• ConDFW XV, Dallas, February 12 – 14

• Dallas ComicCon Fan Expo, Irving, February 13 – 14

Ongoing Exhibits

• Long-Bin Chen’s The Book Garden sculpture exhibit, San Antonio, December 10, 2015 – February 20, 2016
• Shakespeare in Print and Performance, Austin, December 21 – May 29
• Encounters and Discoveries in Literature: Celebrating Arte Público Press and Twentieth Century Latina/o Literature, Houston, January 18 – June 30
• In His Own Words: The Life and Work of César Chávez, Wichita Falls, February 1 – March 5
• Texas Writers Exhibition, Johnson City, February 8 – March 4

Sunday, Feb. 7  If you’re not into the Super Bowl, read a great Texas sports book!

Austin

• BookPeople, Bestselling Author TYLER KNOTT GREGSON speaking & signing All the Words are Yours: Haiku on Love, 7PM

Bedford

• Half Price Books, local author Ceaser Conrad will sell and sign his relationship book, Cupid’s Concern, 1PM

Clarendon

• Clarendon College Library, Meet the Authors with Jodi Thomas, Linda Broday, Lisa Bilbrey, Bethany Claire, and Valerie Conrad, 4PM

Dallas

• B&N – Preston Royal, James Howell signs Countdown to Atomgeddon – Europe: The Race to Build the First Atomic Bomb, 1PM
• Half Price Books Mother Ship, Dr. Michael Weisberg will sell and sign his novel, The Hospitalist, 2PM

Denton

• B&N – Golden Triangle Mall, Hattie Bryant signs I’ll Have it My Way, 1PM

Garland

• B&N – Firewheel Mall, George Arnold signs Beijing Ding-a-Ling: Mao of the CIA, 11AM

Monday, Feb. 8

Austin

• BookPeople, Comedian, Actress, and Internet Celebrity GRACE HELBIG signing Grace & Style: The Art of Pretending You Have It, 7PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Paul Lisicky discusses and signs THE NARROW DOOR, 7PM

Kingwood

• Lone Star College, Robert Jacobus presents Houston Cougars in the 1960s: Death Threats, the Veer Offense, and the Game of the Century, 1PM

South Padre Island

• Paragraphs on Padre, Reverend Eli H. Sheldon signs South Padre Island & Port Isabel Colorful Stories, 1PM

Tuesday, Feb. 9

Austin

• BookWoman, Austin Book Launch for The i’Mpossible Project with Dana Sayre, 7PM
• Home Slice Pizza, Austin Bat Cave Fundraiser: Storytellers Kris Kovach and Kate Caldwell will tell tales of their Young Loves and Austin Playback Theater will make you tell yours, 8PM
• Spider House Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam, 8PM

Dallas

• SMU – Dallas Hall, Academic Publishing in the 21st Century: A Round-table Discussion, 4PM

Fort Worth

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

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Stephen Harrigan reads and signs A FRIEND OF MR. LINCOLN, 7PM
• Domaine Cellars, Bill Boyce presents Miss Fortune’s Last Mission, 6:30PM
• Murder By the Book, Lisa Gardner will sign and discuss Find Her, 6:30PM
• Rice University – McNair Hall, Bill Higgs presents The Story of Creating and Growing Mustang Engineering, 5:30PM

San Antonio

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

Seabrook

• Harris County Public Library – Evelyn Meador Branch, Robert Jacobus will discuss and sign Houston Cougars in the 1960s: Death Threats, the Veer Offense, and the Game of the Century, 7PM

Wednesday, Feb. 10

Austin

• BookPeople, Debut Novelist MO DAVIAU speaking & signing Every Anxious Wave, 7PM
• Half Price Books – North Lamar, Mike Begum, a.k.a. “Broly Legs”, will sell signed copies of his autobiography, My Life Beyond the Floor, 12PM
• Malvern Books, launch of Last Word/First Word: A Poetic Conversation by David Jewell and Ric Lance Scow Williams, 7PM
• St. Edward’s University, Marcia Kinsey Visiting Writers Series presents Sasha West, 5:30PM

