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<\/span><\/span>Lone Star Reviews<\/span>Michelle Newby, NBCC,<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n
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CHILDREN\u2019S FICTION<\/p>\n
Mary Pope Osborne <\/span>(author), AG Ford<\/span> (illustrator)<\/p>\n
Hurricane Heroes in Texas <\/span><\/a><\/span>(Magic Tree House #30)<\/p>\n
Random House Books for Young Readers<\/p>\n
Hardcover, 978-1-5247-1312-6 (also available as an e-book and an audio-book), 112 pgs., $13.99; August 7, 2018<\/p>\n
Mary Pope Osborne\u2019s beloved Jack and Annie return to Texas, <\/span>landing in a backyard oak tree in Galveston on September 8, 1900, just in time for the Great Galveston Hurricane, the deadliest natural disaster in the history of the country.\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
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LONE STAR INDIE REVIEWS<\/span><\/p>\n
FICTION<\/p>\n
Sylvia S\u00e1nchez Garza<\/p>\n
Cascarones<\/p>\n
Floricanto Press<\/p>\n
Paperback, <\/span>978-1-724-62288-4,<\/span> 162 pages, $20.95<\/span><\/p>\n
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Cascarones are colorfully decorated chicken eggs<\/span> whose contents have been replaced with confetti or even small toys. In Mexican-American culture, cascarones<\/span> are used in Easter egg hunts, and they symbolize not only the resurrection of Jesus but also spring, family togetherness, and good luck.<\/p>\n
Edinburg, Texas, writer Sylvia S\u00e1nchez Garza\u2019s<\/span> Cascarones<\/span> is an entertaining, informative short novel best classified as a bildungsroman,<\/span> a coming-of-age story focused mostly on one character\u2019s formative years.<\/p>\n
Set in South Texas in the 1960s, 1970s, and present, Cascarones<\/span> is written for young-adult readers. However, older readers also can enjoy it and learn more about Mexican-American Easter traditions and family life, plus some of the impacts of racial discrimination.<\/p>\n
In the book\u2019s flashback portions, Garza\u2019s main character, Suzy, is growing up within the protective shell of being among many relatives.<\/p>\n
\u201cBeing part of a close-knit Mexican American, Rio Grande Valley family,\u201d Suzy recalls, \u201cmy brothers, sisters, and I grew up with the privilege of always being surrounded by loved ones regardless of where we were. Our fifty-plus first cousins on Mommy\u2019s side, and almost thirty first cousins on Daddy\u2019s side, were like brothers and sisters to us. All of the family celebrations included them.\u201d\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
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<\/span><\/span>HUMOR \/\u00a0 PERSONAL ESSAYS<\/p>\n
Sonja Klein<\/span><\/p>\n
Saplings, Switches, and Twigs<\/span><\/p>\n
Ambush Publishing<\/p>\n
Paperback, ASIN: B07JYQK5GQ (also available as Kindle ebook), 348 pages, $14.72; October 25, 2018<\/p>\n
If you\u2019ve read any of Sonja Klein\u2019s three previous books <\/span>(Honk If You Married Sonja, Roundtrip from Texas<\/span>, and Ambushed by America)<\/span>, you already know to expect the unexpected from her well-written and often hilarious or poignant personal essays.<\/p>\n
For example, she cautions that her new work, Saplings, Switches, and Twigs,<\/span> is not really about trees. The central focus, instead, is on \u201cthe sturdy roots and branches of a family, similar to a tree and to all trees that grow for short periods or for centuries and give seed to more of the same. From most trees, there are saplings, switches, and twigs, some of which mature into strong limbs, branches and trees, and some of which die, are broken off, and never mature, but return to fertilize and replenish the earth. Similarities exist with families. This book is partly about them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Partly, it turns out, is a key word. Along with family, her wide-ranging topics include life, love, international travel, food, ex-husbands and ex-boyfriends, and even the occasional Jeep she has killed off through a combination of rugged Southwest Texas driving and maintenance neglect. <\/a><\/span>>>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
