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From read-to-me books to early readers,<\/span> chapter books to middle readers to YA, you\u2019ll find these terrific new titles at your neighborhood bookshop or online. >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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LONE STAR LISTENS interviews\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>>> archive<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n

Kay Ellington, Editor and Publisher<\/span><\/h1>\n

7.16.2017\u00a0 Mystery novelist Bill Crider: More than a hundred books later, still writing every day (and that includes holidays)<\/h1>\n

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For more than four decades Bill Crider<\/span> has had a following of Texas readers\u2014and for more than twenty novels Crider\u2019s Sheriff Dan Rhodes has been holding his own with the likes of such sleuths as Stephanie Plum and Kinsey Milhone. The Alvin, Texas, \u201cretiree\u201d whose most recent novel came out in August talked with us via email about writing, Sheriff Dan, and what\u2019s next, in this week\u2019s Lone Star Listens.<\/span><\/p>\n

LONE STAR LITERARY LIFE: <\/span>Bill, you\u2019ve been a successful author for four decades. Your life began in Mexia in 1941, the year of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. What was it like growing up in a small Texas town in the forties and fifties, and how did it inform your writing?<\/span><\/p>\n

BILL CRIDER: <\/span>There\u2019s no question that there\u2019s a lot of Mexia and my upbringing in my books. Mexia was the kind of town where you began first grade with sixty or so other kids and when you walked across the stage to get your diploma twelve years later, most of those same kids walked with you. It was the kind of town where kids were free to roam all over, on foot or on bicycles, and where they played outside from daylight until dark in the summertime unless their mothers (like mine) demanded that you stay inside during \u201cthe heat of the day.\u201d<\/p>\n

I listened to a lot of baseball games in the heat of the day. Movies were cheap, and we had two theaters. Everybody went to the Saturday matinee at the Palace, where there was always a double feature, usually a couple of B-westerns, along with a serial, a cartoon, a newsreel, and some previews of coming attractions. The audience was often rowdy, but nobody seemed to mind much. Later on a new, air-condtioned theater was built, and the rowdy days were over. If you want to know what high school was like, watch American Graffiti.\u00a0 <\/span>>>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Texas’s only statewide, weekly calendar of book events<\/h1>\n

Bookish Texas<\/span> event highlights\u00a0 7.16.2017
<\/span>>><\/span><\/a><\/span> GO this week\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Michelle Newby, Contributing Editor<\/span><\/h1>\n
SPECIAL EVENTS THIS WEEK: Kilgore, Nacogdoches, Irving, Midland, Plainview, San Antonio, Grapevine, Archer City<\/span><\/span><\/span>HOUSTON\u00a0 Mon, July 17<\/span>\u00a0 Murder By the Book, Linda Castillo will sign and discuss her newest release, Down A Dark Road, 6:30PM<\/span>ALSO SIGNING IN DALLAS\u00a0 Tues., July 18<\/span>\u00a0 Half Price Books Mother Ship, 7PM<\/span><\/span><\/span>DALLAS\u00a0 Tues., July 18<\/span>\u00a0 Dallas Museum of Art, Arts & Letters Live presents naturalist Terry Tempest Williams discussing and signing The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America\u2019s National Parks, 7:30PM<\/span>ALSO SIGNING IN AUSTIN\u00a0 Thurs., July 20,<\/span>\u00a0 BookPeople, 7PM<\/span><\/span><\/span>HOUSTON\u00a0 Tues., July 18<\/span>\u00a0 Blue Willow Bookshop, Story time with author Emma Virjan’s rhyming books, 11AM<\/span><\/span><\/span>PLAINVIEW\u00a0 Wed., July 19\u00a0 <\/span>Plainview Country Club, Joe W. Specht, author of The Roots of Texas Music and The Women There Don’t Treat You Mean: Abilene in Song, discusses Texas music as part of the 9th annual Texas Plains Trail Region Tourism & Preservation Roundup, 5:30PM<\/span><\/span><\/span>PLAINVIEW\u00a0 Thurs., July 20 <\/span>\u00a0 Plainview Civic Center, Ryann Ford discusses and signs The Last Stop: Vanishing Rest Stops of the American Roadside (part of the 9th annual Texas Plains Trail Region Tourism & Preservation Roundup), 2:30PM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>SAN ANTONIO\u00a0 Thurs., July 20 The Twig Book Shop, Jeffrey Hunt discusses and signs Meade and Lee After Gettysburg: The Forgotten Final Stage of the Gettysburg Campaign, from Falling Waters to Culpeper Court House, July 14-31, 1863, 5PM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>PLAINVIEW\u00a0 Thurs., July 20 <\/span>\u00a0 Fair Theatre, Zoe Kirkatrick performs Maybeth Little Weston\u2019s THE COMANCHE WITH BLUE EYES in conjunction with publication of the book (part of the 9th annual Texas Plains Trail Region Tourism & Preservation Roundup), 2:30PM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>SAN ANTONIO\u00a0 Fri., July 21<\/span>\u00a0 The Twig Book Shop, Jan Reid reads and signs Sins of the Younger Sons, 4PM<\/span><\/span><\/span>ABILENE\u00a0 Sat., July 22\u00a0 Texas Star Trading Company, Dr. Sandip Mathur signs Cowboys and Indian: A Doctor’s First Year in Texas, 11AM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>FRISCO\u00a0 Sat., July 22\u00a0 B&N – Stonebriar, Reavis Z. Wortham discusses and signs Hawke’s Prey, 11AM<\/span><\/span>ALSO SIGNING IN GARLAND B&N, Firewheel Mall, 2PM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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News Briefs 7.16.17<\/h1>\n

