Bookish events in Texas for the week of October 16-22, 2017:
Special Events:
9th DFW Metroplex Linguistics Conference, Fort Worth, October 20
George H.W. Bush Presidential Library Center 20th Anniversary, College Station, October 20-21
Iran in the World Conference, San Antonio, October 20-21
Houston Writers Guild Masquerade Gala Evening, Houston, October 21
Tweens Read, South Houston, October 21
Mid-Cities Teen Book Fest, North Richland Hills, October 21
4th Annual Edgar Allan Poe Victorian Halloween, Dallas, October 21
Ongoing Exhibits:
Fact, Fiction, and the New World: The Role of Books in the Making of America (a Humanities Texas exhibition), Midland, October 1-December 1
Dallas
Interabang Books, Brit Bennett reads and signs THE MOTHERS, 7PM
Frisco
B&N - Stonebriar, Never Say Die book signing with Anthony Horowitz, 7PM
Houston
Brazos Bookstore, Jennifer Mathieu reading and signing MOXIE, 7PM
The Junior League, World Affairs Council of Greater Houston hosts Mustafa Akyol, author of Islam Without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty, 7PM
Richardson
Richardson Public Library, Writers Guild of Texas workshop: "Fighting Demons: Internal vs External Conflict" with Jaye Wells, 7PM
Tuesday, October 17:The Black Labrador, Spider Road Press birthday party and flash awards ceremony, 7PM
Brazos Bookstore, Tom Batiuk discusses and signs LISA’S STORY, 7PM
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, CAMH Lecture “Annabeth Rosen in Context: Ceramics in the 1980s and Beyond” with Jenni Sorkin, author of Live Form: Women, Ceramics and Community, 6:30PM
Fix Coffeebar, Poetry Fix as Houston Poetry Fest satellite reading featuring Margo Davis and John Gorman, 6:30PM
MidInMod, World Affairs Council of Greater Houston hosts Mustafa Akyol discussing and signing The Islamic Jesus: How the King of the Jews Became a Prophet of Muslims, 7:15PM
Interabang Books, David Bush & Jim Parsons will discuss and sign DFW DECO, 7PM
Murder By the Book, Penguin Random House Night, 6:30PM
Platypus Brewing, Tintero Projects presents "Poets Unidos: Bodas y funerales," a Houston Poetry Fest satellite reading, 6PM
Monkeywrench Books, BOOK LAUNCH: Beautiful Rising: Creative Resistance from the Global South with editor Dave Mitchell, 7PM
The North Door, Storytelling: BedPost Confessions presents Rapture, 8PM
Women & Their Work Gallery, launch of Lisa Olstein’s Late Empire and Julie Carr’s Objects from a Borrowed Confession, with readings by Olstein and Carr, followed by food, drinks, and signings, 7PM
Brenham
Unity Theatre, 9th Annual Washington County Read & Reception: meet Paulette Jiles and enjoy a dramatic reading of her novel News of the World, 5:30PM
Bryan
SEAD Gallery & Bookshop, Author Talk Series hosts Rhonda Brinkmann, author of the Darla King mystery series, 6:30PM
Canyon
Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Garry L. Nall Lecture: “The Texas Gun Frontier and the Travails of Mexican History” with Professor Brian DeLay, author of War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War, 7PM
Sugar Land
Half Price Books - Clear Lake, Local Author Saturdays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, while supplies last
MATCHouston, Storytelling: Oral Fixation presents "Out from Under the Rug: True Life Tales of Abortion," 2PM & 7PM
Murder By the Book, Kevin Hearne will sign and discuss A Plague of Giants, 4:30PM
River Oaks Bookstore, Judithe Little reads and signs Wickwythe Hall, 4PM
Southlake
B&N - Town Square, Michael Dotsikas signing Benjamin Birdie Takes Flight, 11AM
Half Price Books Mothership, local author JB Bean will sell and sign her book Mister's Garden, a story about a wild Texas cottontail rabbit, and local author James L. Capra will sell and sign his books including Leadership at the Front Line, 1PM
Interabang Books, Terry Virts discusses and signs VIEW FROM ABOVE: AN ASTRONAUT PHOTOGRAPHS THE WORLD, 3PM