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12.9.2018<\/h1>\n
FICTION<\/p>\n
Rick Treon<\/span><\/p>\n
Deep Background<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
Black Rose Writing<\/p>\n
Paperback, 978-1-68-433167-3 (Kix-girlfriend cover a murder.<\/p>\n
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<\/span><\/span><\/span>Texas Reads<\/span>Glenn Dromgoole<\/span><\/h1>\n
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Texas Reads columnist Glenn Dromgoole<\/span> is taking a break during the past two weeks of December. We\u2019re leaving his Dec. 16 column posted here in case you missed it.<\/span><\/p>\n
First Ladies featured in new children\u2019s book<\/h1>\n
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Three former First Ladies from Texas<\/span> are included in the new children\u2019s book, Have You Heard About Lady Bird? Poems About Our First Ladies<\/span><\/a><\/span> by Marilyn Singer<\/span> and illustrated by Nancy Carpenter<\/span> (Disney\/Hyperion, $17.99 hardcover).<\/p>\n
The poem about Lady Bird Johnson, who is featured on the cover, deals with beautification: \u201cShe loved things that flew. She loved things that grew.\u201d<\/p>\n
Barbara Pierce Bush, Singer writes, \u201cMade fun of her weight, her age, her looks. Strongly believed in the power of books.\u201d<\/p>\n
The verse about Laura Lane Welch Bush notes that she loved libraries and books and promoted family literacy while in office, as did her mother-in-law.<\/p>\n
Every First Lady, from Martha Dandridge Curtis Washington to Melania Knauss Trump is portrayed in verse as well as in a biographical summary at the end of the book.<\/p>\n
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Barbara Jordan: <\/span>Acclaimed Austin children\u2019s author Chris Barton<\/span> reflects on the life of the late Barbara Jordan in his new picture book, What Do You Do With a Voice Like That? The Story of Extraordinary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan<\/span> (Beach Lane Books, $17.99 hardcover, illustrated by Ekua Holmes<\/span>).<\/p>\n
He begins with her growing up in Houston\u2019s Fifth Ward, reciting poetry and memorizing speeches, and follows her as she becomes a lawyer,\u00a0 runs unsuccessfully for political office, gets elected to the Texas State Senate, then to the U.S. Congress where she makes a name for herself during the Nixon impeachment hearings, and finally becomes a college professor.<\/p>\n
Barton \u2014 who writes that he sometimes asks himself, \u201cWhat would Barbara Jordan do?\u201d when dealing with contemporary issues \u2014 concludes the book with a biographical time line from her birth in 1936 to her death in 1996.<\/p>\n
He recommends several other books about her, especially the adult biography by Mary Beth Rogers, Barbara Jordan: American Hero.<\/span><\/p>\n
Nutcracker: <\/span>A Texas writer and a Texas artist \u2013 Jennifer Coleman<\/span> and Wade Dillon<\/span> — teamed up to produce The Texas Nutcracker<\/span> (Pelican, $16.99 hardcover), a tale set in Fort Davis in the late 1800s.<\/p>\n
The Texas version of the popular holiday story includes rattlesnakes, a Bluebonnet Fairy, chili con carne, horned toads, and dancing the \u201cCotton Eyed Joe.\u201d<\/p>\n
Holiday break:<\/span> I\u2019m taking a short break from the Texas Reads column but will be back in January with more Texas books.<\/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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<\/span><\/span> Twig\u2019s Top Ten Bestsellers<\/h1>\n
November 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
Hugh Fitzsimons, III,<\/span>A Rock Between Two Rivers: The Fracturing of a Texas Family Ranch,<\/span><\/a><\/span> 978-0-524763138<\/span><\/p>\n
Michelle Obama,<\/span>Becoming,<\/span><\/a><\/span> 978-0-524763138<\/span><\/p>\n
Paulo Coelho,<\/span>The Alchemist<\/span><\/a><\/span> (Harper Perennial), 978-0-062315007<\/span><\/p>\n
Neil DeGrasse Tyson,<\/span>Astrophysics for People in a Hurry,<\/span><\/a><\/span>978-0-393609394<\/span><\/p>\n
Heather Morris<\/span>The Tattooist of Auschwitz,<\/span> 978-0-062797155<\/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