<\/span><\/span>Johnston named director of Michener Center<\/h1>\n

AUSTIN\u2014Author Bret Anthony Johnston assumes the directorship of the <\/span>Michener Center for Writers<\/span><\/a><\/span>, in Austin, in July 2017.\u00a0 He succeeds longtime director James Magnuson,<\/span> who is retiring. Johnston has directed the creative writing program at Harvard University for the past twelve years.\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/span><\/span>West Texas Book Festival scheduled for Sept. 21\u201323 in Abilene<\/h1>\n

17th year for event, presented by Friends of the Library<\/h1>\n

ABILENE\u2014The 17th annual West Texas Book Festival,<\/span> presented by Friends of the Abilene Public Library, will celebrate reading and writing with three full days of activities, Sept. 21\u201323, 2017.\u00a0 Fourteen authors will be featured in presentations, panels, and workshops free to the public on Friday and Saturday.\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Archer City Story Center to offer workshop<\/h1>\n

ARCHER CITY \u2014 The Archer City Story Center is offering the workshop<\/span> \u201cLiterary Nonfiction Workshop\u201d Sun., July 23 through Sun., July 30.<\/p>\n

The Archer City Story Center is a program of the Royal Theater, a non-profit theater group operating in Archer City since 1993 with its first production, Tumbleweeds.<\/span> The Royal Theater, a small-town silver screen, was the inspiration for Larry McMurtry’s<\/span> 1966 novel The Last Picture Show,<\/span> which was adapted into the Oscar-winning 1971 film starring Cybill Shepherd<\/span> and Jeff Bridges.<\/span> A fire gutted the theater in 1965 and the building stood in ruins for decades before being rebuilt by the Archer Community Foundation in 2000. The new theater sits adjacent to the original space, which now houses outdoor amphitheater programs.\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Texas authors, performers featured at Texas Plains Trail Region Roundup, July 19\u201321, in Plainview<\/h1>\n

PLAINVIEW\u2014The 9th annual Tourism & Preservation Roundup,<\/span> a heritage tourism conference presented by the Texas Plains Trail Region, will feature authors Joe W. Specht<\/span> on West Texas music history and Ryann Ford,<\/span> creator and photographer of The Last Stop,<\/span> during its three days of programming, July 19\u201321, 2017, in Plainview.<\/p>\n

Destination marketers, museum workers, parks personnel, elected officials, and followers of Texas history are all welcome. Registration for the full conference, which includes:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Wednesday afternoon tour of the Jimmy Dean Museum and other museums on the Wayland Baptist University campus, 400\u20135:30 pm;<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span>\u2022 Wednesday evening reception (cash bar) and barbecue banquet at the Plainview Country Club, with a talk on West Texas music heritage by historian Joe W. Specht,<\/span> author of The Roots of Texas Music<\/span> and The Women There Don’t Treat You Mean: Abilene in Song,<\/span> preceded by Texas piano stylings of Lucy Dean Record<\/span> and cowboy poetry performances by students of Boys Ranch<\/span>, beginning at 5:30 pm;<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span>\u2022 Thursday morning and afternoon sessions on museums, historic highways, trails, and more, including a presentation by Ryann Ford<\/span> on The Last Stop: Vanishing Rest Stops of the American Roadside;<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Thursday lunch with a program on the new Texas Music Trail;<\/p>\n

