{"id":285,"date":"2018-12-31T11:35:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T11:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=285"},"modified":"2018-12-31T11:35:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T11:35:52","slug":"lone-star-literary-coverage-continues-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=285","title":{"rendered":"LONE STAR LITERARY COVERAGE CONTINUES TODAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"articleHeader\"><\/div>\n<h1 id=\"u39166-10\">American Christian Fiction Writers Conference, Sept. 17 \u2013 20, Dallas<\/h1>\n<p id=\"u39166-18\"><span>Each year hundreds of veteran authors<\/span> and those just learning the craft of Christian fiction come to <span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acfw.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ACFW<\/a><\/span>. Lone Star Literary Life\u2019s coverage of this national fiction convention in Dallas continues today with<\/p>\n<ul id=\"u39166-35\">\n<li id=\"u39166-20\">Profiles of Texas Christian authors Lisa Wingate and Karen Witemeyer<\/li>\n<li id=\"u39166-22\">Previews of key ACFW events in Dallas<\/li>\n<li id=\"u39166-24\">Podcasts with Texas Christian authors DiAnn Mills, Allison Pittman and Lisa Wingate<\/li>\n<li id=\"u39166-26\">\u00a0An overview of the state of Christian literature<\/li>\n<li id=\"u39166-34\">And more. <span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/christian-fiction-focus-091315.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>&gt;&gt; READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 id=\"u39166-38\">GUEST EDITORIAL<\/h1>\n<h1 id=\"u39166-40\">The State of Christian literature<\/h1>\n<h1 id=\"u39166-42\"><span id=\"u39166-41\">by Rachel McCrae<\/span><\/h1>\n<p id=\"u39166-50\"><span><span id=\"u39200\"><span id=\"u39201\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"143\" height=\"177\" src=\"https:\/\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/description\/mcrae%2c%20rachel%2c%20lifeway_headshot%20sm.png\"  id=\"u39201_img\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><span>In my role as the senior book buyer<\/span> for LifeWay Christian Stores, everyone thinks I\u2019m such a well-rounded reader. That I\u2019ve read all of this year\u2019s top new releases from all of the popular writers as well as all of the Christian classics. They expect that I\u2019ve read enough books to sniff out a bright new voice and that I\u2019ve devoured the popular \u201cit\u201d book of the moment. <span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/christian-fiction-focus-091315.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>&gt;&gt; READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"u39166-56\">Bethany House author Becky Wade on social media\u2014and her latest books<\/h1>\n<h1 id=\"u39166-58\"><span id=\"u39166-57\">by Kay Ellington, Publisher<\/span><\/h1>\n<p id=\"u39166-62\"><span id=\"u39166-60\">LONE STAR LITERARY LIFE: <\/span>At ACFW 2015, you\u2019ll be co-teaching a class at ACFW on social media \u2014 a technology that seems to have really changed publishing and literature. Were you an early adapter or did you have to gradually warm up to social media?<\/p>\n<p id=\"u39166-66\"><span>BECKY WADE: <\/span>I had to gradually warm up to it! Social media didn\u2019t appeal to me at all at first. I didn\u2019t understand how to use it and so was intimidated by it. Also, many people mentioned to me how time consuming it could be. As an author, wife, and mom to three, I wasn\u2019t exactly eager to embark on something that would demand oodles of my time.<\/p>\n<p id=\"u39166-70\"><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/christian-fiction-focus-091315.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>&gt;&gt; READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"u39166-74\"><span id=\"u39197\"><span id=\"u39198\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"378\" height=\"11\" src=\"https:\/\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/description\/dottedline380.jpg\"  id=\"u39198_img\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"u39166-81\">Permian Basin Writers\u2019 Workshop <br \/>slated for Sept. 18\u201319 in Midland<\/h1>\n<p id=\"u39166-89\"><span><span id=\"u39176\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.permianbasinwritersworkshop.org\/schedule\/\" id=\"u39177\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"readableLinkWithMediumImage\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"185\" src=\"https:\/\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/description\/permian%20basin%20writers%20workshop%202015%20schedule%20sm200x185.jpg\"  id=\"u39177_img\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><span>The Permian Basin Writers\u2019 Workshop<\/span> will be held September 18\u201319, 2015. Sponsored by the Midland Library Foundation, the workshop has been designed to offer two tracks that attendees may move between at their discretion. One track addresses elements of the writing process, and the other will focus on navigating the industry. <span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.permianbasinwritersworkshop.org\/schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(Click here for full schedule of events.)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"u39166-92\">Venues will be Midland Centennial Library and Midland College, and registration cost is $35.<\/p>\n<p id=\"u39166-95\"><span id=\"u39173\"><span id=\"u39174\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"readableLargeImageContainer\"><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/description\/permian%20basin%20writers%20workshop%202015_montage%20sm.png\"  id=\"u39174_img\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"u39166-103\">Presenters include <span>Sara Cortez,<\/span> <span>Stephen Graham Jones, Seth Fishman, Kay Ellington,<\/span> and <span>Barbara Brannon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"u39166-107\"><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/news-briefs-082315.