The Big Texas Read Online Reading Series, March 27th, 2021

Unplug from the outside world and JOIN us at The Big Texas Read (TBTR) brought to you by Writing Workshops Dallas and Gemini Ink. As featured in Poets&Writers, Forbes, Book Riot, The Dallas Morning News, and the San Antonio Express-News, we’ll be reading ONE work of prose or poetry written by a Texas author every month! We’ll be with you all the way from page one to “THE END” with our Zoom author chats and Q&A’s, scheduled every two weeks. It's a big virtual book club, and we'd love for you to join in the fun!

THE BOOK

We're reading and discussing Heather Harper Ellett's brilliant debut novel Ain't Nobody Nobody on March 27th, 2021.

"One of the best books of the year. This cracking debut is packed with quirky characters that I adored. Ellett's dialogue sparks off the page and the rural Texas setting where the county dump is a landmark is hypnotic and unceasing." --Carole Barrowman, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel "Funny, heartfelt, and suspenseful, AIN'T NOBODY NOBODY is terrific from the first page to the last. Grab it." --Meg Gardiner, Edgar Award-winning author of the UNSUB series "(An) auspicious debut...Ellett balances the goofiness of the crimes and setting with some effective storytelling, never letting the real emotional stakes for the characters get obscured. Carl Hiassen fans will find a lot to like." --Publishers Weekly "This debut novel is most notable for Ellett's supremely witty prose and the oddball but deeply relatable characters. Readers looking for a fresh, offbeat voice in the mystery genre will find it here." --Library Journal "Good plot material, and the author handles it with skill. And humor. Harper Ellett is also after a poetic affect, and she displays considerable talent." --Booklist "The complicated and flawed Mayhill makes a wonderful protagonist...reminiscent of certain British dark comedies such as Midsomer Murders, only with a strong Texas twang." --Mystery Scene "The dark poetry of East Texas has found a new, lyrical voice in Heather Harper Ellett's debut book, Ain't Nobody Nobody, where the landscape is as feral and potentially deadly as the predators that inhabit it; and where love and loyalty can prove as dangerous as greed and betrayal." ―Kathleen Kent, Edgar-nominated author of The Dime "A gritty, well-written story with so much heart. Ellett is an exciting new voice on the mystery scene, and Ain't Nobody Nobody is a fantastic read for those who like a straightforward mystery with flesh-and-blood characters and a strong sense of place." --Criminal Element

• 3/27/21: Heather Harper Ellet: Ain’t Nobody Nobody
  

• Debut Novelist Fowzia Karimi: Above Us the Milky Way
• Edgar-winning novelist Joe R. Lansdale: Edge of Dark Water
• Winner of the Iowa Prize for Nonfiction Kendra Allen: When You Learn the Alphabet
• 2020 Texas Poet Laureate Emmy Perez: With The River on Our Face
  
• New York Times Bestselling Author Kathleen Kent: The Dime & The Burn
• Critically Acclaimed Novelist David Samuel Levinson: Tell Me How This Ends Well
• Award-Winning writer Antonio Ruiz-Camacho's Barefoot Dogs
• San Antonio Poet Andrea "Vocab" Sanderson's She Lives in Music

We're excited to partner with Interabang Books in Dallas and The Twig Book Shop in San Antonio for The Big Texas Read. You can order your book directly from either bookstore and have it delivered to your front door!