Category: Appearances
For those of you in the Cleveland and surrounding areas, I’m proud to be taking part in the 15th Annual Author Alley at Loganberry Books ( http://www.loganberrybooks.com/) on August 20 from noon to 4 pm. This section of the Alley is for nonfiction and… Continue Reading “Loganberry Books, August 20”
We’re a (very) short three weeks and four days from the beginning of Loganberry Books’ Author Alley gatherings. For three Saturdays in a row, the good people at Loganberry Books will bring together up to 30 area authors to talk about their work. Each… Continue Reading “Three Weekends of Writers”
Category: Animals, Appearances, Authors, Books, Elephant Speak, Loganberry Books, Nonfiction, Ooligan Press, Oregon Zoo, Roger Henneous, Washington Park Zoo, Writers, Writing, ZooTags: Animals, Books, Elephant Speak, Elephants, Loganberry Books, Ooligan Press, Oregon Zoo, Writing
Please pass the word along to your reader friends near and far. We’re bound to have a fun time talking about elephants, not to mention all the other stuff that crops up. Hope you’ll join us in September at the Thompson Branch of Geuga… Continue Reading “Coming Soon to an Ohio Near You”
Category: Animals, Appearances, Authors, Biography, Books, Elephant Speak, Elephants, Nonfiction, Ooligan Press, Oregon Zoo, Roger Henneous, Writers, WritingTags: Animals, Biography, Books, Elephant Speak, Elephants, Ooligan Press, Oregon Zoo, Writing
And the hits keep coming. I just received word that ELEPHANT SPEAK (and I) have been chosen by the good folks at Loganberry Books in Shaker Heights, OH (http://www.loganberrybooks.com/) to participate in one of their three Author Alley gatherings in August. August 6 highlights… Continue Reading “More Wonderful News”
Category: Appearances, Biography, Books, Booksellers, Elephant Speak, Loganberry Books, Loganberry Books, Ooligan Press, Roger Henneous, Writing, ZooTags: Biography, Books, Elephant Speak, Elephants, Loganberry Books, Ooligan Press, Writing
…to the staff and patrons at Estacada Library in Estacada, OR for the opportunity to be the kick-off presenter for the 2022 Adult Programming. I appreciate all who attended, eager to learn more about my friend Roger Henneous and his remarkable elephants through my… Continue Reading “A Hearty “Thank You””
Category: Animals, Elephant Speak, Elephants, Estacada Library, Oregon Zoo, Roger HenneousTags: Animals, Elephant Speak, Elephants, Estacada Library, Memoir, Ooligan Press, Oregon Zoo, Roger Henneous
I’m so very proud to have been able to participate in the Newburyport Literary Festival, forced to go virtual thanks to COVID-19. You can access the various segments on YouTube, and see mine here: Newburyport Festival
Category: Appearances, Books, Elephant Speak, Elephants, Newburyport Literary Festival, Nonfiction, Ooligan Press, Writers, WritingTags: Elephant Speak, Elephants, Newburyport Literary Festival, Ooligan Press
By the end of our day at the zoo–and walking around Portland, window-shopping and stuffing ourselves with great food–I was more toast than human. We’d planned on driving the three hours of Bend, OR that night, but Ed and I were both so wrung… Continue Reading “World Tour – The Final Two Days”
Category: Animal Books, Animals, Appearances, Books, Elephant Speak, Elephants, Memoir, Nature, Nonfiction, Ooligan Press, Oregon Zoo, Powell's Bookstore, Roger Henneous, Roundabout Books, Sunriver Books and Music, Wildlife, Writing, ZooTags: Animal Books, Animals, Books, Elephant Speak, Elephants, Memoir, Nature, Nonfiction, Ooligan Press, Oregon Zoo, Powell's Bookstore, Roger Henneous, Roundabout Books, Sunriver Books and Music, Wildlife, Writing
On Thursday, March 5, as a Portland follow-up to our resounding success at Powell’s (I say “our” because the effort to bring ELEPHANT SPEAK to publication was definitely a group endeavor) I presented a truncated (no pun intended … trunk-ated, get it?) version of my talk; no… Continue Reading “World Tour – Part Three”
Category: Animal Books, Animals, Appearances, Elephant Speak, Elephants, Memoir, Oregon Zoo, Writing, ZooTags: Elephant Speak, Elephants, Ooligan Press, Oregon Zoo
By the time my Powell event began, we were 130 strong (or more). Staff had to bring in more chairs, and even then there were people standing in the back. I was delighted that so many came out to wish the book Happy Birthday… Continue Reading “World Tour, Part Two”
Category: Animal Books, Animals, Appearances, Books, Elephant Speak, Elephants, Memoir, Nonfiction, Ooligan Press, Oregon Zoo, Powell's Bookstore, WritingTags: Elephant Speak, Elephants, Memoir, Ooligan Press, Oregon Zoo, Powell's Bookstore
Okay, so maybe not the entire world, but let’s not get too picky here. I did cross an entire continent for these events, and it’s a grand thing I’m a morning person, because I usually have to get up at something like o-dark-stupidly early… Continue Reading “World Tour, Part One”
Category: Animal Books, Animals, Appearances, Books, Booksellers, Elephant Speak, Elephants, Memoir, Nonfiction, Powell's Bookstore, WritingTags: Books, Elephant Speak, Elephants, Memoir, Oregon Zoo, Powell's Bookstore
Melissa Crandall 