Meet the Members: Shawn Collins
Joy Wang April 13, 2026
“My dog, Goatmaster General, has an Instagram account, and she wants everyone to follow her.” —Shawn Collins
“My dog, Goatmaster General, has an Instagram account, and she wants everyone to follow her.” —Shawn Collins
“[W]riting is a socially-acceptable outlet for the voices in your head.” —Charles Petrie
“Anything by David Sedaris is mandatory reading!” —Ilene Haddad
“I’m looking forward to coming out from under my rock and meeting more writers!” —Daniel Verastiqui
“A critic wrote that my book Last Race was ‘the most bizarre and entertaining book I’ve read in years.’ That’s how I like to interpret the world we live in.” —Richard May
“I believe in the revolutionary power of words.”
–Rohn Bayes
“My newest novel, The Premonitions Club, is my YA debut thriller and is out 4/22/25.”
–Gwendolyn Womack
“One way to write a novel is to fill it with everything you like. And that’s one way of the ways to end up with a genre-bent novel—because you like a lot of things.” – Matt Bell
by WLT Board Member Heather Barboza https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvwCfF32t0U How do you tell a story larger than any one person? Larger than any one generation? How can telling a multigenerational story be approached? Fittingly, the WLT tackles these questions and more from multiple perspectives in this discussion featuring three Texas authors – Justin
by John A. McDermott Watching the video of WLT’s Third Thursday conversation, titled “The Author/Editor Relationship” was a gift. It was like sitting in a coffeeshop and eavesdropping on a fantastic conversation among three smart, lively professionals: Becka Oliver, the WLT’s Executive Director, Katherine Center, best-selling novelist of books such