About this Event
Please welcome Jack Woodville London and Loren Steffy to celebrate Dangerous Latitudes!
This event is free and open to the public.
- Start time: 4:00 P.M.
- Run time: 45-60 minutes, followed by a signing line.
- Location: The second floor of BookPeople.
The author will be signing and personalizing copies of the book after the speaking portion of the event.
- To get a book signed, a copy of the event book or an item of equal value must be purchased from BookPeople.
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About the book:
Six years after the fall of the Alamo, Mexican armies invade freely across the Rio Grande and Texas is but one skirmish away from losing its hard-won independence. Against this backdrop, naïve surveyor Alexandre LaBranche accepts a dubious commission to map the Rio Grande boundary between Texas and Mexico but soon finds himself far out of his depth. Bullied into spying by a vindictive Sam Houston, saddled by two bumbling horse thieves, and unsettled by his growing feelings for a mysterious young Black woman who seems to know his business better than he does, Alexandre’s peril escalates when the Mexican army invades San Antonio and takes him prisoner.
Based on rich historical research and laced with exuberant, Texas-sized historical figures such as Sam Houston, Mirabeau Lamar, and Jack Hays, Dangerous Latitudes is a quest across a war-torn frontier that becomes a race to save two hundred captured Texans who the Mexican army has marked for death.
About the author:
Jack Woodville London is a historian and author who is Director Emeritus of Writing Education for the Military Writers Society of America (MWSA). He first studied creative writing under crime fiction author Peter May in St. Céré, France, and is presently a postgraduate student at Rewley College, Oxford University. He lives in Austin, Texas.
Jack is also a speaker and seasoned writing teacher, who participates in speaking opportunities with state, national and international historical and writing groups, including MWSA, the Writers League of Texas, SouthWest Writers, Historical Novel Society, and Historical Writers of America. Jack and his work have been featured in national, regional and local print, television, radio, podcasts and social media. He was given the President’s Award by MWSA in 2022 for his contribution to teaching the craft of creative writing to military veterans.
Jack’s previous books include the multi-award-winning French Letters trilogy, about the American generation that came of age in World War II and their children, Shades of the Deep Blue Sea and A Novel Approach (the accepted text used by the Military Writers Society of America to introduce veterans to the basics of writing).
About the moderator:
Loren Steffy is founder of Stoney Creek Publishing Group, an independent publisher that focuses on Texas narratives. He has been a writer-at-large for Texas Monthly since 2013 and is a managing director for 30 Point Strategies, where he heads the 30 Point Press publishing imprint.
Steffy is the former business columnist for the Houston Chronicle and previously was the Texas bureau chief and a senior writer for Bloomberg News. He has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Texas A&M University and lives in Wimberley with his wife, two dogs and an ungrateful cat.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
BookPeople, 603 North Lamar Boulevard, Austin, United States
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