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It\u2019s Back! Vote for your Favorite Texas Bookstore<\/h1>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span>Lone Star Lit\u2019s second annual Texas Readers\u2019 Favorite Bookstores<\/span> voting will be held May 1 through May 18, 2017. Readers, vote as often as you wish for your Favorite Texas Bookstore.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll announce the Top 40 finalists on May 7; then, the Top 20 finalists on May 14. Voting is now underway; Round 1 closes midnight May 13, 2017!<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Countdown to Readers\u2019 Favorite Bookstores, May 21 and May 28<\/h1>\n

Like our claim-to-fame feature, Top Ten Bookish Destinations , Texas’s Top Ten Favorite Bookstores counts down Number Ten through Number Six on May 21, and Number Five through Number One on May 28.<\/p>\n

The Texas Readers\u2019 Favorite Bookstores winners will be determined by reader vote via:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Our website<\/p>\n

\u2022 Our e-mail newsletter<\/p>\n

\u2022 Our social media<\/p>\n

\u2022 Direct ballots upon request<\/p>\n

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More than 1,000 readers voted in the 2016 Texas\u2019s Top Ten Favorite Bookstores contest, and last year\u2019s winners were:<\/p>\n

#10\u00a0 Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Lubbock<\/h1>\n

South Plains Mall, 6002 Slide Road Lubbock<\/p>\n

Wade Whatley, Manager<\/p>\n

Community relations manager: Terry Handley<\/p>\n

Date store opened: Nov. 4, 2009<\/p>\n

#9\u00a0 Gladewater Books, Gladewater<\/h1>\n

109 E. Pacific, Gladewater<\/p>\n

Owners: Peter Adams and Elizabeth DeRieux<\/p>\n

Date store opened: March 2007<\/p>\n

#8\u00a0 River Oaks Bookstore, Houston<\/h1>\n

3270 Westheimer Rd., Houston<\/p>\n

Owners: Michael and Josie Jones; Michael\u2019s mother Jeanne Jard<\/p>\n

Community relations manager: Whitney Corson<\/p>\n

Date store opened- 1976<\/p>\n

#7\u00a0 Recycled Books, Records, CDs, Denton<\/h1>\n

200 N. Locust, Denton<\/p>\n

Owner: Don Foster<\/p>\n

Community relations managers: Lacey Richins and Miles Foster<\/p>\n

Date store opened: 1983<\/p>\n

#6\u00a0 BookPeople, Austin<\/h1>\n

603 N.Lamar Blvd., Austin<\/p>\n

Owned locally by BookPeople, Inc.; Steven Bercu is president of company and operates the store<\/p>\n

Marketing director: Abby Feenewald<\/p>\n

Opened in November, 1970<\/p>\n

#5 Barnes & Noble Dallas: Lincoln Park<\/h1>\n

7700 West Northwest Highway, Dallas, TX 75225<\/p>\n

Manager: Craig Schlabs<\/p>\n

Community relations manager: Cody McMahan<\/p>\n

Opened September 1998<\/p>\n

#4 Texas Star Trading Company, Abilene<\/h1>\n

174 Cypress St., downtown Abilene<\/p>\n

Owners: Carol and Glenn Dromgoole<\/p>\n

Opened July 22, 2004<\/p>\n

#3 Paragraphs on Padre Boulevard, South Padre Island<\/h1>\n

5505 Padre Boulevard, South Padre Island, TX (3 miles north of the Queen Isabella Causeway)<\/p>\n

Owners: Joni Montover and Griff Mangan<\/p>\n

Opened February 9, 2009<\/p>\n

#2 Barnes & Noble at Stonebriar Centre, Frisco<\/h1>\n

2601 Preston Rd., Suite 1204, Frisco<\/p>\n

Store Manager: Jamie Lockhart<\/p>\n

Community Business Development Manager: Nicole Caliro<\/p>\n

Opened August 2000<\/p>\n

#1 40 Acre Wood, Lexington<\/h1>\n

521 3rd Street\/ Lexington<\/p>\n

Owner: Heidi Frazier<\/p>\n

Opened 2010<\/p>\n

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Bess Whitehead Scott Scholarship fund announces 2017 winners<\/h1>\n

AUSTIN\u2014The Bess Whitehead Scott Scholarship Fund<\/span> has awarded scholarships to two budding journalists and one creative writer \u2014 all students at Texas State University. The awards mark twenty-seven years of supporting journalists and writers. Since 1990 the Fund has distributed more than $65,000 to up-and-coming reporters, writers and authors. Each year $1,500 scholarships go to student journalists and to writers who are age 40 or older.<\/p>\n

The fund\u2019s namesake, Bess W. Scott, is known for blazing a trail for women in journalism by writing hard news and screenplays and working in public relations. In 1915, she persuaded a reluctant editor to hire her as the first woman news reporter at the Houston Post.<\/span> At age 99, she published her autobiography, You Meet Such Interesting People. The Bess W. Scott Fund is affiliated with the Austin Community Foundation.<\/p>\n

The 2017 winners are:<\/p>\n

Scott Journalism Scholarships<\/h1>\n

Denver Donchez,<\/span> 27, of San Marcos is a senior at Texas State University, majoring in journalism and minoring in women\u2019s studies. She has worked two full-time jobs while putting herself through school\u2014all while maintaining at 4.0 grade average. Donchez says her goal is \u201cto be an advocate for the socially marginalized individuals who feel that they have no voice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Darcy Sprague,<\/span> 20, has known since high school she wanted a career as a writer. The junior at Texas State University has had several journalism internships, including Austin Woman<\/span> magazine, and this year traveled to Nicaragua to cover poverty and health issues as part of a study abroad program. Sprague says she would like to work for a nonprofit and cover humanitarian crises. She is from Elgin.<\/p>\n

