----- Subject: "Scatterlings" Book Announcement Aventine Press has published a revised and updated edition of "Scatterlings: Blair, Williams & Turner to Texas---1858 to 1873" by Rusty Williams. Amazon.com has named the book its Regional Nonfiction Selection, and is currently offering the 230-page trade paperback at a 30% discount. Scatterlings is the true and touching real-life story of Southerners who settled the lands south of Texas' Red River at the midpoint of the nineteenth century. Using letters, contemporary accounts, local records and solid historical research, Williams follows three families from their Pittsylvania County, Virginia, tobacco farm through their arrival in Texas. He tells an all-too-tragic human story of where these pioneers came from, why they came to North Texas, how they lived when they arrived and the brutal hardships that wounded, killed and scattered them on the Texas wind. Scatterlings is now available through all major online booksellers, selected Borders and Barnes & Noble stores in Texas and Virginia, and by special order (through Ingram Distributing) from most independent bookstores nationwide.