Book Signings and Special Events in DFW

Saturday - July 31, 2010

WHAT: Author Signing

Lory Alison Books: Sydney's Vampire Diary, October 2009 For more books and reviews

Lory Alison

WHERE: Barnes & Noble Booksellers – Firewheel Towne Center (directions)
190 Cedar Sage Drive, Unit #BB01
Garland, TX 75040
972.496.2000

TIME: 11:00am - 12:00pm local time

Lory Alison

Lory Alison graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a degree in Theatre Studies, and she lives with her husband and two young sons in Texas. The Director of Actors Anonymous Theatre Company, she spends her free time directing sketch comedy with The Drama Queens & Kings and musicals with children, as well as adults with Special Needs. SYDNEY'S VAMPIRE DIARY - Freshman Year is her first novel for teens.

Saturday - July 31, 2010

WHAT: Author Signing

JerrKelia L. Bazile

WHERE: Barnes & Noble Booksellers – Firewheel Towne Center (directions)
190 Cedar Sage Drive, Unit #BB01
Garland, TX 75040
972.496.2000

TIME: 11:00am - 12:00pm local time

JerrKelia L. Bazile

Saturday - July 31, 2010

WHAT: Author Signing

Michael R. Hayslip

WHERE: Barnes & Noble Booksellers – Firewheel Towne Center (directions)
190 Cedar Sage Drive, Unit #BB01
Garland, TX 75040
972.496.2000

TIME: 11:00am - 12:00pm local time

Michael R. Hayslip

Saturday - July 31, 2010

WHAT: Author Signing

Jim Howell

WHERE: Barnes & Noble Booksellers – Firewheel Towne Center (directions)
190 Cedar Sage Drive, Unit #BB01
Garland, TX 75040
972.496.2000

TIME: 11:00am - 12:00pm local time

Jim Howell

Saturday - July 31, 2010

WHAT: Author Signing

G.E. Huston

WHERE: Barnes & Noble Booksellers – Firewheel Towne Center (directions)
190 Cedar Sage Drive, Unit #BB01
Garland, TX 75040
972.496.2000

TIME: 11:00am - 12:00pm local time

G.E. Huston

Saturday - July 31, 2010

WHAT: Author Signing

Perla Sarabia Johnson

WHERE: Barnes & Noble Booksellers – Firewheel Towne Center (directions)
190 Cedar Sage Drive, Unit #BB01
Garland, TX 75040
972.496.2000

TIME: 11:00am - 12:00pm local time

Perla Sarabia Johnson

Perla Sarabia Johnson was born in Miami Beach in 1962 after her parents fled Fidel Castro's communist Cuba. Perla is bilingual, being fluent in Spanish, and she is proud of her Cuban heritage, which allows her to write with a unique perspective. As a young child, she also lived in Orlando, Puerto Rico, and Norman, Oklahoma. In 1966, her family moved to San Antonio when Perla was in preschool and lived there throughout the rest of her childhood. Perla's interest in literature and composition began when she attended an all-girls' college preparatory school, St. Mary's Hall, from sixth through twelfth grade. The private school excelled in its liberal arts studies.

Perla's love of writing made her decide to study broadcast journalism at the University of Texas at Austin where she graduated a semester early in December of 1983. In the summer of 1982, she had the opportunity to study abroad at Oxford University in Oxford, England where her classes included 20th Century British Politics and 20th Century British Literature.

After graduating from college, Perla's first job was as a travel/leisure writer for the former San Antonio Light newspaper. A few months later, Perla was offered her first television position, and she began working for San Antonio's Public Broadcasting Station, KLRN-TV, as a production assistant. Her jobs in the media also include working in radio. After many years of writing for the media in news and promotion positions, she made a career change in 2002 and began substitute teaching in order to spend more time with her family.

Perla's favorite vacation spot is anywhere near the ocean where the water's warm. She also enjoys swimming, biking, and aerobics. Perla lives in North Texas with her husband and two children. Global Warning, her science fiction story, is her first book.