Dallas

• Highland Park United Methodist Park, Authors Live! presents Dawn Tripp and Georgia, 7:30PM
• SMU – Dallas Hall, the Western History Association presents the David J. Weber-William P. Clements Prize for the Best Non-Fiction Book on Southwestern America to Andrew Needham for Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest, 5:30PM

Houston

• AvantGarden, Write About Now poetry open mic, 7:30PM
• Murder By the Book, Alex Berenson will sign and discuss The Wolves, 6:30PM

San Antonio

• San Antonio Country Club, author Kelly Corrigan featured speaker at Mums and Mimosas, 11:30AM

Thursday, Feb. 11

Arlington

• Half Price Books – Lincoln Square, Open Mic Poetry, 7PM

Austin

• BookPeople, Environmentalist, Essayist, Poet TAYLOR BRORBY speaking & signing Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America, 7PM
• BookWoman, Second Thursday Poetry Open Mic with Sarah Frances Moran and Jenuine Poetess, 7:15PM
• Malvern Books, Novel Night with Scott Semegran & Dwaines Lawless, 7PM
• pump project, Conflict of Interest reading in celebration of the release of Micah Bateman’s first chapbook, Polis, 7PM
• UT – Avaya Auditorium, Michener Center for Writers Reading Series presents an evening with LAURA KASISCHKE, 7:30PM

Dallas

• B&N – Lincoln Park, screen writer Greg Cope White discusses and signs his memoir The Pink Marine, 7PM
• Wordspace Salon with John Slate: Confessions and Revelations of a Teen Punk Fanzine Editor, 7PM [RSVP for residence address]

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Cheryl Gerber discusses and signs NEW ORLEANS: LIFE AND DEATH IN THE BIG EASY, 7PM
• Museum of Fine Arts – Audrey Jones Beck Building, Glassell School Core Program Lecture: Joshua Decter presents Art Is a Problem: Selected Criticism, Essays, Interviews and Curatorial Projects (1986–2012), 7PM
• River Oaks Bookstore, Justina Page discusses and signs The Circle of Fire: In the Midst of the Ashes an Ember of Hope Flickered, 5PM
• Wortham Theater Center – Cullen Theater, Sarah Rothenberg’s latest music and literature exploration, A Proust Sonata: 7 tableaux en musique, delves into Marcel Proust and his masterpiece In Search of Lost Time, 8PM

Friday, Feb. 12

Austin

• BookPeople, Writer, Fillmmaker & Austinite DANIEL OPPENHEIMER speaking & signing Exit Right: The People Who Left the Left and Reshaped the American Century, 7PM
• BookWoman, V-Day Erotica Reading hosted by Allyson Whipple and featuring Liz Belile, Muerta-Paz Con-Corazón Sin-Guerra, Sarah Moran, and Phoebe Moore, 7PM
• grayDUCK Gallery, fields Issue 5 release party, 7PM
• Paramount Theatre, Risk! Live podcast storytelling event with Kevin Allison, 8PM

Georgetown

• Cianfrani Coffee Shop, Poetry Reading/Open Mic, 6:30PM

Houston

• Brazos Bookstore, Alexander Chee reads and signs THE QUEEN OF THE NIGHT, 7PM
• Wortham Theater Center – Cullen Theater, Sarah Rothenberg’s latest music and literature exploration, A Proust Sonata: 7 tableaux en musique, delves into Marcel Proust and his masterpiece In Search of Lost Time, 8PM

Saturday, Feb. 13

Amarillo

• Cavender’s, Jodi Thomas signs Rustler’s Moon, 12PM

Austin

• BookPeople, Children’s Authors CORY PUTMAN OAKES, JO WHITTEMORE, MARI MANCUSI speaking &signing Dinosaur Boy Saves Mars (Oakes), Confidentially Yours (Whittemore), and Golden Girl (Mancusi), 12PM
• BookPeople, Houston Editor & Author SAADIA FARUQI speaking & signing Brick Walls: Tales of Hope & Courage From Pakistan, 4PM
• Bullock Museum, Book It, Texas! presents Oscar Casares and Brownsville: Stories, 10:30AM
• Half Price Books – South Lamar, Mike Begum, a.k.a. “Broly Legs”, will sell signed copies of his autobiography, My Life Beyond the Floor, 1PM
• St. Edward’s University, Writers’ League of Texas workshop: “How to Tackle the Embarrassing, the Forbidden, the Emotionally Difficult” with Nan Cuba, 10AM