The Mix Co-Working Space, Writing Workshops Dallas presents "Scrivener 101 Seminar" with Blake Atwood, 3PM
Frisco
Frisco Public Library, Sisters In Crime - North Dallas meeting: "What To Expect When You're Publishing" with Kendel Lynn, 2PM
Special Events:
9th DFW Metroplex Linguistics Conference, Fort Worth, October 20
George H.W. Bush Presidential Library Center 20th Anniversary, College Station, October 20-21
Iran in the World Conference, San Antonio, October 20-21
Houston Writers Guild Masquerade Gala Evening, Houston, October 21
Tweens Read, South Houston, October 21
Mid-Cities Teen Book Fest, North Richland Hills, October 21
4th Annual Edgar Allan Poe Victorian Halloween, Dallas, October 21
Ongoing Exhibits:
National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature 20th Anniversary Exhibition: Celebrating 20 Years of Art, Abilene, September 14-October 28
Monday, October 16:
Austin
The Choice, 7PMDallas
Interabang Books, Brit Bennett reads and signs THE MOTHERS, 7PM
Frisco
B&N - Stonebriar, Never Say Die book signing with Anthony Horowitz, 7PM
Houston
Brazos Bookstore, Jennifer Mathieu reading and signing MOXIE, 7PM
The Junior League, World Affairs Council of Greater Houston hosts Mustafa Akyol, author of Islam Without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty, 7PM
Richardson
Richardson Public Library, Writers Guild of Texas workshop: "Fighting Demons: Internal vs External Conflict" with Jaye Wells, 7PM
Tuesday, October 17:
Austin
Austin History Center, Donna Miller, along with James and Annetta White, tell stories from Miller’s new book, The Broken Spoke: Austin’s Legendary Honky-Tonk (plus music from Ben Stafford Rodgers), 6:30PM
BookPeople, ZOË QUINN speaking & signing Crash Override, 7PM
St. Edward's University, Marcia Kinsey Visiting Writers Series hosts poet NATALIE DIAZ, author of When My Brother Was an Aztec, 6PM
Spiderhouse Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam hosted by Jomar Valentin, 7PM
Canyon
Western Texas A&M University, Distinguished Lecture Series: Dr. Emily Skidmore, author of True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, 7PM
BookPeople, ZOË QUINN speaking & signing Crash Override, 7PM
St. Edward's University, Marcia Kinsey Visiting Writers Series hosts poet NATALIE DIAZ, author of When My Brother Was an Aztec, 6PM
Spiderhouse Ballroom, Austin Poetry Slam hosted by Jomar Valentin, 7PM
Canyon
Western Texas A&M University, Distinguished Lecture Series: Dr. Emily Skidmore, author of True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, 7PM
Dallas
CBS Performance Showroom, World Affairs Council-DFW hosts Francine Klagsbrun discussing and signing Lioness: Golda Meir and The Nation of Israel, 6:30PM
Interabang Books, "Artistic Detours: Unexpected Art Careers" panel discussion with graduates of Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and Susan K. Hamm and Vonda Klimaszewski, author and photographer/editor, respectively, of FULFILLING THE VISION: CELEBRATING ONE DALLAS ART SCHOOL’S IMPACT ON THE WORLD, 7PM
SMU - McCord Auditorium, "Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and our Fate on Earth" with Adam Frank, author of About Time: Cosmology and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang, 5PM
SMU - Owen Arts Center, 18th annual Sammons Media Ethics Lecture with attorney Bruce Sanford, author of Don’t Shoot the Messenger: How Our Growing Hatred of the Media Threatens Free Speech for All of Us, 8PM
The Wild Detectives, best-selling author Jami Attenberg reading and signing All Grown Up (with local author Sarah Hepola), 7:30PM
Galveston
The Bryan Museum, Carolyn Boyd, PhD, will give a talk on "Pecos River-Style Rock Art (Earliest Dated Art in North America)," followed by a book signing of Rock Art of the Lower Pecos and The White Shaman Mural: An Enduring Creation Narrative, 5:30PM
Houston