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<\/span><\/span>\u2022 Thursday evening performance at the Fair Theatre, with actress Zoe Kirkpatrick of Post as Cynthia Ann Parker in the late Marybeth Little Weston\u2019s one-woman show \u201cThe Comanche with Blue Eyes\u201d, 7:00 pm;<\/p>\n

\u2022 Friday hands-on session on publicizing your community\u2019s music heritage, 9:00\u201311:00 am.<\/p>\n

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\u2022\u00a0Vicki Hamblen,<\/span> author of the revised edition of E. Hamblen\u2019s<\/span> The Rim to Rim Road: Will Hamblen and the Crossing of Texas’ Palo Duro Canyon,<\/span> will also be on hand to sign copies of her book, publishedin 2014 by Texas Plains Trail Books.<\/p>\n

The all-inclusive registration fee (dinner and lunch included) is only $99.00. Tickets to \u201cThe Comanche with Blue Eyes\u201d are only $10 ($15 at the door). Special hotel rates are available at the Comfort Suites for overnight guests.<\/p>\n

A full schedule of all presentations, sessions, and activities is at \/www.TexasPlainsTrail\/Roundup<\/span><\/a><\/span>, along with online reservation and ticket reservations.\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Lone Star Listens compilation available Aug. 15, for readers, fans, and writers everywhere<\/h1>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span>The present generation of Texas authors<\/span> is the most diverse ever in gender, age, and ethnicity, and in subject matter as well.<\/p>\n

Week in, week out, Lone Star Literary has interviewed a range of Texas-related authors with a cross-section of genre and geography. To capture this era in Texas letters, we’re pleased to bring you<\/p>\n

Lone Star Listens:<\/p>\n

Texas Authors on Writing and Publishing<\/p>\n

edited by Kay Ellington and Barbara Brannon; introduction by<\/p>\n

Clay Reynolds<\/p>\n

Available in trade paper, library hardcover, and ebook Fall 2017<\/p>\n

360 pages, with b\/w illustrations and index<\/p>\n

Featuring novelists, poets, memoirists, editors, and publishers, including:<\/p>\n

Rachel\u00a0 Caine \u2022 Chris\u00a0 Cander \u2022 Katherine\u00a0 Center \u2022 Chad S. Conine \u2022 Sarah\u00a0 Cortez \u2022 Elizabeth\u00a0 Crook \u2022 Nan\u00a0 Cuba \u2022 Carol\u00a0 Dawson \u2022 Patrick\u00a0 Dearen \u2022 Jim Donovan \u2022\u00a0Mac Engel \u2022 Sanderia\u00a0 Faye \u2022 Carlos Nicol\u00e1s Flores \u2022 Ben Fountain \u2022 Jeff\u00a0 Guinn \u2022 Stephen\u00a0 Harrigan \u2022 Cliff\u00a0 Hudder \u2022 Stephen Graham Jones \u2022 Kathleen Kent \u2022 Joe R. Lansdale \u2022 Melissa Lenhardt \u2022 Attica Locke \u2022 Nikki\u00a0 Loftin \u2022 Thomas\u00a0 McNeely \u2022 Leila\u00a0 Meacham \u2022 John\u00a0 Pipkin \u2022 Joyce Gibson Roach \u2022 Antonio\u00a0 Ruiz-Camacho \u2022 Lisa\u00a0 Sandlin \u2022 Donna\u00a0 Snyder \u2022 Mary Helen Specht \u2022 Jodi\u00a0 Thomas \u2022 Amanda Eyre Ward \u2022 Ann\u00a0 Weisgarber \u2022 Donald Mace Williams<\/p>\n

As a collection of insights into the writing and publishing life, the book will be useful in creative writing classes (not just in Texas alone) and other teaching settings, as well as for solo reading and study\u2014and a great Texas reference volume.<\/p>\n

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  • Lone Star Listens<\/span> will be available for preorder May 31 and will ship around Aug. 1.<\/li>\n
  • Examination and review copies will be available May 31 in watermarked pdf format.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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