16th annual West Texas Book Festival announces lineup for Sept. 19-24 in Abilene

Leila Meacham, the national New York Times best-selling author of Roses, Tumbleweeds, Somerset, Titans, and more will be the featured keynote speaker Sat., Sept. 24, at the West Texas Book Festival and will be recognized as this year’s A.C. Greene award winner. The A.C. Greene award is presented annually to a distinguished Texas author for lifetime achievement. The award is named for author, columnist, and Abilene native A.C. Greene.

The sixteenth annual festival, September 19-24, 2016, will also feature panels with the following authors:

• Carl & Pixie Christensen, Lone Star Steeples: Historic Places of Worship in Texas (Texas A&M University Press, 2016);
• Glen Sample Ely, The Texas Frontier & the Butterfield Overland Mail (University of Oklahoma Press, 2016);
• Dennis Roberson, Winning 42: The Strategy and Lore of the National Game of Texas (4th ed., Texas Tech University Press, 2009);
• Chad S. Conine, The Republic of Football (University of Texas Press. 2016);
• Susan Kralovansky, Twelve Cowboys Ropin’ (Pelican Publishing, 2015);
• Marguerite Gray, Hold Me Close: Revolutionary Faith (WestBow Press, 2015).

This year’s featured cookbook authors include

• Jacqueline Cavender, As the Spur Stirs (2016, Cavender’s);
• Jessica Dupuy, The United Tastes of Texas (2016 Oxmoor House); and
• Anthony Head & Laura Samuel Meyn, Meatless in Cowtown (2015, Running Press).

A panel of Texas publishers will have a session Friday afternoon, Sept. 23, about how to get a book published and answer questions from the audience.  The workshop is free and open to anyone interested in the world of publishing and getting published.

For more information, visit the festival website.

(From organization’s website)

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