Dallas

• B&N Preston/Royal, Alexa Turczynski signs Whispers of an Enchantress, 1PM

El Paso

• B&N Fountains at Farah, Author Storytime Reading: Vanessa Betts, 11AM
• Memorial Park Public Library, Tumblewords Project workshop: Lucy Hopple presents “The Power of Love; Results Matter”, 12:45PM

Frisco

• B&N Stonebriar, Patrice Washington signs Real Money Answers for Every Woman: How to Win the Money Game With or Without a Man, 3PM

Houston

• B&N Vanderbilt Square, The Healing of a Broken Spirit book discussion and signing with Akua Fayette, 2PM
• Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, David Getsy discusses and signs Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender, 2PM
• Kaboom Books, Nathan Brown, former poet laureate of Oklahoma, presents To Sing Hallucinated: First Thoughts on Last Words, 7PM
• Katy Budget Books, Texas authors Rebecca Adler and C.A. Szarek sign their latest releases, Here Today, Gone Tamale, and Rogue’s Call, respectively, 2PM
• Murder By the Book, Martha Grimes and Ken Grimes will sign and discuss the paperback of Double Double, 4:30PM
• River Oaks Bookstore, Mike Damante discusses and signs Punk Rock and UFOs: Cryptozoology Meets Anarchy, 3PM

Hurst

• B&N Northeast Mall, Cupid’s Concern signing with Ceaser Conrad, 3PM

Lewisville

• B&N Vista Ridge, Romance Author Celebration with Nikki Duncan, Kishan Paul, Missy Jane and Donna June Cooper, 2PM

Lubbock

• B&N, The Corner Room book signing with James Powell, 2PM

McAllen

• B&N – Northcross, Karen Klassen reads and signs The Rhythm of Time, 1PM

Pasadena

• B&N – Fairway Market, Robert Jacobus will discuss and sign Houston Cougars in the 1960s, 1PM

Pearland

• B&N – Broadway, Gretchen Dee signs Elemental Fate, 12PM

Round Rock

• B&N – La Frontera, Before the Belle book signing with Cassius Mullen, 2PM

San Antonio

• B&N – La Cantera, San Antonio Romance Authors Q&A: Writing Your Romance Novel with Willa Blair, Pamela Morsi, Sasha Summers, Teri Wilson, 10AM
• Carver Library, Robert Jacobus discusses and signs Houston Cougars in the 1960s: Death Threats, the Veer Offense, and the Game of the Century, 3PM

Sugar Land

• B&N First Colony Mall, I Gotta Story: My 30 Years in TV News book signing with Minerva Perez, 1PM

The Woodlands

• B&N – Woodlands Mall, Toni Hyler signs Why Me? Why Not Me?: A Journey in Faith, 2PM

Sunday, Feb. 14   Love books? So do we. Read a romance today—or gift a book.

Austin

• BookPeople, Bestselling Author of Red Rising and Golden Sun PIERCE BROWN speaking & signing Morning Star, 3PM
• Farewell Books, 3-year Anniversary Party/Valentine’s Party!, 7PM
• Malvern Books, Austin Writers Roulette presents “Sex, Love & Virtual Reality,” 4PM

Dallas

• Half Price Books Mother Ship, local author Wanda Vassallo will sell and sign her books, I Was the Daughter of a Human Mother and I Was the Mother of a Baby Duck, 1PM

Mansfield

• Half Price Books, local author James Howell will sell and sign his book, Countdown to Atomgeddon: The Race to Build the First Atomic Bomb, 1PM

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