• Voces Americanas: Latino Literature in the United States (a Humanities Texas exhibit), San Antonio, September 1 – October 8
• Georgetown Poetry Festival, October 2 – 4
• The Edgar Allan Poe Victorian Festival (OkPoeberfest), Dallas, October 3–31
• Buns and Roses: Romance Tea for Literacy, Richardson, October 4
• North Texas Book & Paper Show, Grapevine, October 9 – 10
• Texas Grand Slam Poetry Festival, Bryan/College Station, October 9 – 10
• Houston Poetry Festival, October 9 – 11
• RT Readers & Writers Roundup, League City, October 10 – 11

Sunday, Oct. 4

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Julie Bauer discusses & signs PALEO COOKBOOK & Vanessa Barajas discusses & signs CLEAN EATING WITH A DIRTY MIND, 5PM
• Murder By the Book, Jim Butcher will sign and discuss The Aeronaut’s Windlass, 4:30PM
• Museum of Fine Arts, The Promise: A Conversation with Author Ann Weisgarber and the Houston Chronicle’s Lisa Gray, 3PM

San Antonio

• B&N – La Cantera, Joe McKinney signing The Dead Won’t Die and Zombie Costume Contest, 1PM

Southlake

B&N – Town Square, Local Author Mark Fadden signing Colleyville, 2PM

Monday, Oct. 5

Austin

• BookPeople, ONCE UPON A CHAPTER TOUR! Featuring Ursula Vernon, M.A. Larson, and Rob Harrell, 7PM
• BookWoman, Talk and Book release party for the new Warrior Goddess Training Companion Workbook, 7:30PM

Dallas

• Dallas Museum of Art, Distinguished Writers: Joyce Carol Oates and Natasha Trethewey, 7:30PM

Houston

• Asia Society Texas Center, presentation by Andrew Small, author of The China-Pakistan Axis: Asia’s New Geopolitics, 7PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Steven Pinker discusses and signs THE SENSE OF STYLE, 7PM

Tuesday, Oct. 6

Austin

• Penn Field Opal Devine’s, MysteryPeople Presents Noir at the Bar with authors STUART NEVILLE, MIKE MCCRARY, JESSE SUBLETT & GABINO IGLESIAS, 7PM
• Spider House Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam, 8PM
• Whip In, One Page Salon presents: Mark Falkin, Christopher Gandin Lein & Carla Cook, 7PM

Dallas

• SMU McCord Auditorium, reception, lecture, and book siging for Jan Jarboe Russell’s The Train to Crystal City FDR’s Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America’s Only Family Internment Camp During World War II, 5:30PM

Fort Worth

• The Dock Bookshop, Fort Worth Poetry Slam and Open Mic, 8PM
• TCU Library, Jeff Guinn signs Buffalo Trail, 7PM

Frisco

• B&N – Stonebriar, Kenneth Oppel signs The Nest and Kevin Sands signs The Blackthorn Key, 6PM

Houston

• B&N – River Oaks, Jonathan Sandys signs God & Churchill: How the Great Leader’s Sense of Divine Destiny Changed His Troubled World and Offers Hope for Ours, 7PM
• Blue Willow Bookshop, Julie Murphy and Cammie McGovern will discuss and sign DUMPLIN’ and A STEP TOWARD FALLING, 7PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Garth Davis discusses and signs PROTEINAHOLIC, 7PM
• Jung Center, Pittman McGehee, Paradox of Love author, presents “Creating a Conscious Life,” 6PM
• Murder By the Book, Elly Griffiths will sign and discuss The Zig Zag Girl, 6:30PM
• Warehouse Live, Moth StorySLAM presents “Guts,” 7:30PM
• Writespace, The First Six Months: Creating Your Own Book Launch Marketing Plan with PAMELA FAGAN HUTCHINS (an IndieFest workshop), 6PM

Mesquite

• La Prada Drive Church of Christ, Art Greenhaw will sign Images of America: Mesquite, ?