Saturday - July 31, 2010

WHAT: Author Signing

Jarlon Magee

WHERE: Barnes & Noble Booksellers – Firewheel Towne Center (directions)
190 Cedar Sage Drive, Unit #BB01
Garland, TX 75040
972.496.2000

TIME: 11:00am - 12:00pm local time

Jarlon Magee

Saturday - July 31, 2010

WHAT: Author Signing

Regina Stone Matthews

WHERE: Barnes & Noble Booksellers – Firewheel Towne Center (directions)
190 Cedar Sage Drive, Unit #BB01
Garland, TX 75040
972.496.2000

TIME: 11:00am - 12:00pm local time

Regina Stone Matthews

Saturday - July 31, 2010

WHAT: Author Signing

Paul R. Piche

WHERE: Barnes & Noble Booksellers – Firewheel Towne Center (directions)
190 Cedar Sage Drive, Unit #BB01
Garland, TX 75040
972.496.2000

TIME: 11:00am - 12:00pm local time

Paul R. Piche

Saturday - July 31, 2010

WHAT: Author Signing

Rosie Pova Books: Ladybug and Caterpillar, March 2008 For more books and reviews

Rosie Pova

WHERE: Barnes & Noble Booksellers – Firewheel Towne Center (directions)
190 Cedar Sage Drive, Unit #BB01
Garland, TX 75040
972.496.2000

TIME: 11:00am - 12:00pm local time

Rosie Pova

Rosie Pova was a breakfast speaker at the 4th Annual International Book Fair in Dallas, TX (October 29-November 1, 2009).

She is a mother of three, living in Dallas, Texas with her family.

Born in Bulgaria in 1975, Rosie started writing in her early adolescent years. She has always had a passion for creativity, taking on different projects. Since becoming a mom, Rosie has turned her focus on writing children's picture books and through her books, she hopes to enrich children's lives, bringing both value and entertainment with her stories.

Saturday - July 31, 2010

WHAT: Author Signing

Linda Foust Prieto

WHERE: Barnes & Noble Booksellers – Firewheel Towne Center (directions)
190 Cedar Sage Drive, Unit #BB01
Garland, TX 75040
972.496.2000

TIME: 11:00am - 12:00pm local time

Linda Foust Prieto

Saturday - July 31, 2010

WHAT: Author Signing

Albert Rodriguez Jr.

WHERE: Barnes & Noble Booksellers – Firewheel Towne Center (directions)
190 Cedar Sage Drive, Unit #BB01
Garland, TX 75040
972.496.2000

TIME: 11:00am - 12:00pm local time

Albert Rodriguez Jr.

Saturday - July 31, 2010

WHAT: Author Signing

Buz Sawyers

WHERE: Barnes & Noble Booksellers – Firewheel Towne Center (directions)
190 Cedar Sage Drive, Unit #BB01
Garland, TX 75040
972.496.2000

TIME: 11:00am - 12:00pm local time

Buz Sawyers

Saturday - July 31, 2010

WHAT: Author Signing

Larry Yoakum III

WHERE: Barnes & Noble Booksellers – Firewheel Towne Center (directions)
190 Cedar Sage Drive, Unit #BB01
Garland, TX 75040
972.496.2000

TIME: 11:00am - 12:00pm local time

Larry Yoakum III

Tuesday - August 10, 2010

WHAT: Author Signing

Sheila Lowe Books: Last Writes: A Forensic Handwriting Mystery, July 2010 Forensic Handwriting Mystery #4 Dead Write, August 2009 A Forensic Handwriting Mystery Written In Blood, September 2008 For more books and reviews

Sheila Lowe

WHERE: Legacy Books (directions)
7300 Dallas Parkway, Suite A-120
Plano, TX 75024
972.398.9888

TIME: 7:00pm - 8:00pm local time

Sheila Lowe

Like Claudia Rose, Sheila Lowe is a court-qualified handwriting expert who testifies in forensic cases. She has more than thirty years experience in the field of handwriting analysis and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology. The author of Handwriting of the Famous & Infamous, and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Handwriting Analysis, her analyses of celebrity handwritings have appeared in Time, Teen People, and Mademoiselle. Her articles on Personality Profiling and Handwriting Analysis for the Attorney have been published in several bar association magazines.

