BBAF 2022 – The Wine’d Down

November 7, 2022November 6, 2022 ~ Matt Boutte ~ Leave a comment

"The Wine'd Down" panel from the 2022 Boerne Book & Arts Festival, moderated by Matt Boutte, host of The Deckle Edge Podcast.

Beasts of the Earth by James Wade

September 24, 2022 ~ Matt Boutte ~ 1 Comment

Beasts of the Earth is the upcoming and third novel from writer James Wade and like his previous books is a raw and riveting story cloaked in literary prose. Clouds in white painted banks sat motionless yet ever moving across a sky so blue the locals called it Texas blue, as if they refused to … Continue reading Beasts of the Earth by James Wade

James Wade

September 28, 2021September 25, 2021 ~ Matt Boutte ~ 3 Comments

A conversation with the novelist, James Wade. James lives and writes in the Texas Hill Country with his wife and daughter. His debut novel, All Things Left Wild, won the Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best Historical Novel and the MPIBA’s Reading the West Award for Best Debut Fiction. His second novel, River, Sing Out, was released in the summer of 2021. James is also a winner of the Writers’ League of Texas Manuscript Contest, and a finalist of the Tethered by Letters Short Fiction Contest.