Special Events
Deep in the Heart Author Event, Austin, February 7
Monday, February 2
Austin
Book People, bestselling author George Friedman speaking & signing Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in Europe, 7pm
Dallas
Horchow Auditorium, Dallas Museum of Art Arts & Letters Live, Texas Bound II: Hellos and Goodbyes, 7:30pm
Frisco
Barnes & Noble Stonebriar Mall, Michael Northrop signs Tombquest Book 1 Book of the Dead, 5pm
Houston
Murder By the Book, Rebecca Scherm will sign and discuss her debut novel, Unbecoming, and Paula Hawkins will sign and discuss The Girl on the Train, 6:30pm
Museum of Fine Arts – Audrey Jones Beck Building, Hermes Mallea discusses his new book Escape: The Heyday of Caribbean Glamour with book signing to follow, 6:30pm
Tuesday, February 3
Austin
Brave New Books, Christopher Bollyn: Solving 9/11, 7pm
Spider House Cafe & Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam, 8pm
Whip In, Owen Egerton’s One Page Salon w/Sean Petrie, Jay Rosenkrantz, Kaci and Roy Danger, & Ross Smith, 7pm
Wednesday, February 4
Austin
Book People, Austin Authors & BookPeople Booksellers JULIE WERNERSBACH & CAROLYN TRACY speaking & signing Vegan Survival Guide to Austin, 7pm
Bob Bullock Museum, High Noon Talk: Wayne Thorburn presents Red State, 12pm
Ransom Center, Poetry on the Plaza: Readers include James Loehlin, Carrie Fountain and Stephen Enniss, 12pm
Dallas
The Wild Detectives, Oral Fixation cast meet & greet, 7pm
Houston
Blue Willow Bookshop, Michael Northrop will discuss and sign TOMBQUEST: BOOK OF THE DEAD, the first book in his new series for middle graders, 5pm
University of St. Thomas – Cullen Hall, Bryan Giemza presents a lecture derived from his book, Irish Catholic Writers and the Invention of the American South, 7pm
San Antonio
Olmos Bharmacy, San Antonio Sun Poets Society, 6pm
Thursday, February 5
Austin
Book People, Former Governor of Arkansas MIKE HUCKABEE signing his new book, God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy, 11am
Mr. Catfish & More, Neo Soul (Open Mic and Slam), 8:30pm
Spider House Ballroom, book release for Lakeem Wilson’s Natural Born Star, 9pm
Houston
Brazos Bookstore, David Heymann – MY BEAUTIFUL CITY AUSTIN, 7pm
Murder by the Book, Michael H. Rubin will sign and discuss The Cottoncrest Curse, 6:30pm
Rice University Chapel, Fondren Library Cherry Reading Series: a reading by Tiphanie Yanique, author of Land of Love and Drowning, 5:30pm
Humble
Half Price Books, Open mic poetry, 7pm
San Antonio
Trinity University Holt Center, Moral Ground: An Evening with Kathleen Dean Moore, 7pm
San Marcos
Wake the Dead Coffee House, Poetry Open Mic Round Robin!, 7:30pm
Tyler
UT Tyler, Nicholas Sparks talk & book signing, 7:30pm
Friday, February 6
Austin
Book People, Pretty Little Liars Star KEEGAN ALLEN signing his new book, life.love.beauty, 7pm
Dallas
South Dallas Cultural Center, Wordspace presents Michael S. Jackson reading The Residue Years, 7:30pm
Georgetown
Cianfrani Coffee Co, Georgetown Fiction Friday (Writers, Poets, Musicians, and Readers of fiction), 6:30pm
Houston
Blue Willow Bookshop, Reading Between the Wines, 6:30pm
Inprint Houst, First Friday Poetry Reading Series presents Christopher Carmona, 8:30pm
Midland
Barnes & Noble, Mike Huckabee: God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy, 11am
Saturday, February 7
Amarillo
Barnes & Noble Westgate Mall, Linda Broday Signing Texas Mail Order Bride, 2pm
Austin
Austin Baha’i Center, Expression Poetry features & open mic, 7pm
Alpha House, They Speak Youth Slam (Youth Writing Workshop and Youth Poetry Slam), 12pm
Barnes & Noble Arboretum, Meet & Greet Book Signing With Jay Brandon:Shadow Knight’s Mate, 2pm
Dallas
Barnes & Noble Lincoln Park, Ray Villareal Signs His YA Novel On the Other Side of the Bridge, 2pm
SMU, John M. Adams discusses his recent book, The Millionaire and the Mummies: Theodore Davis’s Gilded Age in the Valley of the Kings, 7pm
El Paso
Barnes & Noble Fountains at Farrah, Beverley Blount Signing The Blount Guide to Reading, Spelling and Pronouncing English and Treasure of the Haunted Hacienda, 2pm
Frisco
Barnes & Noble – Stonebriar Mall, Mike Rodriguez signs 8 Keys to Exceptional Selling, 2pm
Houston
The Big Blue Whale, Silly Shoes with Lawson Gow, 11am
Blue Willow Bookshop, Dianne Jones will meet and greet customers as she signs her book STOP BREATHE BELIEVE, 2pm
Brazos Bookstore, Scott McCloud – THE SCULPTOR, 7pm
Houston Country Club, 2015 Inprint Poets & Writers Ball Featuring Salman Rushdie [sold out], 6:30pm
Houston Public Library – Shepard-Acres Home Branch, Public Poetry presents poets Jesse Bertron, Kenan Ince, Celeste Guzmán Mendoza, Henk Rossouw, and Abe Louise Young, 2pm
Rice University – Duncan Hall /McMurtry Auditorium, Yannis Ritsos: A Poet’s Journey, 6pm
Plano
Barnes & Noble Creekwalk Village, Meet Three Harlequin Romance Authors, 2pm
San Antonio
The Twig Book Shop, Delicious Mischief signing with John DeMers, 10am
The Twig Book Shop, Beth Ann Stifflemire read and signs Waiting Hearts, 11am
The Twig Book Shop, Jim Peyton presents NATURALLY HEALTHY MEXICAN COOKING, 4pm
Southlake
Barnes & Noble, Author Signing, Johnnie Come Lately by Kathleen Rodgers, 2pm
South Padre Island
Paragraphs on Padre Boulevard, Literary Mercado, 1pm
The Woodlands
Barnes & Noble Woodlands Mall, V.L. Ball presents Ministries Administrative Assurance Plan, 2pm
Sunday, February 8
Austin
Austin Books & Comics, Scott McCloud: Meet the creator of The Sculptor & Understanding Comics, 2pm
Book People, Austin Chronicle Short Story Contest Winners Party!, 7pm
Kick Butt Coffee, Spoken and Heard, 7pm
Resistencia Bookstore, Panza Monologues: A Reading and Book Signing with Virginia Grise, 5pm
Stompin’ Grounds Lounge, Austin Writers’ Roulette (Juried Prose and Poetry), 4pm
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