Austin

• BookPeople, A Very Special Storytime With Bestselling Author GEORGE SAUNDERS speaking & signing The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip, 2PM
• Malvern Books, Vision + Voice Anthology Release Party, 2PM

Dallas

• B&N – Preston/Royal, Danielle Shroyer signs Where Jesus Prayed: Illustrating the Lord’s Prayer in the Holy Land, 1PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Holiday Open House, 5:30PM

Lubbock

• B&N, Stay on Your Feet – A Life Journey by John Castleman book signing, 3PM

San Antonio

• B&N – La Cantera, San Antonio Romance Authors Signing, 2PM

Sugar Land

• B&N, Robert Jacobus signs Houston Cougars in the 1960s: Death Threats, the Veer Offense, and the Game of the Century, 2PM

Waxahachie

• Webb Gallery, co-authors Lynne Adele and Bruce Lee Webb launch their book AS ABOVE, SO BELOW: Art of the American Fraternal Society, 1850-1930, 4PM

The Woodlands

B&N, Marilyn Harkrider signs Santa, Is It Really You?, 2PM

Monday, Dec. 7

Austin

• BookPeople, TACO CLEANSE TACO PARTY!!! Austin Authors WES ALLISON, STEPHANIE BOGDANICH, MOLLY R. FRISINGER, JESSICA MORRIS speaking & signing The Taco Cleanse: The Tortilla-Based Diet Proven to Change Your Life, 7PM

Dallas

• SMU – Owens Art Center, Dr. Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis lectures from On Repeat: How Music Plays in the Mind, 4:30PM

Tuesday, Dec. 8

Austin

• BookPeople, Bestselling Author COLLEEN HOOVER speaking & signing November 9, 7PM
• Home Slice Pizza, Austin Bat Cave Story Department presents: “My History,” 7:30PM
• Spider House Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam, 8PM

Fort Worth

• The Dock Bookshop, Fort Worth Poetry Slam and Open Mic, 8PM

Houston

• Brasil, Glass Mountain launch reading, 6PM

San Antonio

• The Korova, PuroSlam! with DJ Donnie Dee, 10PM

Wednesday, Dec. 9

Austin

• BookPeople, Celebrated Photographer SALLY MANN speaking & signing Hold Still, 7PM
• BookWoman, Dobie Paisano Writing Fellowships Reading with Nan Cuba and Kathleen Winter, 7PM
• Malvern Books, a reading featuring Kevin W. Burke, Rachel Wiley, Ronnie K. Stephens, and Lacey Roop, slam poets from Austin’s Timber Mouse Publishing, 7PM

Benjamin

• Santa Fe on the Brazos, official Texas photographer Wyman Meinzer book signing, 4PM

Dallas

• B&N – Lincoln Park, Tough as They Come book signing with Travis Mills, 7PM
• Dallas Public Library – Bookmarks, explore holiday traditions from around the world through stories, song and art with the Dallas Museum of Art’s resident storyteller, Ann Marie Newman, 10:30AM
• Deep Vellum Books, housewarming party and bookstore launch, 6PM

San Antonio

• Viva! Bookstore, Voices de la Luna Monthly Literary Evening, 6PM

Thursday, Dec. 10

Austin

• BookPeople, Austin Author CHERYL BEESLEY speaking & signing Landscaping with Edible Plants in Texas, 7PM
• BookWoman, Second Thursday Poetry Open Mic Night with Laura Guli and Louise Richardson, 7:15PM
• Malvern Books, Novel Night with Dana Barney & Mark Falkin, 7PM
• Uncommon Objects, co-authors Lynne Adele and Bruce Lee Webb read and sign AS ABOVE, SO BELOW: Art of the American Fraternal Society, 1850-1930, 7:30PM

Dallas

• The Wild Detectives, First Hearings Series: David Langlinais reads from and signs Duck Thief, 7PM

El Paso

• Papa Pita, James R. Murphy will sign El Paso 1850-1950 and My Favorite El Pasoans, Past and Present, and Richard L. Palmer will sign The Life Story and Collected Works of Opal W. Fitzgerald and The Difference Between a Duck, 5:30PM

Houston

• B&N – Westheimer, Robert Jacobus discusses and signs Houston Cougars in the 1960s: Death Threats, the Veer Offense, and the Game of the Century, 6PM
• River Oaks Bookstore, Dr. Carlos Hamilton, Jr. discusses and signs A Rose Blooms in Texas: Coming of Age in the Civil War Era, 5:30PM

