Lynda Rutledge

After my panel at the Texas Book Festival...held on the grounds of the State Capitol...

....hanging out with my sister Diane, who was one of the hundreds of Texas booklovers who volunteered.

REMARKABLE setting for a BOOK FEST.

Wow. 40,000+ attendees agreed! Here's a review:

Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage Sale at the Texas Book Festival Read More 

Great FUN at the Texas Book Club Festival: PANEL-10 a.m. Oct. 27

Taken By Surprise: Two Novels about Second Chances--Contrary People by Carolyn Osborne and Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage Sale by Lynda Rutledge

Full house in Capitol Room 2010e. I'm looking all offiicial and serious...and approved by the Seal of Texas.

For your Listening Pleasure: Here's an NPR.org/KUT-FM radio interview run the week of the Fest:

MORNING EDITION at KUT-FM Radio Interview: Texas Book Festival-Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage Sale
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Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage Sale and I were invited to be a part of the famous Southern Book Festival in Nashville this October and we were on TWO PANELS. Here's the first one--to a packed house:

Southern Book Festival Panel #1:
Oct. 12, NOON, Nashville Public Library

"Of Saints, Garage Sales, and Astronauts: 3 Debut Southern Indie-Next Southern Novelists
-Amy Franklin-Wills "The Lost Saints of Tennessee"
-Lynda Rutledge "Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage Sale"
-Lydia Netzer "Shine Shine Shine"
--with moderator Gail Kerr Nashville news columnist Read More 

Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage Sale and I were invited to be a part of the famous Southern Book Festival in Nashville this October and we were on TWO PANELS.

Southern Book Festival Panel #2:
"Pulpwood Queen Present Royal Southern READS
Oct. 13, 11 a.m. Nashville Legislative Branch

-with Pulpwoodqueen Kathy Patrick
-Lynda Rutledge "Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage Sale"
-Jenny Wingfield "Homecoming of Samuel Lake"
-Robert Hicks "Widow of the South"
-Amy Hill Hearth "Miss Dreamsville"
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