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<\/span><\/span>Lone Star Reviews<\/span>Michelle Newby, NBCC,<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n
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FICTION \/ PARANORMAL ROMANCE<\/p>\n
Michael Scott Clifton<\/span><\/p>\n
The Janus Witch<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
Book Liftoff<\/p>\n
Paperback, 978-1-947946-42-2 (also available as ebook), 344 pages, $14.95<\/p>\n
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East Texas, specifically the areas around Mount Pleasant and Longview, <\/span>might not be your first choices for fantasy settings in a darkly toned, paranormal romance tale about a witch and an emergency room physician.<\/p>\n
But in The Janus Witch,<\/span> Mount Pleasant novelist Michael Scott Clifton uncorks a clever and entertaining tale that unfolds within a region he knows well.<\/p>\n
In The Janus Witch,<\/span> one member of a murderous witches\u2019 coven somehow plunges into another realm (contemporary East Texas) while being pursued by witch hunters. Tressalayne is seriously injured when she falls through tree branches and hits the ground, and she is left temporarily without memory of her violent, paranormal past.<\/p>\n
Tressalayne happens to be beautiful, as well, a fact noted immediately by Dr. Lucas Beckett, her attending physician at Good Shepard General Hospital. It doesn\u2019t take the handsome young bachelor very long to start paying more attention to her than is medically necessary. >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
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Book touts treasured small to medium U.S. cities<\/h1>\n
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Treasured Places: Celebrating the Richness of America\u2019s Cities & Towns<\/span><\/a><\/span> by former Abilene Mayor Gary McCaleb<\/span> and former executive director of the National League of Cities Don Borut<\/span> focuses on more than five dozen cities that represent something unique about the quality and variety of their community experiences ($18.95 paperback).<\/p>\n
The authors deliberately chose medium to small cities, the largest being Charleston, S.C., ranked about 200th in the nation in population. Each community is covered in a two or three page essay.<\/p>\n
They included two Texas cities \u2014 Abilene and Fredericksburg. A few other examples: Holland, Mich.; Cooperstown, N.Y.; Asheville, N.C.; Williamsburg, Va.; Athens, Ga.; Rochester, Minn.; Iowa City, Iowa; Sturgis, S.D.; Helena, Mont.; and Winslow, Ariz.<\/p>\n
Either McCaleb or Borut, or in some cases both of them, have visited every city on the list, and they offer some other brief examples of noteworthy places.<\/p>\n
Their idea in putting together the book was to provide some suggested sites for families to visit on vacation, but also to call attention to some of the qualities that make these cities \u201ctreasured places.\u201d<\/p>\n
McCaleb said four common themes seemed to emerge from the cities\u2019 stories: celebration of their history; tenacity in spite of challenges and difficult times; problems solved through community cooperation; and uniqueness and originality.<\/p>\n
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Big Bend legend: <\/span>Texas author Bill Wright<\/span> has written his ninth book, with the intriguing title of The Whole Damn Cheese: Maggie Smith, Border Legend<\/span><\/a><\/span> ($24 paperback).<\/p>\n
Published by TCU Press, the book tells the story of a remarkable figure in the Big Bend area. Wright was featured at the West Texas Book Festival last month, where he regaled the audience with tales from Smith\u2019s extraordinary life.<\/p>\n
For more than twenty-five years, Maggie Smith was a dominant presence in Hot Springs and other Big Bend locations, where she developed a reputation \u201cas a healer, midwife, banker, postmistress, wax trader, and general minister to the needs of the largely Hispanic population in the area,\u201d on both sides of the border from the mid-1940s until her death in 1965 at age 69.<\/p>\n
