Miles Arceneaux is the author of four mystery novels set on the Texas Gulf Coast:Thin Slice of Life, LaSalle’s Ghost, Ransom Island, and North Beach. He writes in a style that one reviewer has called Gulf Coast Noir.
“He” or rather, “they,” will be Sisters in Crime: Heart of Texas guest speakers on Sunday, Sept. 11, at 2 p.m. at the Yarborough public library in Austin at 2200 Hancock Drive.
Miles Arceneaux, the crime fiction author, is actually composed of three people who write novels together using one pen name. They will show you how to write about murder without killing your partners.
BRENT DOUGLASS
International businessman Brent Douglass writes in airports, hotel rooms and drinking establishments around the world. At present he is a principal owner of KBC Networks and peddles data transmission equipment in Latin America and the Caribbean. He is the cultured, cosmopolitan writer of the Miles Arceneaux trio.
JOHN T. DAVIS
John T. Davis has been writing about the music, culture and personalities of Austin and the Southwest for more than 30 years for local, regional and national publications. He is the streetwise and roguishly irreverent co-author of the Miles Arceneaux canon, albeit its most discerning.
JAMES R. DENNIS
James R. Dennis, a Dominican friar, practices law in San Antonio and across Texas. He writes and teaches on spiritual matters and lives with his two ill-behaved dogs. Of the three writers, he is the good-looking, funny one. He has just published a collection of his poetry, Correspondence in D Minor.
International businessman Brent Douglass writes in airports, hotel rooms and drinking establishments around the world. At present he is a principal owner of KBC Networks and peddles data transmission equipment in Latin America and the Caribbean. He is the cultured, cosmopolitan writer of the Miles Arceneaux trio.
JOHN T. DAVIS
John T. Davis has been writing about the music, culture and personalities of Austin and the Southwest for more than 30 years for local, regional and national publications. He is the streetwise and roguishly irreverent co-author of the Miles Arceneaux canon, albeit its most discerning.
JAMES R. DENNIS
James R. Dennis, a Dominican friar, practices law in San Antonio and across Texas. He writes and teaches on spiritual matters and lives with his two ill-behaved dogs. Of the three writers, he is the good-looking, funny one. He has just published a collection of his poetry, Correspondence in D Minor.
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(Pictured (l – r) above is W.D. Smith giving copies of his mother’s books and certificates to new Aspiring Writers Ashli Williamson and Amanda Ronan) Sisters in Crime: Heart of Texas chapter celebrated its annual Barbara Burnett Smith Aspiring Writers Event on May 15 at the Yarborough branch of the Austin Public Library. We welcomed two new aspiring writers and listened to words of wisdom from mentors Russ Hall and Susan Rogers Cooper. W.D. Smith, the son of Barbara Burnett Smith and head of the Barbara Burnett Smith Mentoring Authors Foundation, talked about his mother and her contributions to Sisters in Crime. Amanda Ronan and Ashli Williamson were introduced as the 2016 new Aspiring Writers. (Pictured below clockwise are Russ Hall, Ashli Williamson’s mentor; Amanda Ronan and her mentor Susan Rogers Cooper; W.D. Smith speaking to the audience about his mother, Barbara Burnett Smith; and Ashli Williamson)
The Pflugerville Book Pfestival will showcase books and writers for all age groups and interests from 1 – 6 p.m. on Apr. 16 and 17 at the Pflugerville Public Library, 1008 Pfluger St.
Sarah Ann Robertson passed peacefully in Austin on 