San Antonio

• B&N – Bandera Pointe, Jaime Lee Moyer signing A Brightening Sky, 6PM
• The Korova, PuroSlam! with DJ Donnie Dee, 10PM

Southlake

• B&N – Town Square, Dorothy Newton signs Silent Cry, 3PM

Wednesday, Oct. 7

Austin

• BookPeoople, Bestselling Author AMY STEWART speaking & signing Girl Waits with Gun, 7PM
• Bullock Museum, High Noon Talk: Joe Holley discusses Slingin’ Sam: The Life and Times of the Greatest Quarterback to Ever Play the Game, 12PM
• Malvern Books, A Communal Celebration of “Howl”: A Service of Semi-Religious Significance, 7PM
• Windsor Manor, Austin Poetry Caravan reading, 7PM

Dallas

• Hastings #9883, Jeff Guinn signs Buffalo Trail, 6PM
• SMU Owen Arts Center, Sammons Media Ethics Lecture: Charles Krauthammer, 8PM
• The Wild Detectives, Anshel Brusilow, former conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, will sign his new memoir, Shoot the Conductor: Too Close to Monteux, Szell, and Ormandy, 7:30PM

Houston

• B&N – Westheimer, Lucia Capacchione signs The Creative Journal: The Art of Finding Yourself, 6PM
• Brazos Bookstore, S.C. Gwynne discusses and signs REBEL YELL, 7PM
• Helen Greek Food and Wine, John DeMers signs New Wine, 5PM
• Murder By the Book, Brandon Sanderson will sign and discuss Shadows of Self, 6:30PM
• The Printing Museum, The Gutenberg Dinner celebrating Women in Print, 6PM

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, David K. Langford discusses and signs Fog At Hillingdon, 6PM

The Woodlands

• Sam Houston State University – Woodlands Center, Texas State Poet Laureate Carmen Tafolla presents “Where Ink Does Not Show: The Voices, Lives and Legends of Latino Culture,” 6PM

Thursday, Oct. 8

Allen

• Allen Public Library, Nazi holocaust survivor Zsuzsanna Ozsvath discusses her memoir, When The Danube Ran Red, 7:30PM

Austin

• AGE of Central Texas,  Austin Poetry Caravan reading, 7PM
• BookPeople, CHELSEA CLINTON signing her new book, It’s Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going!, 7PM
• BookWoman, 2nd Thursday Open Mic Poetry with Logen Cure, 7:15PM
• Malvern Books, Novel Night with Troy James Weaver & Drew Hayes, 7PM

Georgetown

• Georgetown Public Library, Debra Winegarten, author of Oveta Culp Hobby, speaks on “Bringing History Alive for the Children’s Book Market,” 6:30PM

Houston

• Christ Church Cathedral, David Eagleman discusses and signs THE BRAIN: THE STORY OF YOU, 7PM
• Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Pete Gershon reads from his work-in-progress Pow Wow: Contemporary Artists in Houston 1972-1985, 6:30PM
• Murder By the Book, William Gibson will sign and discuss The Peripheral, 6:30PM
• University of Houston Fine Arts Bldg, Till Now: Contemporary Art in Context lecture series featuring author and artist Allan deSouza presenting NoW/here: The Present as an Entanglement of Absences, 1PM
• Writespace, How to Edit Your Own Story: An Indiefest Hands-On Workshop with Elizabeth White-Olsen, 6PM

Huntsville

• Sam Houston State University, Texas State Poet Laureate Carmen Tafolla presents “Where Ink Does Not Show: The Voices, Lives and Legends of Latino Culture,” 11AM

San Antonio

• B&N – Ingram, Jaime Lee Moyer signs Against a Brightening Sky, 6PM
• The Twig Book Shop, Josie Mendez-Negrete discusses and signs A Life on Hold: Living with Schizophrenia, 6PM

Friday, Oct. 9

Austin

• BookPeople, Debut Novelist SUSAN STRECKER speaking & signing Night Blindness, 7PM
• Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, Lynne and Jim Weber, authors of Nature Watch Austin: Guide to the Seasons in an Urban Wildland, book talk and signing, 11:30AM

Dallas

• B&N – Lincoln Park, Cindy Crawford signs Becoming Cindy Crawford, 11AM
• UT Dallas, Reunion: The Dallas Review Vol. 5 Launch Party, 7PM

Houston

• B&N – Vanderbilt Square, Author Signing – Lucia Capacchione, 7PM
• Christ Church Cathedral, Geraldine Brooks discusses and signs THE SECRET CHORD, 8PM
• Murder By the Book, Amy Stewart will sign and discuss her novel, Girl Waits With Gun, 6:30PM

San Antonio

• Viva Tacoland, Gemini Ink Reading Series featuring Amalia Ortiz, Cecily Parks, and Laura Van Prooyen, 8PM

