Texas Author Panel - Rex Ogle, James Wade, & Bret Anthony Johnston

Join your favorite indie bookstore for an evening with authors Rex Ogle, James Wade, and Bret Anthony Johnston. These three authors will be in conversation with Texas Monthly Producer, Scott Ray. 

In order to attend this event, you must purchase at least one book from the options above. The books will be available for pick up at the event.

Rex Ogle is an award-winning author of more than a hundred books, comics, graphic novels, and memoirs—most notably Free Lunch (winner of ALA/YALSA’s award for Excellence in Non-Fiction), Road Home (a Micheal Printz Honor and Stonewall Honor book), and the bestselling Four Eyes and Pizza Face.  

Under his pseudonym REY TERCIERO, he also re-imagines classics as modern and diverse graphic novels, including Meg, Jo, Beth, & Amy, Northranger (nominated for both Harvey and GLAAD Media Awards), and Dan in Green Gables (coming in June 2025). 

Born and raised in Texas, Rex now lives in Los Angeles where he writes every day—when he’s not reading X-Men, gaming with friends, or chasing his dog, Toby, trying to score a hug.

Hit him up on Instagram @thirdrex, find out more about him at www.rexogle.com, or subscribe to his newsletter for free books and lots of fun at https://substack.com/@thirdrex . 

James Wade is the youngest novelist to win two Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America, and the recipient of the MPIBA’s prestigious Reading the West Award. His debut novel, All Things Left Wild, was listed as one of the most influential westerns of the 21st century by True West Magazine and included in the Los Angeles Times's 1,001 Novels: A Library of America. His Southern Gothic mystery, Beasts of the Earth, was named a Best Book of 2022 by both Deep South Magazine and The Southern Review of Books. James is a three-time finalist for the Austin Chronicle's Best Writer in Austin award, and his work has appeared in Texas Highways, Writers’ Digest, and numerous additional publications. James lives and writes in the Texas Hill Country with his wife and children.

Bret Anthony Johnston is the internationally bestselling author of the novels We Burn Daylight and Remember Me Like This, and the multi-award-winning collection Corpus Christi: Stories. He also edited Naming the World and Other Exercises for the Creative Writer and wrote the documentary film Waiting for Lightning, which was released in theaters around the world by Samuel Goldwyn Films. Among his many honors are a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, the Glasgow Prize, and the Sunday Times Short Story Award, “the world’s richest and most prestigious prize for a single short story.” His work has been widely translated and appears in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Esquire, The Paris Review, The New York Times Magazine, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere.

After selling his television to buy his first board almost 40 years ago, Bret has yet to outgrow skateboarding. After directing the creative writing program at Harvard University for over a decade, he is now the Director of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin.

Scott Ray is from Mississippi. He received an MFA in Fiction from the University of Arkansas and a PhD in English and Creative Writing from the University of North Texas before leaving academia in 2021 to move to Austin to work at Texas Monthly. Most of the time you’ll find him on the Texas backroads, writing and producing the television show Texas Country Reporter.