Harvard Business Review,<\/span>HBR\u2019s 10 Must Reads on Mental Toughness,<\/span><\/a><\/span> 978-1-633694364<\/span><\/p>\n
Yuval Noah Harari,<\/span>Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow,<\/span><\/a><\/span>978-0-062464347<\/span><\/p>\n
Liane Moriarty,<\/span>Nine Perfect Strangers,<\/span><\/a><\/span>978-1-250069825<\/span><\/p>\n
Sarah Pekkanen,<\/span>The Wife Between Us,<\/span><\/a><\/span> 978-1-250130945<\/span><\/p>\n
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Einstein\u2019s Compass: A YA Time Traveler Adventure by Grace Blair & Laren Bright<\/h1>\n
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HEART OF THE OAK by J. L Novinsky<\/h1>\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
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12.23.2018\u00a0 Author, teacher, and program director Michael Noll extols the virtues of the Writers\u2019 League of Texas<\/h1>\n
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The Writers\u2019 League of Texas was established in 1981 <\/span>as the Austin Writers\u2019 League in the capital city of Texas and since then has grown to represent the entire state. It is a nonprofit professional organization whose primary purpose is to provide a forum for information, support, and sharing among writers, to help members improve and market their writing skills, and to promote the interests of writers and the writing community. But even if you\u2019re a reader instead of a writer, you\u2019ll find many of their community events to be fascinating and enjoyable and give you the opportunity to learn more about your favorite authors and genres of books. WLT program director Michael Noll took time this week from a hectic holiday schedule to be interviewed by email about WLT and some of its signature programs.<\/span><\/p>\n
LONE STAR LITERARY LIFE:<\/span> Michael, you teach numerous workshops for the Writers’ League of Texas. How would you describe the organization?<\/span><\/p>\n
<\/span><\/span><\/span>MICHAEL NOLL:<\/span> The Writers\u2019 League offers the community, inspiration, and guidance that writers so often find themselves needing. They\u2019re stuck in a manuscript and need a strategy or two to get them past it, and so they can take one of our classes. When they have finished a book and want to learn how to get it published and meet agents, they come to our Agents & Editors Conference. When they need to feel not so alone, they listen to our podcast or come to our Third Thursday event at BookPeople. And when they need community, they reach out to any of the wonderful 1,400 members they\u2019ve met at various events.<\/p>\n
Can you tell us a little bit of WLT\u2019s history? Who founded it? When did it start? How has it changed over the years?<\/p>\n
It started in an Austin backyard. I\u2019m a little fuzzy on the exact origin, but I\u2019m pretty sure the backyard belonged to Sarah Bird.<\/span> Since then, the Writers\u2019 League has grown from focusing on Austin to serving the entire state, with free programs at rural libraries, panel discussions in Houston and Dallas, and a traveling roadshow featuring myself and executive director Becka Oliver<\/span> talking about craft and the agent search.<\/p>\n
How many people are currently members of WLT?<\/p>\n
We have around 1,400 members.<\/p>\n
What would you say are the benefits of WLT to aspiring authors?<\/p>\n
The Writers\u2019 League offers a lot of the same benefits as an MFA program \u2014 help with craft, an introduction to the business of publishing, and a community of writers \u2014 but in a way that\u2019s easier for people juggling jobs, family, and everything else that demands our time and attention. >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
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Texas’s only statewide, wee<\/span>kly calendar of book events
<\/span><\/a>Bookish Texas <\/span>event highlights\u00a0 12.23.2018<\/span>>> GO this week<\/span><\/a><\/span>Michelle Newby, Contributing Editor<\/span><\/h1>\n
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Finding Sophie Blackall Exhibition,<\/span> Abilene, October 11-February 1<\/li>\n
