Category: Texas

Excerpt & #Giveaway – Cowboy, It’s Cold Outside by Lori Wilde @avonbooks @loriwilde #LSBBT #TwilightTX #HolidayRomance

COWBOY, IT’S COLD OUTSIDE A Twilight, Texas Novel by LORI WILDE   Genre:  Contemporary Holiday Romance Date of Publication: October 27, 2017 Publisher: Avon on Twitter  ┃ on Facebook Number of Pages: 400 Scroll down for the giveaway!   New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Lori Wilde’s Twilight, TX Christmas novels are beloved for their emotional depth and […]

Author Video – Yonderlings by Ben H. English #LSBBT @TCUPress #BigBend #Memoir

YONDERINGS Trails and Memories of the Big Bend by Ben H. English   Genre: Memoir / Travel / Texas Publisher: TCU Press on Twitter  ┃ on Facebook  ┃ on Instagram Date of Publication: November 17, 2017 Number of Pages: 221 It was a time before Terlingua Ranch, chili cook-offs, and when you could drive a hundred miles without seeing another vehicle or another […]

Review & #Giveaway – The Secret Room by John Alexander @alexandernovels #LSBBT #ChildrensMystery #ChapterBook #AmberAutumnSeries

THE SECRET ROOM (Amber-Autumn Series, #4) by JOHN ALEXANDER   Genre: Children’s Mystery / Chapter Book Date of Publication: October 14, 2017 Number of Pages: 159 Scroll down for giveaway! Amber and Autumn, elementary school sisters, don’t seek out problems to solve, but they often find themselves engaged in uncovering truths, solving mysteries, and helping others […]

Spotlight – Lamar’s Folly by Jeffrey Stuart Kerr @TTUPress @jkerr50 #HistoricalFiction #LSBBT

LAMAR’S FOLLY by Jeffrey Stuart Kerr   Genre: Texas Historical Fiction Publisher: Texas Tech University Press on Twitter  ┃ on Facebook Date of Publication: November 15, 2017 Number of Pages: 320 Mirabeau Lamar seeks nothing less than a Texas empire that will dominate the North American continent. Brave exploits at the Battle of San Jacinto bring him rank, power, […]

Excerpt & #Giveaway – A Good Girl by Johnnie Bernhard @JABernhard #LSBBT #TexasHistory #IrishHistory #FamilySaga #Family #Faith #Hurricanes

A GOOD GIRL by JOHNNIE BERNHARD   Genre: Southern Historical Fiction Publisher: Texas Review Press Website    Facebook Date of Publication: March 7, 2017 Number of Pages: 288 Scroll down for giveaway! A Bible’s family tree and an embroidered handkerchief hold the key to understanding the past as six generation Texan, Gracey Reiter, prepares to say goodbye […]

Guest Post: Pigface and the Perfect Dog by Judy Alter #cozy #Texasauthor @JudyAlter

Synopsis A college student, dead, in an empty pasture. Rifle-carrying strangers in the local grocery store. An irresistible and loveable Labrador puppy. These add up to trouble for Susan Hogan, associate professor of English at Oak Grove (Texas) University, and her partner, Jake, Chief of Campus Security. Susan’s independent investigation involves a shooting, a break-in, […]

Review & Giveaway – Breakfast in Texas by Terry Thompson-Anderson #BreakfastinTX #cookbook @UTexasPress #LSBBT #LoneStarLit

BREAKFAST IN TEXAS by Terry Thompson-Anderson   Genre: Cookbook / Southwest Cuisine Publisher: The University of Texas Press Date of Publication: April 18, 2017 Number of Pages: 312 Scroll down for Giveaway! Texans love the morning meal, whether it’s bacon and eggs (often eaten in a breakfast taco) or something as distinctively nontraditional as saag […]

#Giveaway – Nowhere Near Stories by Teddy Jones #ScrapbookPage #NowhereNear #Texasbooks #shortstories #LitFic #LSBBT #LoneStarLit

NOWHERE NEAR Stories by Teddy Jones   Genre: Short Stories / Literary Fiction / West Texas Publisher: Midtown Publishing, Inc. Date of Publication: May11, 2017 Number of Pages: 206 Scroll down for Giveaway! Characters in the eleven stories in Nowhere Near act in ways that some might call “divinest madness.” Some of them have been pushed near their limits […]