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 […]
Category: Texas Authors
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