Cantera, Percy Jackson’s Greek Heroes Release Party, 7PM
• The Korova, PuroSlam!, 10PM

Wednesday, Aug. 19

Austin

• The Badlands, Badlands Blotter presents: Everybody Was [insert martial art] Fighting + flash fiction contest and local author reading, 7PM

Friendswood

• Friendswood Public Library, Off the Page Poetry Series with Gulf Coast Poets John Milkereit, Elena Petrova and Choonwha Moon + open mic, 7PM

Houston

• Katy Budget Books, Lunch, discussion and book signing with Sandra Brown, 11:30AM
• Murder By the Book, Sandra Brown will discuss and sign Friction, 6:30PM

Thursday, Aug. 20

Austin

• BookPeople, Bestselling Author SANDRA BROWN speaking & signing Friction, 7PM
• BookPeople, Writers’ League of Texas THIRD THURSDAY PANEL – “Picture This: Creating Illustrated Children’s Books” with authors Jeff Crosby, Liz Garton Scanlon, Mary Sullivan and Emma J. Virjan,7PM
• BookWoman, Kay Kendall reads and signs Rainy Day Women, 7PM

Houston

• Writespace, Spider Road Press Birthday & Flash Fiction Prize Awards Ceremony, 7PM

Friday, Aug. 21

Austin

• B&N – Arboretum, Stories Come to Life With The Paramount Theater’s Story Wranglers, 7PM
• BookPeople, Writer & Craft Beer Enthusiast MIKE CORTEZ speaking & signing Beer Lover’s Texas: Best Breweries, Brewpubs & Beer Bars, 7PM

Fort Worth

• Kimbell Art Museum, Artful Readings: The Anatomy Lesson: A Novel, by Nina Siegal, 5:30PM

San Antonio

• Half Price Books – Broadway, Panamanian poet Anthony Polanco will discuss, sell and sign Verses from the Diaspora: A Poetic Tale of the African Diaspora, 6PM

Saturday, Aug. 22

Austin

• B&N – Arboretum, Meet & Greet Book Signing With PJ Hoover, 2PM
• Bullock Museum, Book It, Texas! – Jan Jarboe Russell will dicuss The Train to Crystal City, 10:30AM

Dallas

• B&N – Preston Royal, Ambassador Robert W. Jordan signs Desert Diplomat: Inside Saudi Arabia Following 9/11, 2PM

El Paso

• B&N – Fountains at Farah, Amy Bennett signing No Vacancy, 2PM

Fort Worth

• The Library Cafe, The Lyric Cafe Featuring Kevin Sandbloom, 8PM

Galveston

• Galveston Bookshop, Maria Elena Sandovici signs Stray Dogs and Lonely Beaches, 3PM

Houston

• B&N – Vanderbilt, Hank Moore signs Houston Legends: History and Heritage of Dynamic Global Capitol, 1PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Noelle August discusses and signs BOUNCE, 6PM
• River Oaks Bookstore, James Glassman discusses and signs The Houstorian Dictionary, 4PM

Humble

• Half Price Books, local teacher and children’s author Damon L. Galloway will read, sell and sign his books, including Will You be My Friend?, 1PM

Hurst

• B&N – NE Mall, Book Launch With Author Susan Van Volkenburgh: The Stone of Ebenezer, 2PM

Lewisville

• B&N – Vista Ridge, book signing for Thirty One Days of Prayer for the Dreamer and Doer (curated by The Well Studio), 11:30AM
• B&N – Vista Ridge, Kathyleen Franklin reads and signs Who’s Watching Over Me?, 2PM

Mason

• Mason County M. Beven Eckert Memorial Library, Writers’ League of Texas: Texas Writes with Carol Dawson and Carol Flake Chapman, 1PM

McAllen

• B&N – Northcross, Cooking With the Texas Poets Laureate with Elizabeth Ethredge and Jan Seale, 2PM

San Antonio

• B&N – La Cantera, local author Axe will sign No Limits No Regrets, 2PM
• B&N – Northwoods, Carl E. Coppock discusses and signs Lose the Diet, Lose the Weight, 2PM
• The Twig Book Shop, Linda Simone discusses and signs Archeology, 11AM
• Viva! Bookstore, El Valle de Lagrimas: Valley of Tears poetry reading and signing with Paul Pineda, 1:30PM

The Woodlands

• B&N – Woodlands Mall, Fritz Fonocho signs I Came in on the Wrong Boat, 2PM

Sunday, Aug. 23

Austin

• BookPeople, Austin Children’s Author CYNTHIA LEVINSON speaking & signing Watch Out for the Flying Kids!: How Two Circuses, Two Countries, and Nine Kids Confront Conflict and Build Community, 2:30PM

Dallas

• The Wild Detectives, Jenny Milchman discusses and signs As Night Falls and Julia Heaberlin discusses and signs Black Eyed Susans, 6PM

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