Texas Island Style

Where can you

stay awhile at the Hotel Ritz in New Orleans
experience a time lapse trip along the Oregon Trail
spend a day in a one-room rural school house
experience a night with timid inter-galactic visitors
enjoy a beach camp-out followed by a day at the circus

all tied together by poetic interludes?
The answer is: in the newly released, Texas Island Style.

This anthology of short stories, poems and even songs was compiled by members of the Port A Pens writing group and the youth writer members of the Port A Pencils. This imaginative group of people not only wrote everything in the anthology, they also edited and published the book, even created the cover. Richard Mueller, Ruby Peru Stell and Gary James Moeller get credit for the compilation.

The book’s official “launch” is being marked with readings, music and munchies at a Book Release Jubilee, Sunday, Feb. 24 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., at Third Coast Music at 502 E Avenue G in Port Aransas. Contributors to the anthology will read stories and poems, and yours truly will read a selection from The Lost King. The public is invited to what promises to be a lively party. I’ll see you there.