Crazy Eights Author Tour comes to Seaside
Beach Books, Seaside Public Library host Oregon authors
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Costumed kids are once again invited to ride the Haunted Astoria Riverfront Trolley at 6:30
p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31.
Ride the Haunted Trolley
Old 300 invites kids to wear costumes
ASTORIA — The Astoria Riv-
Halloween
erfront Trolley will once again
hold its annual Halloween
Night Run
1ight Run for local kids.
Costumed children of all
ages are invited to join the
trolley operators, also in cos-
tume, for a special Halloween
journey. Old 300 will be deco-
rated as a haunted trolley, and
as a special treat, professional
storyteller and author Melissa
Eskue Ousley will tell timely
stories.
Eskue Ousley is author of
The Solas Beir young adult
fantasy trilogy; the third book,
“The Sower Comes,” was
released this summer and is
available at local bookstores.
Eskue Ousley is working on a
new novel, “Sunset Empire,”
which blends mythology and
fantasy with Astoria’s history
and culture, including an angry
ghost, Astoria’s underground
tunnels, and the 1922 ¿re.
6:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31
Columbia River Maritime Museum
1792 Marine Drive, Astoria
503-325-6311
847-921-7535
All ages
Free
The trolley will arrive at the
Columbia River Maritime Mu-
seum trolley stop at 6:30 p.m.
Saturday Oct. 31 and make a
complete round trip, taking
approximately one hour.
The event is free, but
donations are accepted. For
more information call the
Astoria-Warrenton Chamber
of Commerce at 503-325-
6311, or call Paul at 847-
921-7535.
SEASIDE — The Crazy Eights
Author Tour will come to the
Seaside Public Library at 6
p.m. Thursday, Oct. 29.
The tour is sort of like
speed dating with authors.
A pool of 27 award-winning
Oregon authors divide up into
groups of eight, hit eight ven-
ues in eight Oregon towns this
fall, and each author speaks
for eight minutes about their
books and their writing life.
Oregon author George By-
ron Wright came up with the
idea for the tour on a road trip.
The intention was to stimu-
late more interest in Oregon’s
writing and publishing com-
munities by connecting them
with readers, booksellers and
libraries in an exciting way.
The ¿rst tour took place in
the fall of 2012. It was fast and
furious and audiences loved it,
as did the authors.
“The tour is totally volun-
teer,” said Wright. “It has been
the generosity of the authors
along with the eagerness of
booksellers and librarians that
has made it work. Our authors
are passionate about support-
ing independent bookstores,
libraries and our communities
of readers.”
This year, the tour stops in
Albany, Beaverton, Corvallis,
Cottage Grove, Eugene, Sa-
lem, Seaside and Stayton.
This year’s Seaside tour
Crazy Eights
Author Tour
6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 29
Seaside Public Library
1131 Broadway, Seaside
Free
stop is co-sponosred by Beach
Books, which will be selling
the authors’ books at the event.
The authors scheduled to
visit Seaside are: Dan De-
Weese, Molly Gloss, Lauren
Kessler, Jane Kirkpatrick,
Craig Lesley, Susan Hill Long,
Barbara Corrado Pope and
Karen Spears Zacharias.
Dan DeWeese’s story col-
lection “Disorder” was the
inaugural pick of the Oregon
Book Club. His novel “You
Don’t Love This Man” was
nominated for an Oregon Book
Award. He is editor-in-chief of
Propeller, a web magazine of
books and culture, and over-
sees the magazine’s publishing
imprint, Propeller Books.
Molly Gloss is a fourth-gen-
eration Oregonian who lives in
Portland. She is the author of
¿ve novels, including “Wild
Life” and “Falling From Hors-
es.” Her work often concerns
the landscape, literature, my-
thology and life of the Amer-
ican West. Her awards include
an Oregon Book Award, two
Paci¿c 1orthwest Booksellers
Awards and a Whiting Writers
Award.
Lauren Kessler is a (semi)
fearless immersion reporter
who combines lively narra-
tive with deep research to
explore everything from the
wild west of the anti-aging
movement to the stormy seas
of a mother-daughter relation-
ship. Her new book, “Raising
the Barre: Big Dreams, False
Starts and My Midlife Quest
to Dance the 1utcracker,”
chronicles her journey to re-
claim the daring of her girl-
hood by dancing the world’s
most popular ballet with a
professional company.
Jane Kirkpatrick’s works
include “Homestead,” a mem-
oir of leaving suburbia to live
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The authors visiting Seaside Public Library on the Crazy Eights Author Tour are, from left, top, Dan DeWeese, Molly Gloss, Lauren Kessler
and Jane Kirkpatrick; bottom, Craig Lesley, Susan Hill Long, Barbara Corrado Pope and Karen Spears Zacharias.
on Starvation Lane and 23
historical novels based on the
lives of actual women. Her
honors include the Western
Heritage and 1ational Cow-
boy Hall of Fame Wrangler
award for “A Sweetness to the
Soul,” also noted as one of the
best books about Oregon pub-
lished between 1800-2000.
From Eastern Oregon,
Craig Lesley has published
four novels, a memoir and 27
short stories. Lesley has re-
ceived fellowships from the
1ational Endowment for the
Arts and the Oregon Coast
Literary Award for Best 1ovel
about small town Oregon. Af-
ter retiring from Senior Writer
in Residence at Portland State
University, he teaches in the
low-residency Master of Fine
Arts program at Paci¿c Uni-
versity.
Susan Hill Long’s mid-
dle-grade novel “Whistle in
the Dark” was named a Pub-
lishers Weekly Best Book of
the Year and a Bank Street
Best Book and won an Oregon
Book Award. Her next novel
for young readers, “The Mag-
ic Mirror,” will be published
in 2016. She lives in Portland
with her husband and two
daughters.
Barbara Corrado Pope has
written three critically ac-
claimed historical novels set
in late 19th-century France:
“Cpzanne’s Quarry,” a ¿nalist
for an Oregon Book Award,
“The Blood of Lorraine” and
“The Missing Italian Girl.”
This March, her 10-minute
play, based on an incident in
1980s Poland, was performed
at the 1orthwest Ten Play Fes-
tival in Eugene. She is retired
from the University of Ore-
gon, where she taught history
and women’s studies.
Karen Spears Zacharias
is the author of ”Mother of
Rain,” winner of the Weather-
ford Award for Best in Appa-
lachian Fiction and a ¿nalist
for the Crook’s Corner Book
Prize. A former Tri-City Her-
ald reporter and columnist,
Zacharias’ work has been
featured on C11, 1ational
Public Radio, and The Diane
Rehm Show. “Burdy,” the se-
quel to “Mother of Rain,” was
released in September.