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If you're in Yachats this weekend and find yourself in a literary mood, check out a reading from our new book Canopy of Titans. Jessica Applegate and I will share key findings from the book. 2pm Sunday Yachats Lions Club 344 4th St. Hope to see you there!

Jessica Applegate Canopy of Titans is doing pretty well in book awards season. Today we learned that our book has won it's fifth award, taking first place in the National Indie Book Awards in the category of Environment.

We've also been a Finalist in the 2024 OREGON BOOK AWARDS,
Silver Medalist in the Nautilus Book Awards,
Silver Medalist in the IPPY Independent Publisher Book Awards, and
Honorable Mention in the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards.

Canopy of Titans has won another award -- honorable mention in the Foreword Review of Books INDIES Awards in the category of Ecology/Environment. Jessica Applegate

2023 Foreword INDIES Winners in Ecology & Environment (Adult Nonfiction) These are the best of the best, the cream of the crop, the cherries on top a metaphorical ice cream sundae of indie books. The Ecology & Environment winners of the 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards.

Canopy of Titans also won a Silver Medal in the ENVIRONMENT/ECOLOGY category from the Independent Publisher Book Awards, which honor the year's best independently published titles from around the world. Jessica Applegate

https://ippyawards.com/179/2024-medalists-50-88

The love for Canopy of Titans keeps pouring in! This week we received a Silver Medal in Restorative Earth Practices from the Nautilus Book Awards, whose mission is to celebrate and honor books that support conscious living and green values, wellness, social change, social justice, and spiritual growth. Jessica Applegate

2024 Winners 1-10 | Nautilus Book Awards Nautilus Book Awards Winners 2024 for Categories 1-10

Many thanks to Michael Gaskill for featuring our book Canopy of Titans on two episodes of the Coast Range Podcast. Your can access the podcast wherever you get your podcasts as well as at 13 community radio stations in western Oregon and Washington. Click the link for a list of stations. Jessica Applegate

Coast Range Radio – Coast Range Coast Range Radio At Coast Range Radio, we interview folks who work to build just communities that provide for people and the natural world. We are particularly interested in the connections between Oregon’s forests, social justice, and the climate crisis. Coast Range Radio is on all podcasting se...

We're so grateful to be named a finalist for two INDIES Book of the Year Awards! Foreword Review of Books named Canopy a finalist for best book on Nature and best book on Ecology and the Environment. Winners will be announced in June Jessica Applegate

"Canopy of Titans" is a 2023 Foreword INDIES Finalist "Canopy of Titans" is a Foreword INDIES finalist in Ecology & Environment (Adult Nonfiction). The temperate rain forest of the North Pacific coast is so valuable an ecosystem that it has been dubbed “the Amazon of the North.” It holds the world’s tallest trees—“carbon-capturing machines......

Wowza! Our book, Canopy of Titans, is a finalist for the 2024 Oregon Book Awards. Paul Koberstein and Jessica Applegate are thrilled to be in the company of so many stellar writers. Check it out! Literary Arts OR Books Jessica Applegate Paul Koberstein

Announcing the 2024 Oregon Book Awards Finalists - Literary Arts Literary Arts is thrilled to announce this year’s Oregon Book Awards finalists. Winners will be announced live on April 8, 2024.

My co-author Paul Koberstein got mysteriously kicked off Facebook, so I can't tag him. Please share this event with those you think would be interested. The event is in partnership with 350 Seattle and Legacy Forest Defense CoalitionLegacy Forest Defense Coalition! Details are in the photo below. The link to our book is: https://orbooks.com/catalog/canopy-of-titans/ and is found in bookstores everywhere. We now offer a Kindle edition and an audiobook option.
Many thanks, comrades!

Allowing the liquidation of old-growth forests could set off another era of conflict between loggers and environmentalists in the Pacific Northwest. An excerpt from Canopy of Titans published today in Earth Island Journal. With Jessica Applegate

Another Timber War Over Old Growth Forests Looms In the Pacific Northwest Allowing the liquidation of old-growth forests could set off another era of conflict between loggers and environmentalists in the Pacific Northwest.