Never let it be said that an old dog can't learn new tricks. Of course, it may take an old dog longer to learn a new trick, but I'm still able to get up and walk to the feed bowl.
After some 40 years of talking about Texas books in Texas newspapers, I hope to expand into the new medium of the blogosphere. My hope will be that word of this site will spread and we can get a real good conversation going about Texas books. I am literally learning as I go here, so we'll see what happens.
My plan, at this point, is to update this blog as frequently as I can. I encourage comments, suggestions, suggested books to write about, and, of course, your opinion on Texas books.
I am primarily interested in talking about mainstream Texas books...titles from commercial publishers, regional presses and academic presses. I certainly will talk about well-done self-published books, however.
Reviews of Texas books, ruminations on writing (including my work), editing, publishing, and book selling from a long-time Texas writer and book critic. Mike Cox began reviewing books as a young reporter in the late 1960s. Since 1982, the Austin American-Statesman, where he worked from 1970 to 1985, has carried his book column, "Texana." Lone Star Book Blog went live in 2007.
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About Me
- Mike Cox
- I'm a bona fide original real native Texan, born in Amarillo long enough ago to be in the sophomore class of Baby Boomers. I began my newspaper career on the San Angelo Standard-Times in 1967. I started reviewing Texas-related books the same year and haven't stopped. In addition to reviewing books, I write books. I have had 21 non-fiction titles published. My latest book, "Texas Panhandle Tales," came out earlier this year. My best-selling and longest work is a two-volume history of the Texas Rangers: "Time of the Rangers: The Texas Rangers 1900 to Present," which hit the book stores in mid-August 2009 and "The Texas Rangers: Wearing the Cinco Peso, 1821-1900," (New York: Forge Books, $25.95)which came out in 2008. These two books constitute a 250,000-word, nearly 1,000-page popular history of Texas' legendary law enforcement agency. I am an elected member of the Texas Institute of Letters and have won numerous journalism awards over the years.
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Books by Mike Cox
- Historic Photos of Texas Lawmen
- Historic Photos of Texas Oil
- Historic Photos of Heroes of the Old West
- West Texas Tales
- Big Bend Tales
- Texas Ranger Tales II
- Texas Ranger Tales
- Texas Disasters: True Stories of Tragedy and Survival
2 comments:
Hey, Mike, this is awesome!! The Rag Blog is also on blogspot; we've had a blog going for about a year, I think; one fellow who is all by himself in a tiny town in Washington State is doing all the actual blogging, however! We have not developed much of a readership, and we are all real bad about commenting on things, but I consider it an terrific resource.
I will put a link to your site on my website next time I have a chance to do any updating on that ponderous entity -- it takes a while to do it right, and right now time is at a premium; I know you know what I mean!
But hey, links and e-mailing everyone you know are important in developing a readership, and I hope it works out well for you! Do let me know if you have a chance to mention my book on your site; I will then, of course, e-mail everybody I know andd tell them to check it out!!
Thanks, Mike --
Mariann
Mike-
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