Interabang Books, "Artistic Detours: Unexpected Art Careers" panel discussion with graduates of Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and Susan K. Hamm and Vonda Klimaszewski, author and photographer/editor, respectively, of FULFILLING THE VISION: CELEBRATING ONE DALLAS ART SCHOOL’S IMPACT ON THE WORLD, 7PM
SMU - McCord Auditorium, "Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and our Fate on Earth" with Adam Frank, author of About Time: Cosmology and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang, 5PM
SMU - Owen Arts Center, 18th annual Sammons Media Ethics Lecture with attorney Bruce Sanford, author of Don’t Shoot the Messenger: How Our Growing Hatred of the Media Threatens Free Speech for All of Us, 8PM
The Wild Detectives, best-selling author Jami Attenberg reading and signing All Grown Up (with local author Sarah Hepola), 7:30PM
Galveston
The Bryan Museum, Carolyn Boyd, PhD, will give a talk on "Pecos River-Style Rock Art (Earliest Dated Art in North America)," followed by a book signing of Rock Art of the Lower Pecos and The White Shaman Mural: An Enduring Creation Narrative, 5:30PM
Houston
Brazos Bookstore, Tom Batiuk discusses and signs LISA’S STORY, 7PM
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, CAMH Lecture “Annabeth Rosen in Context: Ceramics in the 1980s and Beyond” with Jenni Sorkin, author of Live Form: Women, Ceramics and Community, 6:30PM
MidInMod, World Affairs Council of Greater Houston hosts Mustafa Akyol discussing and signing The Islamic Jesus: How the King of the Jews Became a Prophet of Muslims, 7:15PM
Murder By the Book, Bonnie MacBird will sign and discuss Unquiet Spirits: Whisky, Ghosts, Murder, 6:30PM
San Antonio
The Korova, Puroslam with DJ Donnie Dee, 9:30PM
San Antonio Public Library - Memorial, Barbara Renaud Gonzalez reads and signs Las Nalgas de JLO/JLO’s Booty, 6:30PM
Wednesday, October 18:
Austin
San Antonio Public Library - Memorial, Barbara Renaud Gonzalez reads and signs Las Nalgas de JLO/JLO’s Booty, 6:30PM
Wednesday, October 18:
Austin
BookPeople, JOYCE MAYNARD speaking & signing The Best of Us (in conversation with Amanda Eyre Ward), 7PM
Chez Zee American Bistro, Chez Zee Author Series: Kristin Schell discusses and signs The Turquoise Table, 6PM
Malvern Books, an evening with award-winning Puerto Rican writer and artist Eduardo Lalo, author of Uselessness (hosted by César A. Salgado), 7PM [bilingual event]
The North Door, Storytelling: BedPost Confessions presents Rapture, 8PM
Olamaie, Erin Ashford and co-author Jerry Salter will have an evening of cocktails to celebrate the release of the Southern Foodways Alliance Guide to Cocktails, 5PM
Chez Zee American Bistro, Chez Zee Author Series: Kristin Schell discusses and signs The Turquoise Table, 6PM
Malvern Books, an evening with award-winning Puerto Rican writer and artist Eduardo Lalo, author of Uselessness (hosted by César A. Salgado), 7PM [bilingual event]
The North Door, Storytelling: BedPost Confessions presents Rapture, 8PM
Olamaie, Erin Ashford and co-author Jerry Salter will have an evening of cocktails to celebrate the release of the Southern Foodways Alliance Guide to Cocktails, 5PM
Ballinger
Carnegie Library, Dana Glossbrenner, author of The Lark, presents "One Writer's Trip" for the Ballinger Women's Club, 9:30AM
Dallas
Carnegie Library, Dana Glossbrenner, author of The Lark, presents "One Writer's Trip" for the Ballinger Women's Club, 9:30AM
Dallas
Deep Vellum Books, Funky Winkerbean creater Tom Batiuk presents two new titles: Prelude: Lisa’s Story and The Last Leaf: Lisa’s Story Concludes, 6PM
Interabang Books, David Bush & Jim Parsons will discuss and sign DFW DECO, 7PM
SMU - Prothro Hall, "Cuba After Castro" Professor of Comparative Literature José Quiroga, author of Cuban Palimpsests, 5:30PM
UT Dallas, "Time in a Bottle: Humanity's Quest for the Elixir of Youth" with Bill Gifford, author of Spring Chicken, 7:30PM
