OLD FRIENDS is available now at your local bookstore, Brazos Books, Barnes and Noble bookstores as well as other venues, including online or through the Texas A&M University Press Consortium (800-826-8911). Mr. Hale will be signing books at area bookstores between now and the holidays.

Leon Hale's other books - Supper Time, Turn South at the Second Bridge, Home Spun, Bonney's Place, Paper Hero and Easy Going - may be ordered online from Winedale Publishing.

They may be ordered by telephone from the Texas A&M University Press Consortium, 1-800-826-8911.

Addison may be ordered online at Amazon.com or BarnesandNoble.com, or BookSense.com; or at your local bookstore.

Leon Hale tapes may be ordered from Winedale Publishing; any online or neighborhood bookstore; or from the A&M University Press Consortium at the phone number above.