{"id":1534,"date":"2018-12-31T17:44:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T17:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1534"},"modified":"2018-12-31T17:44:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T17:44:34","slug":"special-events-158","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=1534","title":{"rendered":"Special Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"articleHeader\"><\/div>\n<ul id=\"u434525-6\">\n<li id=\"u434525-5\"><span id=\"u434525-3\">Going Out of Business Sale:<\/span> books, pamphlets &#038; paper ephemera, Llano, December 13-14<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"u434525-9\">Ongoing Exhibits<\/h1>\n<ul id=\"u434525-22\">\n<li id=\"u434525-12\"><span id=\"u434525-10\">Literary Frontiers: Historical Fiction &#038; the Creative Imagination,<\/span> San Marcos, August 1-December 14<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434525-15\"><span id=\"u434525-13\">Finding Sophie Blackall Exhibition,<\/span> Abilene, October 11-February 1<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434525-18\"><span id=\"u434525-16\">30 Poems for the Tricentennial: A Poetic Legacy,<\/span> San Antonio, December 3-April 25, 2019<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434525-21\"><span id=\"u434525-19\">Artful Books,<\/span> Alpine, December 7-17<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"u434525-25\">Sunday, December 9<\/h1>\n<p id=\"u434525-27\">Austin<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u434525-32\">\n<li id=\"u434525-29\">Malvern Books, Austin Writers Roulette presents &#8220;The End is the Beginning,&#8221; 4PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434525-31\">LBJ Library, Russ Whitlock, former superintendent of the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park, signing The Texas White House, 11:30AM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u434525-35\">Dallas<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u434525-40\">\n<li id=\"u434525-37\">Half Price Books Mother Ship, Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, while supplies last<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434525-39\">Half Price Books Mother Ship, Melanie Sumrow will sign copies of her newest YA novel, The Prophet Calls, 5PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u434525-43\">El Paso<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u434525-46\">\n<li id=\"u434525-45\">B&#038;N &#8211; Fountains, Thomas Dominguez III signing A Fighter&#8217;s Will!, 2PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u434525-49\">Mansfield<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u434525-52\">\n<li id=\"u434525-51\">Half Price Books, Tank Gunner will sell and sign copies of his books, Prompts, Prompts Too, Cookie Johnson, and Palomino, 1PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u434525-55\">Richardson<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u434525-58\">\n<li id=\"u434525-57\">The Drawing Board, Writing Workshops Dallas seminar: &#8220;How to Write Flash Fiction&#8221; with Eden Elieff, 3PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u434525-61\">San Antonio<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u434525-68\">\n<li id=\"u434525-63\">B&#038;N &#8211; La Cantera, Luc Vors signing Where Sleeping Dogs Lie, 12PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434525-65\">Dead Tree Books, Dead Tree Books, John C. Payne signing Three and Out, 12PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434525-67\">The Twig Book Shop, Clara Harmonson discussing and signing Hair Chronicles, 12PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u434525-71\">South Padre Island<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u434525-74\">\n<li id=\"u434525-73\">Paragraphs on Padre, Meet the Author Series: Lamar Jones discussing and signing The Adventures of Sir Jankster, 1PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"u434525-77\">Monday, December 10<\/h1>\n<p id=\"u434525-79\">Austin<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u434525-82\">\n<li id=\"u434525-81\">Esther&#8217;s Follies, Austin History Center hosts a fundraiser to for printing costs of Bill Leissner&#8217;s forthcoming book, Austin Icons of the Eighties: Music, Theatre, Politics, 7PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u434525-85\">Dallas<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u434525-88\">\n<li id=\"u434525-87\">Aaron Family JCC, Tal Keinan discussing and signing GOD IS IN THE CROWD: TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY JUDAISM (in conversation with Rabbi Stefan Weinberg), 7PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u434525-91\">Pearland<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u434525-94\">\n<li id=\"u434525-93\">Pearland Library, Meet Stephanie Wittels Wachs, author of Everything is Horrible and Wonderful, 6:30PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"u434525-97\">Tuesday, December 11<\/h1>\n<p id=\"u434525-99\">Austin<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u434525-110\">\n<li id=\"u434525-101\">BookPeople, RYAN BEAUCHESNE &#038; CRUSOE signing Crusoe the Worldly Wiener Dog: Further Adventures with the Celebrity Dachshund, 6PM [voucher required]<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434525-103\">Flat Track Coffee, Chicon Street Poets host Living Room Lit | Spoken Word Open Mic + Mingle, 7:30PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434525-105\">Home Slice Pizza, Austin Bat Cave presents Story Department: &#8220;Stranger Things,&#8221; 7:30PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434525-107\">LBJ Library, Author and historian Michael Beschloss will be speaking about his latest book, Presidents of War: The Epic Story, from 1807 to Modern Times, as well as reflecting on the life and legacy of President George H.W. Bush (moderated by LBJ Foundation President and CEO Mark K. Updegrove), 6PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434525-109\">Spiderhouse Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam featuring Wayne Henry, 7:15PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u434525-113\">Dallas<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u434525-118\">\n<li id=\"u434525-115\">Hall of State at Fair