Sheila's clientele includes a wide spectrum of corporate clients, mental health professionals, attorneys, private investigators and staffing agencies, among others. Her award-winning Handwriting Analyzer software is used around the world and her profiles help uncover important information in background checks and pre-employment screening. She enjoys analyzing handwriting for individuals, too, helping them understand themselves and others better.

http://www.claudiaroseseries.com/

Thursday - August 12, 2010

WHAT: Author Signing

David Marion Wilkinson Books: Not Between Brothers, March 2010 For more books and reviews

David Marion Wilkinson

WHERE: Legacy Books (directions)
7300 Dallas Parkway, Suite A-120
Plano, TX 75024
972.398.9888

TIME: 7:00pm - 8:00pm local time

David Marion Wilkinson

David Marion Wilkinson is a fifth-generation native of Arkansas, born in Malvern, Hot Springs County, to a Presbyterian minister and his wife in 1957. His struggling family relocated to Houston, where he attended Sharpstown High School and worked every afternoon and weekends for an aging, charismatic, alcoholic, and world-weary golf pro and raconteur who told him wonderful stories of life in East Texas, serving as a bomber pilot during WWII, and his experiences on the professional tour in the era stretching from Byron Nelson to Ben Hogan and Harvey Pennick. David was also mentored by two of his high school English teachers, Margaret Stork and Freda Katz--both of whom encouraged him to write. They also begged him to shut up.

Within days of his 18th birthday, David began classes at the University of Texas at Austin, roughnecking offshore in Texas and Louisiana in order to pay for his college expenses. He earned a degree in English literature (BA, 1980) with a creative writing concentration, which first introduced him to classic and modern fiction. His undergraduate years also placed him in close proximity to working writers like Michael Mewshaw, David Ohle, Laura Furman, Zulikar Ghose, and Don Graham, among others. 1970s Austin was also home to many of the best Texas writers of the time--like Jan Reid, Edwin "Bud" Shrake, Stephen Harrigan, Gary Cartwright, Shelby Hearon, Billy Lee Brammer, and the ghost of J. Frank Dobie to name only a few. All of these energies combined to attract David's attention, fan the flames of his own ambition, and focus his mind and spirit on the goal of becoming a novelist. By graduation, he knew he wanted to be a writer. He just didn't know how or why. (Thirty years later, he's still not clear about many of these perplexing and enigmatic issues.)

After college graduation, David accepted an assignment in the oil fields of the North Sea and Saudi Arabia--work that took him to remote and hostile locations throughout the world. Those experiences helped to mature him, but, he later said, also cut him off from his middle-class trajectory and prepared him for the isolation of life as a struggling novelist. While overseas, he also read voratiously for the first time in his life, both British and American and even middle-eastern writers, one book after another. This experience would later prove invaluable. As anyone familiar with Larry McMurtry's non-fiction work can attest, one must first hunger to read before they hunger to write. For too long, David had his prerequisites upside down--and the countless idle hours of offshore drilling and long, lonely commutes on boats, trains, and airplanes to Godforsaken places, many not unlike his grandparent's farm in Arkansas, corrected this deficiency.

At the age of 25, David began to write seriously if not professionally. He returned from Saudi Arabia to Austin at age 27, where he married a ballet dancer turned lawyer, and continued to write in conjuction with working a wide variety of horrendous occupations.

Over the next twelve years David wrote four failed novels, racking up well over 300 publisher and literary agent rejections which papered the walls of his garage office and much of the house next door (absent owners), finally publishing his fifth, NOT BETWEEN BROTHERS, in 1996. BROTHERS received award-distinction, was optioned to NBC Studios/Tig Productions for a television mini-series (three years in development before the project was abandoned), and sold 100,000 copies. The 15th Annivesary edition of the book will be released in Spring 2010. The REVIEW OF TEXAS BOOKS said NOT BETWEEN BROTHERS was "simply the best historical novel published about Texas in over a decade."

