Welcome to Pairings

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.

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

In the 1930s, these women captured Texas on film—the good, the bad, and the truly ugly.

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

All it took in 1885 to build Houston a city library was a book club, begun by women with a desire for "intellectual culture."

Just when you get used to land, lots of land, and starry skies above, Texas shows you something else. Take a Panhandle road trip in photos.

Let's say you're not from Texas. (Cue Lyle Lovett) But you got here quick as you could. Now you want to learn how to be a Texan. Here's how.

There are miles and miles of Texas, and you can learn a lot about what Texans love about their great state in six days on the road.

Though the Terlingua ghosts are long gone, the visitors still flock to the town's Chili Cookoff and visit the historic final resting place

Road trips have an appeal that goes way back in time, and roadside oddities abound for time travelers willing to take a fork in the road.