30 Poems for the Tricentennial: A Poetic Legacy,<\/span> San Antonio, December 3-April 25, 2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Monday., Dec. 24 <\/span> No public events this Christmas Eve. Please feel free to create your own.<\/p>\n
Tuesday<\/span>, Dec. 25<\/span>MERRY CHRISTMAS, Y\u2019ALL \u2014 HOPE SANTA BRINGS YOU LOTS OF BOOKS!<\/span><\/p>\n
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HOUSTON\u00a0 Wed., Dec. 26\u00a0 <\/span>Avant Garden, Write About Now Last Poetry Open Mic of 2018, 7:30PM<\/p>\n
EL PASO\u00a0 Thurs., Dec. 27\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>B-17 Bombers Oyster Pub, Barbed Wire Open Mic Night, 8PM<\/p>\n
SUGAR LAND\u00a0 Thurs., Dec. 27\u00a0 <\/span>B&N, Story time with local author Maria Ashworth, 10AM<\/span><\/p>\n
EL PASO\u00a0 Fri., Dec. 28 <\/span> Fahrenheit 180, Open Mic featuring Joann “Paradigm” Roberts, 8PM<\/p>\n
HOUSTON <\/span> Fri., Dec. 28 <\/span>\u00a0 La Madeleine French Bakery, Houston Writers Guild Holiday Social, 7PM<\/p>\n
AUSTIN\u00a0 <\/span>Sat., Dec. 29\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Malvern Books, a reading from The Lumberjack\u2019s Dove\u2014and a shadow puppet crankie show\u2014with visiting writer GennaRose Nethercott, and with special guest Sean Petrie, 7PM<\/p>\n
<\/span><\/span><\/span>FORT WORTH\u00a0 <\/span>Sat., Dec. 29\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The Dock Bookshop, Community Kwanzaa Celebration, 3PM<\/p>\n
WATAUGA\u00a0 Sat., Dec. 29 <\/span> Half Price Books, Johnny Dodds will sell and sign copies of his book, The Difference in Me is Christ, 1PM<\/p>\n
MARFA\u00a0 Sun., Dec. 30<\/span>Crowley Theatre, Pete Gershon signing Collision: The Contemporary Art Scene in Houston, 1972-1985, TBA<\/p>\n
MONDAY, DEC. 31, 2018 <\/span>\u00a0 SEND OUT THE OLD YEAR AND RING IN A BOOKISH NEW YEAR AT MIDNIGHT<\/span><\/p>\n
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News Briefs 12.23.18<\/h1>\n
Author James Patterson\u2019s Holiday Bookseller Bonuses for 2018 include eight Texas recipients<\/h1>\n
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NEW YORK \u2014 James Patterson has renewed a most welcome holiday publishing tradition<\/span> \u2014 bonuses for independent bookstore employees.<\/p>\n
The best-selling author announced Tuesday that 333 workers each will receive $750. The winners, nominated by customers and colleagues among others, are listed on the web site of the American Booksellers Association. Patterson has given more than $1 million to individual book sellers over the past five years and has donated millions to libraries and literacy programs.<\/p>\n
In a statement Tuesday, Patterson said book sellers have used the money for everything from fixing a car to paying a dental bill. He said he was happy to make \u201ca small difference\u201d in the lives of people who had helped so many in their communities.\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
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Submissions open for Writers\u2019 League of Texas 2019 Manuscript Contest<\/h1>\n
AUSTIN \u2014 Have you been working hard on an unpublished manuscript<\/span> that’s finally ready to see the light of day? Are you looking for some constructive feedback on your work-in-progress? Would you like the chance to sit down with a literary agent in person to discuss your project?<\/p>\n
If so, you’re invited to submit a short synopsis and the opening pages of your unpublished work to the Writers’ League of Texas\u2019s (WLT) nineteenth annual manuscript contest. It\u2019s not necessary to live in Texas in order to enter this contest.<\/p>\n
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Win a free registration to the WLT’s 2019 Agents & Editors Conference (June 27-30, 2019, in Austin)<\/li>\n
Meet one-on-one with a literary agent in your category or genre (in person at our annual conference or via phone call) if you’re one of our ten winners<\/li>\n
Be recognized during the opening session of the 2019 Agents & Editors Conference and in the printed program (if you’re a winner or a finalist)<\/li>\n
Receive valuable, specific written feedback on your work.\u00a0 >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\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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