Happy July 4! Here's a special show at my alma mater, Texas Tech University.

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Texas Tales

“A lush tangle of small-town life branches out in this engrossing collection of short stories.” –Kirkus Reviews

“The Acorn Stories delivers insight into a fictional small town, illustrating the ups and downs of life.” –Novels Alive

“A vivid West Texas story-cycle that blends sharp comedy with hard truths, rewarding readers who like recurring-cast, small-town literary fiction built from interlocking short stories.” –True Voice Review

Texas Comedy/Drama Trailer at N. N. Light's Book Heaven

Comedy and Drama With A Texas Twist

Happy Anniversary

Happy 25th anniversary to my Texas fiction collection, The Acorn Stories, and 100th anniversary to my alma mater, Texas Tech University.

Looking Back at Indie Writing and Publishing

Please read my guest book blog entry Approaching 25 Years of The Acorn Stories.

Gay in Lubbock, Texas? (Entry updated 11/18/20) In August of 1997, I started the online newsletter Rainbow: Lubbock (originally as Hub Triangle). It filled a void for gay Lubbock information on the Web. Much more capable Web page designers later filled that void, so I stopped writing R:L in July of 2007. Please turn to the following pages for finding or promoting information of specific interest to Lubbock LGBTs. If you notice mistakes, omissions, or outdated material, please contact the sites with those problems and/or the people who would have submitted that material. Keeping community-based Web sites up-to-date demands a lot of work and a lot of community input. Dallas Voice Equality Texas Lubbock PRIDE Metropolitan Community Church-Lubbock Facebook Page OUTwest Lubbock PFLAG-Lubbock This Week In Texas (twit) For more resources, please click on the labels that appear just after this entry. Share buttons also appear there.

The Abstract reviews The Acorn Stories

"...a collection of short stories that use a small West Texas town as its backdrop. Each story shows a little something about the townspeople. I really liked how it all kind of intertwines too. While reading 'The Acorn Stories,' you really do feel like you are there. That is another plus for reading the collection."

Read more at The Abstract.

New Page for Texas Fiction Collection The Acorn Stories

Short stories about rural life.

“Rent” – Review by Lauren Estlinbaum

Lubbock, Texas: As expected, I loved the local production of Rent. I also came across a review that captures it well.

I would recommend this production to anyone.--Lauren Estlinbaum

Read her review at The HUB @ TTU.

Lubbock, Texas: Texas Tech University’s Department of Theatre & Dance presents RENT

"October 10th through 13th and 17th through 20th on the Maedgen Mainstage, located at 2812 18th Street between Boston and Flint Avenues. Curtain times for the 2013-2014 Mainstage Theatre season are 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 2 p.m. on Sundays.

"A pop cultural phenomenon with songs that rock and a story that resonates with audiences, with book, music, and lyrics by Jonathan Larson and directed by Dr. Linda Donahue, RENT is loosely based on Puccini’s La Boheme and follows a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York’s Lower East Side under the shadow of the HIV/AIDS crisis."

Read more from TTU.

Read about Texas books at

twitter, Goodreads Listopia, and Black Caviar Book Club.

Above All Things: The Journey of an Evangelical Christian Mother and Her Gay Daughter

Author to speak at St. John's Methodist Church about Accepting Gay Daughter. Shari Johnson appearing at PFLAG-Lubbock meeting.

Lubbock’s Texas Tech University will be one of numerous institutions around the country to present Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays.

Lubbock Online: Tech to participate in worldwide simultaneous performance.

Tech Announce: Standing On Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays.

Dallas Voice: Lubbock Pride Festival On. It's today.

More information:
http://www.outwestlubbock.org/

Updated FaceBook wall posts:
http://www.facebook.com/lubbockpride2011?sk=wall

Discovering Texas Tales.

My West Texas fiction collection The Acorn Stories has received another four-star review at GoodReads.

Read the reviews of TAS at Kirkus, Amazon.Com, GoodReads, bn.com (2nd edition), and bn.com (1st edition).

Discover West Texas fiction and more at Love Those Excerpts. Read daily excerpts for books of all genres.

Lubbock, Texas: We Think Pink In Lubbock, featuring Sweet Potato Queen Jill Conner Browne and renowned British chef Jon Ashton. Tuesday, October 5. Join the fight against cancer!

Fight Cancer, the book trailer for The Acorn Gathering, has received over a thousand viewings at YouTube.



Preview The Acorn Gathering at Smashwords. This anthology takes readers across several landscapes, during times of trouble, change, hope, and triumph.

West Texas Tales Still Treasured

Lubbock, Texas, the week of October 5: homeComing OUT Week at Texas Tech University will include activist Shelby Knox, musical duo Jason & deMarco, a discussion about outing people, an epilogue to The Laramie Project, and various other events. The life of former Lubbock resident Shelby Knox provided the basis for the documentaries The Education of Shelby Knox and Shelby Knox Redux.