Kristine Hall has criss-crossed the state pursuing her love of books. From attending the TLA conference in Houston, to volunteering at the Fort Worth Book Festival, to meeting up with authors in events in Dallas and Austin, she has pursued her love of Texas literature in person and online — as the blog tour coordinator of Lone Star Book Blog tours. Starting in January 2019 she takes this literary appreciation to a new level as owner and publisher of Lone Star Literary Life. She talked with us via email during this holiday week about her thoughts and plans for Lone Star Lit.

(المزيد…)

Read More

Since the Bess W. Scott Scholarship Fund’s first scholarship in 1991, $72,800 has been granted to sixty promising reporters, writers, and authors. See this year’s recipients.

(المزيد…)

Read More

Edinburg, Texas, writer Sylvia Sánchez Garza’s Cascarones is an entertaining, informative short novel best classified as a bildungsroman, a coming-of-age story focused mostly on one character’s formative years.

(المزيد…)

Read More

On book blog tour January 4-13, 2019

(المزيد…)

Read More

The Writers’ League of Texas is a professional organization dedicated to elevating the art and enterprise of writing. Its endeavors include an Annual Agents and Editors Conference, a Summer Writing Retreat, writing classes and workshops, free expert panel discussions, and more. Michael Noll took time from a hectic holiday schedule to be interviewed by email about the Writers’ League of Texas.

(المزيد…)

Read More