East Texas Book Fest 2011

Dr. David Ciambrone is a retired scientist, Oceanographer, professor, US Treasury Commissioner and author living in Georgetown, Texas. Dave wrote a helpful hint newspaper column under the name “Ask Uncle Dave” for the Williamson County Sun and as Aunt Kay in a paper in California. He has published eight mysteries and has also published three management books and a nonfiction reference book on poisons. His ninth novel will be published in 2012-THE TRASHY GOURMET. He has two more novels in progress.
Dave has been a requested speaker and seminar presenter at management and technical organizations, writer’s groups/ leagues, schools and universities and has presented seminars in various subjects from management, science and engineering to writing. Dave was a professor in California and at other schools. Read more at davidciambrone.com

David Davis is an author, cartoonist, and speaker. He grew up in San Antonio, Texas. Davis is the author of the best-selling  FANDANGO STEW, TEXAS MOTHER GOOSE, TEXAS ZEKE AND THE LONGHORN, and TEXAS AESOP'S FABLES. He also wrote JAZZ CATS and TEN REDNECK BABIES,both of which were named to the Children’s Choice Top 100 list. Jazz Cats was a finalist for the Texas Golden Spur Award as well. He authored A SOUTHERN CHILD'S GARDEN OF VERSES, a collection of his poems for young people. His satirical Night before Christmas books are perennial comedy best-sellers. In addition to his books, Davis has published pen-and-ink artwork, cartoons, poems, humor, and short stories in various magazines and newspapers, including TRAVELS WITH GRANDPAW, his graphic art stories about old time Texas, now featured on this website.

 Davis won an award from the Mississippi Press Association for his political cartooning some years ago. David earned a prize in the Writer's Digest Writing Competition in the Children's/Young Adult fiction category for his short story "BLACK DIAMOND." Davis is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. He is an active speaker and presenter at educational conferences and schools, including LeTourneau University, Baylor University, and Texas A&M at Corpus Christi. He has been a featured author at the Texas Library Association Convention, and the Texas Book Festival. Find out more about David’s books at www.davidrdavis.com.

Bruce Foster has designed nearly 40 pop-up books for publishers, museums and companies. His clients include Simon and Schuster, Random House; Little, Brown and Company; Melcher Media; becker&mayer!; Disney-Hyperion Books for Children; Candlewick Press; Sports Illustrated Kids; Up With Paper; Disney Productions; the Museum of Modern Art; Insight Editions and many more. Perhaps his biggest audience to date ironically has not come through books, but his work in films: Bruce designed the pop-ups for Disney’s “Enchanted” seen in the opening scenes and throughout the movie. Bruce’s interest in three dimensional art can be traced back to his time as an art student at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Although in the painting program, his works increasingly became layered, shaped, multi-media constructions.
Later, while freelancing at a design agency in Houston, Texas, Bruce was offered a project from Minute Maid Foods. The project’s goal was to create a mailer that would capture a three dimensional focus, while introducing their first foray into juice packs featuring Hi-C’s Ectocooler.

The mailer’s original design incorporated optical illusions, 3-D glasses and a pop-up. In the end the pop-up was the main focus.
A year later, Bruce received a call from Ottenheimer Publishers in Baltimore, MD, where art director Bea Jackson offered him freelance work designing pop-ups.

This was a moment that changed Bruce’s career goals and life. Until the time of the Minute Maid commission, Bruce had never even owned a pop-up book! For seven years he freelanced with Ottenheimer, and eventually obtained a commission from Robin Corey at Simon and Schuster for Marjorie Priceman’s LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD in 2000. Bruce lives in Houston, Texas with his lovely wife, Lori, two beautiful daughters, Nicole and Lydia, along with 1 dog, Ginger, and 4 cats: Patches (the million dollar cat--so named after a successful, but costly stay at Texas A&M Veterinary Hospital), Tigger, Holly, and Cleo. Bruce obviously enjoys a crowd. See his web site paperpops.com

David Haynes has been called one of America's best young novelists.The author of six critically acclaimed novels and five children's books, he is director of creative writing at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. The former sixth grade teacher's short stories have been heard on "Selected Shorts" on NPR, and his novels have been recognized by the American Library Association.Haynes earned a BA from Macalester College and an MA in liberal studies from Hamline University. He is an Associate Professor of English at Southern Methodist University and directs their creative writing program. Since 1996 he also has been on the faculty of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. He has taught writing in the MFA Program at Hamline University, at the Writer¹s Center in Bethesda, MD, at the Writers¹ Garret in Dallas, and for Gemini Ink in San Antonio. For fifteen years he was a middle school teacher in St. Paul, Minnesota. 

Haynes is the author of six novels for adults and five books for younger readers. His first novel, RIGHT BY MY SIDE, was selected by the American Library Association as one of the best books for young adults in 1994. A second novel, SOMEBODY ELSE'S MAMA, was published in 1995. LIVE AT FIVE, a satire about the television news industry, and HEATHENS, a comic novel in stories, were published in the spring of 1996. His previous novel was ALL AMERICAN DREAM DOLLS, and he is also the author of a series of books for middle readers called "The West Seventh Series." In 2005 he collaborated with a middle school in Winston-Salem, NC to create a play based on characters from the series. In 2005 his most recent adult novel, THE FULL MATILDA, was published by the Harlem Moon imprint of Broadway Books. Read much more at http://smu.edu/smunews/matilda/haynes.asp