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<\/span><\/span>Lone Star Reviews<\/span>Michelle Newby, NBCC,<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

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<\/span><\/span><\/span>Texas Reads<\/span>Glenn Dromgoole<\/span><\/h1>\n

>> archive<\/span><\/a><\/span>7.10.16 Trailer Park Princess is back with rousing new adventures<\/span><\/h1>\n

When dog groomer Salem Grimes pulls into Sonic<\/span> for a double-meat, double-cheese burger with extra mayo and jumbo fries, the last thing she\u2019s expecting to find is another dead body.<\/p>\n

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But as she waits for her food to be delivered, she watches the garbage truck in the alley pick up a metal dumpster and \u2014 hold on! \u2014 was that a human body that just fell into the truck?<\/p>\n

Sure enough, it was, and soon Salem Grimes and her eighty-something-year-old sidekick Viv \u2014 and an annoying guy named Dale \u2014 are on the case, whether the police like it or not (they don\u2019t).<\/p>\n

It\u2019s another rousing tale by Lubbock author Kim Hunt Harris<\/span> featuring Grimes, the unlikeliest of heroes. This one is The Trailer Park Princess with Unsightly Bulges,<\/span><\/a><\/span> the second in a series. The first was The Trailer Park Princess and the Middle Finger of Fate, <\/span>and a third is coming soon, The Trailer Park Princess Is Caught in the Crotchfire.<\/span> Plus there are two \u201cTrailer Park Princess\u201d short stories available as e-books.<\/p>\n

Harris mixes in a lot of humor and action, but also some serious contemplations regarding faith, family, friendship and social issues, into her stories, which are in paperback and e-book formats. Read more on her website, kimhuntharris.com.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span>Dyess AFB history:<\/span> A new book on The History of Dyess Air Force Base: 1941 to the Present <\/span>by retired Lt. Col. George A. Larson<\/span> is a lavish and comprehensive full-color coffee-table sized volume (Schiffer Publishing, $59.99 hardcover).<\/p>\n

The history actually precedes that of the actual Dyess base, as it incorporates the World War II years of Camp Barkeley and Tye Army Air field, later named the Abilene Army Air Field. Dyess opened as Abilene Air Force Base in 1956 and later that year officially took the Dyess name in memory of World War II hero Lt. Col. William Edwin Dyess of Albany.<\/p>\n

\u201cDyess is a historic military base,\u201d the author writes, \u201cand is an indispensable part of the nation\u2019s defense against external threats to security.\u201d<\/p>\n

The book details with color photos and historical and technical text the various wings, groups and squadrons that have called Dyess home over the years, the changing missions of the base, and the airplanes based there.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/span><\/span>Telling her story: <\/span>Mary Stewart Heather<\/span> of Lubbock, a retired travel agent, has done something more people ought to do. She has published her memoirs, Texas Girl: The Story of a Life, <\/span><\/a><\/span>a well-written autobiographical account of the first ninety years of her life \u2014 from 1925 through 2015.<\/p>\n

Heather writes that her book \u201cis a personal account of the life of one woman during the devastating Depression years and those of World War II, and continues to the present day.\u00a0 It was written, primarily, as a family legacy but I feel that it would be of interest to many people who have experienced life on the South Plains during this era.\u201d<\/p>\n

Glenn Dromgoole<\/span> is co-author of 101 Essential Texas Books.<\/span><\/a><\/span> Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.<\/p>\n

>> <\/span>Check out his previous Texas Reads columns in Lone Star Lit<\/span><\/a><\/span>erary Life<\/span><\/h1>\n

East Texas Book Fest takes 2016 off, returning in 2017<\/h1>\n

After seven years, the East Texas Book Festival<\/span> is taking a year off in 2016, according to the organization’s website. A new message posted on their site reads, \u201cThanks, everyone for a great 7th year. East Texas Book Fest is taking a break in 2016, but we plan to return to the Harvey Convention Center in Tyler in August, 2017. Watch here and on our Facebook page for 2017 announcements.\u201d For more information visit their website, www.etxbookfest.org<\/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><\/p>\n

7.10.2016\u00a0 Richard Mabry, MD, muses on the military, a medical career, and \u201cmedical suspense with heart\u201d<\/h1>\n

