One of the true signs of fall in my book is the annual announcement of the Texas Book Festival author lineup. For me, that goes all of the way back to the first TBF in 1996. A bit of backstory: I had the good fortune to land my dream job as the director of the […]
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My Virtual Book Expo, Part III: Interviews on View
Good news for those of us who didn’t make it to Book Expo America 2016, which wrapped up last week: PBS’s Book View Now conducted interviews with a plethora of authors! I can’t help but think that even I’d been at BEA, I still would have had to watch these afterward! Here’s a short list: […]
My Virtual Book Expo, Part II: Big Books
What to read, what to read? Check out big books at Book Expo 2016: Publishers Weekly calls it for Colson Whitehead (The Underground Railroad) and Ann Patchett (Commonwealth), among others. No complaints from me there. So glad to see Mr. Whitehead making a big splash — well deserved! Here’s the PW take on the best of show […]
My Virtual BookExpo 2016: Part I
In which this book lover has to take in Book Expo America 2016 via the interwebs!
What I Did at the 2014 Texas Book Festival
Guess what I did at the Texas Book Festival?
The Afterglow of the Writers’ League Conference
WHAT a weekend at the Writers’ League of Texas Agents & Editors Conference! I’m still taking in much of what I heard on the panels and at Jeff Abbott’s wonderful keynote talk followed by Joshilyn Jackson’s hilarious recounting of how she came to get an agent and get published. It’s all still percolating in my […]
Natalia Sylvester Leads Off a Big Week in Books
What a couple of weeks in books right here in Austin! Last week, it was new books from the amazing Sarah Bird and Martha Louise Hunter, and this week we have back-to-back-to-back events. First up is Natalia Sylvester with her debut novel, Chasing the Sun. I first met Natalia when I was at the Writer’s League of […]
Author Q&A: Martha Louise Hunter
Q&A with debut novelist Martha Louise Hunter, author of Painting Juliana
Let the Binge Begin: Publishers Are Finally Getting a Move On
Could it be that publishers are finally catching on to something indie ebook authors have already figured out? The New York Times reports that publishers are rolling out books faster.
Must Read: Eisler/Konrath vs. Turow/Russo
There’s nothing quite like an old-fashioned literary smackdown to warm one’s heart this holiday season. Joe Konrath and Barry Eisler duke it out with Scott Turow and Richard Russo.