Saturday, Oct. 10

Austin

• ACC Highland Campus, “Historical Fiction Boot Camp” with James L. Haley, 9AM
• George Washington Carver Museum, The Freedom Tour With DON TATE, CHRIS BARTON and KELLY STARLING LYONS, 11AM
• Half Price Books – N Lamar, poets Usha Akella and Kaye Voigt Abikhaled read selections from their new books + open mic, 1PM
• Half Price Books – S Lamar, Don Forrester will sell and sign his autobiography More Than Enough, 1PM
• Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, Thad Sitton signs Caddo Lake, 1PM
• Legacy Oaks, Austin Poetry Caravan reading, 2PM
• Malvern Books, Malvern Books’ 2nd Anniversary Celebration: readings, live music, store-wide sale, and CAKE, 2PM

Comfort

• High’s, reception, photography exhibit, and book signing for David K. Langford’s Fog at Hillingdon, ?

Dallas

• Lucky Dog Books – Lochwood, Kim Batchelor reading and signing The Island of Lost Children, 10AM

El Paso

• B&N – Sunland Park, Albert Balesh signs A Bachelor Party for Odysseus, 2PM
• Memorial Park Public Library, Tumblewords Project workshop: Gifts from the Greats with Snookie Golding, 12:45PM

Galveston

• Galveston Bookshop, Marie LeNôtre signs Appetites: A Memoir, 3PM

Houston

• B&N – The Woodlands, Theresa Lehr signs Best American Mystery Stories 2015, 2PM
• Brazos Bookstore, Debra Monroe discusses and signs MY UNSENTIMENTAL EDUCATION, 7PM
• Chapelwood Methodist Church, Robert Westheimer presents When God Calls, How Do You Answer? Becoming a Spiritual Entrepreneur, 4:30PM
• Murder By the Book, John Sandford will sign and discuss his new novel, Saturn Run, 4:30PM

Hurst

• B&N – NE Mall, Book Discussion and Signing With Author Polly Holyoke, 2PM

Plano

• B&N – Preston/Park, Bill Quigley signs Passage Through a Hell of Fire and Ice, 2PM

Round Rock

• B&N – La Frontera, Victoria McGuire signs It Should Not Hurt To Be A Wife, 2PM
• Half Price Books, Boots Brizendine will sell and sign Grandma Thoughts, 1PM
• Round Rock Library, The Round Rock Library & Visions International Present a Poetry Afternoon with Lyman Grant and Joanne Holladay, 1:30PM

San Antonio

• B&N – La Cantera, Sasha Summers signs A Cowboy’s Christmas Reunion, 2PM
• B&N – San Pedro, Missy Hood Discusses and Signs Memoirs of an ADHD Mind: God was a Genius in the Way He Made Me, 1PM
• Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, a plática with a some of the writers of Queer Brown Voices: Personal Narratives of Latina/o LGBT Activism, 7PM
• The Twig Book Shop, Stephanie Cameron reads and signs Ella Mae the Courageous Cheerleader, 11AM
• Viva! Bookstore, The Last Dance: A Daughter’s Journey by Teresa Arata-Maiers Poetry Reading and Book Signing, 2PM

South Padre Island

• Paragraphs on Padre, Rickey E. Pittman, storyteller, author, and folksinger presents Rio Grande Valley ABC, 1PM

Southlake

• B&N – Town Square, Local author Alexandra Savage signing A Beautiful Season, 3PM

Sugar Land

• Half Price Books, local author Josh Mundy will sell and sign his children’s book How the Vixens Saved the School, 1PM

Texarkana

• Books-A-Million, Jeff Guinn signs Buffalo Trail, 2PM

Sunday, Oct. 11

Austin

• Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, Gretchen Riley signs Famous Trees of Texas, 1PM
• Malvern Books, Austin Writers Roulette: “Things Under the Bed,” 3PM

Houston

• Chapelwood Methodist Church, Robert Westheimer presents When God Calls, How Do You Answer? Becoming a Spiritual Entrepreneur, 8:30AM
• Murder By the Book, Kyle Mills will sign and discuss The Survivor, 2PM

• Morton Ranch High School, Rick Riordan’s MAGNUS CHASE Tour, 3PM

San Antonio

• Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, breakfast with a some of the writers of Queer Brown Voices: Personal Narratives of Latina/o LGBT Activism, 10AM

San Marcos

• Wake the Dead, Persona Literary Magazine launch party, 5PM
• The Wittliff Collection, A celebration of writing by sisters ELIZABETH CROOK and NOEL CROOK, who will read from each other’s works rather than their own + plus reception & book signing, 2PM

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