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TX Book News: Lone Star Lit LIGHT, retro Piano, Reading the West, Literacy Fest — and more! 05.21.2022

 

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LONE STAR

RETRO REVIEW

Originally featured January 2019

Chris Cander’s The Weight of a Piano is “an original, creative tackling of the essentially solitary human condition.”

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BOOKISH TEXAS

May 21-May 29, 2022

We’re sharing a plethora of new events this week to pique your interest.
Please help keep us and LSLL readers in the loop by sending forthcoming events to us at: Events@LoneStarLiterary.com.

PLAN YOUR WEEK

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LONE STAR LIT AWARDS SPOTLIGHT

Reading the West Book Awards LIVE Announcement

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LONE STAR LIT EVENT SPOTLIGHT

Fortress Literacy Carnival, Fort Worth, Texas

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The Fortress Annual Literacy Carnival kicks off the summer in Fort Worth‘s Historic Southside by welcoming 200+ children and their families to our campus! We offer FREE literacy-themed games, lunch, and book giveaways as well as special guest CELEBRITY readers! The event is on Saturday, June 4, 10:00am-2:00pm. Anyone from the community is welcome to attend. We are currently accepting donations of new or gently used books, items from our Amazon list, and registrations for volunteering for the week of the event!

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LONE STAR BOOK BLOG TOURS

ON TOUR THIS WEEK

Our Lone Star Book Blog Tours have gone fishin’ this week. We’ll return May 31, 2022 with our next tour!

VISIT THE TOUR PAGES FOR COMPLETED TOURS

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MAY TEXAS BOOKS PREVIEW

While romance seems to rule, a variety of titles geared for young readers and others for nonfiction lovers are added to the mix for the best bouquet of spring books — from Lone Star Lit to you!

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COMING JUNE 4, 2022

The June Texas Books Preview

Have a Texas-connected title publishing in June, 2022? Be sure to let us know by EOB Monday, May 30, 2022 so we can include your book.

Listings are always free, but you can Boost your title to get even more coverage.
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COMING JUNE 18, 2022

2022 Kids’ Summer Reads

Our annual Kids’ Summer Reads feature will launch on Saturday, June 18, 2022, and we’ll be accepting submissions soon! (Any Texas-connected kid lit, any pub date welcome.)

Want your book added to the feature?

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If you haven’t already done it, then CLICK TO SUBSCRIBE, for subscriber-only content and to never miss a bookish-Texas thing.

BOOKISH NEWS from around the Great State.

VIDEO SPOTLIGHTS

— The Twig Book Shop’s monthly regional roundup

— Bookish Humor created exclusively for Lone Star Lit by Chris Manno.

— Our Writers’ Groups , Texas Bookstores, and Book Clubs in Texas pages list hundreds of writers’ groups, writers’ organizations, booksellers, and book clubs hyperlinked to their websites, and conveniently listed by city. You’re welcome! (Your group or bookstore missing? Email us at Info@LoneStarLiterary.com and we’ll get your group added.)

DID YOU KNOW
We’re on Goodreads, where you can check out our READ and TO-READ shelves.
Lone Star’s Proof & Polish Shop is taking submissions.
We’re booking 2022 Lone Star Book Blog Tours & Blitzes for select SEPTEMBER dates and later.

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