{"id":780,"date":"2018-12-31T13:57:21","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T13:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=780"},"modified":"2018-12-31T13:57:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T13:57:21","slug":"lone-star-reviewsmichelle-newby-nbcc-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=780","title":{"rendered":"Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC,"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

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

Contributing Editor<\/span><\/h1>\n
\n
\n

<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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

>> archive<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n

Texas alphabet book gets creative<\/h1>\n

H is for Howdy and Other Lone Star Letters<\/span> is a delightful new Texas alphabet book by Houston area authors Eva Freeburn<\/span> and Lawson Gow,<\/span> illustrated by James Little<\/span> (Bright Sky Press, $19.95 hardcover). Written in rhyme, the book touches on familiar Texas topics from Armadillos to sleeping cowboys catching their ZZZZZs. Some of the more creative letter pairings are J for June bug, K for Kindness, and T for Tumbleweeds.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n

<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

San Antonio Spurs:<\/span> 100 Things Spurs Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die<\/span><\/a><\/span> is a 278-page compilation of stories and facts written by veteran pro basketball writer Mike Monroe<\/span> (Triumph Books, $14.95 paperback).<\/p>\n

From No. 1 (Tim Duncan) to No. 100 (Ultimate Spurs Fan Trivia Quiz), Monroe covers the players, coaches and memorable games in San Antonio Spurs lore. Triumph Books also has produced a full-color 128-page keepsake tribute, Tim Duncan: Team-First Superstar,<\/span><\/a><\/span> commemorating Duncan\u2019s retirement ($15.95 paperback).<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n

<\/a><\/span><\/span>Young Adult novel: <\/span>Abilene author Bradley Love<\/span> (Class of 2006) has published his first novel, Tessa Blair of Kelmia,<\/span><\/a><\/span> a young adult fantasy featuring a twelve-year-old girl who is learning to stand up for herself and discover her identity in an ancient kingdom transitioning to a society based on science and logic.<\/p>\n

Love said he enjoyed reading fantasy novels growing up. So when he decided to try his hand at writing, it seemed the natural genre for him. Plus, it is a highly popular venue with young readers. The 256-page paperback is $9.99. Read more at whitestratusbooks.com<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Second in series:<\/span> Austin author Marge Wood<\/span> has published the second novel in her Secret Buzzard Society series for middle school readers. In The Weirdest Hottest Summer Ever<\/span><\/a><\/span> ($10 paperback, available on-line), school is out and the Secret Buzzard friends find themselves dealing with drought, wildfire, cattle rustling, terrorists and more. Wood promises more adventures are in the works.<\/p>\n

New collection:<\/span> Memorable Moments: Selected Poems and Other Writings<\/span><\/a><\/span> is the fourth book from Wichita Falls poet and devotional writer Sheri A. Sutton ($9.25 paperback).<\/p>\n

The volume includes about 30 poems and short essays grouped in three sections: Faith and family, life and love, and nature and nurture. Read more about her books and her writing on her web site, sheriasutton.com<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Glenn Dromgoole\u2019s<\/span> latest book is West Texas Stories<\/span><\/a><\/span>Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.<\/p>\n

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

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

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

12.23.2016\u00a0 Melissa Lenhardt: Still waters run deep in this novelist\u2019s career<\/span><\/h1>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n

<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Sawbones,<\/span> historical fiction from metroplex author Melissa Lenhardt,<\/span> was recently named one of Lone Star Lit\u2019s Top Ten Favorite Texas fiction titles for 2016. What\u2019s even more remarkable is that in 2017 Lenhardt will have published five books since her 2015 debut. Earlier this week she took time from a busy holiday schedule to be interviewed by email for Lone Star Literary Life.<\/span><\/p>\n

LONE STAR LITERARY LIFE: <\/span>Melissa, you grew up in a small town in East Texas. Which town was that; what was it like; and how do you think it eventually influenced your writing?<\/span><\/p>\n

MELISSA LENHARDT:<\/span> I grew up in the \u201970s and \u201980s in Winnsboro, Texas, a small town about fifty miles north of Tyler. That was when Main Street was a real main street, with small businesses run by local men and women \u2014 clothing stores, a five-and-dime, a hardware store, pharmacies, banks, insurance agencies, restaurants, law offices. There was a Dairy Queen and a Sonic, lots of gas stations and churches. So many churches. You could walk anywhere in town (though there were no sidewalks) within about fifteen minutes. Though the schools were integrated, the town was segregated, with African-Americans living in one area, whites in another. As far as I know, that\u2019s still the case.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think growing up in Winnsboro has influenced my writing any more or less than living in a city. People are the same everywhere, and I draw on the people surrounding me now as often as I draw on people from my childhood.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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

