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

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Participant
City
Titles / type of work
Abilene Writers' Guild Abilene Banding together to learn, explore, and share talents
Charles Anderson Abilene Buddy World War II Prisoner #1831; Confederate General William Read "Dirty Neck Bill" Scurry, In Search of the Buffalo: The Story of J. Wright Mooar, Reflections: An Album of West Texas History, Deep Creek Merchant: The Story of William Henry "Pete" Snyder
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
Pierce Burns Austin Few Good Horses
Stewart Caffey Abilene 1927 Tested Receipts [Recipes]; First United Methodist Church Rochester, Texas, 1906-2006; Sleeping Rattlesnake
Dixie Cash Arlington pen name of Pamela Cumbie and Jeffery McClanahan (book titles listed under those names)
Annette Colby Dallas

Body Redesign; Your Highest Potential

Russell C. Connor North Richland Hills

Race the Night; Second Unit

Mike Cox Austin Texas Rangers - Wearing the Cinco Peso, Texas Ranger Tales, Texas Ranger Tales II, Texas Rangers - Men of Action and Valor, Texas Disasters, More Texas Basic Books, Historic Amarillo, Standoff in Texas, Fred Gipson - Texas Storyteller, Red Rooster Country
Pamela Cumbie (pen name Dixie Cash) Arlington Don't Make Me Choose Between You and My Shoes; My Heart May be Broken but my Hair Looks Great; Since You're Leaving Anyway, Take Out the Trash
Evanell Ator Davis Abilene A Capella Deux; Honest Woman; Maiden Texas; Texas Echoes; Where Dust Devils Dance
Ellen Newton Driscoll Azle Dragons of Candlewood; When Christians Divorce
Gabrielle Faust Austin Eternal Vigilance
Larry Fink Abilene The Armstrong Browning Library; George MacDonald: Images of His World
Debi Kay Goodwin Merkel No More Hard Times
Dr. Don B. Graham Austin Cowboys and Cadillacs; Giant Country; Kings of Texas; Literary Austin; Lone Star Literature; No Name on the Bullet; South by Southwest; State Fare; Texas - a Literary Portrait
John Hachmann Austin Dark Water Murders; Journey into Peril; Tears of Destiny
Jeff Haseltine Abilene How to Cheat at Cribbage with Quotations from William Shakespeare
Marie Hejl Austin Cooking with Marie
Joaquin Jackson Alpine One Ranger, One Ranger Returns
Stan Johnson Sweetwater J'ever Notice, Growing Up Country in West Texas; Zat Right?
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
Sherri Knight Stephenville Tom P's Fiddle - a True Texas Tale
Thelma Fry Martin Hurst Geordie Giraffe and the Evil Spell
Jeffery McClanahan (pen names Dixie Cash & Anna Jeffrey) Granbury Don't Make Me Choose Between You and My Shoes; My Heart May be Broken but my Hair Looks Great; Since You're Leaving Anyway, Take Out the Trash; Love of a Cowboy; Love of a Lawman
Louis E. Murzone Mesquite His Counsel Shall Stand - Transforming Your Reality into God's Expectation
Barbara Newton Azle Sammie; When Christians Divorce
Carol Parsons Roscoe Advent Phoenix
Kathy Patrick Jefferson Owner of Beauty and the Book a Hair Salon/Bookstore
Organizer of The Pulpwood Queens' Book Club
Author of The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara-Wearing, Book-Sharing Guide to Life
Tom Perini Buffalo Gap Texas Cowboy Cooking
Al Pickett Abilene Greatest Texas Sports Stories You've Never Heard; Team of the Century
Rebecca Rather Fredericksburg Pastry Queen, Pastry Queen Christmas
Edward J. Robinson Abilene Fight is On - a History of the African-American Churches of Christ in the Lone Star State, 1865 - 2000; Show Us How You do It - Marshall Kebble and the Rise of Balck Churches of Christ in the United States, 1914 - 1968
Jim Sayles Leander Bull Catchers
Lynn Sheffield Simmons Argyle 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
Deborah Strickland Baird Just One Life; Mary Reeder - Prairie Girl
Texas Star Trading Company Abilene Featuring Texas-related books and items.
Jodi Thomas Lubbock Beneath the Texas Sky, Cherish the Dream, Finding Mary Blaine, Forever in Texas, Northern Star, Prairie Song, Secrets of Rosa Lee, Tender Texan, Texas Love Song, Texas Princess, Texas Rain, Texan and the Lady, Texan's Dream, Texan's Luck, Texan's Reward, Texan's Touch, Texan's Wager, To Kiss a Texan, To Tame a Texan's Heart, To Wed in Texas, Twilight in Texas, Twisted Creek, Two Texas Hearts, When a Texas Gambles, Widows of Wichita County
Carol Ann Walt Rising Star

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

Barbara Washburn Arlington Hiding Place
David Weller Abilene poetry; Bible Lights; God and Nature; Inspirations; Reform Activist Hearts; Juxtapositions; Sing Unto the Lord
Dorothy Whisenhunt Abilene Heartchild; Santa's Helpers - Jennie, Jack, and Jill; Welcome Wings; Welcome Wings II
Tom Wideman Abilene Texas Rattlesnake Tales
Rose Williams Abilene Gods and other Odd Creatures; Lighter Side of the Dark Ages; Cicero the Patriot; Once Upon the Tiber; Latin Quips at Your Fingertips; Tres Porculi; Which Way to the Vomitorium?; Young Romans; Aeneid
Jim Wilson Abilene Down to Earth Poetry
Gail Hughbanks Woerner Austin Belly Full of Bedsprings - The History of Bronc Riding; Cowboy Up! The History of Bull Riding; Fearless Funnymen - The History of the Rodeo Clown; Rope to Win - The History of Steer, Calf, and Team Roping
Alissa Wood Saginaw Cruise Control; Stolen Gem

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