The Wild Detectives, launch party for Robyn O’Neil: 20 Years of Drawings. 7:30PM
Houston
The Wild Detectives, launch party for Robyn O’Neil: 20 Years of Drawings. 7:30PM
Houston
Avant Garden, Write About Now Poetry Slam, 7:30PM
Platypus Brewing, Tintero Projects presents "Poets Unidos: Bodas y funerales," a Houston Poetry Fest satellite reading, 6PM
Midland
Midland County Library - Centennial, Permian Basin Bookies meeting: "Legal Issue for Authors" with Manning Wolfe (author of the Texas Lady Lawyer series), 6PM
Tyler
Half Price Books, performer, writer, radio/TV producer and local author John L. Lansdale will sell and sign his books including his latest western fantasy, Zombie Gold, 4PM
Thursday, October 19:Tyler
Half Price Books, performer, writer, radio/TV producer and local author John L. Lansdale will sell and sign his books including his latest western fantasy, Zombie Gold, 4PM
Austin
BookPeople, NATE BLAKESLEE speaking & signing American Wolf (in conversation with Pam Colloff, former executive editor at Texas Monthly), 7PM [ticketed event]
BookPeople, Writers' League of Texas panel discussion: "How to Turn a Mess of Pages Into a Book" with DALIA AZIM, ALISON MACOR, and CORY PUTMAN OAKES, 7PM
BookWoman, Jennifer Weiss-Wolf discusses and signs Periods Gone Public, 7PM
Green Gate Farms, Story Bar presents Story Mixer: Farm to Fable, 7PM
BookPeople, Writers' League of Texas panel discussion: "How to Turn a Mess of Pages Into a Book" with DALIA AZIM, ALISON MACOR, and CORY PUTMAN OAKES, 7PM
BookWoman, Jennifer Weiss-Wolf discusses and signs Periods Gone Public, 7PM
Green Gate Farms, Story Bar presents Story Mixer: Farm to Fable, 7PM
Monkeywrench Books, BOOK LAUNCH: Beautiful Rising: Creative Resistance from the Global South with editor Dave Mitchell, 7PM
The North Door, Storytelling: BedPost Confessions presents Rapture, 8PM
Women & Their Work Gallery, launch of Lisa Olstein’s Late Empire and Julie Carr’s Objects from a Borrowed Confession, with readings by Olstein and Carr, followed by food, drinks, and signings, 7PM
Brenham
Unity Theatre, 9th Annual Washington County Read & Reception: meet Paulette Jiles and enjoy a dramatic reading of her novel News of the World, 5:30PM
Bryan
SEAD Gallery & Bookshop, Author Talk Series hosts Rhonda Brinkmann, author of the Darla King mystery series, 6:30PM
Canyon
Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, Garry L. Nall Lecture: “The Texas Gun Frontier and the Travails of Mexican History” with Professor Brian DeLay, author of War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War, 7PM
Dallas
Deep Vellum Books, Francis and Bronwen Percival discuss and sign Reinventing the Wheel: Milk, Microbes, and the Fight for Real Cheese, 6:30PM
Hotel Crescent Court, World Affairs Council-DFW hosts Lawrence Freedman discussing and signing The Future of War, 6:30PM
Interabang Books, Joyce Maynard discusses and signs THE BEST OF US, 7PM
Hotel Crescent Court, World Affairs Council-DFW hosts Lawrence Freedman discussing and signing The Future of War, 6:30PM
Interabang Books, Joyce Maynard discusses and signs THE BEST OF US, 7PM
Kessler Theater, WordSpace and Dallas Poetry Slam present writer and slam poet Saul Williams, 8PM
The Wild Detectives, Melissa del Bosque discusses and signs Bloodlines: The True Story of a Drug Cartel, the FBI, and the Battle for a Horse-Racing Dynasty, 7:30PM
The Wild Detectives, Melissa del Bosque discusses and signs Bloodlines: The True Story of a Drug Cartel, the FBI, and the Battle for a Horse-Racing Dynasty, 7:30PM
Galveston
Galveston Bookshop, former Galveston resident Mylene Dressler signs The Last to See Me, 6PM
Houston
Houston
Brazos Bookstore, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton reading and signing A KIND OF FREEDOM, 7PM
Children's Museum of Houston, Amy Costales presents her bilingual picture book for kids, Sundays on Fourth Street / Domingos en la calle Cuatro, 6PM