For the past decade Richard Mabry, a retired physician, <\/span>has been as busy in his second career as a novelist of Christian medical thrillers as he was in his first. Along the way, he\u2019s received rave reviews in <\/span>Publishers WeeklyLibrary Journal and has been nominated for and won a variety of writing awards. He also served as vice-president of the American Christian Fiction Writers. Recently, he signed a three-novel deal with new Christian publisher, Gilead. This week he talks with us about his path to publishing.<\/span><\/p>\n

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LONE STAR LITERARY LIFE: <\/span>Where did you grow up, and how did it influence your writing?<\/span><\/p>\n

RICHARD MABRY: <\/span>Other than about three years spent overseas at Uncle Sam\u2019s \u201csuggestion,\u201d I\u2019ve lived in Texas all my life. I didn\u2019t go far from my hometown in north Texas for my pre-medical education, my medical degree, and my specialty training. So I know this area of Texas quite well.<\/p>\n

How did that affect my writing? When my characters want something to drink with their meal, it\u2019s iced tea or Dr Pepper. I haven\u2019t had them barbecue a brisket in their back yard yet, but that\u2019s probably coming up. The fictitious towns I create as settings are like the ones I grew up in or went to school or where I live now. Some people call this, \u201cwriting what you know.\u201d I call it, \u201cAvoid research wherever possible.\u201d<\/span> >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT . . .<\/h1>\n

Lone Star Literary Life celebrates 2016 Texas Readers\u2019 Favorite Bookstores TOP TEN<\/h1>\n

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Texas readers have spoken! <\/span>More than 1,000 of Lone Star Literary Life\u2019s readers have cast ballots in our statewide contest to recognize Texas\u2019s favorite bookstores. Their selections are as diverse as the state itself, and honorees include big indies, small indies, chain stores, used bookstores, and new bookstores in every far-flung corner of the state.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 From the shadows of Houston\u2019s skyscrapers to the winds whistling down the plains, from the Piney Woods of East Texas to the beachside burbs on the coast, Texas bookshops are connecting with their communities, and we are thrilled to have the opportunity to showcase Texas\u2019s Top Ten Favorite Bookstores. Today, we unveil the full results of your votes!\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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

Bookish Texas<\/span> event highlights\u00a0 7.10.2016
<\/span>>><\/span><\/a><\/span> GO this week\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Michelle Newby, Contributing Editor<\/span><\/h1>\n

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SPECIAL EVENTS AND FESTIVALS IN TEXAS THIS WEEK: Macondo Writers\u2019 Workshop (San Antonio); WLT Writers\u2019 Retreat (Alpine) begins July 17; and more<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>AUSTIN\u00a0\u00a0 Tues., July 12, BookPeople, MysteryPeople Presents MARTIN LIMON speaking and signing Ping-Pong Heart, BILLY KRING speaking and signing TonTon, and MANNING WOLFE speaking & signing Dollar Signs: Texas Lady Lawyer vs. Boots King, 7PM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>HOUSTON\u00a0 Wed., July 13, Murder By the Book, Rachel Caine will sign and discuss Paper and Fire, the second book in the Great Library Series, 6:30PM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>ALPINE\u00a0 Fri., July 15, Front Street Books, Elizabeth Garcia will read and sign The Trail of a Rattler, 5:30PM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>SAN ANTONIO\u00a0 Fri., July 15, Guadalupe Theater, Macondo Writers’ Workshop presents a reading by Tim Hernandez, 7PM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>FORT WORTH\u00a0 Sat., July 16, B&N, The Dock Bookshop, JAN BENNETT BIRKS discusses and signs HOPE NEXT EXIT, 3PM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>SOUTH PADRE ISLAND\u00a0 Sat., July 17, Paragraphs on Padre, Marie Cook discusses and signs The Texas Coast Experience (from Texas Now Magazine), 1PM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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News Briefs 7.10.16<\/h1>\n

Gemini Ink debuts conference in San Antonio, July 21\u201324, with Siebles, Kaplan, Hernandez, Grande, Santos, and others<\/h1>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span>The 2016 Gemini Ink Writers Conference<\/span> will include four days of panels, round tables, readings, and workshops at El Tropicano Hotel on the San Antonio Riverwalk from July 21-24.<\/p>\n

