Joe O’Connell and Owen Egerton Represent The Dalton Gang at Texas Book Fest ‘08

October 27, 2008

Two very special Dalton authors, Joe M. O’Connell and Owen Egerton, will take part in the festivities of Texas Book Festival 2008! Beginning this Saturday, November 1, with events scheduled throughout the weekend, the Texas Book Festival is a celebration and exhibition of the best published works the Lone Star State has to offer.

Joe O’Connell will be on-site as he is a finalist for the Writers’ League of Texas Violet Crown Book Award in Fiction. The WLT will announce this year’s winner in the State Capitol Building at 3pm on Saturday, November 1. O’Connell has earned this honor for his best-selling novel Evacuation Plan. The Violet Crown Award honors outstanding published books written by members of the Writers’ League of Texas. It is presented annually in the following categories: fiction, nonfiction, literary prose & poetry.

Congratulations for this achievement, Joe! We’re still rooting for you!

On Sunday, November 2, Owen Egerton will moderate a panel discussion on adolescence-themed literature entitled “The Worst Years of Your Life: Writing about Adolescence.” This event comes as part of the 2008 Texas Book Festival and is hosted by the Austin Bat Cave (1807 W. 11th St.), where the event will occur. Open and free to the public, the discussion will get underway at 8pm. Owen will guide the evening’s discussion of angst, depression, growing pains, and all other things that makes growing up so hard. The panelists will discuss what makes writing about adolescence such a unique and challenging undertaking.

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Owen Egerton Named Best Local Author…Again!

October 27, 2008

We at Dalton Publishing are incredibly proud to announce that one of our own talented authors has once again been named Best Local Author in Austin. For the second year in a row, the readers of the Austin Chronicle have named Owen Egerton the Best Local Author in the Best of Austin Readers Poll, saying his “biting wit and spin on the world make for intelligent humor and foreshadow a long career in the written, spoken, and comedic worlds.” The Dalton Gang couldn’t agree more!

Owen first garnered attention and praise in the 1990s as a part of Austin’s comedy scene, and he is doing the same now as an essential element in Austin’s burgeoning literary landscape. Dalton Publishing recognized his talents as a comedian and his gift for writing early on, and we were delighted to publish his first collection of short stories How Best to Avoid Dying in the summer of 2007. Labeled “one of the funniest guys in Austin” by the Austin American-Statesman, critics and readers alike appreciate this humorist’s “deft touch,” comparing him to the likes of George Saunders and David Foster Wallace. We are proud to see that Owen is enjoying the acclaim and admiration he is so deserving of!

Next month, Owen will participate in the Austin Public Library’s Meet the Author Series at 7pm on Monday, November 17th at the Spicewood Springs Branch of the Austin Public Library. This is a great opportunity to meet Austin’s own Best Local Author and hear him read from his award-winning collection of short stories, How Best to Avoid Dying.

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Restless Astronomy Garnering Sensational Reviews

October 8, 2008

Award-winning book review site, Armchair Interviews, has given Restless Astronomy by Michael Gilmore a fabulous review. Sarah van Ingen, reviewer, relentlessly praises the collection, calling Gilmore “no amateur poet” and declaring that “some of these poems are among the best being published in the U.S. today.” Van Ingen concludes her rave review noting that “Gilmore’s talent is as good as it gets when it comes to poetry…this is a very strong pick in the poetry genre.”

Read the entire review here…

Guest reviewer Cynthia Murphy has called Restless Astronomy “very enjoyable” in her recent review for Breeni Books. She notes that “Gilmore uses lovely language and writes with a high degree of confidence.” She continues on to call the collection “a colorful mix of poems.” The reviewer praises Gilmore’s shorter poems and his use of beautiful imagery. Murphy compliments the book cover, which she calls “simple, yet intriguing” and ends her review naming Restless Astronomy “a fun, quirky mix of poems.”

Read the entire review here…

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Restless Astronomy Review on Midwest Book Review

October 6, 2008

Midwest Book Review is running Robert Stikmanz’s review of Restless Astronomy, a collection of poems by Michael Gilmore, for their October Reviewer’s Bookwatch.
You can read the entire review by following this link, then searching the page for Stikmanz.

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