Park, Dallas Historical Society Brown Bag Lecture: E.R. Bills discussing Texas Far &#038; Wide, 12PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434525-117\">The Wild Detectives, Reading Performance: Short Shorts and Tall Tales: Down the Chimney, Up in Smoke! with Isaac Banegas, Elizabeth Hamilton, Lindsey Lett, Taylor Lett, and Amber Noel, 7:30PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u434525-121\">Houston<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u434525-124\">\n<li id=\"u434525-123\">The Junior League, World Affairs Council of Greater Houston hosts Max Boot discussing and signing The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right, 6:30PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u434525-127\">San Antonio<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u434525-130\">\n<li id=\"u434525-129\">The Mix, PuroSlam, 9:30PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"u434525-133\">Wednesday, December 12<\/h1>\n<p id=\"u434525-135\">Boerne<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u434525-138\">\n<li id=\"u434525-137\">Patrick Heath Public Library, Book Club Brunch with Sarah Bird, author of Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen, 11AM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u434525-141\">Dallas<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u434525-146\">\n<li id=\"u434525-143\">Sandaga 813, LitNight with Sanderia Faye, 7PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434525-145\">The Wild Detectives, Inner Moonlight poetry featuring Trista Edwards and Bess Whitby, 7:30PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u434525-149\">Houston<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u434525-158\">\n<li id=\"u434525-151\">Avant Garden, Write About Now Poetry Open Mic featuring Christopher Diaz , 7:30PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434525-153\">Kaboom Books, Reading with Jane Chance and Stacy Nigliazzo, 7PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434525-155\">The Menil, Jay Wehnert discussing and signing Outsider Art in Texas: Lone Stars, 7PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434525-157\">River Oaks Bookstore, Ann Marie Sabath discussing and signing What Self-Made Millionaires Do That Most People Don\u2019t: 52 Ways to Create Your Own Success, 5PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u434525-161\">San Antonio<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u434525-164\">\n<li id=\"u434525-163\">The Twig Book Shop, poet Linda Simone will read from and sign The River Will Save Us, 5:30PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u434525-167\">Sugar Land<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u434525-170\">\n<li id=\"u434525-169\">B&#038;N, Author Event: Greatest Adventure-Tony Piedra; H is for Harvey- Julie Beasley; Red Stocking Society-John &#8220;Ace&#8221; Passmore, 4:30PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"u434525-173\">Thursday, December 13<\/h1>\n<p id=\"u434525-175\">Austin<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u434525-184\">\n<li id=\"u434525-177\">BookWoman, Second Thursday Open Mic featuring Amanda Johnston, 7:15PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434525-179\">Malvern Books, Novel Night with Rachael Sparks &#038; Tamar Ben-Ur, 7PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434525-181\">Palmer Events Center, Donna Marie Miller signing The Broken Spoke: Austin\u2019s Legendary Honky-Tonk, 6PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434525-183\">Paramount Theatre, Storytelling: The Moth Mainstage, 8PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u434525-187\">Dallas<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u434525-192\">\n<li id=\"u434525-189\">Deep Vellum Books, Feuding Fan Dancers with Leslie Zemeckis, 7PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434525-191\">The Wild Detectives, Melania-Luisa Marte discussing her debut book of poetry, MELA, 7:30PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u434525-195\">Houston<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u434525-198\">\n<li id=\"u434525-197\">River Oaks Bookstore, Sharon K. Connell discussing and signing Paths of Righteousness, 5PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u434525-201\">San Antonio<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u434525-204\">\n<li id=\"u434525-203\">The Twig Book Shop, David Norman reading and signing South of Hannah, 5PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u434525-207\">Sugar Land<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u434525-212\">\n<li id=\"u434525-209\">B&#038;N, Story time with local author Maria Ashworth, 10AM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434525-211\">B&#038;N, Author Signing and Discussion: Bliss Finance by WenFang Bruchett, 4:30PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u434525-215\">Webster<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u434525-218\">\n<li id=\"u434525-217\">B&#038;N, Meet the Author: Misty Boyd, 5PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"u434525-221\">Friday, December 14<\/h1>\n<p id=\"u434525-223\">Alpine<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u434525-226\">\n<li id=\"u434525-225\">West Texas National Bank, Texas Mountain Trail Writers: Becka Oliver and Michael Noll of the Writers&#8217; League of Texas present &#8220;The Craft &#038; Business of Writing,&#8221; 5:30PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u434525-229\">Austin<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u434525-232\">\n<li id=\"u434525-231\">Malvern Books, I Scream Social Ugly Sweater Party, 7PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u434525-235\">Beaumont<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u434525-238\">\n<li id=\"u434525-237\">Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Robert Craig Bunch signing The Art of Found Objects: Interviews with Texas Artists, 6PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u434525-241\">Dallas<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u434525-246\">\n<li id=\"u434525-243\">Heroes Lounge, Dallas Poetry Slam: Girls Night Out Masquerade Ball, 7:30PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434525-245\">Mighty Fine Arts, Poets