The theme is the \u201cState of the Book,\u201d with a keynote address by Tom Payton of Trinity University Press. The featured writers are Tim Seibles, Janet Kaplan, Tim Z. Hernandez, Reyna Grande,<\/span> and John Phillip Santos<\/span>\u2014who will join more than thirty acclaimed local and regional writers and scholars, including Jan Jarboe Russell, Wendy Barker, <\/span>and Texas Poet Laureate Laurie Ann Guerrero.\u00a0 <\/span>>>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Writers\u2019 League of Texas announces 2016 manuscript contest winners and finalists<\/h1>\n

General Fiction<\/p>\n

Winner: Fieldings by Karen Stevenson<\/p>\n

Finalists:<\/p>\n

The Weight of Words Unspoken by Catherine Johnson<\/p>\n

The Secondaries by Tobey Forney<\/p>\n

Prayers for an Illegitimate God by Isabella Ides<\/p>\n

The Fruits of the Two Seasons by D.F. Salvador<\/p>\n

General Nonfiction<\/p>\n

Winner: Artist Proof: The Case Between Hannah Wilke and Claes Oldenburg by Saundra Goldman<\/p>\n

Finalists:<\/p>\n

Violently If They Must by Brian MacPherson<\/p>\n

The Spine of Our Choices by Allan Gerson<\/p>\n

David and the Little Giants: How a Battle over Technology Became a Battle for My Soul by David Barstow<\/p>\n

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WLT\u2019S Texas Writes Heads West to Marathon, Jeff Davis<\/h1>\n

Texas Writes is a statewide program<\/span> that brings accomplished authors to rural libraries for a half day of presentations and panel discussions. Each event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

The Writers’ League of Texas, supported by a grant from the Tocker Foundation, established the Texas Writes program in 2013 with five visits to rural libraries in Central Texas. This year, again with the generous support of the Tocker Foundation, the program is more than doubling in size and expanding throughout the state.\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Photographer\/author Enlow to give talk about Waggoner Ranch cowboys aboard Dallas trolley, sign books afterward, July 14<\/h1>\n

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The award-winning photographic volume Cowboys of the Waggoner Ranch<\/span> author Jeremy Enlow<\/span> will kick off a new author lecture series in Dallas Thursday, July 14.<\/p>\n

Enlow will talk aboard the Green Dragon trolley about what life is like on the famed Waggoner Ranch, from 5:30-6:30 p.m. The trolley will end at Klyde Warren Park, and Enlow will have a book signing from 6:30-8:30 p.m. under the Southwest Porch at the park.<\/p>\n

This is a joint venture between Uptown Dallas Inc, McKinney Avenue Transit Authority (MATA) and Klyde Warren Park. >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Keynoters Set For Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference July 22-23, Grapevine<\/h1>\n

Gilbert King<\/span> (Devil in the Grove<\/span>) and Sheryl WuDunn<\/span> (A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity<\/span>) will give keynote speeches at the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference in Grapevine. Prices include dinner. Advance registration required; for more information visit\u00a0 www.themayborn.com\/registration.<\/p>\n

King: 5:30 p.m. July 22 at Austin Ranch banquet hall, 2009 Anderson Gibson Road. $60.<\/p>\n

WuDunn: 6 p.m. July 23 at Hilton DFW Lakes Executive Conference Center\u2019s International Ballroom, 1800 State Highway 26 East. $100.\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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WEST TEXAS MIDDLEWEIGHT<\/h1>\n

by Frank Sikes<\/h1>\n

Visit with Frank through July 10<\/p>\n

7\/3 Forgotten Winds \u2013 Guest Post #1<\/p>\n

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7\/5 Blogging for the Love of Authors and Their Books \u2013 Promo<\/p>\n

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NOW ON TOUR: MEMOIR\/TEXAS<\/h1>\n

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WEST TEXAS MIDDLEWEIGHT<\/h1>\n

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Visit with Dr. Cavazos July 15\u201324<\/p>\n

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THE DISTRICT MANAGER by Matt Minor<\/h1>\n

Visit with Matt July 13\u201322<\/p>\n

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7\/16 Missus Gonzo \u2013 Review<\/p>\n

7\/17 Blogging for the Love of Authors and Their Books \u2013 Promo<\/p>\n

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7\/20 Forgotten Winds \u2013 Guest Post #2<\/p>\n

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WINNING TEXAS by Nancy Stancill<\/h1>\n

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