Smith, Wright points out, \u201cengaged in some nefarious activities. She stretched existing laws. She challenged authorities . . . . She was a border legend who refused to suffer fools, and as she herself said, on the Big Bend\u2019s Rio Grande Border, she was \u2018the whole damn cheese.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cMaggie\u2019s death marked the close of an era that will not be seen again,\u201d Wright concludes.<\/p>\n
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Glenn Dromgoole<\/span>\u2019s most recent book is <\/span>The Book Guy: One Author\u2019s Adventures in Publishing.<\/span> Contact him at<\/span>g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
>> <\/span>Check out his previous Texas Reads columns in Lone Star Lit<\/a><\/span>erary Life<\/span><\/h1>\n
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October 2018<\/h1>\n
What are Texans reading these days, you ask? <\/span>Lone Star Lit\u2019s newest regular feature is a monthly list of trending titles at the <\/span>Twig Book Shop,<\/span><\/a><\/span> a leading independent bookseller in San Antonio. Click on any title for the Buy link. And we’ll also include a hotlink to related content in Lone Star Literary Life.<\/span><\/p>\n
Reyna Grande,<\/span>A Dream Called Home: A Memoir,<\/span><\/a><\/span> 978-1-501171420<\/span><\/p>\n
Mitch Albom,<\/span>The Next Person You Meet in Heaven: The Sequel to the Five People You Meet in Heaven,<\/span><\/a><\/span> 978-62294449<\/span><\/p>\n
Paulo Coelho,<\/span>The Alchemist<\/span><\/a><\/span> (Harper Perennial), 978-0-062315007<\/span><\/p>\n
Andrew Sean Greer,<\/span>Less,<\/span><\/a><\/span>978-0-31631613X<\/span><\/p>\n
Amor Towles,<\/span>A Gentleman in Moscow<\/span><\/a><\/span> 978-0-670026197<\/span><\/p>\n
Brene Brown,<\/span>Dare to Lead: Brave Work, Tough Conversations, Whole Hearts,<\/span><\/a><\/span> 978-0-399592522<\/span><\/p>\n
Jen Sincero<\/span>You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life,<\/span><\/a><\/span> 978-0762490547<\/span><\/p>\n
Isabel Allende,<\/span>In the Midst of Winter,<\/span><\/a><\/span> 978-1-501178146<\/span><\/p>\n
Anthony Doerr,<\/span>All the Light We Cannot See,<\/span><\/a><\/span>978-1-501173219<\/span><\/p>\n
Jill Lepore,<\/span>These Truths: A History of the United States,<\/span><\/a><\/span> 978-0-393635249<\/span><\/p>\n
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WHAT TEXANS ARE READING<\/span><\/h1>\n
LONE STAR LISTENS interviews\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>>> archive<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n
11.25.2018\u00a0 Bethany Hegedus of The Writing Barn opens up about her literary journey: Midwest to North to South, apprentice-to-teacher, Gandhi to Lee to Carter<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n
BETHANY HEGEDUS PORTRAIT: SAM BOND PHOTOGRAPHY<\/p>\n
If you stroll the inspiring, wooded 7.5 acres of the Writing Barn retreat <\/span>south of Austin, or see founder\/author Bethany Hegedus<\/span> garner accolades and glowing reviews for her books, you would never know how much she has worked to achieve the literary life she now enjoys. In the middle of Thanksgiving weekend, she graciously took time from her holiday to share her inspiring story via email with Lone Star Literary Life.<\/p>\n
LONE STAR LITERARY LIFE: <\/span>Where did you grow up, Bethany, and how would you describe those days?<\/span><\/p>\n
BETHANY HEGEDUS:<\/span> Ah, my childhood was spent in the Chicago burbs as free-range \u201970\u2019s kid, riding bikes, ice skating at the pond, and as a teen sneaking my mom\u2019s cigarettes and smoking them at the creek. I wouldn\u2019t call it carefree, but in comparison to the way we tether our children to ourselves and barely let them in the back yard, where we can see them out the window there was a freedom to grow and explore that I enjoyed. In about 5th grade, I became an avid reader and from them on freedom was found in exploring people and places in fiction.<\/p>\n