David went on to publish THE EMPTY QUARTER (contemporary mainstream, 1998), OBLIVION'S ALTAR (historical, 2002), ONE RANGER (with H. Joaquin Jackson, biography/memoir, 2005). He is currently at work on an historical novel, based on true events, set in 1950s West Texas.

David's work has earned two Spur Awards (and been a finalist for that award twice more), the Violet Crown Award (by Barnes & Nobel and the Writers League of Texas), and was a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award (which says something about any Texas writer). Three of his four books are either now or have been optioned for feature films or television mini-series. Long interested in film, the author adapted THE EMPTY QUARTER for the screen with actor/producer Todd Allen (and screenwriter Bonnie Orr), and co-wrote the script adapted from OBLIVON'S ALTAR (also with Bonnie Orr). Emmy-award-winning screenwriter turned novelist Alan Brennert (www.alanbrennert.com) adapted NOT BETWEEN BROTHERS for NBC, with David modestly consulting.

David is proud of his two sons, Bratton Dean Wilkinson, now a twenty-year-old sophomore (film school) at the University of Texas; and William Tate Wilkinson, a junior basketball player and One-Act performer at Alpine High in the Big Bend of Texas. David lost his dogs, and some other stuff, in a divorce. After living in Alpine and Dallas for five years, David recently returned home to Austin, where he married and settled back down to write. He lives quietly with his writer wife, Martha Strain, a native of San Angelo, Texas, who also attended the University of Texas and graduated with an English degree. Martha's been a successful home builder and is still active in interior decorating, with a passion for fine art and great books, as well as a high tolerance of high-maintenance people. Makes it all work.

Tuesday - August 17, 2010

WHAT: Author Signing

Ronie Kendig Books: Dead Reckoning, March 2010 For more books and reviews

Ronie Kendig

WHERE: Legacy Books (directions)
7300 Dallas Parkway, Suite A-120
Plano, TX 75024
972.398.9888

TIME: 7:00pm - 8:00pm local time

Ronie Kendig

Ronie Kendig has a BS in Psychology and is a wife, mother of four, and avid writer. Her espionage thriller, Dead Reckoning, will be released through Abingdon Press (March 2010), and the first book in a military suspense series, Nightshade, will release July 2010 from Barbour Publishing. In addition to speaking engagements, Ronie volunteers with the American Christian Fiction Writers and contributes monthly to the highly acclaimed Novel Journey blog.

http://www.roniekendig.com

Wednesday - August 18, 2010

WHAT: Author Signing

Anna Mitchael Books: Just Don't Call Me Ma'am, March 2010 For more books and reviews

Anna Mitchael

WHERE: Legacy Books (directions)
7300 Dallas Parkway, Suite A-120
Plano, TX 75024
972.398.9888

TIME: 7:00pm - 8:00pm local time

Anna Mitchael

Anna Mitchael began her writing career by instructing patrons of her lemonade stand to buy some "or else." She enjoyed threatening people so much that she made a career out of it, and spent her twenties as a copywriter in advertising agencies across the nation. Just Don't Call Me Ma'am, her first published book, is the project that kept her sane throughout those years.

Anna is a reformed nomad who recently returned home to Texas. She will tolerate y'all but reserves the right to raise hell when anyone calls her ma'am.

Tuesday - August 24, 2010

WHAT: Author Signing

David Herlihy Books: The Lost Cyclist, June 2010 For more books and reviews

David Herlihy

WHERE: Legacy Books (directions)
7300 Dallas Parkway, Suite A-120
Plano, TX 75024
972.398.9888

TIME: 7:00pm - 8:00pm local time

David Herlihy

DAVID V. HERLIHY is the author of Bicycle: The History and his work has been featured on National Public Radio and Voice of America and in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Boston, and Historic Preservation. In 1999 Herlihy received the McNair History Award from the Wheelmen, the preeminent American association of antique bicycle collectors.