Evening with the Authors

04/26/2025

Thoughtful post from a true American.

What my favorite military flight reminds me of today

09/26/2024

Our final featured author (that makes six!) is Jesse Sublett, a name you may have heard around Austin during that last 40 years. For several decades now, Jesse Sublett—author, artist, musician–has been doing his part to make Austin one of the coolest places on the planet.
As a writer, Jesse has been published in the New York Times, Texas Monthly and the Austin Chronicle, and has also written for television and film. His book writing career began with Rock Critic Murders, the first of a trilogy of Martin Fender novels, set in the Austin music scene of the 1980s. His memoir, Never the Same Again, was praised by Michael Connelly as “crazy, funny, and sometimes deeply tragic, but ultimately, an inspiring and always highly readable survivor’s tale.” Other books, such as Armadillo World Headquarters: A Memoir (with Eddie Wilson), and Esther’s Follies, investigate the creative aspects of the live music capital of the world, while his true crime classic, 1960s Austin Gangsters, takes readers on a joy ride through the Texas underworld of the mid-1960s. Last Gangster in Austin: Frank Smith, Ronnie Earle, and the End of a Junkyard Mafia, coming April 19, 2022, will be Sublett’s 13th book.

09/25/2024

Our next featured author is Karen MacInerney. Karen is the USA Today bestselling author of multiple cozy mystery series, and her victims number well into the double digits. She lives in Austin, Texas with her sassy family and a menagerie of animals. When she’s not chauffeuring children or coming up with creative ways to kill people, you can usually find Karen hiding away with a book, dodging laundry, playing in the kitchen, or attending martial arts classes. (No fatalities on the last two fronts–at least not yet.)

09/24/2024

Joann Garza-Mayberry grew up in San Antonio, Texas and is a graduate of Texas State University and the Univerity of the Incarnate Word. She has had a successful career as a Texas Game Warden stationed in Caldwell County since 2004. Joann enjoys community outreach and has written children's books that share important lessons from some of her own interactions as a Fish and Wildlife Conservation Officer. Garza-Mayberry is also often featured on Animal Planet’s Lone Star Law, a reality TV show that follows the numerous game wardens of Texas Parks & Wildlife. Look for her books, Callie Catches a Lunker, Will and Emma Go Boating, and Joey Takes a Shot at Hunting at the event.

09/24/2024

Tickets are still available for the event on October 5th! Support your local library and all the things they do for Lockhart readers. Visit the Eugene Clark Library or www.eveningwiththeauthors.com to purchase your ticket today. (Yummy catered food and wine will be served while you visit with the six authors!)

09/22/2024

Jennifer duBois is the author of The Last Language. Her first novel, A Partial History of Lost Causes, was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and winner of the California Book Award for First Work of Fiction. Soon after its publication, duBois received a Whiting Award and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Award. Her second novel, Cartwheel, was a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award and the winner of the Housatonic Book Award. And her third novel, The Spectators, was a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship and a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the Stanford University Stegner Fellowship, duBois teaches in the MFA program at Texas State University. She lives in Austin. Read more about Jennifer at https://www.jennifer-dubois.com/

09/16/2024

09/05/2024

Adrianna Cuevas is the author of the Pura Belpre honor book The Total Eclipse of Nestor Lopez, the Edgar Award winning The Ghosts of Rancho Espanto, and many other popular middle grade titles. She is a first-generation Cuban-American originally from Miami, Florida. A former Spanish and ESOL teacher, Adrianna currently resides outside of Austin, Texas with her husband and son. When not substitute teaching at her local high school, cheering for the Florida Panthers hockey team, and setting off the smoke alarm in her kitchen, she is writing her next middle grade novel.

08/29/2024

Introducing our first featured author of 2024, Danielle Belleney, M.Sc. A Texas-raiseed wildlife biologist, cemetery birder, and science communicator based in San Marcos, TX, Danielle is a member of The Black AF in STEM Collective and a co-organizer of Black Birders Week. She brings us two books: This is a Book for People Who Love Birds and The Junior Birder's Handbook.

08/28/2024

Update: This will be the 24th Evening with the Authors event, not the 23rd as was previously stated. We hope to see you at the Dr. Eugene Clark Library on October 5, 2024 at 6:30 pm. Tickets can be purchased online at our website, eveningwiththeauthors.com.

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07/13/2024

We are excited to invite you to the 23rd annual Evening With the Authors on October 5, 2024. Evening with the Authors is a fundraising event to support the oldest continuously operating library in Texas: the charming 124-year-old Dr. Eugene Clark Library in Downtown Lockhart.
Six authors will have their own tables where they can sign your books, answer questions, and enjoy lively conversations. It is a wonderful opportunity to get to know well-respected and nationally-known authors. We will have Barnes & Noble books available for purchase from each of our authors.
​The ticket price includes appetizers, wine, and homemade desserts.
We hope to see you there!

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10/04/2023

This Saturday! We are excited to invite you to the 23rd annual Evening with The Authors, a fundraising event to support the charming 123-year-old Dr. Eugene Clark library. Our guests will have an opportunity to explore the very building and programs that we are supporting.

Six authors will have their own tables where they can sign your books, answer questions, and enjoy lively conversations. It is a wonderful opportunity to get to know well-respected and nationally-known authors. We will have Barnes & Noble books available for purchase from each of our authors. And there will be complimentary appetizers, wine, and homemade desserts.