LWS Literary Services

04/01/2026

If you're looking for a career in publishing, some great advice, courtesy of literary agent Amelia Sheldon.

Insight Provided by My Salinger Year, by Joanna Rakoff

01/26/2026

47 days until the Tucson Festival of Books! Check out our author list. Here's a session to add to your wish list. Dr. Victoria Maizes, a brilliant integrative medical doctor, will present on the festival's Science City stage.

An interview with Tucson Dr. Victoria Maizes, author of “Heal Faster: Unlock Your Body’s Rapid Recovery Reflex.”

04/23/2025

Interested in attending book festivals? Or presenting at them?
Here's a great list of fests by state.

Book fairs and festivals are great events for writers and readers to meet up and celebrate books of all genres. Here's a list of book fairs and book festivals that we've compiled and will continue to update.

04/08/2025

23 new books out today! YUM.

The wheel of the year continues to turn, its its pace at once chaotically swift and glacially slow, and, as we reel from the staggering effects of ever more political chaos in the United States and…

04/07/2025

Read any of these remixes of The Great Gatsby? Author Jillian Cantor is from Tucson and her book, BEAUTIFUL LITTLE FOOLS, received rave reviews! Think I might have to add all of these to my nightstand.

My love for The Great Gatsby and its creator began on an August day when I was a teenager lying on a beach overlooking the very Long Island Sound that was the setting of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s maste…

04/02/2025

It's International Children's Book Day. Remember reading as a kid? Magic moments. Some of my fav series - Madeline, Nancy Drew, Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, The Borrowers, Laura Ingall's Wilder, the Boxcar Children. So many more! In fourth grade, I ordered so many books from Scholastic, the company thought I was a teacher and sent me all the teaching material. 🙃

What were your favorite books?

03/09/2025

So many reasons to come on down to the Tucson Festival of Books on Marach 15 and 16! Books, authors, exhibitors, Science City, music, food. Free and open to the public!

The very cherished Tucson Festival of Books is set to return March 15-16 at the University of Arizona campus. Renowned as one of the nation's premier literary festivals, the annual book celebration unites authors, readers and families for a weekend of literary exploration and community engagement.

02/13/2025

Tales set in Tucson. Adding some of these great reads to the book tower on my nightstand. (Will be an ouchie if it topples in the wee hours.) My recommend: High Tide in Tucson: Essays From Now or Never by Barbara Kingsolver.

Below, co-owners of Mostly Books, Tricia Clapp and Bobbe Arnett. Talk about knowing books! They are the real deal.

For being a relatively small place, the Old Pueblo has been the setting for a surprising number of popular books.

01/01/2025

12/12/2024

Author lineup for Tucson Festival of Books announced! Got a few celebs heading to the Old Pueblo!

Hollywood will be represented at TFOB in March.

11/27/2024

10 best book covers of November. Clever. Intriguing., Hard to choose a favorite!

Another month of books, another month of book covers. Here are the designs bringing a little bit of light to an undeniably dark few weeks: …relatable. A beautiful, layered evocation of a trai…