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The Historical Novel Society Highlights Unspoken as an Editors' Choice selection: A book that “will stick around in your mind, because legacy isn’t just what’s passed down. It’s what you refuse to let slip away.”

A reviewer calls Unspoken "Both heart-wrenching and hopeful, shining with the grit of those who dare to redefine what 'home' truly means."

See 1945 through the eyes of someone who lived it, 80 years ago, when the headlines called it: PEACE on V/J Day. Victory Over Japan was declared and in Unspoken, Ruby Lee Becker recounts the day.

With new research showing the world's fresh water supply is quickly disappearing, it's not a leap for an author to plot a dystopian waterless future — and another novel in The Dust Series

On This Day: On July 19, 1937, the search for Amelia Earhart's plane ended. "She was in rebellion against a world that had been made, for women, too safe, too confining."

How did Ruby Lee Becker, the main character in Unspoken: A Dust Novel, become a heroine on the classic hero’s journey?

How I wrote a historically accurate, wickedly fictional novel by gathering ten years of Texas research—on wheels, by click, and by page

I'm playing favorites with books while I count down the days to the Unspoken Book Club Launch July3. Catch three+ of my favorites.

In the Lone Star State, we celebrate Texas Writers Month in May. For the final part of this series in Pairings, featuring Texas authors all month, we finish with those who are just beginning — and a few who led the way.

Diving deep into the creative evolution of a seasoned art director turned full-time author on the Hill Country Authors Podcast.

Today in Texas Writers Month, we turn to the women. When you're reading Texas authors who write about Texas, and watching films set in Texas, having a woman's point of view is in itself a whole new genre. Here are nine Texas women writers to get to know.

With so many Texas authors to applaud and read in May during Texas Writers Month, are you wondering where to start?

Even the dystopian novels I'm reading these days aren't predicting that. Instead, they're showing us our history, and a way forward.

On This Day 90 Years Ago, the Biggest, Baddest, Blackest Dust Storm of Them All Struck the Texas Panhandle — and set the stage for the opening of my historical novel, Unspoken (A Dust Novel) ... on Black Sunday: April 14, 1935.

Nearly a century ago, the unthinkable happened: The U.S. was five years into the biggest ecological disaster we'd ever known.

These authors found inspiration in the hidden histories of accomplished women, whose achievements went untold.

When First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt met a Texas dust storm in 1939, her encounter gave me an idea for my historical novel, Unspoken

For Women's History Month, we're reading the stories of women once marginalized or totally overlooked in historical fiction

There's a Magic to Celebrating Milestones...and It Begins With Champagne (and Books About It)

Quitter's Day has come and gone, and with it, 80% of our 2025 New Year Resolutions. It's not too late for this smoother means to success.