The Health Museum, Salvadoran-American physician Juan Guerra presents his first bilingual picture book for kids, The Little Doctor / El doctorcito, 5PM
Midland
Children's Museum of Houston, Amy Costales presents her bilingual picture book for kids, Sundays on Fourth Street / Domingos en la calle Cuatro, 6PM
The Health Museum, Salvadoran-American physician Juan Guerra presents his first bilingual picture book for kids, The Little Doctor / El doctorcito, 5PM
Midland
George W. Bush Childhood Home, Laura Bush Literacy Program Reading Event, 4:30PM
San Antonio
B&N - La Cantera, Warrior Pups: True Stories of America's K9 Heroes book signing with Jeff Kamen, 7PMSan Antonio
Sugar Land
B&N - First Colony, Story time with local author Maria Ashworth, 10AM
Friday, October 20:
Austin
Friday, October 20:
Austin
BookPeople, poet ATTICUS speaking & signing LOVE HER WILD, 7PM
Malvern Books, launch of Alisar Eido’s novel, Fate of Smoke (The Soulfire Series: Book 1) (with David Tucker and Brennan Utley), 7PM
St. Edward's University, Marcia Kinsey Visiting Writers Series hosts playwright Virginia Grise reading from Your Healing is Killing Me: a Performance Manifesto, 1PM
Malvern Books, launch of Alisar Eido’s novel, Fate of Smoke (The Soulfire Series: Book 1) (with David Tucker and Brennan Utley), 7PM
St. Edward's University, Marcia Kinsey Visiting Writers Series hosts playwright Virginia Grise reading from Your Healing is Killing Me: a Performance Manifesto, 1PM
Cedar Park
Half Price Books, local author Anne Odom will sell and sign her historical romance, The Colonel's Lady, 7PM
Dallas
Dallas
Deep Vellum Books, Pandora's Box Poetry Collective, 8PM
Heroes Lounge, Dallas Poetry Slam featuring Wil Gibson, 8PM
Hilton Anatole, 2017 Dallas Women’s Foundation Luncheon featuring keynote speaker Dr. Hope Jahren, best-selling author of Lab Girl, 11:30AM
Interabang Books, Steve Yarbrough discusses and signs LARRY McMURTRY’S THE LAST PICTURE SHOW: BOOKMARKED (in conversation with Chris Vognar of The Dallas Morning News), 7PM
Heroes Lounge, Dallas Poetry Slam featuring Wil Gibson, 8PM
Hilton Anatole, 2017 Dallas Women’s Foundation Luncheon featuring keynote speaker Dr. Hope Jahren, best-selling author of Lab Girl, 11:30AM
Interabang Books, Steve Yarbrough discusses and signs LARRY McMURTRY’S THE LAST PICTURE SHOW: BOOKMARKED (in conversation with Chris Vognar of The Dallas Morning News), 7PM
El Paso
El Paso Museum of History, Focus on Perspectives: Dr. Christina Palmer will discuss her book, For Love of Dance: The Early Years of UTEP Ballet, 6PM
Fort Worth
The Dock Bookshop, Breast Cancer Awareness with Karla Antoinette Baptiste, author of Dig in Your Heels, 7:30PM
Grapevine
Embassy Suites Hotel, 88th Texas Archeological Society Lecture with Dr. Dennis Stanford of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, author of The More We Learn the More Interesting It Becomes. A Current of Thought on the Peopling of the Americas, 7PM
Houston
Fort Worth
The Dock Bookshop, Breast Cancer Awareness with Karla Antoinette Baptiste, author of Dig in Your Heels, 7:30PM
Grapevine
Embassy Suites Hotel, 88th Texas Archeological Society Lecture with Dr. Dennis Stanford of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, author of The More We Learn the More Interesting It Becomes. A Current of Thought on the Peopling of the Americas, 7PM
Houston
Brazos Bookstore, An Evening of Poetry with Lisa Olstein and Julie Carr, 7PM
Murder By the Book, M. Dressler will sign and discuss The Last To See Me, 6:30PM
Rudyard's Pub, Gulf Coast Reading Series featuring John Andrews, Chris Murray, Charlotte Wyatt, Sam Thilen, 7PM
Vicent's, Chef's Dinner and Fundraiser: James Beard award-winning chef Rocco DiSpirito will discuss his new healthy cookbook, Rocco’s Healthy + Delicious, 6PM #HarveyRelief
North Richland Hills
North Richland Hills Library, Behind the Book with Roseanne Montillo, author of Fire on the Track, 1PM [ticketed lunch 12PM]