on X+ Feature and Open Mic with Griselda J Castillo, 8PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u434525-249\">Houston<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u434525-252\">\n<li id=\"u434525-251\">River Oaks Bookstore, Donna Kacmar discussing and signing Victor Lundy: Artist Architect, 5PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"u434525-255\">Saturday, December 15<\/h1>\n<p id=\"u434525-257\">Austin<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u434525-268\">\n<li id=\"u434525-259\">B&#038;N &#8211; Arboretum, Meet author September Scott with special guest Margo Coates Huddleston, 10:30AM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434525-261\">BookPeople, Special Guest Story Time: Sonia Panigrahy will share her inspiring book, Nina the Neighborhood Ninja, 10:30AM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434525-263\">Malvern Books, Vanessa Couto Johnson presents her first full-length poetry collection, Pungent dins concentric, 7PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434525-265\">Resistencia Bookstore, Lenguas Loc@s First Annual Reading!, 7PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434525-267\">Twin Oaks Library, Austin Poetry Society Holiday Party and Open Mic, 1:30PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u434525-271\">Dallas<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u434525-274\">\n<li id=\"u434525-273\">Deep Vellum Books, Cinestate Presents: HEADCHEESE: a special launch party and Q+A with Fangoria author Jess Hagemann, 7PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u434525-277\">El Paso<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u434525-280\">\n<li id=\"u434525-279\">Memorial Park Public Library, Tumblewords Project workshop: Becka Oliver and Michael Noll of the Writers&#8217; League of Texas present &#8220;The Craft &#038; Business of Writing,&#8221; 12:45PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u434525-283\">Galveston<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u434525-286\">\n<li id=\"u434525-285\">Galveston Bookshop, Susan P. Baker signing Murder and Madness, 2PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u434525-289\">Houston<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u434525-300\">\n<li id=\"u434525-291\">Half Price Books &#8211; Clear Lake, Local Author Saturdays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, while supplies last<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434525-293\">Katy Budget Book, Co-author and editor J.E. Martin signs God&#8217;s hand on My Shoulder, a biography of Joe Carl Martin, Jr., 2PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434525-295\">Murder By the Book, Erica Wright will sign and discuss The Blue Kingfisher and give a presentation called &#8220;Where to Hide the Body: Starting a Mystery,&#8221; 4:30PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434525-297\">River Oaks Bookstore, Ronel Golden reading and signing Nicole, 3PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434525-299\">Writespace, Workshop: &#8220;Scrivener 102&#8221; with Cassandra Rose Clarke, 9:30AM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u434525-303\">Hurst<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u434525-306\">\n<li id=\"u434525-305\">B&#038;N &#8211; NE Mall, Bobbie Wygant signing Talking to the Stars: Bobbie Wygant&#8217;s Seventy Years in Television, 1PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u434525-309\">McAllen<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u434525-312\">\n<li id=\"u434525-311\">B&#038;N &#8211; Palms Crossing, Meet The Author: Daniel E. Valdez, 12PM &#038; 5PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u434525-315\">San Antonio<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u434525-320\">\n<li id=\"u434525-317\">Dead Tree Books, Rachel Sparks signing Resistant, 2PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434525-319\">The Twig Book Shop, Ken Roberts signing The Cedar Choppers: Life on the Edge of Nothing, 11AM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"u434525-323\">Sunday, December 16<\/h1>\n<p id=\"u434525-325\">Austin<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u434525-330\">\n<li id=\"u434525-327\">Malvern Books, an afternoon with Dorothy Ellis Barnett, who will read from her poetry and short stories, 1PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434525-329\">Malvern, celebrate the launch of Love &#038; Wages, Jim Trainer\u2019s fifth full-length collection of poetry and prose, 4PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u434525-333\">Dallas<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u434525-336\">\n<li id=\"u434525-335\">Half Price Books Mother Ship, Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, while supplies last<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u434525-339\">Mansfield<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u434525-342\">\n<li id=\"u434525-341\">Half Price Books, local spiritual author Diane Johnson will sell and sign copies of her 52-week devotional, Walking with God, 1PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u434525-345\">Richardson<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u434525-348\">\n<li id=\"u434525-347\">The Drawing Board, Writing Workshops Dallas seminar: &#8220;Legal Issues for Writers with Mike Farris, 3PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u434525-351\">San Antonio<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u434525-356\">\n<li id=\"u434525-353\">Dead Tree Books, Dead Tree Books, John C. Payne signing Three and Out, 12PM<\/li>\n<li id=\"u434525-355\">The Twig Book Shop, Philip Mathis signing Goodbye Sky Harbor, 12PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"u434525-359\">* * * * *<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going Out of Business Sale: books, pamphlets &#038; paper ephemera, Llano, December 13-14 Ongoing Exhibits Literary Frontiers: Historical Fiction &#038; the Creative Imagination, San Marcos, August 1-December 14 Finding Sophie Blackall Exhibition, Abilene, October 11-February 1 30 Poems for the Tricentennial: A Poetic Legacy, San Antonio, December 3-April 25, 2019 Artful Books, Alpine, December 7-17 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}