Author Appearances & Events

2025

  • June 19th - 21st, 2025 / Western Writers Conference / Booth Appearance & Book Signing for Before We Turn to Dust & Because This is Texas / All-Day Event (both days) / Embassy Suites Downtown - 550 S Buchanan St., Amarillo, TX 79101 / Stay tuned for booth number & details.

  • June 17th, 2025 / Official release date of Because This is Texas (the updated non-fiction account of Before We Turn to Dust, originally published in 1998 by the Panhandle Plains Historical Review)

  • May 13th, 2025 / Pegasus Books on Solano / Meet the Author & Book Signing / 7 PM Pegasus Books on Solano

    1855 Solano Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94707 / Hardback & Paperback Available for Purchase

  • April 28th, 2025 / Enso Village Lifelong Learning Talk w/ Author Clara Sneed (Private Event/Invite Only ) / 7:00 PM

  • March 3rd, 2025 / Before We Turn to Dust Official Paperback Release. Available for purchase NOW at Bookshop.org, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and where all books are sold.

  • December 20, 2024 / Pin Oak B&B Author Event & Signing Soirée / 5 - 7 PM Pin Oak Bed & Breakfast, 503 Pin Oak St. Calvert, TX 77837… or where it all began… KRHD - Waco, TX Interview

  • December 14, 2024 / Books & Boots / Author Signing & Collaboration w/ BookPeople and CITYBoots / 1 - 4 PM

    City Boots (Austin) 3700 1/2 Kerbey Ln, Austin, TX

    Fun event in a buzzy high end cowboy boot store! Buy books, or boots, and enjoy beverages including champagne, whiskey, and nonalcoholic options. Official Event Trailer

  • December 12, 2024 / Author Signing @ The Twig Bookshop in San Antonio / 5:30 - 7 PM

    The Twig Book Shop, 306 Pearl Parkway, Suite 106, San Antonio, TX
    Official Event Link

  • December 7, 2024 / Official Book Launch Event @ Burrowing Owl Canyon during Christmas in Canyon / 2-4 PM

    Burrowing Owl Books, 400 15th St., Canyon, Texas
    Coincides with 'Christmas in Canyon' on the square / tons of entertainment and shopping nearby. Official Event Link

  • December 4, 2024 / High Plains Public Radio (HHPR) Interview @ NPR affiliate HQ’s based in Amarillo, TX and covers 7 states “Quite the Dust Up” HPPR Official Interview

  • Publication Date Announced for Before We Turn to Dust Author of the nonfiction title Because This Is Texas, Clara Sneed’s Before We Turn to Dust will be published December 7, 2024 by Blue Handle Publishing. Pitched as the Hatfields & McCoys meets Giant, the novel is based on true events, in which a passionate affair sparks a notorious sex scandal, two public slayings, and one of the most closely followed murder trials in Texas history. (PUBLISHER’S MARKETPLACE)

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