Bookish Texas<\/span> event highlights\u00a0 12.23.2016
<\/span>>><\/span><\/a><\/span> GO this week\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Michelle Newby, Contributing Editor<\/span><\/h1>\n
SPECIAL EVENTS THIS WEEK:\u00a0 Sun., Dec. 18\u00a0 Kwanzaa at The Dock,<\/span> Fort Worth, Dec. 26, 2016\u2013Jan 1, 2017<\/span><\/span><\/span>Saturday, December 24\u00a0 HAPPY HANNUKAH \u2014 Enjoy a good read during this season of light<\/span><\/span><\/span>Sunday, December 25\u00a0 MERRY CHRISTMAS! Give a Texas book as a gift to someone today<\/span><\/span><\/span>Monday, December 26\u00a0 HAPPY KWANZAA!<\/span>Kwanzaa at The Dock, Fort Worth, Dec 26-Jan 1<\/span><\/span><\/span>FORT WORTH\u00a0 Tues., Dec. 27\u00a0 The Dock Bookshop, Fort Worth Poetry Slam and Open Mic, 8PM<\/span><\/span><\/span>HOUSTON\u00a0 Tues., Dec. 27, Black Labrador, Houston Writers House December Social featuring guest speaker Houston Poet Laureate Dr. Robin Davidson, 6:30PM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>DALLAS\u00a0 Thurs., Dec. 29, Deep Vellum Books, Dark Moon Poetry Reading & Performance, 6:30PM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>AUSTIN\u00a0 Fri., Dec. 30, Malvern Books, an evening with poets Micah Bateman, Katy Chrisler, and Paula Cisewski, 7PM<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>IRVING\u00a0 Fri., Dec. 31, Irving Public Library – South, Tex Thompson’s Launch Party for Dreams of the Eaten, Book Bazaar, and Fruitcake Amnesty, 11AM<\/span><\/span><\/span>Sunday, January 1, 2017\u00a0 HAPPY NEW YEAR 2017<\/span>Look for Lone Star Literary Life to return to Sundays on the first day of the new year. Watch for new features on the GO events page!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>SAN ANTONIO\u00a0 Sun.,\u00a0 Jan. 8\u00a0\u00a0 The Twig Bookshop at the Pearl, Wendy Barker and Sarah Cortez, Poetry reading, 2:00pm<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Visit our annual catalog of great Texas reads in these gift categories!<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

News Briefs 12.23.16<\/h1>\n

LSLL editors, readers weigh in on this year\u2019s favorite Texas nonfiction titles<\/h1>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In this final issue of Lone Star Literary Life of 2016,<\/span> the editors of Lone Star Lit would like to say thank you to all of the authors who have written books about our state or set in our state, but we\u2019d like pay special recognition to our Favorite Texas Nonfiction of 2016. >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
<\/div>\n

<\/span><\/span>Celebrate Kwanzaa at the Dock Bookshop, Fort Worth, Dec. 26\u2013Jan. 1<\/h1>\n

The Dock Bookshop will host its annual seven-day celebration<\/span> of family, community, and culture Mon., Dec. 26, 2016 through Sun., Jan. 1, 2017<\/p>\n

The Dock Bookshop – 6637 Meadowbrook Dr. Fort Worth, TX 76112. All Kwanzaa events are open to the public. Here is the schedule, published on the Dock website.>>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Writers Resist events slated for Jan. 15, 2017, in three Texas cities<\/h1>\n

Writers Resist, a literary collective born of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election<\/span> that publishes creative expressions of resistance by diverse writers and artists, has prompted the grass-roots organization of events around the nation, including those organized in Austin, Houston, And San Antonio for Sun., Jan. 15. >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
<\/div>\n

<\/a> <\/p>\n

<\/div>\n

<\/a> <\/p>\n

<\/div>\n

<\/a> <\/p>\n

<\/div>\n

<\/a> <\/p>\n

\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span>WHERE IN TEXAS?<\/span><\/h1>\n

Don’t miss a reading or a good read! Sign up for our FREE weekly
e-newsletter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

COMING UP ON TOUR: NONFICTION<\/h1>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

OF BULLETINS AND BOOZE: A NEWSMAN\u2019S STORY OF RECOVERY by Bob Horton<\/h1>\n

Visit with Bob December 26\u2013January 6<\/p>\n

12\/26 Promo Blogging for the Love of Authors and Their Books<\/p>\n

12\/27 Review Syd Savvy<\/p>\n

12\/28 Excerpt 1 Texas Book Lover<\/p>\n

12\/29 Author Interview 1 The Page Unbound<\/p>\n

12\/30 Review Forgotten Winds<\/p>\n

1\/2 Promo StoreyBook Reviews<\/p>\n

1\/3 Author Interview 2 It’s a Jenn World<\/p>\n

1\/4 Review Book Chase<\/p>\n

1\/5 Excerpt 2 Kara The Redhead<\/p>\n

1\/6 Review Reading By Moonlight<\/p>\n

RECENTLY ON TOUR: FICTION<\/h1>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

LOVE GIVE US ONE DEATH: BONNIE & CLYDE IN THE FINAL DAYS
by Jeff P. Jones<\/h1>\n

RECENTLY ON TOUR: NONFICTION<\/h1>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

WALKING THE LLANO: A WEST TEXAS MEMOIR OF PLACE by Shelley Armitage<\/h1>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Lone Star Literary Life Facts and FAQs<\/span><\/h1>\n

\u2022 Editorial policies<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Review policies<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Advertising policies<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Event and resource list policies<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Lone Star Literary Archives<\/span><\/h1>\n

\u2022 Weekly issues<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Lone Star Listens Interviews<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Lone Star Book Reviews<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Texas Reads<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Events<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Announcement: LSLL Launches<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC, Contributing Editor Texas ReadsGlenn Dromgoole >> archive Texas alphabet book gets creative H is for Howdy and Other Lone Star Letters is a delightful new Texas alphabet book by Houston area authors Eva Freeburn and Lawson Gow, illustrated by James Little (Bright Sky Press, $19.95 hardcover). Written in rhyme, the […]<\/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-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","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=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}