What brought you to Texas?<\/p>\n
I moved to Texas eight years ago to have my author money go further. Austin isn\u2019t inexpensive, but it is compared to New York City, where I had lived and where I wrote the last ten years and crossed the threshold from yet-to-be published writer, to author. My first novel came out in 2009 and my second was under contract. I longed to leave my day job and to have more psychic distance (the literary term can relate to our creation process as well as our character\u2019s journeys) and time for myself. I quit my day job and moved to Austin within three weeks.<\/p>\n
My first year here was taxing, emotionally, mentally, and financially. I worked part-time at the Writers\u2019 League of Texas, wrote and wrote, and watched my savings disappear. Moving to Texas was a leap of faith, and after white-knuckling it through that first year, things began to come together. Soon after, I met my husband, and the year after that we began The Writing Barn \u2014 but not before I survived a car with a broken A.C. for a year and had my lights turned off as I waited for the Grandfather Gandhi<\/span> advance to come in. <\/a>>>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
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Texas’s only statewide, weekly calendar of book events
<\/span><\/a><\/span>Bookish Texas <\/span>event highlights\u00a0 11.25.2018<\/span>>> GO this week<\/span><\/a><\/span>Michelle Newby, Contributing Editor<\/span><\/h1>\n
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14th Annual Signatures Author Series, The Woodlands, November 30<\/li>\n
4th Literacy in the Bag Kick Off, <\/span>Houston, December 1<\/li>\n
8th Annual Writergrrls Book Fest: A Tribute to Debra Winegarten, Austin, December 2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Literary Frontiers: Historical Fiction & the Creative Imagination,<\/span> San Marcos, August 1-December 14<\/li>\n
\u201cDawoud Bey: Forty Years in Harlem\u201d photography exhibition<\/span> (from the book Dawoud Bey: Seeing Deeply<\/span>), Austin, August 29-December 8<\/li>\n
Finding Sophie Blackall Exhibition,<\/span> Abilene, October 11-February 1<\/li>\n
Texas Writers (a Humanities Texas exhibition),<\/span> Livingston, November 1-30<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
ABILENE\u00a0 Mon., Nov. 26 <\/span> Texas Star Trading Co, Gary McCaleb will sign copies of his new book, Treasured Places: Celebrating the Richness of America’s Cities and Towns, 4PM<\/p>\n
AUSTIN\u00a0 Mon., Nov. 26\u00a0 <\/span>BookPeople, H.W. BRANDS speaking & signing Heir of the Founders: The Epic Rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the Second Generation of American Giants, 7PM<\/p>\n
DALLAS\u00a0 <\/span>Tues., Nov. 26<\/span>Dallas Museum of Art, Arts & Letters Live presents Mark Lamster, author of The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Center, in conversation with Rick Brettell, 7:30PM<\/p>\n
AUSTIN\u00a0 Wed., Nov. 27\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Malvern Books, Pterod\u00e1ctilo presents: Poetry & Ptamales Party, 6PM<\/p>\n
DALLAS\u00a0 Wed., Nov. 27 <\/span> Latino Cultural Center, TransNational Impressions Series: Tim Z. Hernandez & friends, 7:30PM<\/p>\n
AUSTIN <\/span> Thurs., Nov. 28 <\/span> Texas Capitol Rotunda, Andrew Sansom, Rusty Yates, and David K. Langford signing Seasons at Selah: The Legacy of Bamberger Ranch Preserve, 1:30PM<\/p>\n
DALLAS\u00a0 Thurs., Nov. 28 <\/span> Interabang Books, Mike Marvins discussing and signing THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY, 7PM<\/p>\n
SAN ANTONIO\u00a0 <\/span>Thurs., Nov. 28\u00a0 <\/span>The Twig Book Shop, Barbara Gonzalez Cigarroa discussing and signing A Mexican Dream and Other Compositions, 5PM<\/p>\n
SAN ANTONIO\u00a0 Fri., Nov. 29<\/span>Trinity U, Words Matter: Canine Cosmonaut: The True Story of the First Animal to Orbit Earth with author Kurt Caswell, 6:30PM<\/p>\n
ALSO PRESENTING A WORKSHOP\u00a0 <\/span>Sat., Nov. 30<\/span>Trinity U, Writing Workshop with Kurt Caswell, 10AM<\/p>\n
