West Texas Book & Music Festival
Hall of Texas Authors
Authors and publishers represent a variety of genres. Their works include western novels, sports stories, religious works, humorous books, and romance stories. Whenever possible, links to the authors' homepages have been included. Titles highlighted in brown are linked to the item records in Abilene Public Library's site. As authors confirm, their information will be added.

Charles Anderson

Check our Featured Authors and Musicians HERE

Participant
City
Titles / type of work
Kathi Appelt College Station Winner of the 2009 A.C. Greene Award - Alley Cat's Meow; Bat Jamboree;Bats around the Clock; Bats on Parade; Bayou Lullaby; Best Kind of Gift; Bubba and Beau: Best Friends; Bubba and Beau Go Night-night; Bubba and Beau Meet the Relatives; Bubbles, Bubbles; Cowboy Dreams; Down Cut Shin Creek: The Packhorse Librarians of Kentucky; Elephants Aloft; Hushabye, Baby Blue; I See the Moon; Incredible Me; Just People and other Poems for Young Readers; Kissing Tennessee: And Other Stories from the Stardust Dance; Merry Christmas, Merry Crow; Miss Lady Bird's Wildflowers; My Father's House; Oh My Baby, Little One; Poems from Homeroom: A Writer's Place to Start; Piggies in a Polka; Rain Dance; Someone's Come to our House; Toddler Two-Step; Watermelon Day; The Underneath; Where, Where is Swamp Bear?
Diane Gonzalez Bertrand San Antonio Alicia's Treasures; Black Mirror; Carousel of Dreams; Close to the Heart; Empanadas that Abuela Made; Family; Last Doll; Lessons of the Game; My Pal Victor; Ricardo's Race; Ruiz Street Kids; Sip, Slurp, Soup - Caldo, Caldo, Caldo; Sweet Fifteen; Trino's Choice; Trino's Time; Uncle Chente's Picnic; We are Cousins
Don Blevins San Marcos Peculiar, Uncertain, and Two Eggs; Priest, a Prostitute, and Some Other Early Texans; From Angels to Hellcats; Texas Towns: From Abner to Zipperlandville
Bryan Burrough Temple & New Jersey Barbarians at the Gate; Big Rich; Public Enemies; Vendetta
General James U. Cross Gatesville Around the World With LBJ
Bob Favor Clyde My Rangering Days
Don Frazier Abilene Abilene Landmarks; Blood and Treasure: Confederate Empire in the Southwest, Cottonclads!: The Battle of Galveston and the Defense of the Texas Coast; Fire in the Cane Field; Historic Abilene ; Texas You Expect; United States and Mexico at War
Murray Edwards Clyde & Abilene Looking for Lucy Gilligan and Other Stories
Rev. Rick Elliott Houston Faith Journeys of the Heart
Leland Harden Abilene Auction App; Digital Engagement
Gary Hartman Austin History of Texas Music
Tricia Henry Austin Texas Tuxedos to Tacos - the Mystique of Entertaining in Texas
Elmer Kelton San Angelo

Noted western author, Winner of 7 Spur Awards, Featured in the 2006-07 Texas Almanac, Winner of the 2003 A.C. Greene Award
After the Bugles, Art of Howard Terpning, Badger Boy, Barbed Wire, Best Christmas, Big Brand, Bitter Trail, Bowie's Mine, Buckskin Line, Buffalo Wagons, Captain's Rangers, Cattle Brands, Christmas at the Ranch, Cloudy in the West, Dark Thicket, Day the Cowboys Quit, Donavan, Elmer Kelton Country, Eyes of the Hawk, Far Canyon, Funeral of Tanner Moody, Good Old Boys, Hanging Judge, Hard Trail to Follow, Honor at Daybreak, Horsehead Crossing, Hot Iron, Indian in Frontier News, Jericho's Road, Joe Pepper, Living and Writing in West Texas, Llano River, Lone Star Rising, Long Way to Texas, Looking Back West, Lost Trails, Man Who Rode Midnight, Manhunters, Massacre at Goliad, Many a River, My Kind of Heroes, Noah's Ride, Pecos Crossing, Pumpkin Rollers, Raiders, Ranger's Law, Ranger's Trail, Rebels, Sandhills Boy, Shadow of a Star, Shotgun, Shotgun Settlement, Six Bits a Day, Slaughter, Smiling Country, Sons of Texas, Stand Proud, Texas Cattle Barons, Texas Rifles, Texas Showdown, Texas Vendetta, There's Always Another Chance and Other Stories, Time It Never Rained, Wagontongue, Way of the Coyote, Wolf and the Buffalo

Jack Woodville London Austin French Letters Book One - Virginia's War: Tierra, Texas 1944
Bill Neal Abilene From Guns to Gavels; Getting Away with Murder on the Texas Frontier
Betsy Nozik Austin Texas Tuxedos to Tacos - The Mystique of Entertaining in Texas
Carol Parsons Roscoe Advent Phoenix
Connie Porter San Antonio Be Not Afraid; Only the Strong Survive
Rita Rasco Abilene I Don't Wanna' be a Witch; Mozzarella House Mouse Goes to School; Through Storms and Rainbows - a Journey of Faith
Mike Renfro Dallas Shine On - 100 Years of Shiner Beer; Under the X in Texas
Nancy Robinson-Masters Abilene Airplane; Airplanes; Airplanes of World War II All My Downs have been Ups; Bombers of World War II; Cotton Gin; Devoted by Writing; Extraordinary Patriots of the Unites States of America; Fabulous Flying Flag Farm; Fighter Planes of World War II; Georgia; Guidelines for Freelancers; Horrible Homemade Halloween Costume; Kansas; Spirits in the Sky: the Airplanes of World War II; Training Planes of World War II
Irene Sandell Plano In a Fevered Land; River of the Arms of God
Linda Steele Midlothian Random Acts
Texas Tech University Press Lubbock "... works that compel scholarly exchange and that entertain and enlighten the University’s broader constituency."
Yvonne Trapani Montgomery Mother's Offering; Turn and Face
David Weller Abilene poetry; Bible Lights; God and Nature; Inspirations; Reform Activist Hearts; Haiku Wonders; Juxtapositions; Sing Unto the Lord
Rose Williams Abilene Gods and other Odd Creatures; Lighter Side of the Dark Ages; Cicero the Patriot; From Romulus to Romulus Augustulus; Once Upon the Tiber; Original Dysfunctional Family; Latin Quips at Your Fingertips; Tres Porculi; Which Way to the Vomitorium?; Young Romans; Aeneid
Karen Witemeyer Abilene Cup of Comfort Devotional for Mothers and Daughters

Events | Hall of Texas Authors | Featured Authors & Musicians
Cookbook Gala | Boots & Books Luncheon
Around Abilene | A.C. Greene Award | Abilene Book Award
Festival Home | APL Home