Scott Scribes Scholarship (40 or older)<\/h1>\n

Audrey Webb,<\/span> 56, of Pflugerville is a graduate student in dramatic writing at Texas State University. She is working toward a Master of Fine Arts and wants to \u201capply my artistic abilities to the creation of dramatic works that provide not only entertainment but a fresh look at social situations that affect us all.\u201d One of her plays was selected for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. Webb previously worked as reporter, copy editor, marketing writer, and editor.<\/p>\n

(Information from organization\u2019s press release)<\/p>\n

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Texas cookbook authors featured at San Angelo \u201cCooking for a Cause\u201d Apr. 25<\/h1>\n

Cookbook authors Tiffany Harelik<\/span> (above, left<\/span>), author of The Big Country Cookbook<\/span> and The Terlingua Chili Cookbook,<\/span> and Angelina LaRue<\/span> (right), with her The Whole Enchilada<\/span> cookbook featuring Southwestern cuisine, helped support the annual \u201cCooking for a Cause\u201d fundraiser in San Angelo April 25.<\/p>\n

An evening dinner was held at San Angelo Country Club, where Chef Daniel Fredrich (center) served a menu inspired by the Texas authors\u2019 cookbooks.<\/p>\n

The fundraiser benefitted the JPW Learning Center, which provides opportunities for alternative educational instruction for children or adults who are experiencing difficulties learning. JPW helps teachers obtain skills necessary to recognize and instruct those with learning differences, and has trained over 480 teachers and countless students in the past thirty-two years.<\/p>\n

(Information compiled from media reports)<\/p>\n

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Texas Mountain Trail Writers holds 25th annual retreat Apr. 29 at historic Indian Lodge<\/h1>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span>The Texas Mountain Trail Writers group<\/span> welcomed writers from around over Texas and beyond Sat., April 29, 2017, at Indian Lodge in the historic Davis Mountain State Park, for the group\u2019s twenty-fifth year of hosting the retreat.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span>Kay Ellington<\/span> and Barbara Brannon<\/span> of Lone Star Literary Life and coauthors of the Paragraph Ranch series of novels led multiple sessions focusing on writing craft and the business of editing and publishing.<\/p>\n

View full photo album of event<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

View full photo album of Fort Davis and Indian Lodge<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Ely book wins prize at West Texas Historical Association annual meeting; will speak and sign Butterfield-Overland volume May 4 in Fort Davis<\/h1>\n

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<\/span><\/span><\/span>At the April 2017 meeting of the West Texas Historical Association<\/span> in Lubbock, The Texas Frontier and the Butterfield Overland Mail, 1858\u20131861<\/span> by Dr. Glen Sample Ely<\/span> of Fort Worth was honored with the Rupert N. Richardson Award for Best Book on West Texas History.<\/p>\n

At the Fort Davis National Historic Site, Thurs., May 4, Ely will greet friends and sign books starting at 3:00 pm; a lecture and slide presentation will follow at 6:00 pm. The event, sponsored by the Friends of Fort Davis National Historic Site, is open to the public.<\/p>\n

(Information from organization\u2019s flyer and media reports}<\/p>\n

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Brookins to discuss her memoir, Rise, at WTAMU\u2019s summer Roundup event June 5; Thomas, Lewis, Claire, Navarro also featured<\/h1>\n

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<\/span><\/span>CANYON \u2014 West Texas A&M University will welcome author and motivational speaker Cara Brookins<\/span> as the keynote speaker for the West Texas Writers\u2019 Academy Writers\u2019 Roundup dinner on Monday, June 5. Brookins\u2019s memoir, Rise: How a House Built a Family, <\/span>details how she and her children left a traumatic situation and built a house from the ground up with their own hands.<\/p>\n

The event begins at 6 p.m. with a book signing by authors from across the nation who are attending the Writers\u2019 Academy at WTAMU. Authors will include New York Times<\/span> bestselling author Jodi Thomas,<\/span> Reader\u2019s Digest<\/span> Select author Timothy Lewis,<\/span> USA Today<\/span> Bestselling author Bethany Claire,<\/span> and Harlequin author and bestselling hybrid author of contemporary and historical romance Jolene Navarro.<\/span> Readers will find books of various genres from romance to western to thriller. Authors will sell their books and talk to readers until 7 p.m.<\/p>\n

Dinner and remarks from Lewis will begin at 7 p.m. ,with Brookins taking the stage at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

After escaping two abusive marriages, Brookins was in desperate need of a home but without the means to buy one. So she did something incredible. Equipped with only YouTube videos and a 9-month bank loan, Brookins built her own house\u2014all 3,500 square feet of it\u2014from the foundation to the roof (and everything in between) with a work crew made up of her kids. The completed house has five bedrooms, a three-car garage, a shop, and even a two-story tree house.<\/p>\n

Rise is Brookins first work of nonfiction. Other books by Brookins include Little Boy Blu,<\/span> Timeshifters triology\u2014Mark of the Centipede, Mark of the Serpent and Mark of the Spider\u2014 Gadget Geeks, Doris Free: A Harvest of Friends, Doris Free<\/span> and Treasure Quest.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Writers\u2019 Roundup dinner is open to the public. Tickets are $35 per person and can be purchased with advance reservations by calling Education on Demand at 806-651-2037.<\/p>\n

(Information from organization\u2019s press release and website)<\/p>\n

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