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>&gt;&gt;READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"u39166-111\"><span id=\"u39188\"><span id=\"u39189\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"378\" height=\"11\" src=\"https:\/\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/description\/dottedline380.jpg\"  id=\"u39189_img\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"u39166-113\">15th annual West Texas Book Festival, Sept. 21\u201326, 2015, announces featured authors<\/h1>\n<p id=\"u39166-117\"><span>The West Texas Book Festival, <\/span>which will celebrate its 15th annual festival this year during the week of September 21-26 at the Abilene Public Library in Abilene, Texas, announced its lineup of authors this week.<\/p>\n<p id=\"u39166-120\">The festival seeks to celebrate books, literacy, and reading, with a special emphasis on local and regional authors. The event is community driven and provides the public with the chance to interact with local authors on a more personal level. The festival includes a number of meet and greet sessions as well as readings and talks. For more information contact Janis Test at (325) 676-6017.<\/p>\n<p id=\"u39166-124\"><span id=\"u39170\"><span id=\"u39171\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"readableLargeImageContainer\"><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/description\/west%20texas%20book%20festival%20montage%20sm352x383.jpg\"  id=\"u39171_img\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"u39166-126\">Clockwise from upper left: O&#8217;Neal, Bissinger, Castillo, Kent, Thomas, Dearen, Specht (photos from Amarillo Public Library website)<\/p>\n<p id=\"u39166-132\">\u00a0<span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/news-briefs-080215.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>&gt;&gt; READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><span>\/FULL LIST<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"u39166-137\">20th ANNIVERSARY TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL, 2015<\/h1>\n<h1 id=\"u39166-139\">300 authors at Texas Book Fest Oct. 17-18<\/h1>\n<p id=\"u39166-141\"><span id=\"u39194\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasbookfestival.org\/\" id=\"u39195\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"readableLinkWithLargeImage\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"readableLargeImageContainer float\"><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/description\/logo_texasbookfestival.jpg\"  id=\"u39195_img\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/span>20th anniversary lineup to feature Margaret Atwood, Taye Diggs, Nick Flynn, Linda Gray, Daniel Handler, Gary Hart, Chuck Palahniuk, and more<\/p>\n<p id=\"u39166-149\"><span>AUSTIN\u2014A record 300 authors <\/span>are coming to the 2015 Texas Book Festival, Oct. 17 and 18, the largest number in the Festival\u2019s twenty-year history. Nationally renowned authors include <span>Margaret Atwood, Taye Diggs, Nick Flynn, Linda Gray, Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket), Gary Hart, Luis Alberto Urerra, Margo Jefferson, Attica Locke, Marie Lu, Chuck Palahniuk, Tavi Gevinson,<\/span> and <span>Adrian Tomine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"u39166-165\">Other headlining authors include <span>Sandra Cisneros<\/span> (the only 2015 author who was part of the first Festival in 1995), <span>Steve Inskeep, Azar Nafisi, Leonard Pitts, Jr., Mary Helen Specht, Jonathan Lethem, Lauren Groff, John Sununu, Scott Simon,<\/span> and <span>Robert Christgau.<\/span> The full list of authors and their featured books is available online at <span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasbookfestival.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.texasbookfestival.org.<\/a><\/span>\u00a0 <span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/news-briefs-090615.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>&gt;&gt;READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"u39166-168\">Atwood, Diggs, Simon to be featured presenters at Texas Book Fest Gala Oct. 16<\/h1>\n<p id=\"u39166-185\">AUSTIN\u2014Acclaimed novelist <span>Margaret Atwood <\/span>(below, right); actor, Broadway star, and children\u2019s book author <span>Taye Diggs<\/span> (center); and National Public Radio host and author <span>Scott Simon<\/span> (left) will be featured presenters at the <span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasbookfestival.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas Book Festival\u2019s First Edition Literary Gala<\/a><\/span> at the Four Seasons Hotel Fri., Oct. 16, 2015. <span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/news-briefs-091315.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>&gt;&gt;READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"u39166-189\"><span id=\"u39203\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasbookfestival.org\/\" id=\"u39204\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"readableLinkWithLargeImage\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"readableLargeImageContainer\"><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/description\/texas%20book%20festival%20montage%20sm.jpg\"  id=\"u39204_img\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Christian Fiction Writers Conference, Sept. 17 \u2013 20, Dallas Each year hundreds of veteran authors and those just learning the craft of Christian fiction come to ACFW. Lone Star Literary Life\u2019s coverage of this national fiction convention in Dallas continues today with Profiles of Texas Christian authors Lisa Wingate and Karen Witemeyer Previews of [&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-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","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=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}