ABILENE\u00a0 <\/span>Sat., Dec. 1<\/span>Texas Star Trading Co, author and photographer Bill Wright will sign copies of The Whole Damn Cheese: Maggie Smith Border Legend, 1PM<\/p>\n
CORPUS CHRISTI\u00a0 Sat., Dec. 1<\/span>Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi Literary Reading Series presents Jeffrey Eugenides, 7PM<\/p>\n
HOUSTON\u00a0 Sun., Dec. 2<\/span>Brazos Bookstore, Holiday Open House, 5:30PM<\/p>\n
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OF DARKNESS from Dallas\u2019s Deep Vellum nominated for prestigious International DUBLIN Literary Award<\/h1>\n
DUBLIN, IRELAND \u2014 Of Darkness,<\/span> the bestselling, award-winning novel by Denmark\u2019s Josefine Klougart<\/span> (\u201cthe Virginia Woolf of Scandinavia\u201d), translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken<\/span> and published by Deep Vellum in Dallas, Texas, has been nominated for the 2019 International DUBLIN Literary Award.<\/p>\n
This is the third nomination for a Deep Vellum book for this prestigious award, following Texas: The Great Theft<\/span> by Carmen Boullosa<\/span> (tr. Samantha Schnee<\/span>) in 2016, and La Superba<\/span> by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer<\/span> (tr. Michele Hutchison<\/span>) in 2018.<\/p>\n
Of Darkness<\/span> is among 141 titles nominated by libraries worldwide for the \u20ac100,000 International DUBLIN Literary Award, the world\u2019s most valuable annual literary prize for a single work of fiction published in English.\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
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8th Annual Writergrrls Book Fest to pay tribute to the late Debra Winegarten<\/h1>\n
AUSTIN \u2014 Austin writers<\/span> Cindy Huyser, Peggy Kelsey, Seja Rachel, Polly Hughes, Agnes Savich, Lisa L. Moore, Tina Posner, Desiree Morales, Robin Bradford, Katherine Durham Oldmixon,<\/span> and Allyson Whipple<\/span> will be featured at the 8th Annual Austin Writergrrls Book Fest scheduled for December 2 at BookWoman, 5501 N. Lamar Blvd., Austin.<\/p>\n
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This year, the Writergrrls Book Fest will be a literary reading in tribute to the award-winning author, publisher, and fellow Writergrrl Debra L. Winegarten<\/span> (pictured above), who died earlier this year. In addition to being a prolific and successful writer herself, Winegarten was a cheerleader for the Writergrrls, championing the work of other women writers in the Austin community.<\/p>\n
Winegarten authored a number of books, specializing in biography and poetry, and her work garnered many awards. Her titles include There\u2019s Jews in Texas?; Where Jewish Grandmothers Come From; Oveta Culp Hobby: Colonel, Cabinet Member, Philanthropist; Katherine Stinson: The Flying Schoolgirl, <\/span>and, with Zvi Yaniv,<\/span> My Life on the Mysterious Island of Nanotechnology.<\/span> In June 2018, Winegarten was awarded the Sarah Patton Stipend for nonfiction at The Writer\u2019s Hotel for her memoir-in-progress.\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
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Letters About Literature 2018 open for submissions from young readers<\/h1>\n
AUSTIN \u2014 Has a book brought you to laughter or tears, or changed your life? <\/span>Write a letter to the author.<\/p>\n
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Letters About Literature<\/span> is a reading\/writing contest for fourth through twelfth graders under the direction of the Library of Congress. Texas submissions for the 2018\u201319 contest are due to the new online submission platform by December 14, 2018. A permission form is required for all students under the age of 13 on November 1, 2018.<\/p>\n
Tens of thousands of students from across the country enter Letters About Literature each year. State winners receive $100 and a trip to the Texas Library Association Conference. National winners receive $2,000 and travel assistance to Washington D.C. for a special awards ceremony.<\/p>\n
How to enter<\/h1>\n