Odessa

• UTPB – Dunagan Library, Dr. Robert Brescia discusses and signs The Americanism of John Ben Shepperd, 6PM

San Antonio

• B&N – La Cantera, Joy Fisher Hein storytime and signing: Bloomin’ Tales, 6PM
• San Antonio Public Library, Opening reception for internationally renowned sculptor Long-Bin Chen and his exhibition, The Book Garden, 6PM

Friday, Dec. 11

Austin

• BookPeople, Austin Journalist & Memoirist SARAH BARNES speaking & signing Meredith & Me, 7PM
• Malvern Books, The Lion & The Pirate Unplugged: an inclusive open mic, 7PM

Lubbock

• B&N, Carrying The Black Bag; A Neurologist’s Bedside Tales book signing by Tom Hutton, M.D., 6PM

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, Eileen Curtright reads and signs The Burned Bridges of Ward, Nebraska, 6PM

South Padre Island

• Paragraphs on Padre, Meet the Author Series: Dale Morrison and Jacob West discuss and sign Hope and Help, 5PM

Saturday, Dec. 12

Arlington

• Half Price Books – Lincoln Square, local author Ava Morgan will sell and sign her Steampunk books The Curiosity Chronicles, Vols. 1- 3 and The Aether Alchemist, 2PM

Austin

• Half Price Books – S. Lamar, local author Patricia Bourke will sell and sign her children’s book Christopher and the Caterpillar, 1PM
• Pump Project, Conflict of Interest book sale: books, journals, and magazines from Austin based writers, artists, and publishers, 12PM

El Paso

• B&N – Fountains at Farah, Vanessa Betts signs The Grasshopper in My Peas, 2PM
• Memorial Park Public Library, Tumblewords Project workshop: “Behind My Music” with Frank Morales, 12:45PM

Fort Worth

• The Dock Bookshop, Pens & Pancakes Year End Author Appreciation, 11AM

Galveston

• Galveston Bookshop, N.E. Brown signs Galveston 1900: Indignities Book 5 – The Arrangement, 2PM

Houston

• B&N – Champions, Lynne Dozier presents The Writer’s Voice: Lessons in Composition, 1PM
• B&N – Champions, Leon Hale signs One Man’s Christmas, 4PM
• Blue Willow Bookshop, Robert Jacobus will share his book, HOUSTON COUGARS IN THE 1960s, joined by one of the book’s subjects, former Houston Cougar basketball star and Houston Rocket coach Don Chaney, 11AM
• Blue Willow Bookshop, Poets read from ARTlines2: ART BECOMES POETRY, 2PM
• Murder By the Book, Houston’s Women of Mystery Event with Mandy Broughton, Stephanie Jaye Evans, Kay Kendall, Rebecca Nolen, and Gay Yellen, 4:30PM
• River Oaks Bookstore, Robert Jacobus discusses and signs Houston Cougars in the 1960s: Death Threats, the Veer Offense, and the Game of the Century, 4PM

Hurst

• B&N – NE Mall, Book signing with Nick Farrell: In Spite of Me, 1PM

Lubbock

• B&N, Harvey Houses of Texas, New Mexico, and Kansas book signing by Rosa Latimer, 2PM

McAllen

• B&N – Palms Crossing, Rickey Pittman signs Rio Grande ABC, 5PM
• B&N – Palms Crossing, Suzanne Schrewe signs Hello Little Snowflake, 7:30PM

Plano

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

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, Mikaila Rushing reads and signs The Magician’s Portal, 11AM
• The Twig Book Shop, Laura Aten reads and signs ‘Round and ‘Round and Back Again, 3PM

South Padre Island

• Paragraphs on Padre Bookstore, Meet the Author Series: Dave Harry discusses and signs The Padre Phantom, 1PM

Sunday, Dec. 13

Austin

• Malvern Books, Austin Writers Roulette presents “Accidental Orgasms,” 3PM

Houston

• Half Price Books – Westheimer/Montrose, local musician, author and inspirational speaker Undrai Fizer will sell and sign his philosophical book The Excuse-less Life: 34 Inner-Laws for Living Above Distraction, 1PM
• Last Concert Cafe, Transcendent Zero Press Holiday Shindig with poets Gabrielle Langley, Chris Wise, Lucy Wilson, and Craig Butterworth and author Lucy Wilson, who will present her book, Wind on Water, 7PM

San Antonio

• The Twig Book Shop, Quincy Leca discusses and signs The Chains are Unbroken, 11AM
• The Twig Book Shop, Signing and discussion of Hidden Treasures of San Antonio with author/photographer John Dyer, 3PM

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