Plano
Haggard Library, Roseanne Montillo discusses an signs Fire on the Track, 7PM [ticketed reception 6PM]
San Antonio
Rudyard's Pub, Gulf Coast Reading Series featuring John Andrews, Chris Murray, Charlotte Wyatt, Sam Thilen, 7PM
Vicent's, Chef's Dinner and Fundraiser: James Beard award-winning chef Rocco DiSpirito will discuss his new healthy cookbook, Rocco’s Healthy + Delicious, 6PM #HarveyRelief
North Richland Hills
North Richland Hills Library, Behind the Book with Roseanne Montillo, author of Fire on the Track, 1PM [ticketed lunch 12PM]
Plano
Haggard Library, Roseanne Montillo discusses an signs Fire on the Track, 7PM [ticketed reception 6PM]
San Antonio
Trinity University Holt Center, Gemini Ink Words Matter Series: Reading, Q&A, and reception with Kevin McIlvoy, author of 57 Octaves Below Middle C, 6:30PM
Saturday, October 21:
Austin
Saturday, October 21:
Austin
Apanas Coffee & Beer, NeoSoul Poetry Slam, 6PM
Austin Public Library - North Village, Austin Poetry Society meeting with guest poet Jena Kirkpatrick, 1:30PM
Austin Public Library - North Village, Austin Poetry Society meeting with guest poet Jena Kirkpatrick, 1:30PM
BookPeople, SCBWI-Austin Monthly Meeting – Speed Drafting and Other Tips for NaNoWriMo Panel featuring Shellie Faught, Deanna Roy, and Jo Whittemore, 10AM
BookPeople, LAURA WILSON speaking & signing Watt Matthews of Lambshead, 2PM
BookPeople, MICHAEL HURD speaking & signing Thursday Night Lights, 6PM
BookWoman, M. Dressler reading and signing The Last to See Me, 7PM
BookPeople, LAURA WILSON speaking & signing Watt Matthews of Lambshead, 2PM
BookPeople, MICHAEL HURD speaking & signing Thursday Night Lights, 6PM
BookWoman, M. Dressler reading and signing The Last to See Me, 7PM
Malvern Books, an evening with Constance Squires, author of Live from Medicine Park (with Robert Dean, Gabino Iglesias, and Tatiana Ryckman), 7PM
Paramount Theatre, The hit public radio series Selected Shorts comes to Austin with stories performed by Kate Burton (Grey's Anatomy, Scandal), Zach Grenier (Deadwood, Fight Club), and Anthony Imperioli (The Sopranos), 8PM
St. Edward's University, Writers' League of Texas workshop: "Project Management for Writers: Finish Your Book On Time with Less Stress" with Allie Pleiter, 10AM
Belton
McWha Bookstore, Book signing with Henry A. Nash, 1PM
Dallas
Paramount Theatre, The hit public radio series Selected Shorts comes to Austin with stories performed by Kate Burton (Grey's Anatomy, Scandal), Zach Grenier (Deadwood, Fight Club), and Anthony Imperioli (The Sopranos), 8PM
St. Edward's University, Writers' League of Texas workshop: "Project Management for Writers: Finish Your Book On Time with Less Stress" with Allie Pleiter, 10AM
Belton
McWha Bookstore, Book signing with Henry A. Nash, 1PM
Dallas
The Writers Garret, Workshop: "Pitch Perfect: Your Push for Publication" with Susannah Charleson, 10AM
DeSoto
DeSoto Civic Center, DALLAS AREA WRITERS GROUP 2017 "WRITE TO PUBLISH: CLIMBING TOWARD SUCCESS!" WRITING WORKSHOP, 8AM
DeSoto
DeSoto Civic Center, DALLAS AREA WRITERS GROUP 2017 "WRITE TO PUBLISH: CLIMBING TOWARD SUCCESS!" WRITING WORKSHOP, 8AM
El Paso
El Paso Public Library - Memorial Park, Tumblewords Project Workshop: "All About Animals" with Annette Velásquez, 12:45PM
Fort Worth
Half Price Books - Ridgmar/Westover Village, local author Matthew Gene will sell and sign his sci-fi books, Terminus X and Hope, 1PM
Houston
The Ballroom at Bayou Place, Scott Kelly reading from his book ENDURANCE, 7:30PMFort Worth
Half Price Books - Ridgmar/Westover Village, local author Matthew Gene will sell and sign his sci-fi books, Terminus X and Hope, 1PM
Houston
Half Price Books - Clear Lake, Local Author Saturdays: Meet local Indie authors and pick up their latest release, while supplies last
MATCHouston, Storytelling: Oral Fixation presents "Out from Under the Rug: True Life Tales of Abortion," 2PM & 7PM