There are three categories for contestants:<\/p>\n
Level 1 \u2014 Grades 4-6<\/p>\n
Level 2 \u2014 Grades 7-8<\/p>\n
Level 3 \u2014 Grades 9-12<\/p>\n
Read: <\/span>Select a fiction or nonfiction book, a poem or play you have read that you feel strongly about. It might be a book that helped you through a difficult time, or it might be a book that simply touched your heart or inspired you.>>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
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Writespace to offer emerging writer fellowships<\/h1>\n
HOUSTON \u2014 According to Writespace Houston\u2019s website, as part of their ongoing commitment to encourage and support exciting new voices,<\/span> in 2019 Writespace will award Emerging Writer Fellowships to two exceptionally talented writers selected from the Houston community.<\/p>\n
Both published and unpublished writers are welcome to apply. Special consideration will be given to outstanding candidates from historically underrepresented populations. Applicants must live within sixty miles of Writespace and provide proof of demonstrated financial need.<\/p>\n
Emerging Writer Fellowship Prize<\/h1>\n
Over the course of one year, each recipient of the Writespace Emerging Writer Fellowship will be eligible to receive at no cost:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Four multi-week Writespace workshops (four to ten sessions each)<\/p>\n
\u2022 Six one-day Writespace workshops<\/p>\n
\u2022 Seven-day pass to Writefest, Writespace\u2019s flagship literary festival<\/p>\n
\u2022 Four consultation sessions with Writespace director Elizabeth White-Olsen or Writespace associate director Cassandra Rose Clarke (optional)<\/p>\n
\u2022 One Writespace membership\u00a0\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
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Lone Star Listens compilation available fall 2018, for readers, fans, and writers everywhere<\/h1>\n
<\/span><\/span><\/span>The present generation of Texas authors<\/span> is the most diverse ever in gender, age, and ethnicity, and in subject matter as well.<\/p>\n
Week in, week out, Lone Star Literary has interviewed a range of Texas-related authors with a cross-section of genre and geography. To capture this era in Texas letters, we’re pleased to bring you<\/p>\n
Lone Star Listens:<\/p>\n
Texas Authors on Writing and Publishing<\/p>\n
edited by Kay Ellington and Barbara Brannon; introduction by Clay Reynolds<\/p>\n
Available in trade paper, library hardcover, and ebook Summer 2018<\/p>\n
360 pages, with b\/w illustrations and index<\/p>\n
Featuring novelists, poets, memoirists, editors, and publishers, including:<\/p>\n
Rachel\u00a0 Caine \u2022 Chris\u00a0 Cander \u2022 Katherine\u00a0 Center \u2022 Chad S. Conine \u2022 Sarah\u00a0 Cortez \u2022 Elizabeth\u00a0 Crook \u2022 Nan\u00a0 Cuba \u2022 Carol\u00a0 Dawson \u2022 Patrick\u00a0 Dearen \u2022 Jim Donovan \u2022\u00a0Mac Engel \u2022 Sanderia\u00a0 Faye \u2022 Carlos Nicol\u00e1s Flores \u2022 Ben Fountain \u2022 Jeff\u00a0 Guinn \u2022 Stephen\u00a0 Harrigan \u2022 Cliff\u00a0 Hudder \u2022 Stephen Graham Jones \u2022 Kathleen Kent \u2022 Joe R. Lansdale \u2022 Melissa Lenhardt \u2022 Attica Locke \u2022 Nikki\u00a0 Loftin \u2022 Thomas\u00a0 McNeely \u2022 Leila\u00a0 Meacham \u2022 John\u00a0 Pipkin \u2022 Joyce Gibson Roach \u2022 Antonio\u00a0 Ruiz-Camacho \u2022 Lisa\u00a0 Sandlin \u2022 Donna\u00a0 Snyder \u2022 Mary Helen Specht \u2022 Jodi\u00a0 Thomas \u2022 Amanda Eyre Ward \u2022 Ann\u00a0 Weisgarber \u2022 Donald Mace Williams<\/p>\n
As a collection of insights into the writing and publishing life, the book will be useful in creative writing classes (not just in Texas alone) and other teaching settings, as well as for solo reading and study\u2014and a great Texas reference volume.<\/p>\n
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Examination and review copies will be available fall 2017 in watermarked pdf format.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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