• David (Shannon) Goes to the Museum exhibit, Abilene, National Children’s Center for Illustrated Literature, through September 25

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

Monday, Aug. 24

Alpine

• Front Street Books, Anna Badkhen presents Walking With Abel: Journeys with the Nomads of the African Savannah, 5:30PM

Austin

• BookPeople, MysteryPeople Presents Bestselling Author JENNY MILCHMAN speaking & signing As Night Falls, 7PM

Houston

• The Lift, First Story Slam! Theme is “Coincidence and Synchronicity,” 6:30PM

Tuesday, Aug. 25

Austin

• BookPeople, Award Winning Novelist JENNIFER STEIL speaking & signing The Ambassador’s Wife, 7PM
• Spider House Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam, 8PM

Fort Worth

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

Lubbock

• Caprock Writers’ Alliance with author Richard Jespers of My Long-Playing Records and Other Stories, 7-9 pm, Lubbock Public Library, Mahon (downtown) branch. Free and open to the public.

Houston

• Murder By the Book, Jenny Milchman will sign her new novel As Night Falls and Julia Heaberlin will sign and discuss her novel, Black-Eyed Susans, 6:30PM

San Antonio

• The Korova, PuroSlam!, 10PM

Wednesday, Aug. 26

Austin

• BookPeoople, Bestselling Author JAMES KUNETKA speaking & signing The General and the Genius: Groves and Oppenheimer — The Unlikely Partnership That Built the Atom Bomb, 7PM

• The Writing Barn, Words and Wine with Carrie Fountain and guest moderator Liz Garton Scanlon, 7:30PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Ellen Urbani reads and signs LANDFALL, 7PM
• Houston Public Library, Four Books for Houston Series: Rene Steinke, 6PM
• Original OKRA Charity Saloon, Night WrITerS: creative writing workshop led by poet Outspoken Bean, 6PM

Thursday, Aug. 27

Austin

• BookPeople, Bestselling Author EDWARD CAREY speaking & signing Foulsham: Iremonger No. 2,  7PM
• Malvern Books, Ten Years After: Remembering Katrina – NPR correspondent John Burnett in conversation with Tom Zigal, author of Many Rivers to Cross, 7PM
• Riverbend Centre, BookPeople Presents Bestselling Author BRENÉ BROWN with her new book, Rising Strong, 7PM [sold out]
• Spider House Ballroom, the storytellers of Testify present “Into the Wild,” 7PM

Dallas

• The Wild Detectives, Anna Badkhen will present Walking with Abel, 7:30PM

Houston

• Asia Society Texas Center, co-authors Brad Glosserman and Scott Snyder discuss The Japan-South Korea Identity Clash: East Asian Security and the United States, 7PM

Friday, Aug. 28

Austin

• BookPeople, LOCAL AUTHOR NIGHT – Patricia Ruth, D. K. Stanley, & Jamie Amelio, 7PM
• Brave New Books, 9th Birthday Party for BNB!
• Bullock Museum, Texas Artisan Feature: Texas Cookbooks – authors include Lisa Fain (The Homesick Texan), Aaron Franklin of Franklin’s Barbecue, The Austin Food Blogger’s Alliance, and Tiffany Harelik’s Trailer Food Diaries Cookbook Series, 11AM
• Malvern Books, I Scream Social Reading Series featuring Austin writers Griselda Castillo, Schandra Madha, and Annar Veröld, 7PM

Frisco

• B&N – Stonebriar Mall, Nicole Weider signs Project Inspired: Tips and Tricks for Staying True to Who You Are, 7PM

Galveston

• Galveston Bookshop, Kris Rutherford will sign The Galveston Buccaneers and Baseball on the Prairie, 5PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Matthew Salesses read and signs THE HUNDRED-YEAR FLOOD, 7PM
• Rudyard’s, Writespace celebrates the release of their first anthology, Our Space: Shorts & Poetry from the Houston Community, 6:30PM

Lubbock

• B&N, Jodi Thomas will sign Ransom Canyon, 4PM

• Heritage House, lunch with Jodi Thomas and a discussion and signing of Ransom Canyon, 11:30AM

Saturday, Aug. 29

Austin

• B&N – Arboretum, Meet & Greet Book Signing With Venessa Kimball, 2PM
• BookPeople, Journalist & Bestselling Author ANNA BADKHEN speaking & signing Walking with Abel: Journeys with the Nomads of the African Savannah, In Conversation with National Book Critics Circle Award Winner BEN FOUNTAIN, 3PM
• Malvern Books, The Lion & The Pirate Unplugged inclusive open mic, 7PM
• The Mohawk Austin, celebrate the release of Raw Paw Volume Six : Alien!, 8PM
• St. Edward’s University, Writers’ League of Texas presents “Fine-Tune Craft While Writing Flash Fiction” with Nan Cuba, 10AM
• Town Lake Metropolitan Park (Austin Pride Festival), Debra Winegarten will sign Oveta Culp Hobby, 10AM

El Paso

• B&N – Fountains at Farah, Monica Barrios Author Signing Why Count Sheep When We Can Count Race Cars?, 2PM
• Memorial Park Library, Dick Bakken presents Furry Tails of a Sacred Future workshop for The Tumblewords Project, 12:45PM
• The Rock House Cafe & Gallery, The Barbed Wire Open Mic Series featuring Dick Bakken, 8PM

Harker Heights

• B&N, Cathy Clamp signs Forbidden, 12PM

Houston

• Blue Willow Bookshop, annual Texas Poetry Calendar reading, 4PM
• Murder By the Book, Bill Crider will sign and discuss Between the Living and the Dead and Angela Crider Neary will sign and discuss L’Il Tom and the Pussyfoot Detective Bureau The Cast of the Parrots Desparecidos, 4:30PM
• River Oaks Bookstore, Debora J. McLaughlin will discuss and sign Running in High Heels: How to Lead with Influence, Impact, & Ingenuity, 4PM

Plano

• B&N – Creekwalk Village, Meet Action/Adventure Author Don Candy as he signs Angels Three Five: A Sam McKensie Novel, 1:30PM

San Antonio

• B&N – Northwoods, Author Lady Byrd Signs Controlling Your “ACE”, 2PM
• The Twig Book Shop, L.M. Nelson discusses and signs Scrubs, 11AM
• Viva! Bookstore, Missy Tobia discusses and signs The Rosedale Tea Company, 1PM

Sunday, Aug. 30

Apparently everyone is fatigued from back-to-school. Please read quietly among yourselves.

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