Murder By the Book, Kevin Hearne will sign and discuss A Plague of Giants, 4:30PM
Writespace, Workshop: Editors' Extravaganza with with Cassandra Rose Clarke, Elizabeth White-Olsen, Mark Dostert, and Leslie Contreras Schwartz, 9:30AM
Writespace, Workshop: Writing for Magazines with Katharine Shilcutt, 9:30AM
Irving
East Irving Library, Meet award-winning author Susan Stevens Crummel as she discusses her books, the western theme, and the writing process, 2:30PM
Port Neches
Fleur Fine Books, book release party for Roadkill Volume 2, Texas Horror by Texas Authors with editors E. R. Bills & Bret McCormick, along with included authors James H Longmore, Crystal Brinkerhoff, R. J. Joseph, and Hayden Gilbert, 3PM
Irving
East Irving Library, Meet award-winning author Susan Stevens Crummel as she discusses her books, the western theme, and the writing process, 2:30PM
Port Neches
Fleur Fine Books, book release party for Roadkill Volume 2, Texas Horror by Texas Authors with editors E. R. Bills & Bret McCormick, along with included authors James H Longmore, Crystal Brinkerhoff, R. J. Joseph, and Hayden Gilbert, 3PM
San Antonio
Trinity University Holt Center, Gemini Ink workshop: "The Stance of Wonder: Cultivating the Fiction Writer’s Habit of Readiness" with Kevin McIlvoy, 10AM
The Twig Book Shop, Max Knight signs Palo Duro, 11AM
The Twig Book Shop, Trita Parsi discusses and signs Losing an Enemy: Obama, Iran, and the Triumph of Diplomacy, 6PM
South Padre IslandParagraphs on Padre, Christopher Carmona reads and signs 140: Twitter Poems (Bilingual Edition)
translated by Gerald Padilla, 1PM
The Twig Book Shop, Max Knight signs Palo Duro, 11AM
The Twig Book Shop, Trita Parsi discusses and signs Losing an Enemy: Obama, Iran, and the Triumph of Diplomacy, 6PM
South Padre IslandParagraphs on Padre, Christopher Carmona reads and signs 140: Twitter Poems (Bilingual Edition)
translated by Gerald Padilla, 1PM
Southlake
B&N - Town Square, Michael Dotsikas signing Benjamin Birdie Takes Flight, 11AM
B&N - Town Square, Dawn Youngblood signing The SMS Ranch, Texas (Images of America Series), 2PM
Sugar Land
Half Price Books, local author Bruce Henderson will sell and sign his techno-thriller, White Pages, 1PM
Sunday, October 22:
Sugar Land
Half Price Books, local author Bruce Henderson will sell and sign his techno-thriller, White Pages, 1PM
Sunday, October 22:
Austin
BookPeople, DAVID LAUTERSTEIN speaking & signing Life in the Bones, 2PM
BookPeople, WILL KOSTAKIS speaking & signing The Sidekicks, and ADI ALSAID speaking & signing North of Happy (in conversation with Katie of Mundie Moms), 6PM
BookWoman, Sharon Harrigan reading and signing Playing with Dynamite, and Amanda Eyre Ward reading and signing The Nearness of You, 3:30PM
Dallas
BookPeople, WILL KOSTAKIS speaking & signing The Sidekicks, and ADI ALSAID speaking & signing North of Happy (in conversation with Katie of Mundie Moms), 6PM
BookWoman, Sharon Harrigan reading and signing Playing with Dynamite, and Amanda Eyre Ward reading and signing The Nearness of You, 3:30PM
Dallas
Interabang Books, Terry Virts discusses and signs VIEW FROM ABOVE: AN ASTRONAUT PHOTOGRAPHS THE WORLD, 3PM
The Mix Co-Working Space, Writing Workshops Dallas presents "Scrivener 101 Seminar" with Blake Atwood, 3PM
Frisco
Frisco Public Library, Sisters In Crime - North Dallas meeting: "What To Expect When You're Publishing" with Kendel Lynn, 2PM
Houston
Writespace, Workshop: NaNoWriMo Prep: 10 Easy Steps to Turn News into a Novel with Marian Szczepanski, 3PM
San Antonio
San Antonio Public Library - Central, Friends of the San Antonio Public Library 2017 Arts & Letter Awards, 2PM
Witte Museum, Lewis Fisher will have a reception for his book, Maverick: The American Name That Became a Legend, 2PM
Witte Museum, Lewis Fisher will have a reception for his book, Maverick: The American Name That Became a Legend, 2PM