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.

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Participant
City
Titles / type of work
Abilene Christian University Press & Leafwood Publishers Abilene Publishing imprints of Abilene Christian University
Abilene Writers' Guild Abilene Banding together to learn, explore, and share talents
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?
Sherri Bennett Abilene Superman Syndrome
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
Denton Broadhurst Prescott Valley, AZ Elvis Orange
Bryan Burrough Temple & New Jersey Barbarians at the Gate; Big Rich; Public Enemies; Vendetta
Stephonse Cleghorn Abilene Scars of Life
Chef Scott Cohen San Antonio

Texas Hill Country Cookbook

William Cooper Abilene

Coop's Corner Collection; Regal Collection of Poems

General James U. Cross Gatesville Around the World With LBJ
Terrienna Cullins Rockwell What's Wrong with Sam?
Judy Deaton Abilene James Surls - From the Heartland
Deborah Drake Red Oak

Bible Tails: Lion, Tigers and Bears Oh! My!

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
Stephen W. Fuller Austin From Adolescence to Zenobia - True Stories of the Human Element in the Journey Through School
Keith Glowka Austin Craftsman specializing in Native American style flutes
Judy Godfrey Abilene The Amazing Grace, 1909-2009
Patty Stowbridge Gough Abilene Gavin's Garden
Peggy S. Grose Austin Celebration! A Woman's Story of Courage, Endurance, and Transcendence; Love and Lemon Pie - Recipes for the Body and the Soul
Jane E. Harber San Angelo Duct Tape for the Christian Mouth; One Foot on a Banana Peel; Quit Digging - a Lifeline of Hope for Trouble Teens
Leland Harden Abilene Auction App; Digital Engagement
Gary Hartman Austin History of Texas Music
Jack Hatler Winters Ben and Tick; Comin' Home; Remember Mattie
Mitch Haynes Denton Hollywood Agent Provocateur
Sandy Hazelip Abilene Wash Your Hands, Please - My Husband Died Because Someone Didn’t
David J. Hearne Lumberton Hulagu's Web - The Presidential Pursuit of Senator Katherine Laforge
Celia Hayes San Antonio Adelsverein - The Gathering; Adelsverein - The Sowing; Adelsverein - The Harvesting
Tricia Henry Austin Texas Tuxedos to Tacos - the Mystique of Entertaining in Texas
Leonard Hoffman Valley View

Come on Up; The Happening

Rosalie Hollingsworth Kerville Destruction of Inncence - A True Story of Child Abduction
Kathie Jackson Perryton So Great a Heritage
Stan Johnson Sweetwater J'ever Notice, Growing Up Country in West Texas; Zat Right?
Ronnie D. Long Abilene End of the Long Drive
Jack Woodville London Austin French Letters Book One - Virginia's War: Tierra, Texas 1944
Kathy E. Martin Bryan What Do Those Two Numbers Mean?
Jeanie McDonald San Angelo Come Into this House
Chad Mitchell Abilene Superman Syndrome
Marcia Middleton Murray Abilene Moonlady
Bill Neal Abilene From Guns to Gavels; Getting Away with Murder on the Texas Frontier; Sex, Murder and the Unwritten Law
Betsy Nozik Austin Texas Tuxedos to Tacos - The Mystique of Entertaining in Texas
Carol Parsons Roscoe Advent Phoenix
Mickie Phipps Kingsland Race for a New Game Machine - Creating the Chips Inside the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3
Connie Porter San Antonio Be Not Afraid; Only the Strong Survive
Mike Purington Beaumont The Oxbow Report
Rita Rasco Abilene I Don't Wanna' be a Witch; Mozzarella House Mouse Goes to School; Through Storms and Rainbows - a Journey of Faith
Alan Rein Spring Past, Present, Poet
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
Donald Rogers Benbrook Littlest Hotel
Robert Rogers Decatur Private Warfare
Ralph Rowe Abilene

Is 9/11 a Call to Heal America?

Irene Sandell Plano In a Fevered Land; River of the Arms of God
Diane Shapley-Box Rockwell

Apples for Fred

David Shippy Kingsland Race for a New Game Machine - Creating the Chips Inside the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3
Silver Boomer Books Abilene Silver Boomers; Freckles to Wrinkles; Slender Steps to Sanity; Writing Toward the Light
Lynn Sheffield Simmons Argyle Bo and the Christmas Bandit; Bo and the Missing Dogs; Bo and the Night Intruder ;Bo and the Roaring Pines; Bo, the Famous Retriever; Jack Crow Said Hello; ; Sugar Lump, the Orphan Calf; Sugar Lump the Orphan Calf's Night Before Christmas
Robert Sledge Abilene It's a Jungle Out There: Mascot Tales from Texas High Schools; People, a Place - Story of Abilene, V. 1
Grady Spears Ft. Worth

Chef at Grady's Restaurant in Ft. Worth
Cowboy in the Kitchen, Cowboy Cocktails, The Great Steak Book, Texas Cowboy Kitchen; Recipes from the Chisholm Club

Linda Steele Midlothian Random Acts
Kathryn Cypert Stuckey Abilene Devil Knows You're Right!
Texas Star Trading Company Abilene Featuring Texas-related books and items.
Texas Tech University Press Lubbock "... works that compel scholarly exchange and that entertain and enlighten the University’s broader constituency."
Terry Thompson-Anderson West Columbia executive chef, Maner Lake Lodge, author of Cajun-Creole Cooking; Texas Hill Country; Texas on the Plate
Thompson-Shore, Inc. Dexter, MI Manufacturer of hard and soft cover books. "Helping You Put Your Best Book Forward"
Treva Carol Tindol Bowie Flowers for Milley
Yvonne Trapani Montgomery Mother's Offering; Turn and Face
Carol Ann Walt Rising Star

Aloha, Texas; Assisted Living; Dreaming in Italian; Unidentified Texas Objects; West Texas Classified

Don Ray Walton Abilene Coming Human Aliens
David Weller Abilene poetry; Bible Lights; God and Nature; Inspirations; Reform Activist Hearts; Haiku Wonders; Haiku's, Senryu's and Six-Words; Juxtapositions; Sing Unto the Lord
Ann Whitaker Waco Dog Nanny
Barbara Zachry Williams Abilene Daughter of Juanita Zachry - author of Juanita Daniel Zachry's Classics, A History of Rural Taylor County; Brands of the Southwest; Potosi, the First 100 Years; A Living History
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
Jim Wilson Abilene Coal to Diamonds; Down to Earth Poetry; Distillations of a Life Just Lived: Poetry in All Directions: Poetry Floats; Taking a Peek
Karen Witemeyer Abilene Cup of Comfort Devotional for Mothers and Daughters
Ken Woodard Victoria

Tuffy’s Battle, After the Ten O’clock News, So Long Simpson, Texas

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