Joe M. O’Connell was presented the 2009 North Texas Book Festival Book Award for adult fiction for his novel-in-stories Evacuation Plan, a novel from the hospice ($13.95, ISBN 978-0-9740703-8-4) in Denton, Texas.



Now in its ninth year, the North Texas Book Festival, a non-profit organization, has awarded more than $25,000 in grants to school and public libraries and literacy groups in North Texas using the proceeds from the annual book festival. Presented first in 2007, the book… Continue