Books by author from Silsbee win awards, No. 1 on Amazon

For generations educators have encouraged budding novelists to write about what they know. While writer Timothy Gene Sojka, who grew up in Silsbee, embraces that oft-repeated mantra, he feels writing about where you know proves as important. Sojka recently wrote: “I love Texas. Texas nourished me, and took me in when I was transplanted here at 5 years old. Texas felt like a different world,…